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Alexander Drzezga

Alexander Drzezga

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Neuroscience

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92
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31927
World Ranking
1023
National Ranking
78

Medicine

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92
Citations
32066
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610

Overview

Alexander Drzezga is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and related disciplines such as Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their work covers a variety of main topics, which include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Medical imaging techniques and applications
  • Radiopharmaceutical chemistry and applications
  • Advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications
  • Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments

Alexander Drzezga has contributed extensively to the academic literature, with recent notable papers including:

  • Amyloid-PET and 18F-FDG-PET in the diagnostic investigation of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • Prevalence Estimates of Amyloid Abnormality Across the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum, 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • Assessment of 18F-PI-2620 as a Biomarker in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • Microglial activation states drive glucose uptake and FDG-PET alterations in neurodegenerative diseases, 2021, Science Translational Medicine
  • EANM practice guideline/SNMMI procedure standard for dopaminergic imaging in Parkinsonian syndromes 1.0, 2020, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Thilo van Eimeren
  • Gérard N. Bischof
  • Henryk Barthel
  • Bernd Neumaier
  • Andrew Stephens

Alexander Drzezga has published regularly in several key venues relevant to nuclear medicine and neurodegenerative disease research, such as:

  • Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of cerebral amyloid pathology in persons without dementia: a meta-analysis.

    Willemijn J. Jansen;Rik Ossenkoppele;Dirk L. Knol;Betty M. Tijms

  • Selective changes of resting-state networks in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    Christian Sorg;Valentin Riedl;Valentin Riedl;Mark Mühlau;Vince D. Calhoun

  • German Multicenter Study Investigating 177Lu-PSMA-617 Radioligand Therapy in Advanced Prostate Cancer Patients.

    Kambiz Rahbar;Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar;Clemens Kratochwil;Uwe Haberkorn

  • Multicenter Standardized 18F-FDG PET Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and Other Dementias

    Lisa Mosconi;Wai H. Tsui;Wai H. Tsui;Karl Herholz;Alberto Pupi

  • Prevalence of amyloid PET positivity in dementia syndromes: a meta-analysis.

    Rik Ossenkoppele;Willemijn J Jansen;Gil D Rabinovici;Dirk L Knol

  • Cerebral metabolic changes accompanying conversion of mild cognitive impairment into Alzheimer's disease: a PET follow-up study.

    Alexander Drzezga;Nicola Lautenschlager;Hartwig Siebner;Matthias Riemenschneider

  • Dominance for Vestibular Cortical Function in the Non-dominant Hemisphere

    M. Dieterich;S. Bense;S. Lutz;A. Drzezga

  • First Clinical Experience with Integrated Whole-Body PET/MR: Comparison to PET/CT in Patients with Oncologic Diagnoses

    Alexander Drzezga;Michael Souvatzoglou;Matthias Eiber;Ambros J. Beer

  • Joint EANM/EANO/RANO practice guidelines/SNMMI procedure standards for imaging of gliomas using PET with radiolabelled amino acids and [18F]FDG: version 1.0.

    Ian Law;Nathalie L. Albert;Javier Arbizu;Ronald Boellaard;Ronald Boellaard

  • Amyloid-PET and 18F-FDG-PET in the diagnostic investigation of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

    Gaël Chételat;Javier Arbizu;Henryk Barthel;Valentina Garibotto

  • Neuronal dysfunction and disconnection of cortical hubs in non-demented subjects with elevated amyloid burden

    Alexander Drzezga;J. Alex Becker;Koene R. A. Van Dijk;Aishwarya Sreenivasan

  • Prevalence and prognosis of Alzheimer's disease at the mild cognitive impairment stage.

    Stephanie J B Vos;Frans Verhey;Lutz Frölich;Johannes Kornhuber

  • Comparison of [ 18 F]DCFPyL and [ 68 Ga]Ga-PSMA-HBED-CC for PSMA-PET Imaging in Patients with Relapsed Prostate Cancer

    Markus Dietlein;Carsten Kobe;Georg Kuhnert;Simone Stockter

  • Prediction of individual clinical outcome in MCI by means of genetic assessment and (18)F-FDG PET.

    Alexander Drzezga;Timo Grimmer;Matthias Riemenschneider;Nicola Lautenschlager

  • Prevalence Estimates of Amyloid Abnormality Across the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum.

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  • Cerebrospinal fluid tau and beta-amyloid 42 proteins identify Alzheimer disease in subjects with mild cognitive impairment.

    M. Riemenschneider;Nicola Lautenschlager;S. Wagenpfeil;J. Diehl

  • PET/MRI for Neurologic Applications

    Ciprian Catana;Alexander Drzezga;Wolf-Dieter Heiss;Bruce R. Rosen

  • Beta Amyloid in Alzheimer's Disease: Increased Deposition in Brain Is Reflected in Reduced Concentration in Cerebrospinal Fluid

    Timo Grimmer;Matthias Riemenschneider;Hans Förstl;Gjermund Henriksen

  • Central activation by histamine-induced itch: analogies to pain processing: a correlational analysis of O-15 H2O positron emission tomography studies.

    Alexander Drzezga;Ulf Darsow;Rolf-Detlef Treede;Hartwig Siebner

  • Effect of APOE genotype on amyloid plaque load and gray matter volume in Alzheimer disease

    A. Drzezga;T. Grimmer;G. Henriksen;M. Mühlau

  • Statistical Brain Mapping of 18F-FDG PET in Alzheimer’s Disease: Validation of Anatomic Standardization for Atrophied Brains

    Kazunari Ishii;Frode Willoch;Satoshi Minoshima;Alexander Drzezga

Frequent Co-Authors

Timo Grimmer
Timo Grimmer Technical University of Munich
Robert Perneczky
Robert Perneczky Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Markus Schwaiger
Markus Schwaiger Technical University of Munich
Hans Förstl
Hans Förstl Technical University of Munich
Alexander Kurz
Alexander Kurz Technical University of Munich
Christian Sorg
Christian Sorg Technical University of Munich
Hans-Jürgen Wester
Hans-Jürgen Wester Technical University of Munich
Henning Boecker
Henning Boecker University of Bonn
Peter Bartenstein
Peter Bartenstein Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Satoshi Minoshima
Satoshi Minoshima University of Utah

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