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Overview

Paul J. Massman is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medical fields, with a significant emphasis on psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and complementary and alternative medicine. Additional subfields include cardiology and cardiovascular medicine as well as cognitive neuroscience.

The scientific contributions of Paul J. Massman center around topics related to dementia and cognitive impairment research, as well as Alzheimer's disease research and treatments. Other areas addressed in their work include studies on Ginkgo biloba and cashew applications, blood pressure and hypertension studies, and investigations into functional brain connectivity.

Among Paul J. Massman's recent published papers are the following:

  • Safety and efficacy of pioglitazone for the delay of cognitive impairment in people at risk of Alzheimer's disease (TOMMORROW): a prognostic biomarker study and a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • Predictors of rate of cognitive decline in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, 2020, The Clinical Neuropsychologist
  • Chinese Version of the Baylor Profound Mental Status Examination: A Brief Staging Measure for Patients with Severe Alzheimer's Disease, 2021, The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease

Paul J. Massman has frequently co-authored research with several collaborators, including:

  • James R. Burke
  • Rachelle S. Doody
  • Daniel K. Burns
  • Robert Alexander
  • Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer

Their work has appeared in publication venues such as The Lancet Neurology, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, and The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease, reflecting a focus on neurological and cognitive health research fields.

Best Publications

  • Staging dementia using Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes scores: a Texas Alzheimer's research consortium study.

    Sid E. O’Bryant;Stephen C. Waring;C. Munro Cullum;James Hall

  • Profiles of demented and amnesic patients on the California verbal learning test : implications for the assessment of memory disorders

    Dean C. Delis;Paul J. Massman;Nelson Butters;David P. Salmon

  • Cognitive intervention in Alzheimer disease: a randomized placebo-controlled study.

    Robert N. Davis;Paul J. Massman;Rachelle S. Doody

  • Prevalence and correlates of neuropsychological deficits in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    Paul J. Massman;Paul J. Massman;Jamie Sims;Norma Cooke;Lanny J. Haverkamp

  • Validation of the New Interpretive Guidelines for the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes Score in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Database

    Sidney O'Bryant;Laura H. Lacritz;James Hall;Stephen C. Waring

  • Are all subcortical dementias alike? Verbal learning and memory in Parkinson's and Huntington's disease patients.

    Paul J. Massman;Dean C. Delis;Nelson Butters;Bonnie E. Levin

  • The subcortical dysfunction hypothesis of memory deficits in depression: neuropsychological validation in a subgroup of patients.

    Massman Pj;Delis Dc;Butters N;Dupont Rm

  • A Method for Estimating Progression Rates in Alzheimer Disease

    Rachelle Smith Doody;Paul Massman;J. Kay Dunn

  • Componential analysis of problem-solving ability: performance of patients with frontal lobe damage and amnesic patients on a new sorting test.

    Dean C. Delis;Dean C. Delis;Dean C. Delis;Larry R. Squire;Larry R. Squire;Larry R. Squire;Amy Bihrle;Amy Bihrle;Amy Bihrle;Paul J. Massman;Paul J. Massman;Paul J. Massman

  • Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment deteriorate fine movement control.

    Jin H. Yan;Susan Rountree;Paul Massman;Rachelle Smith Doody

  • Cognitive therapy versus systematic desensitization: is one treatment superior?

    Jeffrey S. Berman;R. Christopher Miller;Paul J. Massman

  • Chronic donepezil treatment is associated with slowed cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease.

    R. S. Doody;J. K. Dunn;C. M. Clark;M. Farlow

  • Verbal memory performance of patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection : evidence of subcortical dysfunction

    Peavy G;Jacobs D;Salmon Dp;Butters N

  • Frontal-lobe mediated behavioral dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    M. Witgert;M. Witgert;A. R. Salamone;A. M. Strutt;A. Jawaid

  • Survival among patients with dementia from a large multi-ethnic population.

    Stephen C Waring;Rachelle S Doody;Valory N Pavlik;Paul J Massman

  • Memory for the Rey-Osterrieth Figure: Perceptual clustering, encoding, and storage.

    Jolene S. Shorr;Dean C. Delis;Paul J. Massman

  • Directed and divided attention in Alzheimer's disease: impairment in shifting of attention to global and local stimuli.

    J V Filoteo;D C Delis;P J Massman;T Demadura

  • Decreased C-reactive protein levels in Alzheimer disease.

    Sid E. O'Bryant;Stephen C. Waring;Valerie Hobson;James R. Hall

  • Predicting progression of Alzheimer's disease

    Rachelle S Doody;Valory N Pavlik;Paul Massman;Paul Massman;Susan Rountree

  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in Alzheimer's disease.

    Sid E. O'Bryant;Valerie Hobson;James R. Hall;Stephen C. Waring

Frequent Co-Authors

Dean C. Delis
Dean C. Delis University of California, San Diego
Steven Paul Woods
Steven Paul Woods University of Houston
David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego
C. Munro Cullum
C. Munro Cullum The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Paul E. Gilbert
Paul E. Gilbert San Diego State University
Mark W. Bondi
Mark W. Bondi University of California, San Diego
Joel H. Kramer
Joel H. Kramer University of California, San Francisco
Larry R. Squire
Larry R. Squire University of California, San Diego
Nelson Butters
Nelson Butters University of California, San Diego
Kirk C. Wilhelmsen
Kirk C. Wilhelmsen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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