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Gene E. Alexander

Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Physiological Sciences, University …
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Functional brain abnormalities in young adults at genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer's dementia

EM Reiman, K Chen, GE Alexander… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) studies have found that patients
with Alzheimer's dementia (AD) have abnormally low rates of cerebral glucose metabolism in …

Positron emission tomography in evaluation of dementia: regional brain metabolism and long-term outcome

…, J Czernin, SI Rapoport, P Pietrini, GE Alexander… - Jama, 2001 - jamanetwork.com
ContextDeficits in cerebral glucose utilization have been identified in patients with cognitive
dysfunction attributed to various disease processes, but their prognostic and diagnostic …

Fibrillar amyloid-β burden in cognitively normal people at 3 levels of genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease

…, JBS Langbaum, GE Alexander… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Fibrillar amyloid-beta (Aβ) is found in the brains of many cognitively normal older people.
Whether or not this reflects a predisposition to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is unknown. We used …

[HTML][HTML] GAB2 alleles modify Alzheimer's risk in APOE ɛ4 carriers

…, ML Hutton, S Melquist, RC Petersen, GE Alexander… - Neuron, 2007 - cell.com
The apolipoprotein E (APOE) ɛ4 allele is the best established genetic risk factor for late-onset
Alzheimer's disease (LOAD). We conducted genome-wide surveys of 502,627 single-…

Brain imaging and fluid biomarker analysis in young adults at genetic risk for autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease in the presenilin 1 E280A kindred: a case …

…, RA Reiman, MJ Huentelman, GE Alexander… - The Lancet …, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background We have previously characterised functional brain abnormalities in young
adults at genetic risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease. To gain further knowledge on the …

Longitudinal PET evaluation of cerebral metabolic decline in dementia: a potential outcome measure in Alzheimer's disease treatment studies

GE Alexander, K Chen, P Pietrini… - American Journal of …, 2002 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: It is well established that regional cerebral metabolic rates for glucose assessed
by [ 18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in patients with …

Inverse relationship between education and parietotemporal perfusion deficit in Alzheimer's disease

Y Stern, GE Alexander, I Prohovnik… - Annals of Neurology …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
A higher prevalence of dementia in individuals with fewer years of education has suggested
that education may protect against Alzheimer's disease (AD). We tested whether individuals …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal Modeling of Age-Related Memory Decline and the APOE ε4 Effect

…, DEC Locke, CH Snyder, GE Alexander… - … England Journal of …, 2009 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The APOE ε4 allele is associated with the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
The age at which memory decline diverges among persons who are homozygous for the …

[PDF][PDF] Implications for the cognitive reserve hypothesis

GE Alexander, ML Furey, CL Grady… - … American journal of …, 1997 - rotman-baycrest.on.ca
Obiective: Clinical heterogeneity in Alzheimer's disease has been uidely observed. One
factor that may influence the expression of dementia in Alzheimer's disease is premorbid …

Prediction of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease dementia based upon biomarkers and neuropsychological test performance

…, HH Feldman, ALW Bokde, GE Alexander… - Neurobiology of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The current study tested the accuracy of primary MRI and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker
candidates and neuropsychological tests for predicting the conversion from mild cognitive …