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Frederick A. Schmitt

Frederick A. Schmitt

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Medicine

D-Index
92
Citations
31688
World Ranking
11291
National Ranking
5794

Overview

Frederick A. Schmitt is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, contributing to 156 publications, with significant focus on psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, neurology, epidemiology, and physiology.

The scientist's main areas of study include dementia and cognitive impairment research, down syndrome and intellectual disability research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, chronic disease management strategies, frailty in older adults, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Frederick A. Schmitt has contributed to multiple papers, including the following recent publications:

  • Prevalence and Clinical Phenotype of Quadruple Misfolded Proteins in Older Adults, 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • Brain arteriolosclerosis, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Meta-Analysis of Cognition in Parkinson's Disease Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Progression, 2021, Neuropsychology Review
  • Distribution of microglial phenotypes as a function of age and Alzheimer's disease neuropathology in the brains of people with Down syndrome, 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Diagnostic and prognostic performance and longitudinal changes in plasma neurofilament light chain concentrations in adults with Down syndrome: a cohort study, 2021, The Lancet Neurology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Frederick A. Schmitt include:

  • Erin L. Abner
  • Elizabeth Head
  • Gregory A. Jicha
  • Jordan P. Harp
  • Richard J. Kryscio

Publication venues where Schmitt has frequently contributed include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Brain Communications
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Best Publications

  • Memantine in Moderate-to-Severe Alzheimer's Disease

    Barry Reisberg;Rachelle Doody;Albrecht Stöffler;Frederick Schmitt

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

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

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

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

  • Validity and reliability of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Clinical Global Impression of Change. The Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study.

    L S Schneider;J T Olin;R S Doody;C M Clark

  • Using mice to model Alzheimer's dementia: an overview of the clinical disease and the preclinical behavioral changes in 10 mouse models.

    Scott J Webster;Adam D Bachstetter;Peter T Nelson;Frederick A Schmitt

  • Neuropathology of nondemented aging: Presumptive evidence for preclinical Alzheimer disease

    Joseph L. Price;Daniel W. McKeel;Virginia D. Buckles;Catherine M. Roe

  • Alzheimer neuropathologic alterations in aged cognitively normal subjects

    D G Davis;F A Schmitt;D R Wekstein;W R Markesbery

  • Evidence of increased oxidative damage in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    J. N. Keller;F. A. Schmitt;S. W. Scheff;Q. Ding

  • Validity and reliability of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study–Clinical Global Impression of Change.

    Lon S. Schneider;Jason T. Olin;Rachelle S. Doody;Christopher M. Clark

  • Neuropathologic substrate of mild cognitive impairment.

    William R. Markesbery;Frederick A. Schmitt;Richard J. Kryscio;Daron G. Davis

  • Neuropsychological outcome of zidovudine (AZT) treatment of patients with AIDS and AIDS-related complex

    Frederick A. Schmitt;Joseph W. Bigley;Ray McKinnis;Patrick E. Logue

  • Alzheimer’s disease is not “brain aging”: neuropathological, genetic, and epidemiological human studies

    Peter T. Nelson;Elizabeth Head;Frederick A. Schmitt;Paulina R. Davis

  • Age and gender effects on human brain anatomy: a voxel-based morphometric study in healthy elderly.

    Charles D. Smith;Himachandra Chebrolu;David R. Wekstein;Frederick A. Schmitt

  • Clinicopathologic correlations in a large Alzheimer disease center autopsy cohort: neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles "do count" when staging disease severity

    Peter T. Nelson;Gregory A. Jicha;Frederick A. Schmitt;Huaichen Liu

  • Synaptic loss in the inferior temporal gyrus in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

    Stephen W. Scheff;Douglas A. Price;Frederick A. Schmitt;Melissa A. Scheff

  • Critical decline in fine motor hand movements in human aging

    C.D. Smith;G.H. Umberger;E.L. Manning;J.T. Slevin

  • Low sensitivity in clinical diagnoses of dementia with Lewy bodies

    Peter T. Nelson;Gregory A. Jicha;Richard J. Kryscio;Erin L. Abner

  • Improving dementia care: The role of screening and detection of cognitive impairment

    Soo Borson;Lori Frank;Peter J. Bayley;Malaz Boustani

  • Cortical biopsy in Alzheimer's disease: Diagnostic accuracy and neurochemical, neuropathological, and cognitive correlations

    Steven T. DeKosky;Robert E. Harbaugh;Frederick A. Schmitt;Roy A. E. Bakay

  • Association of Antioxidant Supplement Use and Dementia in the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease by Vitamin E and Selenium Trial (PREADViSE).

    Richard J. Kryscio;Erin L. Abner;Allison M. Caban-Holt;Mark A. Lovell

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory A. Jicha
Gregory A. Jicha University of Kentucky
Richard J. Kryscio
Richard J. Kryscio University of Kentucky
Peter T. Nelson
Peter T. Nelson University of Kentucky
Charles D. Smith
Charles D. Smith University of Kentucky
Elizabeth Head
Elizabeth Head University of California, Irvine
Linda J. Van Eldik
Linda J. Van Eldik University of Kentucky
William R. Markesbery
William R. Markesbery University of Kentucky
David T. R. Berry
David T. R. Berry University of Kentucky
Steven H. Ferris
Steven H. Ferris New York University
Stephen W. Scheff
Stephen W. Scheff University of Kentucky

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