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Overview

Nicola Pavese is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work extensively covers topics including Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies.

Pavese has published research in several notable scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • Movement Disorders
  • Brain
  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Journal of Neurology

The scientist has contributed to numerous studies, with selected recent papers such as:

  • Brain-first versus body-first Parkinson's disease: a multimodal imaging case-control study, 2020, Brain
  • Trial of Prasinezumab in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Trial of Deferiprone in Parkinson's Disease, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • The Cholinergic Brain in Parkinson's Disease, 2021, Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • Genetic determinants of survival in progressive supranuclear palsy: a genome-wide association study, 2020, The Lancet Neurology

Collaboration forms a significant part of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • David J. Brooks
  • Per Borghammer
  • Jacopo Pasquini
  • Roberto Ceravolo
  • Filippo Sean Giorgi

Best Publications

  • In vivo imaging of microglial activation with [11C](R)-PK11195 PET in idiopathic Parkinson's disease

    Alexander Gerhard;Nicola Pavese;Gary Hotton;Federico Turkheimer

  • Brain-first versus body-first Parkinson’s disease: a multimodal imaging case-control study

    Jacob Horsager;Katrine B Andersen;Karoline Knudsen;Casper Skjærbæk

  • The Parkinson's progression markers initiative (PPMI): establishing a PD biomarker cohort

    Kenneth Marek;Sohini Chowdhury;Andrew Siderowf;Shirley Lasch

  • Microglia, amyloid, and cognition in Alzheimer's disease: An [11C](R)PK11195-PET and [11C]PIB-PET study.

    Paul Edison;Hilary A. Archer;Alexander Gerhard;Alexander Gerhard;Rainer Hinz;Rainer Hinz

  • Amyloid, hypometabolism, and cognition in Alzheimer disease An [11C]PIB and [18F]FDG PET study

    P. Edison;H. A. Archer;R. Hinz;Alexander Hammers

  • Microglial activation correlates with severity in Huntington disease A clinical and PET study

    N. Pavese;A. Gerhard;Y. F. Tai;A. K. Ho

  • Dyskinesias following neural transplantation in Parkinson's disease

    Peter Hagell;Paola Piccini;Anders Björklund;Patrik Brundin

  • Compulsive drug use linked to sensitized ventral striatal dopamine transmission.

    Andrew H. Evans;Nicola Pavese;Andrew David Lawrence;Yen F. Tai

  • Microglial activation in presymptomatic Huntington's disease gene carriers

    Yen F. Tai;Nicola Pavese;Alexander Gerhard;Sarah J. Tabrizi

  • Trial of Prasinezumab in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease.

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  • Fatigue in Parkinson’s disease is linked to striatal and limbic serotonergic dysfunction

    Nicola Pavese;Vinod Metta;Subrata K Bose;Kallol Ray Chaudhuri

  • Age at onset and Parkinson disease phenotype

    Gennaro Pagano;Nicola Ferrara;David J. Brooks;Nicola Pavese

  • Mutations in the gene LRRK2 encoding dardarin (PARK8) cause familial Parkinson's disease: clinical, pathological, olfactory and functional imaging and genetic data.

    Naheed L. Khan;Shushant Jain;John M. Lynch;Nicola Pavese

  • Reference and target region modeling of [11C]-(R)-PK11195 brain studies

    Federico E. Turkheimer;Paul Edison;Nicola Pavese;Federico Roncaroli

  • Cognitive deficits and striato-frontal dopamine release in Parkinson's disease

    Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Paola Piccini;Gary Hotton;Nicola Pavese

  • Factors affecting the clinical outcome after neural transplantation in Parkinson's disease

    Paola Piccini;Nicola Pavese;Peter Hagell;Jan Reimer

  • In-vivo staging of pathology in REM sleep behaviour disorder: a multimodality imaging case-control study

    Karoline Knudsen;Tatyana D Fedorova;Allan K Hansen;Michael Sommerauer

  • Glutamate NMDA receptor dysregulation in Parkinson’s disease with dyskinesias

    Imtiaz Ahmed;Subrata K. Bose;Nicola Pavese;Anil Ramlackhansingh

  • Progressive striatal and cortical dopamine receptor dysfunction in Huntington's disease: a PET study

    Nicola Pavese;Thomasin C. Andrews;David J. Brooks;Aileen K. Ho

  • Trial of Deferiprone in Parkinson's Disease.

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  • Microglial activation in regions related to cognitive function predicts disease onset in Huntington's disease: A multimodal imaging study

    Marios Politis;Nicola Pavese;Yen F. Tai;Lorenzo Kiferle

  • Clinical correlates of levodopa-induced dopamine release in Parkinson disease: A PET study

    N. Pavese;A. H. Evans;Y. F. Tai;G. Hotton

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Brooks
David J. Brooks Newcastle University
Paola Piccini
Paola Piccini Imperial College London
Alexander Gerhard
Alexander Gerhard University of Manchester
Federico E. Turkheimer
Federico E. Turkheimer King's College London
Marios Politis
Marios Politis King's College London
Alexander Hammers
Alexander Hammers King's College London
Peter G. Bain
Peter G. Bain Imperial College London
Roger A. Barker
Roger A. Barker University of Cambridge
Roberto Ceravolo
Roberto Ceravolo University of Pisa
Paul Edison
Paul Edison Imperial College London

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