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Overview

Deborah Blacker is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has made significant contributions primarily in the field of Medicine, reflected by 155 publications. Their research spans several subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Artificial Intelligence, and Physiology.

Their work covers a range of main topics with a focus on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, comprising 80 publications. Other notable research areas include Machine Learning in Healthcare, Acute Ischemic Stroke Management, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations and Quality of Life, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Nutritional Studies and Diet, and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery.

Deborah Blacker has published in widely recognized journals and venues. Frequent publication venues with multiple contributions are:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Some of their recent significant papers include:

  • Twenty-seven-year time trends in dementia incidence in Europe and the United States, 2020, Neurology
  • Long-term Dietary Flavonoid Intake and Subjective Cognitive Decline in US Men and Women, 2021, Neurology
  • MarkVCID cerebral small vessel consortium: I. Enrollment, clinical, fluid protocols, 2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with dementia, 2021, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Blood Pressure Variation and Subclinical Brain Disease, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Their frequent collaborators are diverse and include Joseph P. Newhouse, Lidia M.V.R. Moura, Bradley T. Hyman, John Hsu, and Colin Magdamo, with collaboration counts ranging from 17 to 25 joint works, indicating consistent partnership in research projects.

Best Publications

  • An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest.

    Rahul S. Desikan;Florent Ségonne;Bruce Fischl;Bruce Fischl;Brian T. Quinn

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • 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

  • Systematic meta-analyses of Alzheimer disease genetic association studies: the AlzGene database

    Lars Bertram;Matthew B McQueen;Matthew B McQueen;Kristina Mullin;Deborah Blacker

  • The Cortical Signature of Alzheimer's Disease: Regionally Specific Cortical Thinning Relates to Symptom Severity in Very Mild to Mild AD Dementia and is Detectable in Asymptomatic Amyloid-Positive Individuals

    Bradford C. Dickerson;Akram Bakkour;David H. Salat;Eric Feczko

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach.

    Perminder S. Sachdev;Deborah Blacker;Dan G. Blazer;Mary Ganguli

  • 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

  • Increased hippocampal activation in mild cognitive impairment compared to normal aging and AD

    B. C. Dickerson;D. H. Salat;D. N. Greve;E. F. Chua

  • Alterations in Memory Networks in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease: An Independent Component Analysis

    Kim A. Celone;Vince D. Calhoun;Bradford C. Dickerson;Alireza Atri

  • Alpha-2 macroglobulin is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease.

    Deborah Blacker;Marsha A. Wilcox;Nan M. Laird;Linda Rodes

  • Diagnostic criteria for vascular cognitive disorders: a VASCOG statement.

    Perminder Sachdev;Raj Kalaria;John O'Brien;Ingmar Skoog

  • Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery—2018

    L. Evered;L. Evered;B. Silbert;B. Silbert;D.S. Knopman;D.A. Scott;D.A. Scott

  • MRI-derived measurements of human subcortical, ventricular and intracranial brain volumes: Reliability effects of scan sessions, acquisition sequences, data analyses, scanner upgrade, scanner vendors and field strengths

    Jorge Jovicich;Silvester Czanner;Xiao Han;David H. Salat

  • Evidence for Genetic Linkage of Alzheimer's Disease to Chromosome 10q

    Lars Bertram;Deborah Blacker;Kristina Mullin;Devon Keeney

  • Medial temporal lobe function and structure in mild cognitive impairment

    Bradford C. Dickerson;David H. Salat;Julianna F. Bates;Monika Atiya

  • ApoE-4 and Age at Onset of Alzheimer's Disease The NIMH Genetics Initiative

    D. Blacker;Jonathan Haines;L. Rodes;H. Terwedow

  • Genome-wide Association Analysis Reveals Putative Alzheimer's Disease Susceptibility Loci in Addition to APOE

    Lars Bertram;Christoph Lange;Kristina Mullin;Michele Parkinson

  • Meta-analysis confirms CR1, CLU, and PICALM as Alzheimer disease risk loci and reveals interactions with APOE genotypes.

    Gyungah Jun;Adam C. Naj;Gary W. Beecham;Li San Wang

  • Results of a high-resolution genome screen of 437 Alzheimer's Disease families

    Deborah Blacker;Lars Bertram;Aleister J. Saunders;Thomas J. Moscarillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rudolph E. Tanzi
Rudolph E. Tanzi Harvard University
Reisa A. Sperling
Reisa A. Sperling Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bradley T. Hyman
Bradley T. Hyman Harvard University
Lars Bertram
Lars Bertram University of Lübeck
Nikolaos Scarmeas
Nikolaos Scarmeas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Yaakov Stern
Yaakov Stern Columbia University
Bradford C. Dickerson
Bradford C. Dickerson Harvard Medical School
Mary Sano
Mary Sano Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Keith A. Johnson
Keith A. Johnson Harvard University

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