Neuronal loss is greater in the locus coeruleus than nucleus basalis and substantia nigra in Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases.

By C. Zarow, S. Lyness, J. Mortimer, Helena Chui. Archives of Neurology, 2003

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Inflammatory processes in Alzheimer's disease. (2007, positive): “Interestingly, LC loss correlates better with the clinical course of the disease and the severity of dementia than loss of the nucleus basalis of Meynert and perturbation of the cholinergic system (Zarow et al., 2003).”
Missing pieces in the Parkinson's disease puzzle (2010, background): “Affected nondopamine neurons include monoaminergic cells in the locus coeruleu”
The pathological process underlying Alzheimer’s disease in individuals under thirty (2011, background): “Unfortunately, however, it is also presently unknown what developmental phase the AD-associated intraneuronal lesions have to reach before physiologically measurable cell dysfunctions occur, which, in turn, once sufficiently large percentages of principal nerve cells in a given brain region have bec”