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Jan Marcusson is a researcher affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden, specializing primarily in the field of Medicine with a focus on Geriatrics and Gerontology. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Physiology, Epidemiology, and General Health Professions. The core topics of Marcusson's work revolve around frailty in older adults, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, nutrition and health in aging, chronic disease management strategies, geriatric care and nursing homes, dementia and cognitive impairment research, and palliative care and end-of-life issues.

Their recent published papers include significant contributions to geriatrics and healthcare management such as:

  • "Prevalence Estimates of Amyloid Abnormality Across the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum," 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • "Costs and effects of comprehensive geriatric assessment in primary care for older adults with high risk for hospitalisation," 2021, BMC Geriatrics
  • "Clinically useful prediction of hospital admissions in an older population," 2020, BMC Geriatrics
  • "Staff experiences of a new tool for comprehensive geriatric assessment in primary care (PASTEL): a focus group study," 2020, Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • "Cost-Effectiveness of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Adapted to Primary Care," 2022, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Marcusson frequently collaborates with other researchers in related fields. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Magnus Nord
  • Johan Lyth
  • Huan-Ji Dong
  • Jenny Alwin
  • Anna Olaison

The main venues where Marcusson's work appears demonstrate a pattern of engagement with journals focusing on geriatrics and primary health care, notably:

  • BMC Geriatrics
  • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Research Square
  • JAMA Neurology
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of cerebral amyloid pathology in persons without dementia: a meta-analysis.

    Willemijn J. Jansen;Rik Ossenkoppele;Dirk L. Knol;Betty M. Tijms

  • CSF biomarkers and incipient Alzheimer disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment.

    Niklas Mattsson;Henrik Zetterberg;Oskar Hansson;Niels Andreasen

  • An In Vitro Model for Neuroscience: Differentiation of SH-SY5Y Cells into Cells with Morphological and Biochemical Characteristics of Mature Neurons

    Lotta Agholme;Tobias Lindström;Katarina Kågedal;Jan Marcusson

  • Tau and Abeta42 in cerebrospinal fluid from healthy adults 21-93 years of age: establishment of reference values.

    Magnus Sjögren;Hugo Vanderstichele;Hans Ågren;Olof Zachrisson

  • The effect of age on the activity and molecular properties of human brain monoamine oxidase

    C. J. Fowler;Å. Wiberg;L. Oreland;J. Marcusson

  • Transmitter deficits in Alzheimer's disease.

    John Hardy;Rolf Adolfsson;Irina Alafuzoff;Gösta Bucht

  • The cerebrospinal fluid “Alzheimer profile”: Easily said, but what does it mean?

    Flora H. Duits;Charlotte E. Teunissen;Femke H. Bouwman;Pieter-Jelle Visser;Pieter-Jelle Visser

  • CSF-biomarkers in Olympic boxing: diagnosis and effects of repetitive head trauma.

    Sanna Neselius;Sanna Neselius;Helena Brisby;Helena Brisby;Annette Theodorsson;Kaj Blennow;Kaj Blennow

  • Improved client participation in the rehabilitation process using a client-centred goal formulation structure.

    Ewa Wressle;Anne-Marie Eeg-Olofsson;Jan Marcusson;Chris Henriksson

  • Spreading of Neurodegenerative Pathology via Neuron-to-Neuron Transmission of β-Amyloid

    Sangeeta Nath;Lotta Agholme;Firoz Roshan Kurudenkandy;Björn Granseth

  • Age-correlated loss of dopaminergic binding sites in human basal ganglia.

    J. A. Severson;J. Marcusson;B. Winblad;C. E. Finch

  • Age and diagnostic performance of Alzheimer disease CSF biomarkers

    N. Mattsson;E. Rosen;O. Hansson;N. Andreasen

  • APOE ε4 allele is associated with reduced cerebrospinal fluid levels of Aβ42

    J.A Prince;H Zetterberg;N Andreasen;Jan Marcusson

  • Detection of Dementia in Primary Care : The Linköping Study

    María Ólafsdóttir;Ingemar Skoog;Jan Marcusson

  • High affinity [3H]paroxetine binding to serotonin uptake sites in human brain tissue.

    I Bäckström;M Bergström;J Marcusson

  • Brain 5-HT1A, 5-HT1D, and 5-HT2 Receptors in suicide victims

    Belén Arranz;Anders Eriksson;Erling Mellerup;Per Plenge

  • Spreading of amyloid-β peptides via neuritic cell-to-cell transfer is dependent on insufficient cellular clearance

    Jakob Domert;Sahana Bhima Rao;Lotta Agholme;Ann-Christin Brorsson

  • Adenylyl cyclase activity and G-protein subunit levels in postmortem frontal cortex of suicide victims.

    Richard F. Cowburn;Jan O. Marcusson;Anders Eriksson;Birgitta Wiehager

  • Olympic boxing is associated with elevated levels of the neuronal protein tau in plasma

    Sanna Neselius;Henrik Zetterberg;Kaj Blennow;Jeffrey Randall

  • Association of Cerebral Amyloid-β Aggregation With Cognitive Functioning in Persons Without Dementia.

    Willemijn J Jansen;Rik Ossenkoppele;Betty M Tijms;Anne M Fagan

  • CSFBiomarkersandIncipientAlzheimerDisease in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Niklas Mattsson;Henrik Zetterberg;Oskar Hansson;Niels Andreasen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg
Sanna-Kaisa Herukka
Sanna-Kaisa Herukka University of Eastern Finland
Dag Aarsland
Dag Aarsland King's College London
Lars Oreland
Lars Oreland Uppsala University
Wiesje M. van der Flier
Wiesje M. van der Flier Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Robert H. Perry
Robert H. Perry Newcastle University
Rik Ossenkoppele
Rik Ossenkoppele Lund University
Angel Cedazo-Minguez
Angel Cedazo-Minguez Karolinska Institute
Juha O. Rinne
Juha O. Rinne Turku University Hospital

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