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Dana Tudorascu

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biostatistics
Verified email at pitt.edu
Cited by 3747

[HTML][HTML] Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

…, J Stevenson, N Rahmouni, OL Lopez, DL Tudorascu… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
An unresolved question for the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathophysiology
is why a significant percentage of amyloid-β (Aβ)-positive cognitively unimpaired (CU) …

Breathing‐based meditation decreases posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in US Military veterans: A randomized controlled longitudinal study

EM Seppälä, JB Nitschke, DL Tudorascu… - Journal of traumatic …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Given the limited success of conventional treatments for veterans with posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD), investigations of alternative approaches are warranted. We examined the …

T1 independent, T2* corrected chemical shift based fat–water separation with multi‐peak fat spectral modeling is an accurate and precise measure of hepatic …

…, G Hamilton, DL Tudorascu… - Journal of magnetic …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To determine the precision and accuracy of hepatic fat‐fraction measured with a
chemical shift‐based MRI fat‐water separation method, using single‐voxel MR spectroscopy (…

APOEε4 associates with microglial activation independently of Aβ plaques and tau tangles

…, JB Rowe, AD Cohen, OL Lopez, DL Tudorascu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Animal studies suggest that the apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOEε4) allele is a culprit of early
microglial activation in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here, we tested the association between …

Longitudinal 18F-MK-6240 tau tangles accumulation follows Braak stages

TA Pascoal, AL Benedet, DL Tudorascu, J Therriault… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Tracking longitudinal tau tangles accumulation across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum is
crucial to better understand the natural history of tau pathology and for clinical trials. …

Resting state functional connectivity and treatment response in late-life depression

C Andreescu, DL Tudorascu, MA Butters… - Psychiatry Research …, 2013 - Elsevier
Indices of functional connectivity in the default mode network (DMN) are promising neural
markers of treatment response in late-life depression. We examined the differences in DMN …

Longitudinal assessment of neuroimaging and clinical markers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a prospective cohort study

WYW Yau, DL Tudorascu, EM McDade… - The Lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background The biomarker model of Alzheimer's disease postulates a dynamic sequence
of amyloidosis, neurodegeneration, and cognitive decline as an individual progresses from …

[HTML][HTML] Age-related differences in test-retest reliability in resting-state brain functional connectivity

J Song, AS Desphande, TB Meier, DL Tudorascu… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating brain
functional connectivity (FC). Research in recent years has focused on assessing the …

Emotion reactivity and regulation in late-life generalized anxiety disorder: functional connectivity at baseline and post-treatment

C Andreescu, LK Sheu, D Tudorascu, JJ Gross… - The American Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objectives Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most prevalent mental disorders
in the elderly, but its functional neuroanatomy is not well understood. Given the role of …

[HTML][HTML] Astrocyte biomarker signatures of amyloid-β and tau pathologies in Alzheimer's disease

…, NM Poltronetti, WE Klunk, DL Tudorascu… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Astrocytes can adopt multiple molecular phenotypes in the brain of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
patients. Here, we studied the associations of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) glial fibrillary acidic …