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  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2010 - Sedgwick Memorial Medal, American Public Health Association
  • 2010 - Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases, American Academy of Neurology

Overview

Bruce L. Miller is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in subfields such as Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work revolves around key topics that include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Recent published papers include:

  • Diagnostic value of plasma phosphorylated tau181 in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Tau PTM Profiles Identify Patient Heterogeneity and Stages of Alzheimer's Disease, 2020, Cell
  • Prospective longitudinal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease correlates with the intensity and topography of baseline tau-PET, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • A multicentre validation study of the diagnostic value of plasma neurofilament light, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 and phosphorylated tau 181 as biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a retrospective diagnostic performance study, 2021, The Lancet Neurology

They frequently publish in several key venues including:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • JAMA Neurology

Frequent coauthors of Bruce L. Miller include:

  • Joel H. Kramer
  • William W. Seeley
  • Gil D. Rabinovici
  • Howard J. Rosen
  • Adam L. Boxer

Throughout their career, the scientist has been recognized with several awards such as:

  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2016
  • Sedgwick Memorial Medal, American Public Health Association, 2010
  • Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases, American Academy of Neurology, 2010

Best Publications

  • Ubiquitinated TDP-43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Manuela Neumann;Deepak M. Sampathu;Linda K. Kwong;Adam C. Truax

  • Frontotemporal lobar degeneration A consensus on clinical diagnostic criteria

    D. Neary;J. S. Snowden;L. Gustafson;U. Passant

  • Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia.

    Katya Rascovsky;John R. Hodges;David Knopman;Mario F. Mendez

  • Expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat in noncoding region of C9ORF72 causes chromosome 9p-linked FTD and ALS

    Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez;Ian R. Mackenzie;Bradley F. Boeve;Adam L. Boxer

  • Classification of primary progressive aphasia and its variants

    M L Gorno-Tempini;M L Gorno-Tempini;A E Hillis;S Weintraub;A Kertesz

  • Consensus guidelines for the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) Report of the consortium on DLB international workshop

    I. G. Mckeith;D. Galasko;K. Kosaka;E. K. Perry

  • Neurodegenerative Diseases Target Large-Scale Human Brain Networks

    William W. Seeley;Richard K. Crawford;Juan Zhou;Bruce L. Miller

  • 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

  • Criteria for the diagnosis of corticobasal degeneration.

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

  • Cognition and Anatomy in Three Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia

    Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini;Nina F. Dronkers;Katherine P. Rankin;Jennifer M. Ogar

  • Clinical and Pathological Diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia: Report of the Work Group on Frontotemporal Dementia and Pick's Disease

    Guy M. McKhann;Marilyn S. Albert;Murray Grossman;Bruce Miller

  • Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

    William C. Nierman;William C. Nierman;Arnab Pain;Michael J. Anderson;Jennifer R. Wortman;Jennifer R. Wortman

  • Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae

    James E. Galagan;Sarah E. Calvo;Christina Cuomo;Li Jun Ma

  • Classification and prediction of clinical Alzheimer's diagnosis based on plasma signaling proteins

    Sandip Ray;Markus Britschgi;Charles Herbert;Yoshiko Takeda-Uchimura

  • Tau PET patterns mirror clinical and neuroanatomical variability in Alzheimer's disease.

    Rik Ossenkoppele;Rik Ossenkoppele;Rik Ossenkoppele;Daniel R. Schonhaut;Daniel R. Schonhaut;Michael Schöll;Michael Schöll;Samuel N. Lockhart

  • ApoE4 markedly exacerbates tau-mediated neurodegeneration in a mouse model of tauopathy

    Yang Shi;Kaoru Yamada;Shane Antony Liddelow;Shane Antony Liddelow;Scott T. Smith

  • Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer’s disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis

    Y. Iturria-Medina;R. C. Sotero;P. J. Toussaint;J. M. Mateos-Pérez

  • Divergent network connectivity changes in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    Juan Zhou;Michael D. Greicius;Efstathios D. Gennatas;Matthew E. Growdon

  • Patterns of brain atrophy in frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia.

    Howard J. Rosen;M. L. Gorno-Tempini;W. P. Goldman;R. J. Perry

  • A review of chemical issues in 1H NMR spectroscopy: N‐acetyl‐l‐aspartate, creatine and choline

    Bruce L. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel H. Kramer
Joel H. Kramer University of California, San Francisco
Howard J. Rosen
Howard J. Rosen University of California, San Francisco
Gil D. Rabinovici
Gil D. Rabinovici University of California, San Francisco
William W. Seeley
William W. Seeley University of California, San Francisco
Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini University of California, San Francisco
William J. Jagust
William J. Jagust University of California, Berkeley
Katherine P. Rankin
Katherine P. Rankin University of California, San Francisco
Lea T. Grinberg
Lea T. Grinberg University of California, San Francisco
Giovanni Coppola
Giovanni Coppola University of California, Los Angeles
Norbert Schuff
Norbert Schuff University of California, San Francisco

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