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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine, Robarts Research Institute

Overview

Charles DeCarli is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions focused on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Charles DeCarli include:

  • Functional brain architecture is associated with the rate of tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Nature Communications
  • In vivo staging of regional amyloid deposition, 2022, Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)
  • Challenges and Opportunities with Causal Discovery Algorithms: Application to Alzheimer's Pathophysiology, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Amyloid-associated increases in soluble tau relate to tau aggregation rates and cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Divergent Cortical Tau Positron Emission Tomography Patterns Among Patients With Preclinical Alzheimer Disease, 2022, JAMA Neurology

Charles DeCarli has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • JAMA Neurology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Michael Donohue
  • John C. Morris
  • Laurel Beckett
  • Clifford R. Jack
  • William J. Jagust

Charles DeCarli was recognized with the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine awarded by the Robarts Research Institute in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Vascular dementia Diagnostic criteria for research studies: Report of the NINDS‐AIREN International Workshop*

    Gustavo C. Roman;T. K. Tatemichi;T. Erkinjuntti;J. L. Cummings

  • Mild cognitive impairment--beyond controversies, towards a consensus: report of the International Working Group on Mild Cognitive Impairment.

    B. Winblad;K. Palmer;Miia Kivipelto;V. Jelic

  • Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration

    Joanna M. Wardlaw;Eric E. Smith;Geert J Biessels;Charlotte Cordonnier

  • Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

    Philip B. Gorelick;Angelo Scuteri;Sandra E. Black;Charles Decarli

  • The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI): MRI methods.

    Clifford R. Jack;Matt A. Bernstein;Nick C. Fox;Paul Thompson

  • Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

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  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke–Canadian Stroke Network Vascular Cognitive Impairment Harmonization Standards

    Vladimir Hachinski;Costantino Iadecola;Ron C. Petersen;Monique M. Breteler

  • 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

  • Vascular Cognitive Impairment

    John T O'Brien;Timo Erkinjuntti;Barry Reisberg;Gustavo Roman

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Uniform Data Set (UDS): clinical and cognitive variables and descriptive data from Alzheimer Disease Centers.

    John C. Morris;Sandra Weintraub;Helena C. Chui;Jeffrey Cummings

  • The Alzheimer's Disease Centers' Uniform Data Set (UDS): the neuropsychologic test battery.

    Sandra Weintraub;David Salmon;Nathaniel Mercaldo;Steven Ferris

  • Midlife vascular risk factor exposure accelerates structural brain aging and cognitive decline.

    S. Debette;S. Seshadri;S. Seshadri;A. Beiser;A. Beiser;R. Au;R. Au

  • Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease—advances since 2013

    Unknown

  • The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) database: the Uniform Data Set.

    Duane L. Beekly;Erin M. Ramos;William W. Lee;Woodrow D. Deitrich

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • Mild cognitive impairment: prevalence, prognosis, aetiology, and treatment.

    Charles DeCarli

  • Measures of brain morphology and infarction in the framingham heart study: establishing what is normal

    Charles DeCarli;Joseph Massaro;Danielle J Harvey;John Hald

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • FDG-PET improves accuracy in distinguishing frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    Norman L. Foster;Judith L. Heidebrink;Christopher M. Clark;William J. Jagust

  • The effect of white matter hyperintensity volume on brain structure, cognitive performance, and cerebral metabolism of glucose in 51 healthy adults

    Charles DeCarli;D. G. M. Murphy;M. Tranh;C. L. Grady

Frequent Co-Authors

Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Alexa Beiser
Alexa Beiser Boston University
Philip A. Wolf
Philip A. Wolf Boston University
Dan M Mungas
Dan M Mungas University of California, Davis
Owen Carmichael
Owen Carmichael Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au Boston University
Bruce R Reed
Bruce R Reed University of California, Davis
William J. Jagust
William J. Jagust University of California, Berkeley
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Michael W. Weiner
Michael W. Weiner University of California, San Francisco

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