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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Ann C. McKee is a researcher affiliated with Boston University in the United States, specializing in the field of Medicine with a focus on Neurology, Epidemiology, Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health. Their publication record includes significant contributions to the study of traumatic brain injury and related neuropathological conditions.

The main topics covered in their research work include:

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • S100 Proteins and Annexins
  • Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ann C. McKee are:

  • Thor D. Stein
  • Jesse Mez
  • Michael L. Alosco
  • Yorghos Tripodis
  • Victor E. Alvarez

Ann C. McKee's articles are often published in journals with a focus on neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. The five most frequent publication venues include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Acta Neuropathologica
  • Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Ann C. McKee are:

  • "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome," 2021, Neurology
  • "The Second NINDS/NIBIB Consensus Meeting to Define Neuropathological Criteria for the Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy," 2021, Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
  • "Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID): A report from the 2018 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Workshop," 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE): criteria for neuropathological diagnosis and relationship to repetitive head impacts," 2023, Acta Neuropathologica
  • "Leveraging football accelerometer data to quantify associations between repetitive head impacts and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in males," 2023, Nature Communications

Ann C. McKee has been recognized with the Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) award in 2018.

Best Publications

  • The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD): Part II. Standardization of the neuropathologic assessment of Alzheimer's disease

    Mirra Ss;Heyman A;McKeel D;Sumi Sm

  • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes: progressive tauopathy after repetitive head injury.

    Ann C. McKee;Robert C. Cantu;Christopher J. Nowinski;E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte

  • The spectrum of disease in chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    Ann C. McKee;Thor D. Stein;Thor D. Stein;Christopher J. Nowinski;Robert A. Stern

  • Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature

    Peter T Nelson;Irina Alafuzoff;Eileen H Bigio;Constantin Bouras

  • Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

    Adam C. Naj;Gyungah Jun;Gary W. Beecham;Li-San Wang

  • Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging

    John F. Crary;John Q. Trojanowski;Julie A. Schneider;Jose F. Abisambra

  • A computational atlas of the hippocampal formation using ex vivo, ultra-high resolution MRI: Application to adaptive segmentation of in vivo MRI

    Juan Eugenio Iglesias;Jean C. Augustinack;Khoa Nguyen;Christopher M. Player

  • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in blast-exposed military veterans and a blast neurotrauma mouse model.

    Lee E. Goldstein;Andrew M. Fisher;Chad A. Tagge;Xiao-Lei Zhang

  • Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football

    Jesse Mez;Daniel H. Daneshvar;Patrick T. Kiernan;Bobak Abdolmohammadi

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • Mitochondrial DNA deletions are abundant and cause functional impairment in aged human substantia nigra neurons

    Yevgenya Kraytsberg;Elena Kudryavtseva;Ann C McKee;Ann C McKee;Changiz Geula

  • Exosome-associated tau is secreted in tauopathy models and is selectively phosphorylated in cerebrospinal fluid in early Alzheimer disease

    Sudad Saman;WonHee Kim;Mario Raya;Yvonne Visnick

  • Preliminary NINDS neuropathologic criteria for Steele‐Richardson‐Olszewski syndrome (progressive supranuclear palsy)

    J.-J. Hauw;S. E. Daniel;D. Dickson;D. S. Horoupian

  • The first NINDS/NIBIB consensus meeting to define neuropathological criteria for the diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy

    Ann C. McKee;Nigel J. Cairns;Dennis W. Dickson;Rebecca D. Folkerth

  • Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Potential Late Effect of Sport-Related Concussive and Subconcussive Head Trauma

    Brandon E. Gavett;Robert A. Stern;Ann C. McKee

  • The epidemiology of sport-related concussion.

    Daniel H. Daneshvar;Christopher J. Nowinski;Ann C. McKee;Ann C. McKee;Robert C. Cantu

  • The neuropathology of traumatic brain injury

    Ann C. Mckee;Daniel H. Daneshvar

  • TDP-43 Proteinopathy and Motor Neuron Disease in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    Ann C. McKee;Brandon E. Gavett;Robert A. Stern;Christopher J. Nowinski

  • Long-term Consequences of Repetitive Brain Trauma: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

    Robert A. Stern;David O. Riley;Daniel H. Daneshvar;Christopher J. Nowinski

  • Exosome-associated Tau Is Secreted in Tauopathy Models and Is Selectively Phosphorylated in Cerebrospinal Fluid in

    Sudad Saman;WonHee Kim;Mario Raya;Yvonne Visnick

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil W. Kowall
Neil W. Kowall Boston University
Robert C. Cantu
Robert C. Cantu Boston University
Michael L. Alosco
Michael L. Alosco Boston University
Douglas I. Katz
Douglas I. Katz Boston University
Irene Litvan
Irene Litvan University of California, San Diego
Hoon Ryu
Hoon Ryu Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au Boston University
Lindsay A. Farrer
Lindsay A. Farrer Boston University

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