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Miranka Wirth is affiliated with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Germany, where the research primarily focuses on neurodegenerative conditions, cognitive decline, and related neurological topics. Their work spans multiple disciplines including medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, with significant contributions to psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, physiology, and radiology.

The main research topics covered by Wirth involve dementia and cognitive impairment, functional brain connectivity, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, advanced neuroimaging techniques, music therapy and health, mental health, as well as stroke rehabilitation and recovery.

Frequent coauthors associated with Wirth include Gaël Chételat, Olga Klimecki, Natalie L. Marchant, Julie Gonneaud, and Vincent de La Sayette.

The scientist's publications appear regularly in specialized journals and venues such as:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Network Open

Wirth's recent notable papers include:

  • "The Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" (2021) published in Neuropsychology Review
  • "White matter hyperintensity topography in Alzheimer's disease and links to cognition" (2021) published in Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "White matter hyperintensities across the adult lifespan: relation to age, Aβ load, and cognition" (2020) published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • "Effects of Spermidine Supplementation on Cognition and Biomarkers in Older Adults With Subjective Cognitive Decline" (2022) published in JAMA Network Open
  • "Topographic patterns of white matter hyperintensities are associated with multimodal neuroimaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease" (2021) published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy

Among book publications, Wirth has contributed to "REMIND: Music - Movement - Mind," released in 2022 by Logos Verlag Berlin eBooks, which intersects with their work on music therapy and health.

Best Publications

  • Structural plasticity in the language system related to increased second language proficiency.

    Maria Stein;Andrea Federspiel;Thomas Koenig;Miranka Wirth

  • Associations between Alzheimer disease biomarkers, neurodegeneration, and cognition in cognitively normal older people.

    Miranka Wirth;Sylvia Villeneuve;Claudia M. Haase;Cindee M. Madison

  • Alzheimer's Disease Neurodegenerative Biomarkers Are Associated with Decreased Cognitive Function but Not β-Amyloid in Cognitively Normal Older Individuals

    Miranka Wirth;Cindee M Madison;Gil D Rabinovici;Gil D Rabinovici;Gil D Rabinovici;Hwamee Oh

  • Cognitive reserve and lifestyle: moving towards preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

    Eider M. Arenaza-Urquijo;Miranka Wirth;Gaël Chételat

  • Semantic memory involvement in the default mode network: a functional neuroimaging study using independent component analysis.

    Miranka Wirth;Kay Jann;Thomas Dierks;Andrea Federspiel

  • The Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Tim Whitfield;Thorsten Barnhofer;Rebecca Acabchuk;Avi Cohen

  • Gene–Environment Interactions: Lifetime Cognitive Activity, APOE Genotype, and Beta-Amyloid Burden

    Miranka Wirth;Sylvia Villeneuve;Renaud La Joie;Shawn M. Marks

  • The effect of spermidine on memory performance in older adults at risk for dementia: A randomized controlled trial

    Miranka Wirth;Gloria Benson;Claudia Schwarz;Theresa Köbe

  • Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on behaviour and electrophysiology of language production

    Miranka Wirth;Rasha Abdel Rahman;Janina Kuenecke;Thomas Koenig

  • White matter hyperintensity topography in Alzheimer's disease and links to cognition.

    Antoine Garnier-Crussard;Antoine Garnier-Crussard;Salma Bougacha;Miranka Wirth;Sophie Dautricourt

  • Safety and tolerability of spermidine supplementation in mice and older adults with subjective cognitive decline

    Claudia Schwarz;Slaven Stekovic;Miranka Wirth;Gloria Benson

  • Neuroprotective pathways: lifestyle activity, brain pathology, and cognition in cognitively normal older adults.

    Miranka Wirth;Claudia M. Haase;Sylvia Villeneuve;Jacob Vogel

  • Structural and metabolic changes in language areas linked to formal thought disorder.

    Helge Horn;Andrea Federspiel;Miranka Wirth;Thomas J. Müller

  • Reduced frontal activation with increasing 2nd language proficiency

    Maria Stein;Andrea Federspiel;Thomas Koenig;Miranka Wirth

  • White matter hyperintensities across the adult lifespan: relation to age, Aβ load, and cognition.

    Antoine Garnier-Crussard;Antoine Garnier-Crussard;Salma Bougacha;Miranka Wirth;Claire André

  • Association between educational attainment and amyloid deposition across the spectrum from normal cognition to dementia: neuroimaging evidence for protection and compensation.

    Eider M. Arenaza-Urquijo;Alexandre Bejanin;Julie Gonneaud;Miranka Wirth

  • Vascular risk and Aβ interact to reduce cortical thickness in AD vulnerable brain regions

    Sylvia Villeneuve;Bruce R. Reed;Cindee M. Madison;Miranka Wirth

  • Sex Differences in Semantic Processing: Event-Related Brain Potentials Distinguish between Lower and Higher Order Semantic Analysis during Word Reading

    M Wirth;H Horn;T Koenig;M Stein

  • Effects of spermidine supplementation on cognition and biomarkers in older adults with subjective cognitive decline (SmartAge)-study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

    Miranka Wirth;Claudia Schwarz;Gloria Benson;Nora Horn

  • The Age-Well randomized controlled trial of the Medit-Ageing European project: Effect of meditation or foreign language training on brain and mental health in older adults

    Géraldine Poisnel;Eider Arenaza-Urquijo;Fabienne Collette;Fabienne Collette;Olga M. Klimecki

  • Plasticity in the adult language system: A longitudinal electrophysiological study on second language learning

    Maria Stein;Thomas Dierks;Daniel Brandeis;Miranka Wirth

Frequent Co-Authors

Gaël Chételat
Gaël Chételat Université de Caen Normandie
William J. Jagust
William J. Jagust University of California, Berkeley
Andrea Federspiel
Andrea Federspiel University of Bern
Werner Strik
Werner Strik University of Bern
Eider M. Arenaza-Urquijo
Eider M. Arenaza-Urquijo Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Thomas Dierks
Thomas Dierks University of Bern
Vincent de la Sayette
Vincent de la Sayette Université de Caen Normandie
Cindee Madison
Cindee Madison University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Koenig
Thomas Koenig University of Bern
Fabienne Collette
Fabienne Collette University of Liège

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