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Mark A. Sager is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with notable contributions across various subfields including physiology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology.

Their work addresses multiple topics such as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, functional brain connectivity studies, genetic syndromes and imprinting, frailty in older adults, and advanced MRI techniques and applications.

Recent publications authored by Mark A. Sager include:

  • Association of Elevated Amyloid and Tau Positron Emission Tomography Signal With Near-Term Development of Alzheimer Disease Symptoms in Older Adults Without Cognitive Impairment, 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • Impact of sex and APOE ε4 on age-related cerebral perfusion trajectories in cognitively asymptomatic middle-aged and older adults: A longitudinal study, 2021, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • Age-related differences in white matter microstructure measured by advanced diffusion MRI in healthy older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Aging Brain
  • Age-Related Tau Burden and Cognitive Deficits Are Attenuated in KLOTHO KL-VS Heterozygotes, 2021, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Spatial Extent of Amyloid-β Levels and Associations With Tau-PET and Cognition, 2022, JAMA Neurology

Frequent co-authors in their research activity include:

  • Ozioma C. Okonkwo
  • Sterling C. Johnson
  • Sanjay Asthana
  • Catherine L. Gallagher
  • Bruce P. Hermann

Their publications are often featured in the following venues:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • JAMA Neurology
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Brain Communications

Best Publications

  • Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

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  • Practice guideline update summary: Mild cognitive impairment: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

    Ronald C. Petersen;Oscar Lopez;Melissa J. Armstrong;Thomas S.D. Getchius

  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 56,241 individuals identifies LRRC4C, LHX5-AS1 and nominates ancestry-specific loci PTPRK, GRB14, and KIAA0825 as novel risk loci for Alzheimer disease: the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium

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  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • Functional Outcomes of Acute Medical Illness and Hospitalization in Older Persons

    M A Sager;T Franke;S K Inouye;C S Landefeld

  • Hospital admission risk profile (HARP): identifying older patients at risk for functional decline following acute medical illness and hospitalization.

    M. A. Sager;M. A. Rudberg;Muhammad Jalaluddin;T. Franke

  • Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer’s dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study

    Eric M Reiman;Joseph F Arboleda-Velasquez;Yakeel T Quiroz;Matthew J Huentelman

  • Association of Insulin Resistance With Cerebral Glucose Uptake in Late Middle–Aged Adults at Risk for Alzheimer Disease

    Auriel A. Willette;Barbara B. Bendlin;Erika J. Starks;Alex C. Birdsill

  • The effect of body mass index on global brain volume in middle-aged adults: a cross sectional study

    Michael A Ward;Cynthia M Carlsson;Mehul A Trivedi;Mark A Sager

  • The Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention: A review of findings and current directions.

    Sterling C. Johnson;Rebecca L. Koscik;Erin M. Jonaitis;Lindsay R. Clark

  • A novel Alzheimer disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein

    G. Jun;C. A. Ibrahim-Verbaas;M. Vronskaya;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert

  • Middle-Aged Children of Persons With Alzheimer’s Disease: APOE Genotypes and Cognitive Function in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention

    Mark A. Sager;Bruce Hermann;Asenath La Rue

  • Early identification and treatment of Alzheimer's disease: Social and fiscal outcomes

    David L. Weimer;Mark A. Sager

  • Insulin resistance predicts brain amyloid deposition in late middle-aged adults.

    Auriel A. Willette;Auriel A. Willette;Sterling C. Johnson;Alex C. Birdsill;Mark A. Sager

  • Risk of falls after hospital discharge.

    Jane Mahoney;Mark Sager;Nancy Cross Dunham;Jill Johnson

  • Measurement of Activities of Daily Living in Hospitalized Elderly: A Comparison of Self‐Report and Performance‐Based Methods

    Mark A. Sager;Nancy Cross Dunham;Amy Schwantes;Laurie Mecum

  • Physical activity attenuates age-related biomarker alterations in preclinical AD

    Ozioma C. Okonkwo;Stephanie A. Schultz;Jennifer M. Oh;Jordan Larson

  • Amyloid burden is associated with self-reported sleep in nondemented late middle-aged adults

    Kate E. Sprecher;Barbara B. Bendlin;Annie M. Racine;Ozioma C. Okonkwo

  • Novel Alzheimer Disease Risk Loci and Pathways in African American Individuals Using the African Genome Resources Panel: A Meta-analysis

    Brian W. Kunkle;Michael Schmidt;Hans Ulrich Klein;Adam C. Naj

  • Association of Amyloid Pathology With Myelin Alteration in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease

    Douglas C. Dean;Samuel A. Hurley;Steven R. Kecskemeti;J. Patrick O’Grady

  • Poor sleep is associated with CSF biomarkers of amyloid pathology in cognitively normal adults.

    Kate E. Sprecher;Rebecca L. Koscik;Cynthia M. Carlsson;Henrik Zetterberg

  • Amyloid burden and neural function in people at risk for Alzheimer's Disease

    Sterling C. Johnson;Bradley T. Christian;Ozioma C. Okonkwo;Jennifer M. Oh

  • Insulin Resistance, Brain Atrophy, and Cognitive Performance in Late Middle–Aged Adults

    Auriel A. Willette;Guofan Xu;Sterling C. Johnson;Alex C. Birdsill

  • Reduced hippocampal activation during episodic encoding in middle-aged individuals at genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study.

    Mehul A Trivedi;Mehul A Trivedi;Taylor W Schmitz;Taylor W Schmitz;Michele L Ries;Michele L Ries;Britta M Torgerson;Britta M Torgerson

  • Magnetic resonance imaging characterization of brain structure and function in mild cognitive impairment: a review.

    Michele L. Ries;Cynthia M. Carlsson;Howard A. Rowley;Mark A. Sager

  • Transethnic genome-wide scan identifies novel Alzheimer's disease loci

    Gyungah R. Jun;Gyungah R. Jun;Jaeyoon Chung;Jesse Mez;Robert Barber

  • Temporal Association Between Hospitalization and Rate of Falls After Discharge

    Jane E. Mahoney;Mari Palta;Jill Johnson;Muhammad Jalaluddin

Frequent Co-Authors

Sterling C. Johnson
Sterling C. Johnson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sanjay Asthana
Sanjay Asthana University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bruce P. Hermann
Bruce P. Hermann University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rebecca L. Koscik
Rebecca L. Koscik University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ozioma C. Okonkwo
Ozioma C. Okonkwo University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg University of Gothenburg
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Andrew L. Alexander
Andrew L. Alexander University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bradley T. Christian
Bradley T. Christian University of Wisconsin–Madison
Taylor W. Schmitz
Taylor W. Schmitz University of Western Ontario

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