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Overview

Mario F. Mendez is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, contributing to 203 publications with significant emphasis on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging as key subfields.

The scientist's work extensively covers a range of topics, including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Mendez has authored several research papers. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders" (2020) published in Brain
  • "Utility of the global CDR® plus NACC FTLD rating and development of scoring rules: Data from the ARTFL/LEFFTDS Consortium" (2020) published in Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "The Relationship Between Anxiety and Alzheimer's Disease" (2021) published in Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports
  • "Temporal order of clinical and biomarker changes in familial frontotemporal dementia" (2022) published in Nature Medicine
  • "Plasma Neurofilament Light for Prediction of Disease Progression in Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration" (2021) published in Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mendez include:

  • Chiadi U. Onyike
  • Neill R. Graff-Radford
  • Joseph C. Masdeu
  • Bradley F. Boeve
  • Leah K. Forsberg

Mendez's publications are commonly found in prominent venues such as:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Neurology
  • Journal of Neuropsychiatry
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
  • Trends journal of sciences research

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

  • Diagnostic value of plasma phosphorylated tau181 in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

    Elisabeth H. Thijssen;Elisabeth H. Thijssen;Renaud La Joie;Amy Wolf;Amelia Strom

  • Consensus classification of posterior cortical atrophy

    Sebastian J. Crutch;Jonathan M. Schott;Gil D. Rabinovici;Melissa Murray

  • An investigation of moral judgement in frontotemporal dementia.

    Mario F Mendez;Eric Anderson;Jill S Shapira

  • Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: demographic characteristics of 353 patients.

    Julene K. Johnson;Janine Diehl;Mario F. Mendez;John Neuhaus

  • Posterior cortical atrophy: clinical characteristics and differences compared to Alzheimer's disease.

    Mario F. Mendez;Mehdi Ghajarania;Kent M. Perryman

  • Complex visual disturbances in Alzheimer's disease

    M. F. Mendez;M. A. Mendez;R. Martin;K. A. Smyth

  • Development of methodology for conducting clinical trials in frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    David S. Knopman;Joel H. Kramer;Bradley F. Boeve;Richard J. Caselli

  • Neuropsychiatric complications of traumatic brain injury: a critical review of the literature (a report by the ANPA Committee on Research).

    Edward Kim;Edward C. Lauterbach;Alya Reeve;David B. Arciniegas

  • Lifespan trajectory of myelin integrity and maximum motor speed

    George Bartzokis;George Bartzokis;Po H. Lu;Kathleen Tingus;Mario F. Mendez;Mario F. Mendez

  • Diagnostic criteria for the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD): Current limitations and future directions

    Katya Rascovsky;John R. Hodges;Christopher M. Kipps;Julene K. Johnson

  • Preliminary findings: behavioral worsening on donepezil in patients with frontotemporal dementia.

    Mario F. Mendez;Jill S. Shapira;Aaron McMurtray;Eliot Licht

  • Secondary mania with focal cerebrovascular lesions.

    Jeffrey L. Cummings;Mario E Mendez

  • Early-Onset Alzheimer Disease

    Mario F. Mendez

  • Memantine in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Adam L. Boxer;David S. Knopman;Daniel I. Kaufer;Murray Grossman

  • Evidence for a role of the rare p.A152T variant in MAPT in increasing the risk for FTD-spectrum and Alzheimer's diseases

    Giovanni Coppola;Subashchandrabose Chinnathambi;Jason Ji Yong Lee;Beth A. Dombroski

  • Pedophilia and temporal lobe disturbances.

    Mario F. Mendez;Tiffany Chow;John Ringman;Geoff Twitchell

  • Rate of progression differs in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease

    K. Rascovsky;David P. Salmon;A. M. Lipton;J. B. Leverenz

  • Early-Onset Dementia: Frequency and Causes Compared to Late-Onset Dementia

    Aaron McMurtray;David G. Clark;Dianne Christine;Mario F. Mendez

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce L. Miller
Bruce L. Miller University of California, San Francisco
Joel H. Kramer
Joel H. Kramer University of California, San Francisco
Sandra Weintraub
Sandra Weintraub Northwestern University
Howard J. Rosen
Howard J. Rosen University of California, San Francisco
Murray Grossman
Murray Grossman University of Pennsylvania
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Arthur W. Toga
Arthur W. Toga University of Southern California
Bradley F. Boeve
Bradley F. Boeve Mayo Clinic
Tatiana Foroud
Tatiana Foroud Indiana University

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