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  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Roger L. Albin is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neurological disorders, with an emphasis on Parkinson's disease and dementia-related conditions. Their work encompasses broad fields of medicine and neuroscience, including specialized subfields such as neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's topics of research include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Roger L. Albin has contributed to numerous publications, often appearing in specific research venues. These frequent publication venues include:

  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Movement Disorders
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology

Their recent papers include:

  • Current and projected future economic burden of Parkinson's disease in the U.S., 2020, npj Parkinson s Disease
  • Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer's dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cholinergic system changes in Parkinson's disease: emerging therapeutic approaches, 2022, The Lancet Neurology
  • Deep Learning Identifies Digital Biomarkers for Self-Reported Parkinson's Disease, 2020, Patterns
  • Lecanemab, 2023, Neurology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Key co-authors include:

  • Prabesh Kanel
  • Nicolaas I. Bohnen
  • Robert A. Koeppe
  • Stiven Roytman
  • Peter J. H. Scott

Roger L. Albin was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • The functional anatomy of basal ganglia disorders.

    Roger L. Albin;Anne B. Young;John B. Penney

  • Unified huntington’s disease rating scale: Reliability and consistency

    Karl Kieburtz;John B. Penney;Peter Corno;Neal Ranen

  • A mutation in a case of early onset narcolepsy and a generalized absence of hypocretin peptides in human narcoleptic brains

    Christelle Peyron;Juliette Faraco;William Rogers;Beth Ripley

  • Differential loss of striatal projection neurons in Huntington disease.

    Anton Reiner;Roger L. Albin;Keith D. Anderson;Constance J. D'Amato

  • 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

  • Alternative excitotoxic hypotheses.

    R. L. Albin;J. T. Greenamyre

  • Neurological abnormalities in a knock-in mouse model of Huntington’s disease

    Chin Hsing Lin;Sara Tallaksen-Greene;Wei Ming Chien;Jamie A. Cearley

  • 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

  • The Cholinergic System and Parkinson Disease

    Nicolaas I. Bohnen;Roger L. Albin

  • Alzheimer's disease versus Dementia with Lewy bodies : Cerebral metabolic distinction with autopsy confirmation

    Satoshi Minoshima;Norman L. Foster;Anders A. F. Sima;Kirk A. Frey

  • Recent advances in Tourette syndrome research.

    Roger L. Albin;Jonathan W. Mink

  • Widespread expression of the human and rat Huntington's disease gene in brain and nonneural tissues.

    Theresa V. Strong;Danilo A. Tagle;John M. Valdes;Lawrence W. Elmer

  • NMDA receptor losses in putamen from patients with Huntington's disease

    AB Young;JT Greenamyre;Z Hollingsworth;R Albin

  • Ectopically Expressed CAG Repeats Cause Intranuclear Inclusions and a Progressive Late Onset Neurological Phenotype in the Mouse

    Jared M. Ordway;Sara Tallaksen-Greene;Claire Anne Gutekunst;Eve M. Bernstein

  • Excitatory amino acid binding sites in the basal ganglia of the rat: A quantitative autoradiographic study

    Roger L. Albin;Richard L. Makowiec;Zane R. Hollingsworth;Leon S. Dure

  • The functional anatomy of disorders of the basal ganglia

    Roger L. Albin;Anne B. Young;John B. Penney

  • History of falls in Parkinson disease is associated with reduced cholinergic activity

    N. I. Bohnen;M. L.T.M. Müller;R. A. Koeppe;S. A. Studenski

  • Preferential loss of striato-external pallidal projection neurons in presymptomatic Huntington's disease

    Roger L. Albin;Anton Reiner;Keith D. Anderson;Leon S. Dure

  • Distribution and kinetics of GABAB binding sites in rat central nervous system: A quantitative autoradiographic study

    Dorothy C. M. Chu;Roger L. Albin;Anne B. Young;John B. Penney

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirk A. Frey
Kirk A. Frey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicolaas I. Bohnen
Nicolaas I. Bohnen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert A. Koeppe
Robert A. Koeppe University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martijn L.T.M. Müller
Martijn L.T.M. Müller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anne B. Young
Anne B. Young Harvard University
Sid Gilman
Sid Gilman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael R. Kilbourn
Michael R. Kilbourn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John B. Penney
John B. Penney University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bruno Giordani
Bruno Giordani University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andrew P. Lieberman
Andrew P. Lieberman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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