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Danielle van Westen

Danielle van Westen

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Neuroscience

D-Index
50
Citations
9646
World Ranking
5724
National Ranking
113

Overview

Danielle van Westen is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work primarily focuses on dementias, cognitive impairment, and the application of advanced neuroimaging techniques. Their publication record shows a notable emphasis on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments as well as neurological disease mechanisms.

Their research spans several interconnected fields and subfields, including:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Neurology
  • Physiology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Van Westen's main research topics cover:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain
  • Neurology
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Their recent papers illustrate specific research interests and contributions:

  • Medial temporal lobe connectivity and its associations with cognition in early Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Brain
  • Relationship between cortical iron and tau aggregation in Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Brain
  • Mild behavioral impairment and its relation to tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Plasma markers predict changes in amyloid, tau, atrophy and cognition in non-demented subjects, 2021, Brain
  • Association of Enlarged Perivascular Spaces and Measures of Small Vessel and Alzheimer Disease, 2020, Neurology

Throughout their career, van Westen has collaborated frequently with several notable researchers, including:

  • Oskar Hansson
  • Erik Stomrud
  • Sebastian Palmqvist
  • Niklas Mattsson
  • Olof Strandberg

This scientific profile demonstrates van Westen's sustained involvement in interdisciplinary research efforts spanning imaging, neurodegenerative diseases, and cognitive neurology. Their publications, coauthor network, and choice of publication venues reflect comprehensive engagement with Alzheimer's disease and related neurological conditions.

Best Publications

  • Plasma β-amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular disease

    Shorena Janelidze;Erik Stomrud;Sebastian Palmqvist;Henrik Zetterberg;Henrik Zetterberg

  • Serial monitoring of circulating tumor DNA in patients with primary breast cancer for detection of occult metastatic disease

    Eleonor Olsson;Christof Winter;Anthony George;Yilun Chen

  • CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratios: better diagnostic markers of Alzheimer disease

    Shorena Janelidze;Henrik Zetterberg;Niklas Mattsson;Sebastian Palmqvist

  • q-space trajectory imaging for multidimensional diffusion MRI of the human brain.

    Carl-Fredrik Westin;Carl-Fredrik Westin;Hans Knutsson;Ofer Pasternak;Filip Szczepankiewicz

  • Extensive graft-derived dopaminergic innervation is maintained 24 years after transplantation in the degenerating parkinsonian brain

    Wen Li;Elisabet Englund;Håkan Widner;Bengt Mattsson

  • Quantification of microscopic diffusion anisotropy disentangles effects of orientation dispersion from microstructure: applications in healthy volunteers and in brain tumors

    Filip Szczepankiewicz;Samo Lasič;Danielle van Westen;Pia C. Sundgren

  • Medial temporal lobe connectivity and its associations with cognition in early Alzheimer's disease.

    David Berron;Danielle van Westen;Rik Ossenkoppele;Rik Ossenkoppele;Olof Strandberg

  • Neurite density imaging versus imaging of microscopic anisotropy in diffusion MRI : A model comparison using spherical tensor encoding

    Björn Lampinen;Filip Szczepankiewicz;Johan Mårtensson;Danielle van Westen

  • Increased blood-brain barrier permeability is associated with dementia and diabetes but not amyloid pathology or APOE genotype.

    Shorena Janelidze;Joakim Hertze;Katarina Nägga;Karin Nilsson

  • Noninvasive mapping of water diffusional exchange in the human brain using filter-exchange imaging

    Markus Nilsson;Jimmy Lätt;Danielle van Westen;Sara Brockstedt

  • The link between diffusion MRI and tumor heterogeneity: Mapping cell eccentricity and density by diffusional variance decomposition (DIVIDE)

    Filip Szczepankiewicz;Danielle van Westen;Elisabet Englund;Carl Fredrik Westin

  • The role of tissue microstructure and water exchange in biophysical modelling of diffusion in white matter

    Markus Nilsson;Danielle van Westen;Freddy Ståhlberg;Pia C. Sundgren

  • The importance of axonal undulation in diffusion MR measurements: a Monte Carlo simulation study.

    Markus Nilsson;Jimmy Lätt;Freddy Ståhlberg;Danielle van Westen

  • Relationship between cortical iron and tau aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease

    Nicola Spotorno;Nicola Spotorno;Julio Acosta-Cabronero;Erik Stomrud;Björn Lampinen

  • Apathy and anxiety are early markers of Alzheimer's disease

    Maurits Johansson;Erik Stomrud;Olof Lindberg;Eric Westman

  • Increased CSF biomarkers of angiogenesis in Parkinson disease.

    Shorena Janelidze;Daniel Lindqvist;Veronica Francardo;Sara Hall

  • Mild behavioral impairment and its relation to tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer's disease.

    Maurits Johansson;Erik Stomrud;Philip S. Insel;Antoine Leuzy

  • Searching for the neurite density with diffusion MRI: Challenges for biophysical modeling

    Björn Lampinen;Filip Szczepankiewicz;Filip Szczepankiewicz;Mikael Novén;Danielle van Westen

  • Plasma markers predict changes in amyloid, tau, atrophy and cognition in non-demented subjects

    Joana B Pereira;Joana B Pereira;Shorena Janelidze;Erik Stomrud;Sebastian Palmqvist

  • Increased midlife triglycerides predict brain β-amyloid and tau pathology 20 years later

    Katarina Nägga;Anna-Märta Gustavsson;Erik Stomrud;Daniel Lindqvist

  • Determining 'true' glomerular filtration rate in healthy adults using infusion of inulin and comparing it with values obtained using other clearance techniques or prediction equations.

    G Sterner;B Frennby;S Mansson;U Nyman

  • Regional values of diffusional kurtosis estimates in the healthy brain

    Jimmy Lätt;Markus Nilsson;Ronnie Wirestam;Freddy Ståhlberg

  • In vivo retention of (18)F-AV-1451 in corticobasal syndrome

    Ruben Smith;Michael Schöll;Håkan Widner;Danielle van Westen

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Stomrud
Erik Stomrud Lund University
Sebastian Palmqvist
Sebastian Palmqvist Lund University
Mark Walterfang
Mark Walterfang University of Melbourne
Eric Westman
Eric Westman Karolinska Institute
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Joana B. Pereira
Joana B. Pereira Karolinska Institute
Elna-Marie Larsson
Elna-Marie Larsson Uppsala University
Shorena Janelidze
Shorena Janelidze Lund University
Rik Ossenkoppele
Rik Ossenkoppele Lund University

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