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Overview

James C. Vickers is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia. Their research focus centers primarily on medicine, with significant contributions across several subfields including psychiatry and mental health, physiology, neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and general health professions.

The core topics of their work include dementia and cognitive impairment research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, health disparities and outcomes, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, health, psychology, and well-being, and restless legs syndrome research.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Single cell eQTL analysis identifies cell type-specific genetic control of gene expression in fibroblasts and reprogrammed induced pluripotent stem cells (2021, Genome Biology)
  • The BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism Modulates Resilience of Neurological Functioning to Brain Ageing and Dementia: A Narrative Review (2020, Brain Sciences)
  • Island Study Linking Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease (ISLAND) Targeting Dementia Risk Reduction: Protocol for a Prospective Web-Based Cohort Study (2021, JMIR Research Protocols)
  • Educating the masses to address a global public health priority: The Preventing Dementia Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Association between chronic pain and risk of incident dementia: findings from a prospective cohort (2023, BMC Medicine)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with James C. Vickers include:

  • Aidan Bindoff
  • Anna E. King
  • Jane Alty
  • Eddy Roccati
  • Larissa Bartlett

James C. Vickers has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease

Best Publications

  • Differential vulnerability of neurochemically identified subpopulations of retinal neurons in a monkey model of glaucoma.

    J. C. Vickers;R. A. Schumer;S. M. Podos;R. F. Wang

  • The morphological phenotype of β-amyloid plaques and associated neuritic changes in Alzheimer’s disease

    T.C Dickson;J.C Vickers

  • The cause of neuronal degeneration in Alzheimer's disease.

    James C. Vickers;Tracey C. Dickson;Paul A. Adlard;Helen L. Saunders

  • Relationship between education and age-related cognitive decline: a review of recent research

    Megan Elizabeth Lenehan;Mathew James Summers;Mathew James Summers;Nichole Louise Saunders;Jeffery Joseph Summers;Jeffery Joseph Summers

  • Focal demyelination in Alzheimer’s disease and transgenic mouse models

    Stanislaw Mitew;Matthew T. K. Kirkcaldie;Glenda M. Halliday;Claire E. Shepherd

  • Quantitative localization of AMPA/kainate and kainate glutamate receptor subunit immunoreactivity in neurochemically identified subpopulations of neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the macaque monkey

    J. C. Vickers;G. W. Huntley;A. M. Edwards;T. Moran

  • PSEN1ΔE9, APPswe, and APOE4 Confer Disparate Phenotypes in Human iPSC-Derived Microglia

    Henna Konttinen;Mauricio e Castro Cabral-da-Silva;Sohvi Ohtonen;Sara Wojciechowski

  • Cellular and synaptic localization of NMDA and non-NMDA receptor subunits in neocortex: organizational features related to cortical circuitry, function and disease

    George W. Huntley;James C. Vickers;John H. Morrison

  • Distribution and synaptic localization of immunocytochemically identified NMDA receptor subunit proteins in sensory-motor and visual cortices of monkey and human

    G. W. Huntley;J. C. Vickers;W. Janssen;N. Brose

  • Redefining the Role of Metallothionein within the Injured Brain: EXTRACELLULAR METALLOTHIONEINS PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE ASTROCYTE-NEURON RESPONSE TO INJURY*

    Roger S. Chung;Milena Penkowa;Justin Dittmann;Carolyn E. King

  • Excitotoxicity in ALS: Overstimulation, or overreaction?

    Anna E. King;Adele Woodhouse;Matthew T.K. Kirkcaldie;James C. Vickers

  • Selective distribution of kainate receptor subunit immunoreactivity in monkey neocortex revealed by a monoclonal antibody that recognizes glutamate receptor subunits GluR5/6/7

    G. W. Huntley;S. W. Rogers;T. Moran;W. Janssen

  • Neurochemical diversity of dystrophic neurites in the early and late stages of Alzheimer's disease.

    Tracey C. Dickson;Carolyn E. King;Graeme H. McCormack;James C. Vickers

  • Altered synapses and gliotransmission in Alzheimer's disease and AD model mice

    Stanislaw Mitew;Matthew T.K. Kirkcaldie;Tracey C. Dickson;James C. Vickers;James C. Vickers

  • Relationship between participants' level of education and engagement in their completion of the Understanding Dementia Massive Open Online Course.

    Lynette R Goldberg;Erica Bell;Carolyn King;Ciaran O’Mara

  • Initial calcium release from intracellular stores followed by calcium dysregulation is linked to secondary axotomy following transient axonal stretch injury

    Jerome A. Staal;Tracey C. Dickson;Robert Gasperini;Yao Liu

  • Olfactory ensheathing cells promote neurite sprouting of injured axons in vitro by direct cellular contact and secretion of soluble factors.

    RS Chung;A Woodhouse;SJ Fung;TC Dickson

  • Diffuse axonal injury in brain trauma: insights from alterations in neurofilaments

    Declan G. Siedler;Declan G. Siedler;Meng Inn Chuah;Meng Inn Chuah;Matthew T. K. Kirkcaldie;Matthew T. K. Kirkcaldie;James C. Vickers;James C. Vickers

  • Measuring dementia carers' unmet need for services - an exploratory mixed method study

    Christine Stirling;Sharon Andrews;Toby Croft;James Vickers;James Vickers

  • Metallothionein-IIA Promotes Initial Neurite Elongation and Postinjury Reactive Neurite Growth and Facilitates Healing after Focal Cortical Brain Injury

    Roger S. Chung;James C. Vickers;Meng Inn Chuah;Adrian K. West

  • A vaccine against Alzheimer's disease: developments to date.

    James C. Vickers

  • Alterations in neurofilament protein immunoreactivity in human hippocampal neurons related to normal aging and Alzheimer's disease

    J. C. Vickers;B. M. Riederer;R. A. Marugg;V. Buée-Scherrer

Frequent Co-Authors

Tracey C. Dickson
Tracey C. Dickson University of Tasmania
Adrian K. West
Adrian K. West University of Tasmania
Roger S. Chung
Roger S. Chung Macquarie University
Jeffery J. Summers
Jeffery J. Summers Liverpool John Moores University
Paul A. Adlard
Paul A. Adlard Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
John H. Morrison
John H. Morrison University of California, Davis
Alex W. Hewitt
Alex W. Hewitt University of Tasmania
Glenda M. Halliday
Glenda M. Halliday University of Sydney
George W. Huntley
George W. Huntley Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia

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