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Thomas Wisniewski is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to several subfields such as Physiology, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Molecular Biology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Epilepsy research and treatment

Thomas Wisniewski has published numerous papers, with recent works including:

  • Phosphorylated tau interactome in the human Alzheimer's disease brain, 2020, Brain
  • A Prospective Study of Neurologic Disorders in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 in New York City, 2020, Neurology
  • A prospective study of long-term outcomes among hospitalized COVID-19 patients with and without neurological complications, 2021, Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • LATE-NC staging in routine neuropathologic diagnosis: an update, 2022, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Compilation of reported protein changes in the brain in Alzheimer's disease, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Thomas Wisniewski include:

  • Arjun V. Masurkar
  • Beatrix Ueberheide
  • Dominique Leitner
  • Ludovic Debure
  • Eleanor Drummond

The scientist has published extensively in a number of venues, with consistent contributions to:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Acta Neuropathologica
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature

    Peter T Nelson;Irina Alafuzoff;Eileen H Bigio;Constantin Bouras

  • Clearance systems in the brain—implications for Alzheimer disease

    Jenna M. Tarasoff-Conway;Roxana O. Carare;Ricardo S. Osorio;Lidia Glodzik

  • Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging

    John F. Crary;John Q. Trojanowski;Julie A. Schneider;Jose F. Abisambra

  • Apolipoprotein E: a pathological chaperone protein in patients with cerebral and systemic amyloid.

    Thomas Wisniewski;Blas Frangione

  • A presenilin‐1/γ‐secretase cleavage releases the E‐cadherin intracellular domain and regulates disassembly of adherens junctions

    Philippe Marambaud;Junichi Shioi;Geo Serban;Anastasios Georgakopoulos

  • Alzheimer amyloid-β oligomer bound to postsynaptic prion protein activates Fyn to impair neurons

    Ji Won Um;Haakon B Nygaard;Jacqueline K Heiss;Mikhail A Kostylev

  • Sequence of deposition of heterogeneous amyloid beta-peptides and APO E in Down syndrome: implications for initial events in amyloid plaque formation

    C.A. Lemere;J.K. Blusztajn;H. Yamaguchi;T. Wisniewski

  • Alzheimer's disease: experimental models and reality.

    Eleanor Drummond;Thomas Wisniewski

  • Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 Is a Coreceptor for Alzheimer Aβ Oligomer Bound to Cellular Prion Protein

    Ji Won Um;Adam C. Kaufman;Mikhail Kostylev;Jacqueline K. Heiss

  • The neuropathology of autism: defects of neurogenesis and neuronal migration, and dysplastic changes

    Jerzy Wegiel;Izabela Kuchna;Krzysztof Nowicki;Humi Imaki

  • ACCELERATION OF ALZHEIMER'S FIBRIL FORMATION BY APOLIPOPROTEIN E IN VITRO

    T. Wisniewski;E. M. Castaño;A. Golabek;T. Vogel

  • FDG-PET changes in brain glucose metabolism from normal cognition to pathologically verified Alzheimer's disease

    Lisa Mosconi;Rachel Mistur;Remigiusz Switalski;Wai Hon Tsui;Wai Hon Tsui

  • Molecular targeting of Alzheimer's amyloid plaques for contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

    J. F. Poduslo;T. M. Wengenack;G. L. Curran;T. Wisniewski

  • Aging-related tau astrogliopathy (ARTAG): harmonized evaluation strategy

    Gabor G. Kovacs;Isidro Ferrer;Lea T. Grinberg;Lea T. Grinberg;Irina Alafuzoff

  • Apolipoprotein E associates with beta amyloid peptide of Alzheimer's disease to form novel monofibrils. Isoform apoE4 associates more efficiently than apoE3.

    D A Sanan;K H Weisgraber;S J Russell;R W Mahley

  • Systematic review of potential health risks posed by pharmaceutical, occupational and consumer exposures to metallic and nanoscale aluminum, aluminum oxides, aluminum hydroxide and its soluble salts.

    Calvin C. Willhite;Nataliya A. Karyakina;Robert A. Yokel;Nagarajkumar Yenugadhati

  • Amyloid beta protein dimer-containing human CSF disrupts synaptic plasticity: prevention by systemic passive immunization.

    Igor Klyubin;Vicki Betts;Alfred T. Welzel;Kaj Blennow

  • Reversion of prion protein conformational changes by synthetic b-sheet breaker peptides

    Claudio Soto;Richard J Kascsak;Gabriela P Saborío;Pierre Aucouturier

  • The cerebrospinal-fluid soluble form of Alzheimer's amyloid beta is complexed to SP-40,40 (apolipoprotein J), an inhibitor of the complement membrane-attack complex.

    J. Ghiso;E. Matsubara;A. Koudinov;Nam Ho Choi-Miura

  • The neuropathology of autism: defects of neurogenesis and neuronal migration, and dysplastic changes Jerzy WegielIzabela KuchnaKrzysztof NowickiHumi ImakiJarek WegielElaine Marchi • Shuang Yong MaAbha ChauhanVed ChauhanTeresa Wierzba BobrowiczMony de Leon • Leslie A. Saint LouisIra L. CohenEric LondonW. Ted BrownThomas Wisniewski

    M. de Leon;L. A. S. Louis;T. Wisniewski;Louis T. Wisniewski

Frequent Co-Authors

Einar M. Sigurdsson
Einar M. Sigurdsson New York University
Blas Frangione
Blas Frangione New York University
Frances Prelli
Frances Prelli New York University
Mony J. de Leon
Mony J. de Leon Cornell University
Jorge Ghiso
Jorge Ghiso New York University
Richard J. Kascsak
Richard J. Kascsak University of York
Richard I. Carp
Richard I. Carp New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities
Beatrix Ueberheide
Beatrix Ueberheide New York University
Barry Reisberg
Barry Reisberg New York University
David R. Brown
David R. Brown University of Bath

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