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Carles Falcon

Carles Falcon

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Neuroscience

D-Index
50
Citations
8228
World Ranking
5784
National Ranking
15

Overview

Carles Falcon is affiliated with HTC (Taiwan) in Taiwan and has made significant contributions in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with particular focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Neurology.

Their research centers on key topics that include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications

Carles Falcon has contributed to multiple publications, including recent papers such as:

  • Differences Between Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Levels Across the Alzheimer Disease Continuum, 2021, JAMA Neurology
  • Novel tau biomarkers phosphorylated at T181, T217 or T231 rise in the initial stages of the preclinical Alzheimer's continuum when only subtle changes in Aβ pathology are detected, 2020, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Impact of urban environmental exposures on cognitive performance and brain structure of healthy individuals at risk for Alzheimer's dementia, 2020, Environment International
  • Association between insomnia and cognitive performance, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure in cognitively unimpaired adults, 2020, Alzheimer s Research & Therapy
  • Multitracer model for staging cortical amyloid deposition using PET imaging, 2020, Neurology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Juan Domingo Gispert (115 coauthored publications)
  • José Luís Molinuevo (88 coauthored publications)
  • Marc Suárez-Calvet (81 coauthored publications)
  • Carolina Minguillón (74 coauthored publications)
  • Karine Fauria (70 coauthored publications)

The scientist publishes regularly in notable venues such as:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia (61 publications)
  • Alzheimer s Research & Therapy (6 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications)
  • Brain Communications (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Modulation of large-scale brain networks by transcranial direct current stimulation evidenced by resting-state functional MRI.

    Cleofé Peña-Gómez;Roser Sala-Lonch;Carme Junqué;Immaculada C. Clemente

  • Trans‐synaptic axonal degeneration in the visual pathway in multiple sclerosis

    Iñigo Gabilondo;Elena H. Martínez-Lapiscina;Eloy Martínez-Heras;Elena Fraga-Pumar

  • Dynamic functional connectivity reveals altered variability in functional connectivity among patients with major depressive disorder

    Murat Demirtaş;Cristian Tornador;Carles Falcón;Marina López‐Solà

  • Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Effects on Brain Function and Cognition among Elders with Memory Dysfunction. A Randomized Sham-Controlled Study

    Cristina Solé-Padullés;David Bartrés-Faz;Carme Junqué;Imma C. Clemente

  • A cross-sectional and follow-up voxel-based morphometric MRI study in adolescent anorexia nervosa.

    Josefina Castro-Fornieles;Nuria Bargalló;Luisa Lázaro;Susana Andrés

  • Differential effects of intrauterine growth restriction on brain structure and development in preterm infants: A magnetic resonance imaging study

    Nelly Padilla;Carles Falcón;Magdalena Sanz-Cortés;Francesc Figueras

  • Modulation of verbal fluency networks by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in Parkinson’s disease

    Joana B. Pereira;Carme Junqué;David Bartrés-Faz;Maria J. Martí

  • Cognitive reserve modulates task-induced activations and deactivations in healthy elders, amnestic mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Beatriz Bosch;David Bartrés-Faz;Lorena Rami;Eider M. Arenaza-Urquijo

  • Centiloid cut-off values for optimal agreement between PET and CSF core AD biomarkers

    Gemma Salvadó;José Luis Molinuevo;José Luis Molinuevo;Anna Brugulat-Serrat;Carles Falcon

  • Decreased Regional Brain Volume and Cognitive Impairment in Preterm Children at Low Risk

    Sara Soria-Pastor;Nelly Padilla;Leire Zubiaurre-Elorza;Naroa Ibarretxe-Bilbao

  • Decreased cerebral activation during CPT performance: structural and functional deficits in schizophrenic patients.

    Pilar Salgado-Pineda;Carme Junqué;Pere Vendrell;Immaculada Baeza

  • Patterns of cerebral white matter damage and cognitive impairment in adolescents born very preterm

    Sara Soria-Pastor;Monica Gimenez;Ana Narberhaus;Carles Falcon

  • Frontal and associative visual areas related to visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia.

    Cristina Sanchez-Castaneda;Ramon Rene;Blanca Ramirez-Ruiz;Jaume Campdelacreu

  • Impact of urban environmental exposures on cognitive performance and brain structure of healthy individuals at risk for Alzheimer's dementia.

    Marta Crous-Bou;Mireia Gascon;Juan Domingo Gispert;Marta Cirach

  • APOE -by-sex interactions on brain structure and metabolism in healthy elderly controls

    Frederic Sampedro;Eduard Vilaplana;Mony J. de Leon;Daniel Alcolea

  • Interactions of cognitive reserve with regional brain anatomy and brain function during a working memory task in healthy elders.

    David Bartrés-Faz;Cristina Solé-Padullés;Carme Junqué;Lorena Rami

  • Effects of APOE-ε4 allele load on brain morphology in a cohort of middle-aged healthy individuals with enriched genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.

    Raffaele Cacciaglia;José Luis Molinuevo;Carles Falcón;Anna Brugulat-Serrat

  • CSF Synaptic Biomarkers in the Preclinical Stage of Alzheimer Disease and Their Association With MRI and PET: A Cross-sectional Study.

    Marta Milà-Alomà;Ann Brinkmalm;Ann Brinkmalm;Nicholas J Ashton;Hlin Kvartsberg;Hlin Kvartsberg

  • MICROSTRUCTURAL WHITE MATTER CHANGES IN METABOLIC SYNDROME: A DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING STUDY

    B. Segura;M. A. Jurado;N. Freixenet;C. Falcón

  • Cerebrospinal fluid sTREM2 levels are associated with gray matter volume increases and reduced diffusivity in early Alzheimer's disease

    Juan Domingo Gispert;Marc Suárez-Calvet;Marc Suárez-Calvet;Gemma C. Monté;Alan Tucholka

  • Progressive gray matter changes in first episode schizophrenia: a 4-year longitudinal magnetic resonance study using VBM.

    Anna Mané;Carles Falcon;J. Javier Mateos;Emilio Fernandez-Egea

  • Why Does Acute Hyperglycemia Worsen the Outcome of Transient Focal Cerebral Ischemia? Role of Corticosteroids, Inflammation, and Protein O-Glycosylation

    Abraham Martín;Santiago Rojas;Ángel Chamorro;Carles Falcón

  • Influence of corpus callosum damage on cognition and physical disability in multiple sclerosis: a multimodal study.

    Sara Llufriu;Yolanda Blanco;Eloy Martinez-Heras;Jordi Casanova-Molla

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Domingo Gispert
Juan Domingo Gispert Pasqual Maragall Foundation
Núria Bargalló
Núria Bargalló University of Barcelona
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Manel Esteller
Manel Esteller Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg
Eider M. Arenaza-Urquijo
Eider M. Arenaza-Urquijo Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Lorena Rami
Lorena Rami University of Barcelona
Frederik Barkhof
Frederik Barkhof University College London
Lourdes Fañanás
Lourdes Fañanás University of Barcelona
Luisa Lázaro
Luisa Lázaro University of Barcelona

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