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56
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18560
World Ranking
4441
National Ranking
2010

Overview

Konstantinos Arfanakis is affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the medical field, with notable activity in radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, physiology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of work include advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, dementia and cognitive impairment research, functional brain connectivity studies, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, advanced MRI techniques and applications, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, and intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage research.

Konstantinos Arfanakis has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Alzheimer's & Dementia, 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, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neurobiology of Aging, and Human Brain Mapping.

Their recent papers cover a range of topics related to cognitive decline, neuropathology, and dementia. These include:

  • Trial of the MIND Diet for Prevention of Cognitive Decline in Older Persons, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • To what degree is late life cognitive decline driven by age-related neuropathologies?, 2021, Brain
  • LATE-NC staging in routine neuropathologic diagnosis: an update, 2022, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Cortical Proteins Associated With Cognitive Resilience in Community-Dwelling Older Persons, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) study: Rationale, design and baseline characteristics of a randomized control trial of the MIND diet on cognitive decline, 2021, Contemporary Clinical Trials

Collaborations form an important aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include David A. Bennett, Julie A. Schneider, Arnold M Evia, Lisa L. Barnes, and Abdur Raquib Ridwan.

Best Publications

  • Frequencies Contributing to Functional Connectivity in the Cerebral Cortex in “Resting-state” Data

    D Cordes;V M Haughton;K Arfanakis;J D Carew

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

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

  • Mapping Functionally Related Regions of Brain with Functional Connectivity MR Imaging

    D Cordes;V M Haughton;K Arfanakis;G J Wendt

  • 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

  • Diffusion tensor MR imaging in diffuse axonal injury.

    Konstantinos Arfanakis;Victor M. Haughton;John D. Carew;Baxter P. Rogers

  • White matter tractography using diffusion tensor deflection.

    Mariana Lazar;David M. Weinstein;Jay S. Tsuruda;Khader M. Hasan

  • Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis Persists in Aged Adults and Alzheimer's Disease Patients.

    Matthew K. Tobin;Kianna Musaraca;Ahmed Disouky;Aashutosh Shetti

  • Diffusion-tensor imaging of white matter tracts in patients with cerebral neoplasm.

    Brian P. Witwer;Roham Moftakhar;Khader M. Hasan;Praveen Deshmukh

  • Hierarchical clustering to measure connectivity in fMRI resting-state data.

    Dietmar Cordes;Vic Haughton;John D. Carew;Konstantinos Arfanakis

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

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

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

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

    Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

  • Common variants at 12q14 and 12q24 are associated with hippocampal volume

    Joshua C Bis;Charles DeCarli;Albert Vernon Smith;Fedde van der Lijn

  • Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals

    Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Hieab H.H. Adams;Derrek Hibar;Charles C. White;Charles C. White

  • Diffusion tensor MRI in temporal lobe epilepsy

    Konstantinos Arfanakis;Bruce P Hermann;Baxter P Rogers;John D Carew

  • Preliminary evidence of white matter abnormality in the uncinate fasciculus in generalized social anxiety disorder.

    K. Luan Phan;Anton Orlichenko;Erin Boyd;Mike Angstadt

  • Novel genetic loci underlying human intracranial volume identified through genome-wide association

    Hieab H H Adams;Derrek P. Hibar;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein

  • Combining independent component analysis and correlation analysis to probe interregional connectivity in fMRI task activation datasets

    Konstantinos Arfanakis;Dietmar Cordes;Victor M Haughton;Chad H Moritz

  • Impaired olfaction is associated with cognitive decline and neurodegeneration in the brain

    Christina S. Dintica;Anna Marseglia;Debora Rizzuto;Rui Wang

  • To what degree is late life cognitive decline driven by age-related neuropathologies?

    Patricia A Boyle;Tianhao Wang;Lei Yu;Robert S Wilson

  • Postmortem MRI of human brain hemispheres: T2 relaxation times during formaldehyde fixation.

    Robert J. Dawe;David A. Bennett;Julie A. Schneider;Sunil K. Vasireddi

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Bennett
David A. Bennett Rush University Medical Center
Julie A. Schneider
Julie A. Schneider Rush University Medical Center
Debra A. Fleischman
Debra A. Fleischman Rush University Medical Center
Philip L. De Jager
Philip L. De Jager Columbia University
Sue Leurgans
Sue Leurgans Rush University Medical Center
Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Charles DeCarli
Charles DeCarli University of California, Davis
Alexa Beiser
Alexa Beiser Boston University
Albert V. Smith
Albert V. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anita L. DeStefano
Anita L. DeStefano Boston University

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