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Overview

Melissa J. Slavin is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with specific contributions to Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Physiology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work has covered a range of topics including:

  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

One notable recent publication by Melissa J. Slavin is titled The heritability of amyloid burden in older adults: the Older Australian Twins Study, published in 2021 in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. This paper has received citations reflecting engagement within the scientific community.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Slavin include:

  • Rebecca Koncz
  • Anbupalam Thalamuthu
  • Wei Wen
  • Vibeke S. Catts
  • Vincent Doré

In regard to publication outlets, Slavin's work can be found in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, among other venues.

Best Publications

  • A conceptual framework for research on subjective cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

    Frank Jessen;Frank Jessen;Rebecca E. Amariglio;Martin van Boxtel;Monique Breteler

  • Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: An Overview of Self-Report Measures Used Across 19 International Research Studies

    Laura A. Rabin;Laura A. Rabin;Laura A. Rabin;Colette M. Smart;Paul K. Crane;Rebecca E. Amariglio

  • The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study (MAS): methodology and baseline medical and neuropsychiatric characteristics of an elderly epidemiological non-demented cohort of Australians aged 70-90 years.

    Perminder S. Sachdev;Henry Brodaty;Simone Reppermund;Nicole A. Kochan

  • A Multifactorial Approach to Understanding Fall Risk in Older People

    Kim Delbaere;Jacqueline C.T. Close;Jacqueline C.T. Close;Jörg Heim;Perminder S. Sachdev

  • Prevalence and predictors of “subjective cognitive complaints” in the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study.

    Melissa J. Slavin;Henry Brodaty;Nicole A. Kochan;John D. Crawford

  • Diffusion tensor imaging in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: a review.

    Terence C Chua;Wei Wen;Melissa J Slavin;Perminder S Sachdev

  • Discrete Neuroanatomical Networks Are Associated with Specific Cognitive Abilities in Old Age

    Wei Wen;Wanlin Zhu;Yong He;Nicole A Kochan

  • Mild cognitive impairment in a community sample: The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study

    Henry Brodaty;Megan Heffernan;Nicole A. Kochan;Brian Draper

  • Cortical Deactivation in Mild Cognitive Impairment: High-Field-Strength Functional MR Imaging

    Jeffrey R Petrella;Lihong Wang;Sriyesh Krishnan;Melissa J Slavin

  • Factors predicting reversion from mild cognitive impairment to normal cognitive functioning: a population-based study.

    Perminder S. Sachdev;Darren M. Lipnicki;John Crawford;Simone Reppermund

  • Impairment in instrumental activities of daily living with high cognitive demand is an early marker of mild cognitive impairment: the Sydney memory and ageing study

    S. Reppermund;H. Brodaty;J. D. Crawford;N. A. Kochan

  • The relationship of neuropsychological function to instrumental activities of daily living in mild cognitive impairment.

    Simone Reppermund;Perminder S. Sachdev;John Crawford;Nicole A. Kochan

  • Risk Factors for Late-Life Cognitive Decline and Variation with Age and Sex in the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study

    Darren M. Lipnicki;Perminder S. Sachdev;John Crawford;Simone Reppermund

  • The greyscales task: a perceptual measure of attentional bias following unilateral hemispheric damage

    Jason B Mattingley;Nadja Berberovic;Louise A Corben;Melissa J Slavin

  • Brief screening tests during acute admission in patients with mild stroke are predictive of vascular cognitive impairment 3–6 months after stroke

    YanHong Dong;Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian;Bernard Poon-Lap Chan;Vijay Kumar Sharma

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment: Evaluation with 4-T Functional MR Imaging

    Jeffrey R. Petrella;Sriyesh Krishnan;Melissa J. Slavin;Thanh-Thu T. Tran

  • Effect of different impairment criteria on prevalence of “objective” mild cognitive impairment in a community sample.

    Nicole A. Kochan;Melissa J. Slavin;Henry Brodaty;John D. Crawford

  • Consistency of handwriting movements in dementia of the Alzheimer's type: a comparison with Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases.

    Melissa J Slavin;James G Phillips;John L Bradshaw;Kathryn A Hall

  • Neuropsychiatric symptoms in older people with and without cognitive impairment.

    Henry Brodaty;Megan Heffernan;Brian Draper;Simone Reppermund

  • Screening for Early Alzheimer's Disease: Is There Still a Role for the Mini-Mental State Examination?

    Aaron D. Benson;Melissa J. Slavin;Thanh-Thu Tran;Jeffrey R. Petrella

  • Diffusion tensor imaging of the posterior cingulate is a useful biomarker of mild cognitive impairment.

    Terence C. Chua;Wei Wen;Xiaohua Chen;Nicole Kochan

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry Brodaty
Henry Brodaty University of New South Wales
Nicole A. Kochan
Nicole A. Kochan University of New South Wales
Julian N. Trollor
Julian N. Trollor University of New South Wales
Laura A. Rabin
Laura A. Rabin City University of New York
Lee-Fay Low
Lee-Fay Low University of Sydney
John L. Bradshaw
John L. Bradshaw Monash University
Wiesje M. van der Flier
Wiesje M. van der Flier Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rebecca Amariglio
Rebecca Amariglio Harvard Medical School
Reisa A. Sperling
Reisa A. Sperling Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia

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