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Overview

Beth E. Snitz is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of medicine, with a focus on psychiatry and mental health, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. The scientific contributions cover multiple specialized areas related to brain health and cognitive function.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

Beth E. Snitz has published extensively in a variety of journals and venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Frequent collaborators in their work include the following researchers:

  • Ann D. Cohen
  • Oscar L. López
  • William E. Klunk
  • Mary Ganguli
  • Victor L. Villemagne

Prominent recent publications by Beth E. Snitz include:

  • Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Parenchymal border macrophages regulate the flow dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid, 2022, Nature
  • Estimating prevalence of subjective cognitive decline in and across international cohort studies of aging: a COSMIC study, 2020, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Direct Comparison of the Tau PET Tracers¹⁸F-Flortaucipir and¹⁸F-MK-6240 in Human Subjects, 2021, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • Peripheral inflammatory biomarkers predict the deposition and progression of amyloid-β in cognitively unimpaired older adults, 2021, Brain Behavior and Immunity

Best Publications

  • Frequent Amyloid Deposition Without Significant Cognitive Impairment Among the Elderly

    Howard Jay Aizenstein;Robert D. Nebes;Judith A. Saxton;Julie C. Price

  • Ginkgo biloba for prevention of dementia: a randomized controlled trial.

    Steven T. DeKosky;Steven T. DeKosky;Jeff D. Williamson;Annette L. Fitzpatrick;Richard A. Kronmal

  • Cognitive Deficits in Unaffected First-Degree Relatives of Schizophrenia Patients: A Meta-analytic Review of Putative Endophenotypes

    Beth E. Snitz;Angus W. MacDonald;Cameron S. Carter;Cameron S. Carter

  • Implementation of subjective cognitive decline criteria in research studies.

    José L. Molinuevo;Laura A. Rabin;Laura A. Rabin;Rebecca Amariglio;Rachel Buckley;Rachel Buckley;Rachel Buckley

  • Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: An Overview of Self-Report Measures Used Across 19 International Research Studies

    Laura A. Rabin;Laura A. Rabin;Laura A. Rabin;Colette M. Smart;Paul K. Crane;Rebecca E. Amariglio

  • Ginkgo biloba for preventing cognitive decline in older adults: a randomized trial.

    Beth E. Snitz;Ellen S. O’Meara;Michelle C. Carlson;Alice M. Arnold

  • Amyloid Deposition Begins in the Striatum of Presenilin-1 Mutation Carriers from Two Unrelated Pedigrees

    William E. Klunk;Julie C. Price;Chester A. Mathis;Nicholas D. Tsopelas

  • Amyloid imaging in mild cognitive impairment subtypes

    David A. Wolk;David A. Wolk;Julie C. Price;Judy A. Saxton;Beth E. Snitz

  • Outcomes of Mild Cognitive Impairment by Definition: A Population Study

    Mary Ganguli;Beth E. Snitz;Judith A. Saxton;Chung Chou H. Chang

  • Parenchymal border macrophages regulate the flow dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid

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  • Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

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  • Lateral and medial hypofrontality in first-episode schizophrenia: Functional activity in a medication-naive state and effects of short-term atypical antipsychotic treatment

    Beth E. Snitz;Angus MacDonald;Jonathan D. Cohen;Raymond Y. Cho

  • Cost effectiveness of clozapine in neuroleptic-resistant schizophrenia.

    Herbert Y. Meltzer;B. A. Philip Cola;Lynne Way;Paul A. Thompson

  • Basal Cerebral Metabolism May Modulate the Cognitive Effects of Aβ in Mild Cognitive Impairment: An Example of Brain Reserve

    Ann D. Cohen;Julie C. Price;Lisa A. Weissfeld;Jeffrey James

  • Prevalence of mild cognitive impairment by multiple classifications: The Monongahela-Youghiogheny Healthy Aging Team (MYHAT) project.

    Mary Ganguli;Chung-Chou H. Chang;Beth E. Snitz;Judith A. Saxton

  • Pulse wave velocity is associated with β-amyloid deposition in the brains of very elderly adults

    Timothy M. Hughes;Lewis H. Kuller;Emma J.M. Barinas-Mitchell;Rachel H. Mackey

  • Age and education effects and norms on a cognitive test battery from a population-based cohort: the Monongahela-Youghiogheny Healthy Aging Team

    Mary Ganguli;Beth E. Snitz;Ching-Wen Lee;Joni Vanderbilt

  • Mild cognitive impairment: Incidence and vascular risk factors in a population-based cohort

    Mary Ganguli;Bo Fu;Beth E. Snitz;Tiffany F. Hughes

  • Subjective Cognitive Complaints, Personality and Brain Amyloid-beta in Cognitively Normal Older Adults

    Beth E. Snitz;Lisa A. Weissfeld;Ann D. Cohen;Oscar L. Lopez

  • Regional amyloid burden and intrinsic connectivity networks in cognitively normal elderly subjects

    Hyun Kook Lim;Hyun Kook Lim;Robert Nebes;Beth Snitz;Ann Cohen

  • Clinical versus mechanical prediction

    William M. Grove;David H. Zald;Boyd S. Lebow;Beth E. Snitz

  • Patterns of Mild Cognitive Impairment After Treatment of Depression in the Elderly

    Rishi K. Bhalla;Meryl A. Butters;James T. Becker;Patricia R. Houck

  • The long-term effects of conventional and atypical antipsychotics in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease.

    Oscar L. Lopez;James T. Becker;Yue-Fang Chang;Robert A. Sweet

  • Functional and cognitive criteria produce different rates of mild cognitive impairment and conversion to dementia

    Judith Saxton;Beth E Snitz;Oscar L Lopez;Diane G Ives

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard J. Aizenstein
Howard J. Aizenstein University of Pittsburgh
Julie C. Price
Julie C. Price Harvard University
Steven T. DeKosky
Steven T. DeKosky University of Florida
Judith Saxton
Judith Saxton University of Pittsburgh
Robert D. Nebes
Robert D. Nebes University of Pittsburgh
Laura A. Rabin
Laura A. Rabin City University of New York
David A. Wolk
David A. Wolk University of Pennsylvania
Milos D. Ikonomovic
Milos D. Ikonomovic University of Pittsburgh
David A. Loewenstein
David A. Loewenstein University of Miami
Kirk I. Erickson
Kirk I. Erickson University of Pittsburgh

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