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Overview

Melissa Lamar is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in the United States and has made significant contributions to research in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Health.

Their work prominently covers topics such as Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases, and the Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism.

Recent publications by Melissa Lamar include:

  • The structural and social determinants of Alzheimer's disease related dementias, 2023, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Lower practice effects as a marker of cognitive performance and dementia risk: A literature review, 2020, Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • MarkVCID cerebral small vessel consortium: I. Enrollment, clinical, fluid protocols, 2021, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Development and validation of language and visuospatial composite scores in ADNI, 2020, Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions
  • APOE alleles' association with cognitive function differs across Hispanic/Latino groups and genetic ancestry in the study of Latinos-investigation of neurocognitive aging (HCHS/SOL), 2020, Alzheimer s & Dementia

Melissa Lamar frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Wassim Tarraf
  • Martha L. Daviglus
  • Linda C. Gallo
  • Lisa L. Barnes
  • Carmen R. Isasi

Their research outputs have been published in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • The major genetic determinants of HIV-1 control affect HLA class I peptide presentation

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  • Progress toward standardized diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment: Guidelines from the Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study

    Olivia Skrobot;Sandra Black;Christopher Chen;Charles Decarli

  • Effect of type of cognitive task and walking speed on cognitive-motor interference during dual-task walking.

    Prakruti Patel;Melissa Lamar;Tanvi Bhatt

  • Education and cognitive reserve in old age.

    Robert S. Wilson;Lei Yu;Melissa Lamar;Julie A. Schneider

  • Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Longitudinal Changes in Memory and Brain Function

    Timothy J. Hohman;Lori L. Beason-Held;Melissa Lamar;Susan M. Resnick

  • Aging and prefrontal functions: dissociating orbitofrontal and dorsolateral abilities.

    Melissa Lamar;Susan M Resnick

  • Learning classification models of cognitive conditions from subtle behaviors in the digital Clock Drawing Test

    William Souillard-Mandar;Randall Davis;Cynthia Rudin;Rhoda Au

  • Combined neuropathological pathways account for age‐related risk of dementia

    Melinda C. Power;Elizabeth Mormino;Anja Soldan;Bryan D. James

  • The structural and social determinants of Alzheimer's disease related dementias

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  • Shared white matter alterations across emotional disorders: A voxel-based meta-analysis of fractional anisotropy

    Lisanne Michelle Jenkins;Alyssa Barba;Miranda Campbell;Melissa Lamar

  • The heterogeneity of mild cognitive impairment: a neuropsychological analysis.

    David J. Libon;Sharon X. Xie;Joel Eppig;Graham Wicas

  • Visuoconstructional problems in dementia: contribution of executive systems functions.

    Rhonda Q. Freeman;Tania Giovannetti;Tania Giovannetti;Melissa Lamar;Blaine S. Cloud

  • Longitudinal changes in verbal memory in older adults: Distinguishing the effects of age from repeat testing

    Melissa Lamar;Susan M. Resnick;Alan B. Zonderman

  • Impairment in Category Fluency in Ischemic Vascular Dementia

    Tania Giovannetti Carew;Melissa Lamar;Blaine S. Cloud;Murray Grossman

  • Perseverative behavior in Alzheimer's disease and subcortical ischemic vascular dementia

    Melissa Lamar;Kenneth Podell;Tania Giovannetti Carew;Blaine S. Cloud

  • APOE genotype modifies the relationship between midlife vascular risk factors and later cognitive decline.

    Katherine J. Bangen;Alexa Beiser;Lisa Delano-Wood;Lisa Delano-Wood;Daniel A. Nation

  • Quantitative Tract-Specific Measures of Uncinate and Cingulum in Major Depression Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging

    Aifeng Zhang;Alex Leow;Olusola Ajilore;Melissa Lamar

  • Verbal Serial List Learning in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Profile Analysis of Interference, Forgetting, and Errors

    David J. Libon;Mark W. Bondi;Catherine C. Price;Melissa Lamar

  • Capacity to maintain mental set in dementia.

    Melissa Lamar;Catherine C Price;Kelly L Davis;Edith Kaplan

  • Associations of the Mediterranean diet with cognitive and neuroimaging phenotypes of dementia in healthy older adults.

    Aimee J Karstens;Lisa Tussing-Humphreys;Liang Zhan;Niranjini Rajendran

  • Late-life blood pressure association with cerebrovascular and Alzheimer disease pathology

    Zoe Arvanitakis;Ana W. Capuano;Melissa Lamar;Raj C. Shah

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Libon
David J. Libon Rowan University
Catherine C. Price
Catherine C. Price University of Florida
David A. Bennett
David A. Bennett Rush University Medical Center
Lisa Delano-Wood
Lisa Delano-Wood University of California, San Diego
Linda C. Gallo
Linda C. Gallo San Diego State University
Julie A. Schneider
Julie A. Schneider Rush University Medical Center
Krista M. Perreira
Krista M. Perreira University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au Boston University
Mark W. Bondi
Mark W. Bondi University of California, San Diego
Konstantinos Arfanakis
Konstantinos Arfanakis Illinois Institute of Technology

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