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Nenad Bogdanovic

Nenad Bogdanovic

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Neuroscience

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74
Citations
18659
World Ranking
2124
National Ranking
40

Medicine

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74
Citations
18659
World Ranking
19442
National Ranking
376

Overview

Nenad Bogdanovic is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research output is primarily concentrated in the field of medicine, with significant contributions in subfields including physiology, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, molecular biology, and geriatrics and gerontology.

The scientist's main research topics span several areas related to neurodegenerative diseases and aging. These include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Frailty in older adults
  • Vitamin D research studies
  • Advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications

Bogdanovic has published extensively, with studies appearing in a variety of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • JAMA Network Open
  • European Geriatric Medicine

Representative recent papers include the following:

  • Stress, depression, and risk of dementia - a cohort study in the total population between 18 and 65 years old in Region Stockholm (2023), Alzheimer s Research & Therapy
  • Discriminative binding of tau PET tracers PI2620, MK6240 and RO948 in Alzheimer's disease, corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy brains (2022), Molecular Psychiatry
  • Clinical Effect of Early vs Late Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography in Memory Clinic Patients (2023), JAMA Neurology
  • Autophagy Impairment in App Knock-in Alzheimer's Model Mice (2022), Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Analysis of Psychological Symptoms Following Disclosure of Amyloid-Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Results to Adults With Subjective Cognitive Decline (2023), JAMA Network Open

Frequent collaborators include Anne-Brita Knapskog, Bengt Winblad, Vladana Vukojević, Mari Aksnes, and Ann Tiiman. These collaborations have supported the development of research across interconnected domains related to neurodegenerative diseases and aging.

Best Publications

  • Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy

    Günter U. Höglinger;Nadine M. Melhem;Dennis W. Dickson;Patrick M A Sleiman

  • Common variants at 7p21 are associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 inclusions

    Vivianna M. Van Deerlin;Patrick M A Sleiman;Maria Martinez-Lage;Maria Martinez-Lage;Alice Chen-Plotkin

  • Volume and number of neurons of the human hippocampal formation in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease

    Goran Šimić;Ivica Kostović;Bengt Winblad;Nenad Bogdanović

  • Staging of Neurofibrillary Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease: A Study of the BrainNet Europe Consortium

    Irina Alafuzoff;Thomas Arzberger;Safa Al-Sarraj;Istvan Bodi

  • Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs repress β-secretase gene promoter activity by the activation of PPARγ

    Magdalena Sastre;Ilse Dewachter;Steffen Rossner;Nenad Bogdanovic

  • Staging/typing of Lewy body related α-synuclein pathology: a study of the BrainNet Europe Consortium

    Irina Alafuzoff;Paul G. Ince;Thomas Arzberger;Safa Al-Sarraj

  • Changes in the levels of cerebral and extracerebral sterols in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    Maura Heverin;Nenad Bogdanovic;Dieter Lütjohann;Thomas Bayer

  • Mass spectrometric characterization of brain amyloid beta isoform signatures in familial and sporadic Alzheimer’s disease

    Erik Portelius;Nenad Bogdanovic;Mikael K. Gustavsson;Inga Volkmann

  • Loss-of-function variants in ABCA7 confer risk of Alzheimer's disease

    Stacy Steinberg;Hreinn Stefansson;Thorlakur Jonsson;Hrefna Johannsdottir

  • Environmental enrichment and the brain.

    Abdul H. Mohammed;Shunwei Zhu;Sanja Darmopil;Jens Hjerling-Leffler

  • Selective Insolubility of α-Synuclein in Human Lewy Body Diseases Is Recapitulated in a Transgenic Mouse Model

    Philipp J. Kahle;Manuela Neumann;Laurence Ozmen;Veronika Müller

  • Blood-brain barrier alterations in ageing and dementia

    Bogdan O. Popescu;Emil C. Toescu;Laurenţiu M. Popescu;Ovidiu Bajenaru

  • HIV-infected subjects with the E4 allele for APOE have excess dementia and peripheral neuropathy

    Elizabeth H. Corder;Elizabeth H. Corder;Kevin Robertson;Lars Lannfelt;Nenad Bogdanovic

  • Accumulation of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (cdk5) in neurons with early stages of Alzheimer's disease neurofibrillary degeneration

    Jin-Jing Pei;Inge Grundke-Iqbal;Khalid Iqbal;Nenad Bogdanovic

  • Structural membrane alterations in Alzheimer brains found to be associated with regional disease development; increased density of gangliosides GM1 and GM2 and loss of cholesterol in detergent‐resistant membrane domains

    Marie Molander-Melin;Kaj Blennow;Nenad Bogdanovic;Birgitta Dellheden

  • Predominant deposition of amyloid-beta 42(43) in plaques in cases of Alzheimer's disease and hereditary cerebral hemorrhage associated with mutations in the amyloid precursor protein gene.

    D. M. A. Mann;T. Iwatsubo;Y. Ihara;N. J. Cairns

  • On the turnover of brain cholesterol in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Abnormal induction of the cholesterol-catabolic enzyme CYP46 in glial cells.

    Nenad Bogdanovic;Lionel Bretillon;Erik G. Lund;Ulf Diczfalusy

  • Characterization of stable complexes involving apolipoprotein E and the amyloid β peptide in Alzheimer's disease brain

    Jan Näslund;Johan Thyberg;Lars O. Tjernberg;Christer Wernstedt

  • Involvement of glutaredoxin-1 and thioredoxin-1 in beta-amyloid toxicity and Alzheimer's disease.

    S. Akterin;R. F. Cowburn;Antonio Miranda-Vizuete;Antonio Miranda-Vizuete;Alberto Jiménez;Alberto Jiménez

  • Synaptic pathology in Alzheimer's disease: relation to severity of dementia, but not to senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, or the ApoE4 allele.

    K. Blennow;N. Bogdanovic;I. Alafuzoff;R. Ekman

  • Pathways to Alzheimer's disease

    J. Hardy;N. Bogdanovic;B. Winblad;E. Portelius

Frequent Co-Authors

Bengt Winblad
Bengt Winblad Karolinska Institute
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Irina Alafuzoff
Irina Alafuzoff Uppsala University
Hans A. Kretzschmar
Hans A. Kretzschmar Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Abdu Adem
Abdu Adem University of Khorfakkan
Lars-Olof Wahlund
Lars-Olof Wahlund Karolinska Institute
Agneta Nordberg
Agneta Nordberg Karolinska University Hospital
Ove Almkvist
Ove Almkvist Karolinska Institute
Gabor G. Kovacs
Gabor G. Kovacs University of Toronto
Isidro Ferrer
Isidro Ferrer University of Barcelona

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