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Alexandre de Mendonça

Alexandre de Mendonça

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Neuroscience

D-Index
63
Citations
20137
World Ranking
3346
National Ranking
6

Overview

Alexandre de Mendonça is affiliated with the University of Lisbon in Portugal. Their main field of study is Medicine, with a significant focus on Neurology among other related subfields.

The subfields of study in which they have contributed include:

  • Neurology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Physiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Research topics covered in their work include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Alexandre de Mendonça has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication locations for their work include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Neurology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alexandre de Mendonça are:

  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores (2021) - Nature Communications
  • Plasma glial fibrillary protein is raised in progranulin-associated frontotemporal dementia (2020) - Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Temporal order of clinical and biomarker changes in familial frontotemporal dementia (2022) - Nature Medicine
  • Neuronal pentraxin 2: a synapse-derived CSF biomarker in genetic frontotemporal dementia (2020) - Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Plasma Neurofilament Light for Prediction of Disease Progression in Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (2021) - Neurology

Frequent collaborators of Alexandre de Mendonça include:

  • Caroline Graff
  • Barbara Borroni
  • Raquel Sánchez-Valle
  • Daniela Galimberti
  • Elizabeth Finger

Additionally, Alexandre de Mendonça has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Editora BAGAI eBooks:

  • PROFESSORES DE COMPUTAÇÃO NA EDUCAÇÃO BÁSICA (2024)

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

  • Uncovering the heterogeneity and temporal complexity of neurodegenerative diseases with Subtype and Stage Inference

    Alexandra L Young;Razvan V Marinescu;Neil P Oxtoby;Martina Bocchetta

  • Data mining methods in the prediction of Dementia: A real-data comparison of the accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of linear discriminant analysis, logistic regression, neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and random forests

    João Maroco;Dina Silva;Ana Rodrigues;Manuela Guerreiro

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

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

  • Consensus guidelines for lumbar puncture in patients with neurological diseases

    Sebastiaan Engelborghs;Ellis Niemantsverdriet;Hanne Struyfs;Kaj Blennow

  • A Pan‐European Study of the C9orf72 Repeat Associated with FTLD: Geographic Prevalence, Genomic Instability, and Intermediate Repeats

    Julie van der Zee;Ilse Gijselinck;Lubina Dillen;Tim Van Langenhove

  • Adenosine: does it have a neuroprotective role after all?

    Alexandre de Mendonça;Ana Maria Sebastião;Joaquim Alexandre Ribeiro

  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

    Itziar de Rojas;Itziar de Rojas;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Niccolo Tesi;Benjamin Grenier-Boley

  • Age at symptom onset and death and disease duration in genetic frontotemporal dementia: an international retrospective cohort study.

    Katrina M. Moore;Jennifer Nicholas;Murray Grossman;Corey T. McMillan

  • Adenosine A2A receptors and brain injury: Broad spectrum of neuroprotection, multifaceted actions and “fine tuning” modulation

    Jiang Fan Chen;Patricia K. Sonsalla;Felicita Pedata;Alessia Melani

  • Performance and complications of lumbar puncture in memory clinics: Results of the multicenter lumbar puncture feasibility study

    Flora H. Duits;Pablo Martinez-Lage;Claire Paquet;Claire Paquet;Sebastiaan Engelborghs

  • Quality of life in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    Helena Bárrios;Sofia Narciso;Manuela Guerreiro;João Maroco

  • Patterns of gray matter atrophy in genetic frontotemporal dementia: results from the GENFI study.

    David M Cash;Martina Bocchetta;David L Thomas;Katrina M Dick

  • Enhanced role of adenosine A 2A receptors in the modulation of LTP in the rat hippocampus upon ageing

    Ana R. Costenla;Maria J. Diógenes;Paula M. Canas;Ricardo J. Rodrigues

  • Serum neurofilament light chain in genetic frontotemporal dementia: a longitudinal, multicentre cohort study

    Emma L van der Ende;Lieke H Meeter;Jackie M Poos;Jessica L Panman

  • Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein is raised in progranulin-associated frontotemporal dementia.

    Carolin Heller;Martha S Foiani;Katrina Moore;Rhian Convery

  • Caffeine, adenosine receptors, and synaptic plasticity

    Ana Rita Costenla;Rodrigo A. Cunha;Alexandre de Mendonça

  • Association of Cerebral Amyloid-β Aggregation With Cognitive Functioning in Persons Without Dementia.

    Willemijn J Jansen;Rik Ossenkoppele;Betty M Tijms;Anne M Fagan

  • Memory complaints in healthy young and elderly adults: reliability of memory reporting.

    Tiago Mendes;Sandra Ginó;Filipa Ribeiro;Manuela Guerreiro

  • ADENOSINE AND NEURONAL PLASTICITY

    Alexandre de Mendonça;J.A. Ribeiro

  • Decrease of adenosine A1 receptor density and of adenosine neuromodulation in the hippocampus of kindled rats.

    Nelson Rebola;Joana E. Coelho;Ana Rita Costenla;Luísa V. Lopes

  • Biomarker-based prognosis for people with mild cognitive impairment (ABIDE): a modelling study

    Ingrid S. van Maurik;Stephanie J. Vos;Isabelle Bos;Isabelle Bos;Femke H. Bouwman

Frequent Co-Authors

Caroline Graff
Caroline Graff Karolinska University Hospital
Barbara Borroni
Barbara Borroni University of Brescia
Mario Masellis
Mario Masellis Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Jonathan D. Rohrer
Jonathan D. Rohrer University College London
James B. Rowe
James B. Rowe University of Cambridge
Giovanni B. Frisoni
Giovanni B. Frisoni University of Geneva
Alexander Gerhard
Alexander Gerhard University of Manchester
João Maroco
João Maroco ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg

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