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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
108
Citations
79952
World Ranking
953
National Ranking
581

Neuroscience

D-Index
112
Citations
97387
World Ranking
496
National Ranking
291

Psychology

D-Index
102
Citations
86690
World Ranking
557
National Ranking
349

Medicine

D-Index
112
Citations
97053
World Ranking
5036
National Ranking
2728

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Sandra Weintraub is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine. Their research focuses primarily on dementia and cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease treatments, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, functional brain connectivity, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and aspects of health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Their body of work is distributed across several subfields of study, including psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, physiology, and molecular biology.

Frequently published venues for their research include Alzheimer's & Dementia, the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Neurology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Brain.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sandra Weintraub include:

  • Utility of the global CDR® plus NACC FTLD rating and development of scoring rules: Data from the ARTFL/LEFFTDS Consortium (2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia)
  • Temporal order of clinical and biomarker changes in familial frontotemporal dementia (2022, Nature Medicine)
  • Anatomical evidence of an indirect pathway for word repetition (2020, Neurology)
  • Plasma Neurofilament Light for Prediction of Disease Progression in Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (2021, Neurology)
  • Proposed research criteria for prodromal behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (2021, Brain)

Collaborators appearing frequently alongside Weintraub include Emily Rogalskı, Changiz Geula, Bradley F. Boeve, Hilary W. Heuer, and Adam L. Boxer.

Best Publications

  • The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    Guy M. McKhann;Guy M. McKhann;David S. Knopman;Howard Chertkow;Bradley T. Hyman

  • Boston Naming Test

    Edith Kaplan;Harold Goodglass;Sandra Weintraub;Osa Segal

  • Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia.

    Katya Rascovsky;John R. Hodges;David Knopman;Mario F. Mendez

  • Classification of primary progressive aphasia and its variants

    M L Gorno-Tempini;M L Gorno-Tempini;A E Hillis;S Weintraub;A Kertesz

  • The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    G.M. McKhann;D.S. Knopman;H. Chertkow;B.T. Hyman

  • Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

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  • Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

    Adam C. Naj;Gyungah Jun;Gary W. Beecham;Li-San Wang

  • Cognition assessment using the NIH Toolbox

    Sandra Weintraub;Sureyya S. Dikmen;Robert K. Heaton;David S. Tulsky

  • 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

  • The Uniform Data Set (UDS): clinical and cognitive variables and descriptive data from Alzheimer Disease Centers.

    John C. Morris;Sandra Weintraub;Helena C. Chui;Jeffrey Cummings

  • The Alzheimer's Disease Centers' Uniform Data Set (UDS): the neuropsychologic test battery.

    Sandra Weintraub;David Salmon;Nathaniel Mercaldo;Steven Ferris

  • II. NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (CB): measuring executive function and attention

    Philip David Zelazo;Jacob E. Anderson;Jennifer Richler;Kathleen Wallner-Allen

  • Neurofibrillary tangles, amyloid, and memory in aging and mild cognitive impairment.

    Angela L. Guillozet;Sandra Weintraub;Deborah C. Mash;M. Marsel Mesulam

  • Progranulin Deficiency Promotes Circuit-Specific Synaptic Pruning by Microglia via Complement Activation.

    Hansen Lui;Jiasheng Zhang;Stefanie R. Makinson;Michelle K. Cahill

  • Diagnostic value of plasma phosphorylated tau181 in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

    Elisabeth H. Thijssen;Elisabeth H. Thijssen;Renaud La Joie;Amy Wolf;Amelia Strom

  • The Neuropsychological Profile of Alzheimer Disease

    Sandra Weintraub;Alissa H. Wicklund;David P. Salmon

  • Mutations in progranulin are a major cause of ubiquitin-positive frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    Jennifer Gass;Ashley Cannon;Ian R. Mackenzie;Bradley Boeve

  • Version 3 of the Alzheimer Disease Centers' Neuropsychological Test Battery in the Uniform Data Set (UDS)

    Sandra Weintraub;Lilah Besser;Hiroko H. Dodge;Merilee Teylan

  • TIA1 Mutations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia Promote Phase Separation and Alter Stress Granule Dynamics

    Ian R. Mackenzie;Alexandra M. Nicholson;Mohona Sarkar;James Messing

  • Right Cerebral Dominance in Spatial Attention: Further Evidence Based on Ipsilateral Neglect

    Sandra Weintraub;M.-Marsel Mesulam

  • Alzheimer and Frontotemporal Pathology in Subsets of Primary Progressive Aphasia

    Marsel Mesulam;Alissa Wicklund;Nancy Johnson;Emily Rogalski

  • A novel frontal pathway underlies verbal fluency in primary progressive aphasia

    Marco Catani;Marsel M. Mesulam;Estrid Jakobsen;Farah Malik

Frequent Co-Authors

M.-Marsel Mesulam
M.-Marsel Mesulam Northwestern University
Emily Rogalski
Emily Rogalski Northwestern University
Bruce L. Miller
Bruce L. Miller University of California, San Francisco
Rosa Rademakers
Rosa Rademakers University of Antwerp
Alfred W. Rademaker
Alfred W. Rademaker Northwestern University
Joel H. Kramer
Joel H. Kramer University of California, San Francisco
Howard J. Rosen
Howard J. Rosen University of California, San Francisco
Murray Grossman
Murray Grossman University of Pennsylvania
Changiz Geula
Changiz Geula Northwestern University
Bradley F. Boeve
Bradley F. Boeve Mayo Clinic

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