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Overview

John R. Hodges is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their primary research areas include neurology, molecular biology, physiology, genetics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of work span several neurodegenerative and neurological conditions, including:

  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

John R. Hodges has published numerous papers across influential journals with a focus on neurology and neurodegenerative diseases. Frequent publication venues include Scientific Reports, Biological Psychiatry, Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, The Lancet Neurology, and The American Journal of Human Genetics.

Recent notable papers by Hodges include:

  • "Demographic, clinical, biomarker, and neuropathological correlates of posterior cortical atrophy: an international cohort study and individual participant data meta-analysis" (2024), published in The Lancet Neurology
  • "Prioritization of Drug Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases by Integrating Genetic and Proteomic Data From Brain and Blood" (2022), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • "Motor cortical excitability predicts cognitive phenotypes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Gene Expression Imputation Across Multiple Tissue Types Provides Insight Into the Genetic Architecture of Frontotemporal Dementia and Its Clinical Subtypes" (2021), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • "Mendelian randomization implies no direct causal association between leukocyte telomere length and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" (2020), published in Scientific Reports

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Olivier Piguet, Glenda M. Halliday, John B. Kwok, Daniela Galimberti, and Carlos Cruchaga.

Best Publications

  • Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia.

    Katya Rascovsky;John R. Hodges;David Knopman;Mario F. Mendez

  • Classification of primary progressive aphasia and its variants

    M L Gorno-Tempini;M L Gorno-Tempini;A E Hillis;S Weintraub;A Kertesz

  • The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination Revised (ACE-R): a brief cognitive test battery for dementia screening

    Eneida Mioshi;Kate Dawson;Joanna Mitchell;Robert Arnold

  • Semantic dementia. Progressive fluent aphasia with temporal lobe atrophy.

    John R. Hodges;Karalyn Patterson;Susan Oxbury;Elaine Funnell

  • Attention and executive deficits in Alzheimer's disease: A critical review

    Richard J. Perry;John R. Hodges

  • The prevalence of frontotemporal dementia

    E. Ratnavalli;C. Brayne;K. Dawson;J. R. Hodges

  • A brief cognitive test battery to differentiate Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    P. S. Mathuranath;P. J. Nestor;G. E. Berrios;W. Rakowicz

  • A voxel-based morphometry study of semantic dementia: Relationship between temporal lobe atrophy and semantic memory

    C. J. Mummery;K. Patterson;C. J. Price;J. Ashburner

  • Non-verbal semantic impairment in semantic dementia.

    Sasha Bozeat;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph;Karalyn Patterson;Peter Garrard

  • Theory of mind in patients with frontal variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: theoretical and practical implications

    Carol Gregory;Sinclair Lough;Valerie Stone;Sharon Erzinclioglu

  • Validation of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

    Sharpley Hsieh;Samantha Schubert;Christopher Hoon;Eneida Mioshi

  • Mutations in the endosomal ESCRTIII-complex subunit CHMP2B in frontotemporal dementia

    Gaia Skibinski;Nicholas J Parkinson;Jeremy M Brown;Lisa Chakrabarti;Lisa Chakrabarti

  • Semantic memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease: failure of access or degraded knowledge?

    John R. Hodges;David P. Salmon;Nelson Butters

  • Structure and deterioration of semantic memory: a neuropsychological and computational investigation.

    Timothy T. Rogers;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph;Peter Garrard;Sasha Bozeat

  • Semantic dementia: a unique clinicopathological syndrome

    John R Hodges;John R Hodges;Karalyn Patterson

  • Contrasting mechanisms of impaired attentional set-shifting in patients with frontal lobe damage or Parkinson's disease

    Adrian M. Owen;Angela C. Roberts;John R. Hodges;Beatrice A. Summers

  • IS SEMANTIC MEMORY CONSISTENTLY IMPAIRED EARLY IN THE COURSE OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE? NEUROANATOMICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC IMPLICATIONS

    John R. Hodges;Karalyn Patterson

  • Atypical and typical presentations of Alzheimer's disease: a clinical, neuropsychological, neuroimaging and pathological study of 13 cases.

    Clare J. Galton;Karalyn Patterson;John H. Xuereb;John R. Hodges

  • Clinicopathological correlates in frontotemporal dementia.

    John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;R. Rhys Davies;John H. Xuereb;Barney Casey

  • Which neuropsychiatric and behavioural features distinguish frontal and temporal variants of frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer's disease?

    Sasha Bozeat;Carol A Gregory;Matthew A Lambon Ralph;John R Hodges

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney
Muireann Irish
Muireann Irish University of Sydney
Michael Hornberger
Michael Hornberger University of East Anglia
Glenda M. Halliday
Glenda M. Halliday University of Sydney
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Matthew C. Kiernan
Matthew C. Kiernan Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Fiona Kumfor
Fiona Kumfor University of Sydney
Kim S. Graham
Kim S. Graham Cardiff University
John B.J. Kwok
John B.J. Kwok University of Sydney
Peter J. Nestor
Peter J. Nestor University of Queensland

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