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Eric Westman is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields including psychiatry and mental health, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The main topics of Eric Westman's research 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
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

Eric Westman has published research in several notable venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric Westman include:

  • Biological subtypes of Alzheimer disease, 2020, Neurology
  • The diagnostic and prognostic capabilities of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • The reliability of a deep learning model in clinical out-of-distribution MRI data: A multicohort study, 2020, Medical Image Analysis
  • β-Amyloid and tau biomarkers and clinical phenotype in dementia with Lewy bodies, 2020, Neurology
  • Data-driven FDG-PET subtypes of Alzheimer's disease-related neurodegeneration, 2021, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Eric Westman include:

  • Daniel Ferreira
  • Ingmar Skoog
  • Silke Kern
  • Anna Zettergren
  • Lars-Olof Wahlund

Best Publications

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • Cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease: diagnosis, biomarkers, and treatment

    Per Svenningsson;Eric Westman;Clive Ballard;Dag Aarsland;Dag Aarsland;Dag Aarsland

  • Spread of pathological tau proteins through communicating neurons in human Alzheimer's disease

    Jacob W. Vogel;Yasser Iturria-Medina;Olof T. Strandberg;Ruben Smith

  • Association of plasma clusterin concentration with severity, pathology, and progression in Alzheimer disease

    Madhav Thambisetty;Andrew Simmons;Latha Velayudhan;Abdul Hye

  • The effects of intracranial volume adjustment approaches on multiple regional MRI volumes in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease.

    Olga Voevodskaya;Andrew Simmons;Andrew Simmons;Richard Nordenskjöld;Joel Kullberg

  • Biological subtypes of Alzheimer disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Daniel Ferreira;Agneta Nordberg;Eric Westman

  • Combining MRI and CSF measures for classification of Alzheimer's disease and prediction of mild cognitive impairment conversion

    Eric Westman;J-Sebastian Muehlboeck;Andrew Simmons;Andrew Simmons

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

  • The diagnostic and prognostic capabilities of plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease.

    Joel Simrén;Antoine Leuzy;Thomas K Karikari;Abdul Hye

  • Random Forest ensembles for detection and prediction of Alzheimer's disease with a good between-cohort robustness

    Alexander Lebedev;Eric Westman;G. J. P. Van Westen;M. G. Kramberger

  • Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals

    Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Hieab H.H. Adams;Derrek Hibar;Charles C. White;Charles C. White

  • BRAPH: A graph theory software for the analysis of brain connectivity.

    Mite Mijalkov;Ehsan Kakaei;Joana B. Pereira;Eric Westman

  • Novel genetic loci underlying human intracranial volume identified through genome-wide association

    Hieab H H Adams;Derrek P. Hibar;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein

  • Multivariate data analysis and machine learning in Alzheimer's disease with a focus on structural magnetic resonance imaging.

    Farshad Falahati;Eric Westman;Andrew Simmons

  • Alzheimer's disease biomarker discovery using SOMAscan multiplexed protein technology.

    Martina Sattlecker;Martina Sattlecker;Steven J. Kiddle;Steven J. Kiddle;Stephen Newhouse;Stephen Newhouse;Petroula Proitsi;Petroula Proitsi

  • Regional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures for Multivariate Analysis in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Eric Westman;Carlos Darío Aguilar;J-Sebastian Muehlboeck;Andrew Simmons;Andrew Simmons

  • Plasma proteins predict conversion to dementia from prodromal disease

    Abdul Hye;Joanna Riddoch-Contreras;Alison L. Baird;Nicholas J. Ashton

  • Distinct subtypes of Alzheimer's disease based on patterns of brain atrophy: longitudinal trajectories and clinical applications.

    Daniel Ferreira;Chloë Verhagen;Chloë Verhagen;Juan Andrés Hernández-Cabrera;Lena Cavallin

  • Initial cognitive decline is associated with cortical thinning in early Parkinson disease.

    Joana B. Pereira;Per Svenningsson;Daniel Weintraub;Kolbjørn Brønnick

  • Candidate blood proteome markers of Alzheimer's disease onset and progression: a systematic review and replication study.

    Steven J. Kiddle;Martina Sattlecker;Petroula Proitsi;Andrew Simmons

  • Education increases reserve against Alzheimer’s disease—evidence from structural MRI analysis

    Yawu Liu;Valtteri Julkunen;Teemu Paajanen;Eric Westman

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrizia Mecocci
Patrizia Mecocci University of Perugia
Hilkka Soininen
Hilkka Soininen University of Eastern Finland
Dag Aarsland
Dag Aarsland King's College London
Christian Spenger
Christian Spenger Karolinska Institute
Joana B. Pereira
Joana B. Pereira Karolinska Institute
Maria Eriksdotter
Maria Eriksdotter Karolinska Institute
Agneta Nordberg
Agneta Nordberg Karolinska University Hospital
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
David Ames
David Ames University of Melbourne
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg

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