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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Alexander I. Tröster is affiliated with the Barrow Neurological Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of medicine with a strong emphasis on neurology. Their work covers subfields such as neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, complementary and alternative medicine, psychiatry and mental health, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neurological and metabolic disorders

Alexander I. Tröster has published research in various venues, notably:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • Neurology
  • Neurosurgery
  • The Lancet Neurology

Among recent papers linked to or authored by the scientist are:

  • "Diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: Movement Disorder Society Task Force guidelines" (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • "Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation with a multiple independent constant current-controlled device in Parkinson's disease (INTREPID): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, sham-controlled study" (2020, The Lancet Neurology)
  • "Non-motor symptoms and striatal dopamine transporter binding in early Parkinson's disease" (2020, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders)
  • "Level I PD-MCI Using Global Cognitive Tests and the Risk for Parkinson's Disease Dementia" (2022, Movement Disorders Clinical Practice)
  • "Developments in the prediction of cognitive changes following deep brain stimulation in persons with Parkinson's disease" (2024, Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexander I. Tröster include:

  • Michael S. Okun
  • Irene Litvan
  • Jennifer G. Goldman
  • Daniel Weintraub
  • Lung-Chi Chen

Alexander I. Tröster received the designation of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Diagnostic Criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease: Movement Disorder Society Task Force Guidelines

    Irene Litvan;Jennifer G. Goldman;Alexander I. Tröster;Ben A. Schmand

  • Criteria for the diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration.

    Melissa J. Armstrong;Irene Litvan;Anthony E. Lang;Thomas H. Bak

  • Symptom validity assessment: practice issues and medical necessity NAN policy & planning committee.

    Shane S. Bush;Ronald M. Ruff;Alexander I. Tröster;Jeffrey T. Barth

  • MDS Task Force on Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s disease: Critical Review of PD-MCI

    Irene Litvan;Dag Aarsland;Charles H. Adler;Jennifer G. Goldman

  • Long-term efficacy and safety of thalamic stimulation for drug-resistant partial epilepsy

    Vicenta Salanova;Thomas Witt;Robert Worth;Thomas R. Henry

  • Cognitive sequelae of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis

    Thomas D Parsons;Steven A Rogers;Alyssa J Braaten;Steven Paul Woods

  • Randomized trial of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease: thirty-six-month outcomes.

    Frances M. Weaver;Frances M. Weaver;Kenneth A. Follett;Matthew B. Stern;Matthew B. Stern;Ping Luo

  • Deep brain stimulation: neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric issues.

    Valerie Voon;Valerie Voon;Cynthia Kubu;Paul Krack;Jean-Luc Houeto

  • Subthalamic deep brain stimulation with a constant-current device in Parkinson's disease: an open-label randomised controlled trial.

    Michael S. Okun;Bruno V. Gallo;George Mandybur;Jonathan Jagid

  • Long-term safety and efficacy of unilateral deep brain stimulation of the thalamus in essential tremor.

    William C. Koller;Kelly E. Lyons;Steven B. Wilkinson;Alexander I. Troster

  • Deep brain stimulation: postoperative issues.

    Günther Deuschl;Jan Herzog;Galit Kleiner-Fisman;Cynthia Kubu

  • Deep brain stimulation: preoperative issues.

    Anthony E. Lang;Jean Luc Houeto;Paul Krack;Cynthia Kubu

  • Cortical and subcortical influences on clustering and switching in the performance of verbal fluency tasks

    Alexander I. Tröster;Julie A. Fields;Julie A. Testa;Robert H. Paul

  • Differentiation of amnesic and demented patients with the wechsler memory scale -revised

    Nelson Butters;David P. Salmon;C. Munro Cullum;Patricia Cairns

  • Action (verb naming) fluency as an executive function measure: convergent and divergent evidence of validity.

    Andrea L Piatt;Julie A Fields;Anthony M Paolo;Alexander I Tröster

  • Prodromal frontal/executive dysfunction predicts incident dementia in Parkinson's disease.

    Steven Paul Woods;Alexander I. Tröster

  • Selected cases of poor outcome following a minor brain trauma: Comparing neuropsychological and positron emission tomography assessment

    Ronald M. Ruff;J. A. Crouch;A. I. Tröster;L. F. Marshall

  • Lexical, Semantic, and Action Verbal Fluency in Parkinson's Disease with and without Dementia

    Andrea L. Piatt;Julie A. Fields;Anthony M. Paolo;William C. Koller

  • A comparison of the category fluency deficits associated with Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

    Alexander I. Tröster;David P. Salmon;Donna McCullough;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters

  • Neuropsychological deficits in essential tremor: an expression of cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathophysiology?

    A. I. Tröster;S. P. Woods;J. A. Fields;K. E. Lyons

  • Gender differences in Parkinson's disease.

    K E Lyons;J P Hubble;A I Tröster;R Pahwa

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Paul Woods
Steven Paul Woods University of Houston
David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego
Irene Litvan
Irene Litvan University of California, San Diego
Joseph J. Ryan
Joseph J. Ryan University of Central Missouri
William W. Beatty
William W. Beatty University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Diane M. Jacobs
Diane M. Jacobs University of California, San Diego
Dag Aarsland
Dag Aarsland King's College London
Ronald M. Ruff
Ronald M. Ruff University of California, San Francisco
Bradley N. Axelrod
Bradley N. Axelrod United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Caroline M. Tanner
Caroline M. Tanner University of California, San Francisco

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