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Overview

Raj N. Kalaria is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and has an extensive publication record, primarily in the field of medicine. Their work focuses on the intersection of neurology, physiology, epidemiology, psychiatry, and public health, with a particular emphasis on neurological diseases and their mechanisms, treatments, and management.

The main fields of study covered in their research include:

  • Medicine

Their subfields of study encompass:

  • Neurology
  • Physiology
  • Epidemiology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The range of main topics in their scholarly work includes:

  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Cerebrovascular and Genetic Disorders
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neurological Disorders and Treatments

Kalaria has published multiple papers in notable venues, frequently contributing to specialized journals related to neurology and dementia. The prominent publication venues include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
  • Brain Pathology

Highlighted recent papers with their year of publication and venue are:

  • "The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in cognition, ageing and dementia," 2021, Brain Communications
  • "Stroke in Africa: profile, progress, prospects and priorities," 2021, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • "Tackling challenges in care of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias amid the COVID-19 pandemic, now and in the future," 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Brain arteriolosclerosis," 2020, Acta Neuropathologica
  • "Loss of capillary pericytes and the blood-brain barrier in white matter in poststroke and vascular dementias and Alzheimer's disease," 2020, Brain Pathology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Rufus Akinyemi
  • Mayowa Owolabi
  • Fred Stephen Sarfo
  • Albert Akpalu
  • Joshua Akinyemi

Best Publications

  • Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Third report of the DLB Consortium

    I. G. McKeith;I. G. McKeith;D. W. Dickson;J. Lowe;M. Emre

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke–Canadian Stroke Network Vascular Cognitive Impairment Harmonization Standards

    Vladimir Hachinski;Costantino Iadecola;Ron C. Petersen;Monique M. Breteler

  • Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in developing countries: prevalence, management, and risk factors

    Raj N. Kalaria;Gladys E. Maestre;Gladys E. Maestre;Raul Arizaga;Robert P. Friedland

  • Diagnostic criteria for vascular cognitive disorders: a VASCOG statement.

    Perminder Sachdev;Raj Kalaria;John O'Brien;Ingmar Skoog

  • The role of cerebral ischemia in Alzheimer’s disease

    Raj N Kalaria;Raj N Kalaria

  • Vascular dysfunction-The disregarded partner of Alzheimer's disease

    Melanie D. Sweeney;Axel Montagne;Abhay P. Sagare;Daniel A. Nation

  • White Matter Lesions in an Unselected Cohort of the Elderly: Molecular Pathology Suggests Origin From Chronic Hypoperfusion Injury

    Malee S. Fernando;Julie E. Simpson;Fiona Matthews;Carol Brayne

  • Stroke injury, cognitive impairment and vascular dementia

    Raj N. Kalaria;Rufus Akinyemi;Masafumi Ihara

  • Overlap between pathology of Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia.

    Raj N. Kalaria;Clive Ballard

  • DISEASE-SPECIFIC PATTERNS OF LOCUS COERULEUS CELL LOSS

    Dwight C. German;Kebreten F. Manaye;Charles L White;Donald J. Woodward

  • Reduced glucose transporter at the blood-brain barrier and in cerebral cortex in Alzheimer disease.

    RajesH N. Kalaria;Sami I. Harik

  • Medial temporal lobe atrophy on MRI differentiates Alzheimer's disease from dementia with Lewy bodies and vascular cognitive impairment: a prospective study with pathological verification of diagnosis.

    E. J. Burton;R. Barber;E. B. Mukaetova-Ladinska;J. Robson

  • Neuropathological diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment and vascular dementia with implications for Alzheimer’s disease

    Raj N. Kalaria

  • Ischemic basis for deep white matter hyperintensities in major depression: a neuropathological study.

    Alan J. Thomas;John T. O'Brien;Sue Davis;Clive Ballard

  • Apolipoprotein E-epsilon4 alleles in cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cerebrovascular pathology associated with Alzheimer's disease.

    D. R. D. Premkumar;D. L. Cohen;P. Hedera;R. P. Friedland

  • Progress toward standardized diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment: Guidelines from the Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study

    Olivia Skrobot;Sandra Black;Christopher Chen;Charles Decarli

  • Towards defining the neuropathological substrates of vascular dementia.

    Raj N. Kalaria;Rose Anne Kenny;Clive G. Ballard;Robert Perry

  • Prospective Follow-Up Study Between 3 and 15 Months After Stroke Improvements and Decline in Cognitive Function Among Dementia-Free Stroke Survivors >75 Years of Age

    Clive Ballard;Elise Rowan;Sally Stephens;Raj Kalaria

  • Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion: a key mechanism leading to vascular cognitive impairment and dementia. Closing the translational gap between rodent models and human vascular cognitive impairment and dementia.

    Jessica Duncombe;Akihiro Kitamura;Yoshiki Hase;Masafumi Ihara

  • Cerebral vessels in ageing and Alzheimer's disease.

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  • Depression and vascular disease: what is the relationship?

    Alan J Thomas;Rajesh N Kalaria;John T O’Brien

  • Vascular basis for brain degeneration: faltering controls and risk factors for dementia.

    Raj N Kalaria

  • Similarities between Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

    Raj Kalaria

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. O'Brien
John T. O'Brien University of Cambridge
Masafumi Ihara
Masafumi Ihara Kyoto University
Clive Ballard
Clive Ballard University of Exeter
Rose Anne Kenny
Rose Anne Kenny Trinity College Dublin
Robert H. Perry
Robert H. Perry Newcastle University
Christopher Chen
Christopher Chen National University of Singapore
Paul G. Ince
Paul G. Ince University of Sheffield
Karen Horsburgh
Karen Horsburgh University of Edinburgh
Alan J. Thomas
Alan J. Thomas Newcastle University
Christopher Morris
Christopher Morris Newcastle University

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