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Maria Eriksdotter

Maria Eriksdotter

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2025

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7948
World Ranking
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Neuroscience

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Citations
9264
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5962
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  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Maria Eriksdotter is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, focusing their research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Neurology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main topics covered in Eriksdotter's research include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Frailty in Older Adults, COVID-19 and Healthcare Impacts, and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies.

Recent papers authored by or involving Eriksdotter include:

  • Age, Frailty, and Comorbidity as Prognostic Factors for Short-Term Outcomes in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Geriatric Care, 2020, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • Long-term Effects of Cholinesterase Inhibitors on Cognitive Decline and Mortality, 2021, Neurology
  • Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia in Different Dementia Disorders: A Large-Scale Study of 10,000 Individuals, 2022, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Kidney Function, Kidney Function Decline, and the Risk of Dementia in Older Adults, 2021, Neurology
  • Cholinergic white matter pathways make a stronger contribution to attention and memory in normal aging than cerebrovascular health and nucleus basalis of Meynert, 2020, NeuroImage

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Eriksdotter include:

  • Hong Xu
  • Sara García-Ptacek
  • Dorota Religa
  • Bengt Winblad
  • Minh Tuan Hoang

Publication venues where Eriksdotter's work has appeared most frequently are:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Neurology
  • Alzheimer s Research & Therapy
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Best Publications

  • Mild cognitive impairment and deficits in instrumental activities of daily living: a systematic review.

    Katrin Jekel;Marinella Damian;Carina Wattmo;Lucrezia Hausner

  • Multimorbidity and functional impairment-bidirectional interplay, synergistic effects and common pathways

    Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga;Davide L. Vetrano;Davide L. Vetrano;L. Ferrucci;S. W. Mercer

  • Resolution of inflammation is altered in Alzheimer's disease

    Xiuzhe Wang;Mingqin Zhu;Erik Hjorth;Veronica Cortés-Toro

  • CSF neurofilament light differs in neurodegenerative diseases and predicts severity and survival

    Tobias Skillbäck;Bahman Farahmand;Jonathan W. Bartlett;Christoffer Rosén

  • Omega-3 Fatty Acids Enhance Phagocytosis of Alzheimer's Disease-Related Amyloid-β42 by Human Microglia and Decrease Inflammatory Markers

    Erik Hjorth;Mingqin Zhu;Veronica Cortés Toro;Inger Vedin

  • Cerebrospinal fluid tau and amyloid-β1-42 in patients with dementia

    Tobias Skillbäck;Bahman Y. Farahmand;Christoffer Rosén;Niklas Mattsson;Niklas Mattsson

  • The use of cholinesterase inhibitors and the risk of myocardial infarction and death: a nationwide cohort study in subjects with Alzheimer's disease.

    Peter Nordström;Dorota Religa;Anders Wimo;Bengt Winblad

  • Mortality Risk after Dementia Diagnosis by Dementia Type and Underlying Factors : A Cohort of 15,209 Patients based on the Swedish Dementia Registry

    Sara Garcia-Ptacek;Bahman Farahmand;Ingemar Kåreholt;Dorota Religa

  • Age, Frailty, and Comorbidity as Prognostic Factors for Short-Term Outcomes in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Geriatric Care.

    Sara Hägg;Juulia Jylhävä;Yunzhang Wang;Hong Xu

  • SveDem, the Swedish dementia registry : a tool for improving the quality of diagnostics, treatment and care of dementia patients in clinical practice

    Dorota Religa;Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad;Pavla Cermakova;Ann-Katrin Edlund

  • Transfer of omega‐3 fatty acids across the blood–brain barrier after dietary supplementation with a docosahexaenoic acid‐rich omega‐3 fatty acid preparation in patients with Alzheimer's disease: the OmegAD study

    Y Freund Levi;I Vedin;Tommy Cederholm;Hans Basun

  • Heart failure and Alzheimer's disease.

    P. Cermakova;M. Eriksdotter;L. H. Lund;B. Winblad

  • Long-term Effects of Cholinesterase Inhibitors on Cognitive Decline and Mortality.

    Hong Xu;Sara Garcia-Ptacek;Linus Jönsson;Anders Wimo

  • Targeted delivery of nerve growth factor to the cholinergic basal forebrain of Alzheimer’s disease patients: application of a second-generation encapsulated cell biodelivery device

    Helga Eyjolfsdottir;Helga Eyjolfsdottir;Maria Eriksdotter;Maria Eriksdotter;Bengt Linderoth;Bengt Linderoth;Göran Lind;Göran Lind

  • Innovative Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease-With Focus on Biodelivery of NGF.

    Sumonto Mitra;Homira Behbahani;Maria Eriksdotter;Maria Eriksdotter

  • CSF/serum albumin ratio in dementias: a cross-sectional study on 1861 patients.

    Tobias Skillbäck;Louise Delsing;Louise Delsing;Jane Synnergren;Niklas Mattsson

  • Association between periodontitis and risk of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment and subjective cognitive decline: A case-control study.

    Jacob Holmer;Maria Eriksdotter;Maria Eriksdotter;Marianne Schultzberg;Pirkko J. Pussinen

  • Body mass index in dementia.

    S García-Ptacek;G Faxén-Irving;P Cermáková;M Eriksdotter

  • Plasma Fatty Acid Profiles in Relation to Cognition and Gender in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients During Oral Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation: The OmegAD Study

    Maria Eriksdotter;Maria Eriksdotter;Inger Vedin;Farshad Falahati;Yvonne Freund-Levi

  • Brain Changes in Alzheimer's Disease Patients with Implanted Encapsulated Cells Releasing Nerve Growth Factor

    Daniel Ferreira;Eric Westman;Helga Eyjolfsdottir;Per Almqvist

  • Svedem, the Swedish dementia registry – A tool for improving the quality of diagnostics, treatment and care

    D. Religa;B. Winblad;P. Cermakova;M. Fereshtehnejad

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Westman
Eric Westman Karolinska Institute
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg
Bengt Linderoth
Bengt Linderoth Karolinska Institute
Dag Aarsland
Dag Aarsland King's College London
Vesna Jelic
Vesna Jelic Karolinska University Hospital
Agneta Nordberg
Agneta Nordberg Karolinska University Hospital
Miia Kivipelto
Miia Kivipelto University of Eastern Finland
Caroline Graff
Caroline Graff Karolinska University Hospital
Erik Sundström
Erik Sundström Karolinska Institute

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