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Overview

Peter J. Nestor is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health, and Physiology.

The main topics of Nestor's research focus on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Frequent co-authors in Nestor's publications include Amir Fazlollahi, Annika Spottke, Emrah Düzel, Feng Liu, and Hongfu Sun. Their collaborative work has appeared in various scientific venues, with notable frequent publications in Alzheimer's & Dementia, arXiv (Cornell University), Brain, NeuroImage, and Nature Medicine.

Recent selected papers by Peter J. Nestor include:

  • "Plasma extracellular vesicle tau and TDP-43 as diagnostic biomarkers in FTD and ALS" (2024), Nature Medicine
  • "Metabolic derangements are associated with impaired glucose delivery following traumatic brain injury" (2021), Brain
  • "Traumatic brain injury fast-forwards Alzheimer's pathology: evidence from amyloid positron emission tomorgraphy imaging" (2021), Journal of Neurology
  • "Instant tissue field and magnetic susceptibility mapping from MRI raw phase using Laplacian enhanced deep neural networks" (2022), NeuroImage
  • "Prominent White Matter Involvement in Multiple System Atrophy of Cerebellar Type" (2020), Movement Disorders

Best Publications

  • Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain.

    Karalyn Patterson;Peter J. Nestor;Timothy T. Rogers

  • Clinical diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy: The movement disorder society criteria

    Günter U Höglinger;Gesine Respondek;Maria Stamelou;Carolin Kurz

  • A brief cognitive test battery to differentiate Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

    P. S. Mathuranath;P. J. Nestor;G. E. Berrios;W. Rakowicz

  • Focal cortical presentations of Alzheimer's disease.

    S. Alladi;J. Xuereb;T. Bak;P. Nestor

  • Advances in the early detection of Alzheimer's disease

    Peter J. Nestor;Philip Scheltens;John R. Hodges

  • Consensus classification of posterior cortical atrophy

    Sebastian J. Crutch;Jonathan M. Schott;Gil D. Rabinovici;Melissa Murray

  • What the left and right anterior fusiform gyri tell us about semantic memory

    Marco Mion;Karalyn Patterson;Julio Acosta-Cabronero;George Pengas

  • Declarative memory impairments in Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia.

    Peter J. Nestor;Tim D. Fryer;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges

  • Limbic hypometabolism in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment.

    Peter J Nestor;Tim D Fryer;Peter Smielewski;John R Hodges;John R Hodges

  • Absolute diffusivities define the landscape of white matter degeneration in Alzheimer's disease.

    Julio Acosta-Cabronero;Guy B. Williams;George Pengas;Peter J. Nestor

  • Progressive non-fluent aphasia is associated with hypometabolism centred on the left anterior insula

    Peter J. Nestor;Naida L. Graham;Tim D. Fryer;Guy B. Williams

  • In Vivo Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) in Alzheimer's Disease

    Julio Acosta-Cabronero;Guy B. Williams;Arturo Cardenas-Blanco;Robert J. Arnold

  • Understanding social dysfunction in the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia : the role of emotion and sarcasm processing

    C. M. Kipps;C. M. Kipps;P. J. Nestor;J. Acosta-Cabronero;R. Arnold

  • Semantic dementia and fluent primary progressive aphasia: two sides of the same coin?

    Anna-Lynne R. Adlam;K. Patterson;T. T. Rogers;P. J. Nestor

  • Retrosplenial cortex (BA 29/30) hypometabolism in mild cognitive impairment (prodromal Alzheimer's disease)

    P. J. Nestor;T. D. Fryer;M. Ikeda;J. R. Hodges;J. R. Hodges

  • Semantic dementia: demography, familial factors and survival in a consecutive series of 100 cases

    John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Jo Mitchell;Kate Dawson;Maria Grazia Spillantini

  • In Vivo MRI Mapping of Brain Iron Deposition across the Adult Lifespan.

    Julio Acosta-Cabronero;Matthew J. Betts;Arturo Cardenas-Blanco;Shan Yang

  • The C9ORF72 expansion mutation is a common cause of ALS+/-FTD in Europe and has a single founder.

    Bradley N. Smith;Stephen Newhouse;Aleksey Shatunov;Caroline Vance

  • 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

  • The topography of metabolic deficits in posterior cortical atrophy (the visual variant of Alzheimer’s disease) with FDG-PET

    P J Nestor;D Caine;T D Fryer;J Clarke

  • Design and first baseline data of the DZNE multicenter observational study on predementia Alzheimer's disease (DELCODE).

    Frank Jessen;Frank Jessen;Annika Spottke;Annika Spottke;Henning Boecker;Henning Boecker;Frederic Brosseron

  • Primary progressive aphasia: A tale of two syndromes and the rest

    S.A. Sajjadi;K. Patterson;R.J. Arnold;P.C. Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Hodges
John R. Hodges University of Sydney
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Tim D. Fryer
Tim D. Fryer University of Cambridge
Oliver Peters
Oliver Peters German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Katharina Buerger
Katharina Buerger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Guy B. Williams
Guy B. Williams University of Cambridge
Christoph Laske
Christoph Laske University of Tübingen
Stefan J. Teipel
Stefan J. Teipel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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