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76

Overview

Howard Chertkow is affiliated with the Rotman Research Institute in Canada and has made contributions primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their recent research spans topics including dementia and cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, health systems and economic evaluations, telemedicine implementation, frailty in older adults, nutritional studies, and Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments.

Chertkow's prominent papers include:

  • World-Wide FINGERS Network: A global approach to risk reduction and prevention of dementia (2020), published in Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Higher CSF sTNFR1-related proteins associate with better prognosis in very early Alzheimer's disease (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Making the Case for Accelerated Withdrawal of Aducanumab (2022), published in Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Protocol for the Brain Health Support Program Study of the Canadian Therapeutic Platform Trial for Multidomain Interventions to Prevent Dementia (CAN-THUMBS UP): A Prospective 12-Month Intervention Study (2023), published in The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Multidomain trials to prevent dementia: addressing methodological challenges (2022), published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Among frequent collaborators, Chertkow has worked with:

  • Howard Feldman
  • Manuel Montero-Odasso
  • Haakon B. Nygaard
  • Sylvie Belleville
  • Sandra E. Black

Best Publications

  • The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Ziad S. Nasreddine;Natalie A. Phillips;Valérie Bédirian;Simon Charbonneau

  • The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    Guy M. McKhann;Guy M. McKhann;David S. Knopman;Howard Chertkow;Bradley T. Hyman

  • The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    G.M. McKhann;D.S. Knopman;H. Chertkow;B.T. Hyman

  • Mild cognitive impairment

    Serge Gauthier;Barry Reisberg;Michael Zaudig;Ronald C. Petersen

  • Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer’s disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis

    Y. Iturria-Medina;R. C. Sotero;P. J. Toussaint;J. M. Mateos-Pérez

  • Semantic memory loss in dementia of Alzheimer's type. What do various measures measure?

    Howard Chertkow;Daniel Bub

  • Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer’s disease

    Jacob W Vogel;Alexandra L Young;Neil P Oxtoby;Ruben Smith

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

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

  • World-Wide FINGERS Network: A global approach to risk reduction and prevention of dementia

    Miia Kivipelto;Francesca Mangialasche;Francesca Mangialasche;Heather M. Snyder;Ricardo Allegri

  • Spatial patterns of cortical thinning in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    Vivek Singh;Howard Chertkow;Jason P. Lerch;Alan C. Evans

  • Working memory and control of attention in persons with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

    Sylvie Belleville;Howard Chertkow;Serge Gauthier

  • Functional brain architecture is associated with the rate of tau accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease

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  • Olfaction in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

    Jelena Djordjevic;Marilyn Jones-Gotman;Kathy De Sousa;Howard Chertkow

  • Priming and semantic memory loss in Alzheimer's disease

    Howard Chertkow;Daniel N. Bub;Mark Seidenberg

  • Multilingualism (but not always bilingualism) delays the onset of Alzheimer disease: evidence from a bilingual community.

    Howard Chertkow;Victor Whitehead;Natalie Phillips;Christina Wolfson

  • The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association workgroup

    Guy M. McKhann;David S. Knopman;Howard Chertkow;Bradley T. Hyman

  • Validity of a novel computerized cognitive battery for mild cognitive impairment.

    Tzvi Dwolatzky;Victor Whitehead;Glen M Doniger;Ely S Simon

  • Basal forebrain degeneration precedes and predicts the cortical spread of Alzheimer's pathology.

    Taylor W. Schmitz;R. Nathan Spreng;Michael W. Weiner;Paul Aisen

  • Diagnosis and treatment of dementia: 2. Diagnosis

    Howard H. Feldman;Claudia Jacova;Alain Robillard;Angeles Garcia

  • Ferritin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid predict Alzheimer's disease outcomes and are regulated by APOE

    Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

  • MicroRNA Expression in Alzheimer Blood Mononuclear Cells

    Hyman M. Schipper;Olivier C. Maes;Olivier C. Maes;Howard M. Chertkow;Eugenia Wang

  • Diagnosis and treatment of dementia: 3. Mild cognitive impairment and cognitive impairment without dementia

    Howard Chertkow;Fadi Massoud;Ziad Nasreddine;Sylvie Belleville

  • Normative data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in a population-based sampleAuthor Response

    Ziad S. Nasreddine;Heidi Rossetti;Natalie Phillips;Howard Chertkow

Frequent Co-Authors

Natalie A. Phillips
Natalie A. Phillips Concordia University
Hyman M. Schipper
Hyman M. Schipper McGill University
Sylvie Belleville
Sylvie Belleville University of Montreal
Howard Feldman
Howard Feldman University of California, San Diego
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
John C. Morris
John C. Morris Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel C. Marson
Daniel C. Marson University of Alabama at Birmingham
Reisa A. Sperling
Reisa A. Sperling Brigham and Women's Hospital
Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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