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Overview

Rhoda Au is a researcher affiliated with Boston University in the United States, specializing in the field of medicine with a focus on dementia and cognitive impairment research. Their work spans multiple subfields including psychiatry and mental health, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and epidemiology.

The main topics addressed in their research comprise:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

Rhoda Au has contributed extensively to scholarly publications, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Development and validation of an interpretable deep learning framework for Alzheimer's disease classification" (2020, Brain)
  • "Multimodal deep learning for Alzheimer's disease dementia assessment" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Deep ensemble learning for Alzheimer's disease classification" (2020, Journal of Biomedical Informatics)
  • "Metabolic Network Analysis Reveals Altered Bile Acid Synthesis and Metabolism in Alzheimer's Disease" (2020, Cell Reports Medicine)
  • "Designing the next-generation clinical care pathway for Alzheimer's disease" (2022, Nature Aging)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Ting Fang Alvin Ang
  • Jesse Mez
  • Vijaya B. Kolachalama
  • Lindsay A. Farrer
  • Sherral Devine

Rhoda Au's work appears regularly in prominent publication venues such as:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease.

    Sudha Seshadri;Annette L. Fitzpatrick;M Arfan Ikram;Anita L. DeStefano

  • The Lifetime Risk of Stroke Estimates From the Framingham Study

    Sudha Seshadri;Alexa Beiser;Margaret Kelly-Hayes;Carlos S. Kase

  • The Preclinical Phase of Alzheimer Disease: A 22-Year Prospective Study of the Framingham Cohort

    Merrill F. Elias;Alexa Beiser;Philip A. Wolf;Rhoda Au

  • Midlife vascular risk factor exposure accelerates structural brain aging and cognitive decline.

    S. Debette;S. Seshadri;S. Seshadri;A. Beiser;A. Beiser;R. Au;R. Au

  • Plasma phosphatidylcholine docosahexaenoic acid content and risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Ernst J. Schaefer;Vanina Bongard;Alexa S. Beiser;Stefania Lamon-Fava

  • Measures of brain morphology and infarction in the framingham heart study: establishing what is normal

    Charles DeCarli;Joseph Massaro;Danielle J Harvey;John Hald

  • Neuropsychological Criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment Improves Diagnostic Precision, Biomarker Associations, and Progression Rates

    Mark W. Bondi;Emily C. Edmonds;Amy J. Jak;Lindsay R. Clark

  • Apolipoprotein E Genotype and Sex Risk Factors for Alzheimer Disease: A Meta-analysis

    Scott C. Neu;Judy Pa;Walter Kukull;Duane Beekly

  • Depressive symptoms and risk of dementia: the Framingham Heart Study

    Jane S. Saczynski;Alexa Beiser;Sudha Seshadri;S. Auerbach

  • Cumulative Head Impact Exposure Predicts Later-Life Depression, Apathy, Executive Dysfunction, and Cognitive Impairment in Former High School and College Football Players

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  • Lifetime risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: The impact of mortality on risk estimates in the Framingham Study

    S. Seshadri;P. A. Wolf;A. Beiser;R. Au

  • Association of MRI Markers of Vascular Brain Injury With Incident Stroke, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, and Mortality The Framingham Offspring Study

    Stéphanie Debette;Alexa Beiser;Alexa Beiser;Charles DeCarli;Rhoda Au;Rhoda Au

  • Inflammatory markers and the risk of Alzheimer disease: The Framingham Study

    Z. S. Tan;A. S. Beiser;R. S. Vasan;R. Roubenoff

  • Association of plasma leptin levels with incident Alzheimer disease and MRI measures of brain aging.

    Wolfgang Lieb;Alexa S. Beiser;Alexa S. Beiser;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Zaldy S. Tan

  • Gender and incidence of dementia in the Framingham Heart Study from mid-adult life

    Geneviève Chêne;Alexa Beiser;Rhoda Au;Sarah R. Preis

  • Inverse association between cancer and Alzheimer's disease: results from the Framingham Heart Study

    Jane A Driver;Alexa Beiser;Rhoda Au;Bernard E Kreger

  • School start times for adolescents

    Rhoda Au;Mary Carskadon;Richard Millman;Amy Wolfson

  • Dementia After Stroke The Framingham Study

    Cristina S. Ivan;Sudha Seshadri;Alexa Beiser;Rhoda Au

  • Association of white matter hyperintensity volume with decreased cognitive functioning: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Rhoda Au;Joseph M. Massaro;Philip A. Wolf;Megan E. Young

  • Apolipoprotein E element 4 association with dementia in a population-based study The Framingham Study

    R. H. Myers;E. J. Schaefer;P.W.F. Wilson;R. D'Agostino

  • Plasma Phosphatidylcholine Docosahexaenoic Acid Content and Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

    Ernst J. Schaefer;Vanina Bongard;Alexa S. Beiser;Stefania Lamon-Fava

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip A. Wolf
Philip A. Wolf Boston University
Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Alexa Beiser
Alexa Beiser Boston University
Charles DeCarli
Charles DeCarli University of California, Davis
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Joseph M. Massaro
Joseph M. Massaro Boston University
David J. Libon
David J. Libon Rowan University
Lisa Delano-Wood
Lisa Delano-Wood University of California, San Diego
Mark W. Bondi
Mark W. Bondi University of California, San Diego
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin Boston University

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