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Overview

Michael Hornberger is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Automotive Engineering, Physiology, and Neurology subfields. The scientist's work addresses various topics, including Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Spatial Cognition and Navigation, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Older Adults Driving Studies, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Hornberger are:

  • Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders (2020, Brain)
  • Entropy of city street networks linked to future spatial navigation ability (2022, Nature)
  • Hormone replacement therapy is associated with improved cognition and larger brain volumes in at-risk APOE4 women: results from the European Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease (EPAD) cohort (2023, Alzheimer s Research & Therapy)
  • Explaining World-Wide Variation in Navigation Ability from Millions of People: Citizen Science Project Sea Hero Quest (2021, Topics in Cognitive Science)
  • Reported sleep duration reveals segmentation of the adult life-course into three phases (2022, Nature Communications)

Michael Hornberger frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors who have contributed extensively alongside them. These include Hugo J. Spiers, Antoine Coutrot, Ed Manley, Gillian Coughlan, and Rachel Gillings. Collaboration patterns highlight a network of research active in cognition, navigation, and neurological conditions.

The scientist's work has appeared consistently in several prominent publication venues. The most frequent outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Alzheimer s & Dementia, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, and Cortex. This range reflects a focus on both preliminary findings and peer-reviewed articles across diverse but related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia: diagnosis, clinical staging, and management

    Olivier Piguet;Michael Hornberger;Eneida Mioshi;John R Hodges

  • Spatial navigation deficits — overlooked cognitive marker for preclinical Alzheimer disease?

    Gillian Coughlan;Jan Laczó;Jakub Hort;Anne-Marie Minihane

  • Clinical staging and disease progression in frontotemporal dementia

    E. Mioshi;S. Hsieh;S. Savage;M. Hornberger;M. Hornberger

  • Thalamic pathology and memory loss in early Alzheimer’s disease: moving the focus from the medial temporal lobe to Papez circuit

    John Patrick Aggleton;Agathe Pralus;Andrew John Dudley Nelson;Michael Hornberger

  • Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders

    Simon Ducharme;Annemiek Dols;Robert Laforce;Emma Devenney

  • Convergent grey and white matter evidence of orbitofrontal cortex changes related to disinhibition in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

    Michael Hornberger;Michael Hornberger;John Geng;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges

  • Profiles of recent autobiographical memory retrieval in semantic dementia, behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia, and Alzheimer's disease.

    M. Irish;M. Hornberger;M. Hornberger;S. Lah;L. Miller;L. Miller

  • Episodic memory in frontotemporal dementia: a critical review

    Michael Hornberger;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet

  • How preserved is episodic memory in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    M. Hornberger;O. Piguet;O. Piguet;O. Piguet;A. J. Graham;A. J. Graham;P. J. Nestor;P. J. Nestor

  • Global Determinants of Navigation Ability

    Antoine Coutrot;Antoine Coutrot;Ricardo Silva;Ed Manley;Will de Cothi

  • Lost in spatial translation - A novel tool to objectively assess spatial disorientation in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

    Sicong Tu;Sicong Tu;Sicong Tu;Stephanie Wong;Stephanie Wong;Stephanie Wong;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish

  • Network-selective vulnerability of the human cerebellum to Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia

    Christine C. Guo;Rachel Tan;Rachel Tan;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Xintao Hu

  • Grey and White Matter Changes across the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-Frontotemporal Dementia Continuum

    Patricia Lillo;Eneida Mioshi;Eneida Mioshi;James R. Burrell;James R. Burrell;Matthew C. Kiernan;Matthew C. Kiernan

  • Further Dissociating the Processes Involved in Recognition Memory: An fMRI Study

    Richard N. A. Henson;Michael Hornberger;Michael D. Rugg

  • Common and unique gray matter correlates of episodic memory dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia and alzheimer's disease

    Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Olivier Piguet;Olivier Piguet;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Michael Hornberger;Michael Hornberger

  • Executive function in progressive and nonprogressive behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    Michael Hornberger;Olivier Piguet;Christopher Kipps;Christopher Kipps;John R. Hodges

  • Frontotemporal Dementia Associated With the C9ORF72 Mutation A Unique Clinical Profile

    Emma Devenney;Emma Devenney;Michael Hornberger;Michael Hornberger;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish;Eneida Mioshi;Eneida Mioshi

  • Toward personalized cognitive diagnostics of at-genetic-risk Alzheimer’s disease

    Gillian Coughlan;Antoine Coutrot;Mizanur Khondoker;Anne-Marie Minihane

  • In vivo and post-mortem memory circuit integrity in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

    Michael Hornberger;Michael Hornberger;Stephanie Wong;Rachel Tan;Muireann Irish;Muireann Irish

  • Virtual navigation tested on a mobile app is predictive of real-world wayfinding navigation performance

    Antoine Coutrot;Antoine Coutrot;Sophie Schmidt;Lena Coutrot;Lena Coutrot;Jessica Pittman

  • Neurobehavioral Features in Frontotemporal Dementia With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Patricia Lillo;Beatrice Garcin;Michael Hornberger;Thomas H. Bak

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Hodges
John R. Hodges University of Sydney
Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney
Muireann Irish
Muireann Irish University of Sydney
Claire O'Callaghan
Claire O'Callaghan University of Cambridge
Hugo J. Spiers
Hugo J. Spiers University College London
Glenda M. Halliday
Glenda M. Halliday University of Sydney
Paulo Caramelli
Paulo Caramelli Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
James M. Shine
James M. Shine University of Sydney
Antônio Lúcio Teixeira
Antônio Lúcio Teixeira The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Véronique D. Bohbot
Véronique D. Bohbot Douglas Mental Health University Institute

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