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2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
111
Citations
62676
World Ranking
829
National Ranking
503

Neuroscience

D-Index
115
Citations
68206
World Ranking
444
National Ranking
260

Medicine

D-Index
115
Citations
68213
World Ranking
4451
National Ranking
2425

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Helena C. Chui is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medical fields, with particular emphasis on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, health toxicology and mutagenesis, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging, as well as general health topics.

The scientist contributes to a range of topics including cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, air quality and health impacts, health disparities and outcomes, aging and gerontology research, air quality monitoring and forecasting, cardiovascular health and disease prevention, and moyamoya disease diagnosis and treatment.

Frequent coauthors working alongside Helena C. Chui include:

  • Mark A. Espeland
  • Gregory A. Wellenius
  • JoAnn E. Manson
  • Joel D. Kaufman
  • Eric A. Whitsel

Key publication venues where this scientist's work regularly appears include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Stroke
  • Current Psychology

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Helena C. Chui are as follows:

  • "Gratitude and loneliness in daily life across the adult lifespan," 2021, Current Psychology
  • "WMH Contributions to Cognitive Impairment: Rationale and Design of the Diverse VCID Study," 2024, Stroke
  • "Translating and Adapting the Modified Mini Mental State (3MS) Test for Multiple Cultural Populations," 2021, Innovation in Aging
  • "Ambient air pollution and neurotoxicity on brain structure: Evidence from women's health initiative memory study: Neurotoxic Air Pollution and WMV," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Paradox of well-being in aging: The importance of national wealth and individual perceived income," 2021, PsycEXTRA Dataset

Best Publications

  • Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

    Philip B. Gorelick;Angelo Scuteri;Sandra E. Black;Charles Decarli

  • The Modified Mini-Mental State (3MS) examination.

    Evelyn L. Teng;Helena C. Chui

  • Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

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  • 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

  • Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown in the Aging Human Hippocampus

    Axel Montagne;Samuel R. Barnes;Melanie D. Sweeney;Matthew R. Halliday

  • Criteria for the diagnosis of ischemic vascular dementia proposed by the State of California Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Centers

    H. C. Chui;J. I. Victoroff;D. Margolin;W. Jagust

  • Blood-brain barrier breakdown is an early biomarker of human cognitive dysfunction.

    Daniel A Nation;Melanie D Sweeney;Axel Montagne;Abhay P Sagare

  • Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): consensus working group report.

    Peter T. Nelson;Dennis W. Dickson;John Q. Trojanowski;Clifford R. Jack

  • Subcortical ischaemic vascular dementia

    Gustavo C Román;Timo Erkinjuntti;Anders Wallin;Leonardo Pantoni

  • Neuronal loss is greater in the locus coeruleus than nucleus basalis and substantia nigra in Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases

    Chris Zarow;Scott A. Lyness;James A. Mortimer;Helena C. Chui

  • APOE4 leads to blood–brain barrier dysfunction predicting cognitive decline

    Axel Montagne;Daniel A. Nation;Abhay P. Sagare;Giuseppe Barisano

  • 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

  • The Uniform Data Set (UDS): clinical and cognitive variables and descriptive data from Alzheimer Disease Centers.

    John C. Morris;Sandra Weintraub;Helena C. Chui;Jeffrey Cummings

  • The Alzheimer's Disease Centers' Uniform Data Set (UDS): the neuropsychologic test battery.

    Sandra Weintraub;David Salmon;Nathaniel Mercaldo;Steven Ferris

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    A. T. Du;N. Schuff;N. Schuff;D. Amend;M. P. Laakso

  • Serum neurofilament dynamics predicts neurodegeneration and clinical progression in presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease

    Oliver Preische;Oliver Preische;Stephanie A. Schultz;Anja Apel;Anja Apel;Jens Kuhle

  • Research criteria for subcortical vascular dementia in clinical trials.

    Timo Erkinjuntti;D. Inzitari;L. Pantoni;A. Wallin

  • The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) database: the Uniform Data Set.

    Duane L. Beekly;Erin M. Ramos;William W. Lee;Woodrow D. Deitrich

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

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

  • Depression as a risk factor for Alzheimer disease: the MIRAGE Study.

    Robert C. Green;L. Adrienne Cupples;Alex Kurz;Sanford Auerbach

  • Pattern of Cerebral Hypoperfusion in Alzheimer Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Measured with Arterial Spin-labeling MR Imaging: Initial Experience

    Nathan A. Johnson;Geon-Ho Jahng;Michael W. Weiner;Bruce L. Miller

  • Plasticity of hippocampal circuitry in Alzheimer's disease

    James W. Geddes;Daniel T. Monaghan;Carl W. Cotman;Ira T. Lott

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce R Reed
Bruce R Reed University of California, Davis
William J. Jagust
William J. Jagust University of California, Berkeley
Norbert Schuff
Norbert Schuff University of California, San Francisco
Wendy J. Mack
Wendy J. Mack University of Southern California
Joel H. Kramer
Joel H. Kramer University of California, San Francisco
Charles DeCarli
Charles DeCarli University of California, Davis
Dan M Mungas
Dan M Mungas University of California, Davis
Bruce L. Miller
Bruce L. Miller University of California, San Francisco
Lon S. Schneider
Lon S. Schneider University of Southern California
John C. Morris
John C. Morris Washington University in St. Louis

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