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Ranjan Duara is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital in the United States, focusing on research in medicine and neuroscience. Their publications cover a significant range of topics related to dementia, cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, and advanced neuroimaging techniques.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, Duara has contributed extensively to several subfields:

  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Physiology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Their research primarily addresses key topics such as:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Among recent publications authored or coauthored by Duara are:

  • Heterogeneity in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis and Progression Rates: Implications for Therapeutic Trials (2022), published in Neurotherapeutics
  • Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease (2023), published in JAMA
  • Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer's dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Novel Alzheimer Disease Risk Loci and Pathways in African American Individuals Using the African Genome Resources Panel (2020), published in JAMA Neurology
  • Transcriptomic analysis to identify genes associated with selective hippocampal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease (2021), published in Nature Communications

Duara frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • David Loewenstein
  • Neill R. Graff-Radford
  • David E. Vaillancourt
  • Melissa E. Murray
  • Warren Barker

The venues where Duara has published most often include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Applied Neuropsychology Adult

Best Publications

  • The neuronal sortilin-related receptor SORL1 is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease

    Ekaterina Rogaeva;Ekaterina Rogaeva;Yan Meng;Joseph H. Lee;Yongjun Gu;Yongjun Gu

  • Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer’s disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis

    Y. Iturria-Medina;R. C. Sotero;P. J. Toussaint;J. M. Mateos-Pérez

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • Neuropathologically defined subtypes of Alzheimer's disease with distinct clinical characteristics: a retrospective study.

    Melissa E Murray;Neill R Graff-Radford;Owen A Ross;Ronald C Petersen

  • Relative frequencies of Alzheimer disease, Lewy body, vascular and frontotemporal dementia, and hippocampal sclerosis in the State of Florida Brain Bank.

    Warren W. Barker;Cheryl A. Luis;Alice Kashuba;Mercy Luis

  • TDP‐43 immunoreactivity in hippocampal sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease

    Catalina Amador-Ortiz;Wen Lang Lin;Zeshan Ahmed;David Personett

  • Positron emission tomography in Alzheimer's disease

    Ranjan Duara;Cheryl L. Grady;James V. Haxby;M. Sundaram

  • Depression as a risk factor for Alzheimer disease: the MIRAGE Study.

    Robert C. Green;L. Adrienne Cupples;Alex Kurz;Sanford Auerbach

  • 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

  • Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer’s disease

    Jacob W Vogel;Alexandra L Young;Neil P Oxtoby;Ruben Smith

  • Genetic evidence for a novel familial Alzheimer's disease locus on chromosome 14

    P. St George-Hyslop;J. Haines;E. Rogaev;E. Rogaev;M. Mortilla;M. Mortilla

  • Head injury and the risk of AD in the MIRAGE study

    Z. Guo;L. A. Cupples;A. Kurz;S. H. Auerbach

  • Spread of pathological tau proteins through communicating neurons in human Alzheimer's disease

    Jacob W. Vogel;Yasser Iturria-Medina;Olof T. Strandberg;Ruben Smith

  • A new scale for the assessment of functional status in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

    David A. Loewenstein;David A. Loewenstein;Ellen Amigo;Ranjan Duara;Ranjan Duara;Andrew Guterman;Andrew Guterman

  • Relations between Neuropsychological and Cerebral Metabolic Asymmetries in Early Alzheimer's Disease

    James V. Haxby;Ranjan Duara;Cheryl L. Grady;Neal R. Cutler

  • Cerebral metabolic effects of a verbal fluency test: A PET scan study

    Randolph W. Parks;David A. Loewenstein;Kathryn L. Dodrill;William W. Barker

  • Risk of dementia among relatives of Alzheimer's disease patients in the MIRAGE study What is in store for the oldest old?

    N. T. Lautenschlager;L. A. Cupples;V. S. Rao;S. A. Auerbach

  • Neuroanatomic Differences Between Dyslexic and Normal Readers on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans

    Ranjan Duara;Alex Kushch;Karen Gross-Glenn;W. William Barker

  • Common genetic variants in the CLDN2 and PRSS1-PRSS2 loci alter risk for alcohol-related and sporadic pancreatitis

    David C. Whitcomb;Jessica LaRusch;Alyssa M. Krasinskas;Lambertus Klei

  • Mild cognitive impairment Directions for future research

    Cheryl A. Luis;David A. Loewenstein;Amarilis Acevedo;Warren W. Barker

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Loewenstein
David A. Loewenstein University of Miami
Raymond L. Ownby
Raymond L. Ownby Nova Southeastern University
Michael Mullan
Michael Mullan Roskamp Institute
Malek Adjouadi
Malek Adjouadi Florida International University
John A. Schinka
John A. Schinka University of South Florida
Ronald C. Petersen
Ronald C. Petersen University of Pennsylvania
Fiona Crawford
Fiona Crawford Roskamp Institute
Huntington Potter
Huntington Potter University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

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