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Elliott J. Mufson is affiliated with the Barrow Neurological Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience, with notable contributions to subfields such as Physiology, Neurology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of Elliott J. Mufson's work include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Frequently co-authoring with other researchers, Mufson has collaborated extensively with Sylvia E. Perez, Stephen D. Ginsberg, Michael Malek-Ahmadi, Sang H. Lee, and Melissa J. Alldred.

Their research has been published repeatedly in a number of venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroinflammation

Notable recent papers by Elliott J. Mufson include:

  • "YAP-dependent necrosis occurs in early stages of Alzheimer's disease and regulates mouse model pathology," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Further understanding the connection between Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome," 2020, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • "Frontal cortex chitinase and pentraxin neuroinflammatory alterations during the progression of Alzheimer's disease," 2020, Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • "Neuron loss associated with age but not Alzheimer's disease pathology in the chimpanzee brain," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Comparative neuropathology in aging primates: A perspective," 2021, American Journal of Primatology

Best Publications

  • Cholinergic innervation of cortex by the basal forebrain : cytochemistry and cortical connections of the septal area, diagonal band nuclei, nucleus basalis (substantia innominata), and hypothalamus in the rhesus monkey

    M.-Marsel Mesulam;Elliott J. Mufson;Allan I. Levey;Bruce H. Wainer

  • Insula of the old world monkey. III: Efferent cortical output and comments on function.

    M.-Marsel Mesulam;Elliott J. Mufson

  • Hippocampal synaptic loss in early Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    Stephen W. Scheff;Douglas A. Price;Frederick A. Schmitt;Elliott J. Mufson

  • A phase 1 clinical trial of nerve growth factor gene therapy for Alzheimer disease

    Mark H Tuszynski;Mark H Tuszynski;Leon Thal;Leon Thal;Mary Pay;David P Salmon

  • Nanoparticle-Based Detection in Cerebral Spinal Fluid of a Soluble Pathogenic Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease*

    Dimitra G. Georganopoulou;Lei Chang;Jwa Min Nam;C. Shad Thaxton

  • Neuropathological Evidence of Graft Survival and Striatal Reinnervation after the Transplantation of Fetal Mesencephalic Tissue in a Patient with Parkinson's Disease

    J H Kordower;T B Freeman;B J Snow;F J Vingerhoets

  • Synaptic alterations in CA1 in mild Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment

    S. W. Scheff;D. A. Price;F. A. Schmitt;S. T. DeKosky

  • Upregulation of choline acetyltransferase activity in hippocampus and frontal cortex of elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment.

    Steven T. Dekosky;Milos D. Ikonomovic;Scot D. Styren;Laurel A Beckett

  • Insula of the old world monkey. I. Architectonics in the insulo-orbito-temporal component of the paralimbic brain.

    M.-Marsel Mesulam;Elliott J. Mufson

  • Precursor form of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and mature brain-derived neurotrophic factor are decreased in the pre-clinical stages of Alzheimer's disease.

    Shiyong Peng;Joanne Wuu;Elliott J. Mufson;Margaret Fahnestock

  • Neuronal sorting protein-related receptor sorLA/LR11 regulates processing of the amyloid precursor protein.

    Olav M. Andersen;Juliane Reiche;Vanessa Schmidt;Michael Gotthardt

  • Cholinergic system during the progression of Alzheimer's disease: therapeutic implications.

    Elliott J Mufson;Scott E Counts;Sylvia E Perez;Stephen D Ginsberg

  • Insula of the old world monkey. II: Afferent cortical input and comments on the claustrum.

    Elliott J. Mufson;M.‐Marsel Mesulam

  • Neuronal Cell Death Is Preceded by Cell Cycle Events at All Stages of Alzheimer's Disease

    Yan Yang;Elliott J. Mufson;Karl Herrup

  • Loss and atrophy of layer II entorhinal cortex neurons in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment.

    Jeffrey H. Kordower;Yaping Chu;Glenn T. Stebbins;Steven T. DeKosky

  • The Insula of Reil in Man and Monkey

    M.-Marsel Mesulam;Elliott J. Mufson

  • Selective inhibition of NF-κB activation prevents dopaminergic neuronal loss in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

    Anamitra Ghosh;Avik Roy;Xiaojuan Liu;Jeffrey H. Kordower

  • Clinicopathological findings following intraventricular glial-derived neurotrophic factor treatment in a patient with Parkinson's disease.

    Jeffrey H. Kordower;Stephane Palfi;Er-Yun Chen;Shuang Y. Ma

  • NEURAL INPUTS INTO THE NUCLEUS BASALIS OF THE SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA (Ch4) IN THE RHESUS MONKEY

    M.-Marsel Mesulam;Elliott J. Mufson

  • Distribution and retrograde transport of trophic factors in the central nervous system: functional implications for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

    Elliott J. Mufson;Jeffrey S. Kroin;Timothy J. Sendera;Teresa Sobreviela

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey H. Kordower
Jeffrey H. Kordower Arizona State University
Stephen D. Ginsberg
Stephen D. Ginsberg Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Scott E. Counts
Scott E. Counts Michigan State University
Sylvia E. Perez
Sylvia E. Perez Barrow Neurological Institute
Joanne Wuu
Joanne Wuu University of Miami
David A. Bennett
David A. Bennett Rush University Medical Center
Milos D. Ikonomovic
Milos D. Ikonomovic University of Pittsburgh
Steven T. DeKosky
Steven T. DeKosky University of Florida
M.-Marsel Mesulam
M.-Marsel Mesulam Northwestern University
Stephen W. Scheff
Stephen W. Scheff University of Kentucky

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