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Barbara Borroni

Barbara Borroni

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Neuroscience

D-Index
94
Citations
35153
World Ranking
938
National Ranking
28

Overview

Barbara Borroni is affiliated with the University of Brescia in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant focus on subfields including Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

Their work extensively covers key topics such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding.

Barbara Borroni's publications have appeared frequently in several scientific venues, notably:

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

Among their recent published papers are the following:

  • New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Serum neuronal exosomes predict and differentiate Parkinson's disease from atypical parkinsonism, 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Clinical characteristics and outcomes of inpatients with neurologic disease and COVID-19 in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy, 2020, Neurology
  • Brain-derived tau: a novel blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer's disease-type neurodegeneration, 2022, Brain

Barbara Borroni collaborates frequently with a group of researchers that include Caroline Graff, Daniela Galimberti, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Alexandre de Mendonça, and James B. Rowe. These collaborations reflect sustained research partnerships across various neurological and neurodegenerative disease topics.

Best Publications

  • Criteria for the diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration.

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

  • Progranulin Deficiency Promotes Circuit-Specific Synaptic Pruning by Microglia via Complement Activation.

    Hansen Lui;Jiasheng Zhang;Stefanie R. Makinson;Michelle K. Cahill

  • Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy

    Günter U. Höglinger;Nadine M. Melhem;Dennis W. Dickson;Patrick M A Sleiman

  • Presymptomatic cognitive and neuroanatomical changes in genetic frontotemporal dementia in the Genetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI) study: a cross-sectional analysis

    Jonathan D Rohrer;Jennifer M Nicholas;Jennifer M Nicholas;David M Cash;John van Swieten

  • 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

  • MCI conversion to dementia and the APOE genotype A prediction study with FDG-PET

    L. Mosconi;D. Perani;S. Sorbi;Karl Herholz

  • Frontotemporal dementia and its subtypes: a genome-wide association study

    Raffaele Ferrari;Raffaele Ferrari;Dena G Hernandez;Dena G Hernandez;Michael A Nalls;Jonathan D Rohrer

  • Clinical and neuroanatomical signatures of tissue pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    Jonathan D. Rohrer;Tammaryn Lashley;Jonathan M. Schott;Jane E. Warren

  • Heterogeneity of brain glucose metabolism in mild cognitive impairment and clinical progression to alzheimer disease

    Davide Anchisi;Barbara Borroni;Massimo Franceschi;Nasser Kerrouche

  • Cerebrospinal fluid soluble TREM2 is higher in Alzheimer disease and associated with mutation status.

    Laura Piccio;Yuetiva Deming;Jorge L. Del-Águila;Laura Ghezzi;Laura Ghezzi

  • Incidence of and risk factors for hallucinations and delusions in patients with probable AD

    Luca Rozzini;Alessandro Padovani;Barbara Borroni;Marco Trabucchi

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mutation within TARDBP leads to frontotemporal dementia without motor neuron disease.

    Barbara Borroni;C. Bonvicini;A. Alberici;E. Buratti

  • Neurofilament light chain: a biomarker for genetic frontotemporal dementia.

    Lieke H. Meeter;Elise G. Dopper;Lize C. Jiskoot;Raquel Sanchez‐Valle

  • Education and occupation as proxies for reserve in aMCI converters and AD: FDG-PET evidence

    V. Garibotto;B. Borroni;E. Kalbe;K. Herholz

  • Brain-derived tau: a novel blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease-type neurodegeneration

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  • Serum neuronal exosomes predict and differentiate Parkinson’s disease from atypical parkinsonism

    Cheng Jiang;Franziska Hopfner;Antigoni Katsikoudi;Robert Hein

  • Clinical characteristics and outcomes of inpatients with neurologic disease and COVID-19 in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy.

    Alberto Benussi;Andrea Pilotto;Enrico Premi;Ilenia Libri

  • Platelet APP, ADAM 10 and BACE alterations in the early stages of Alzheimer disease.

    F. Colciaghi;E. Marcello;B. Borroni;M. Zimmermann

  • α-Secretase ADAM10 as Well as αAPPs Is Reduced in Platelets and CSF of Alzheimer Disease Patients

    Francesca Colciaghi;Barbara Borroni;Lucia Pastorino;Elena Marcello

  • Action and object naming in frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal degeneration.

    M. Cotelli;B. Borroni;R. Manenti;A. Alberici

  • Synapse-Associated Protein-97 Mediates α-Secretase ADAM10 Trafficking and Promotes Its Activity

    Elena Marcello;Fabrizio Gardoni;Daniela Mauceri;Stefano Romorini

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Padovani
Alessandro Padovani University of Brescia
Caroline Graff
Caroline Graff Karolinska University Hospital
Jonathan D. Rohrer
Jonathan D. Rohrer University College London
Mario Masellis
Mario Masellis Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Alexandre de Mendonça
Alexandre de Mendonça University of Lisbon
James B. Rowe
James B. Rowe University of Cambridge
Giovanni B. Frisoni
Giovanni B. Frisoni University of Geneva
Monica Di Luca
Monica Di Luca University of Milan
Maria Cotelli
Maria Cotelli University of Brescia

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