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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Sedgwick Memorial Medal, American Public Health Association
  • 2013 - Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases, American Academy of Neurology

Overview

William J. Jagust is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medical and neurological sciences, with extensive work in medicine and subfields such as physiology, psychiatry and mental health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology.

The scientist's main topics of study include dementia and cognitive impairment research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, medical imaging techniques and applications, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, diet and metabolism studies, and advanced MRI techniques and applications.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Neurology
  • GeroScience
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers by William J. Jagust include:

  • Contribution of Alzheimer's biomarkers and risk factors to cognitive impairment and decline across the Alzheimer's disease continuum, 2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Analytical and Clinical Performance of Amyloid-Beta Peptides Measurements in CSF of ADNIGO/2 Participants by an LC-MS/MS Reference Method, 2020, Clinical Chemistry
  • Evaluation of the Revised Criteria for Biological and Clinical Staging of Alzheimer Disease, 2025, JAMA Neurology
  • Frequency and Clinical Outcomes Associated With Tau Positron Emission Tomography Positivity, 2025, JAMA
  • The Consortium for Clarity in ADRD Research Through Imaging (CLARiTI), 2024, Alzheimer's & Dementia

William J. Jagust frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Susan Landau
  • Clifford R. Jack
  • Theresa M. Harrison
  • Laurel Beckett
  • Michael Donohue

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as the Sedgwick Memorial Medal from the American Public Health Association in 2013 and the Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases from the American Academy of Neurology in 2013.

Best Publications

  • NIA-AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

    Clifford R. Jack;David A. Bennett;Kaj Blennow;Maria C. Carrillo

  • Hypothetical model of dynamic biomarkers of the Alzheimer's pathological cascade

    Clifford R Jack;David S Knopman;William J Jagust;Leslie M Shaw

  • Tracking pathophysiological processes in Alzheimer's disease: an updated hypothetical model of dynamic biomarkers.

    Clifford R Jack;David S Knopman;William J Jagust;Ronald C Petersen

  • 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

    Marilyn S. Albert;Steven T. DeKosky;Dennis Dickson;Bruno Dubois

  • Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI): clinical characterization.

    R. C. Petersen;P. S. Aisen;Laurel A Beckett;M. C. Donohue

  • Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

    Susanne G. Mueller;Michael W. Weiner;Leon J. Thal;Ronald C. Petersen

  • A/T/N: An unbiased descriptive classification scheme for Alzheimer disease biomarkers

    Clifford R. Jack;David A. Bennett;Kaj Blennow;Maria C. Carrillo

  • Prevalence of cerebral amyloid pathology in persons without dementia: a meta-analysis.

    Willemijn J. Jansen;Rik Ossenkoppele;Dirk L. Knol;Betty M. Tijms

  • Criteria for the diagnosis of ischemic vascular dementia proposed by the State of California Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Centers

    H. C. Chui;J. I. Victoroff;D. Margolin;W. Jagust

  • The Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative

    Susanne G. Mueller;Michael W. Weiner;Michael W. Weiner;Leon J. Thal;Ronald C. Petersen

  • The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: a review of papers published since its inception.

    Michael W. Weiner;Michael W. Weiner;Dallas P. Veitch;Paul S. Aisen;Laurel A Beckett

  • Ways toward an early diagnosis in Alzheimer’s disease: The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)

    Susanne G. Mueller;Susanne G. Mueller;Michael W. Weiner;Michael W. Weiner;Leon J. Thal;Ronald C. Petersen

  • PET Imaging of Tau Deposition in the Aging Human Brain

    Michael Schöll;Michael Schöll;Samuel N. Lockhart;Daniel R. Schonhaut;James P. O’Neil

  • Tau PET patterns mirror clinical and neuroanatomical variability in Alzheimer's disease.

    Rik Ossenkoppele;Rik Ossenkoppele;Rik Ossenkoppele;Daniel R. Schonhaut;Daniel R. Schonhaut;Michael Schöll;Michael Schöll;Samuel N. Lockhart

  • The Centiloid Project: Standardizing quantitative amyloid plaque estimation by PET

    William E. Klunk;William E. Klunk;Robert A. Koeppe;Julie C. Price;Tammie L. Benzinger;Tammie L. Benzinger

  • 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

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    A. T. Du;N. Schuff;N. Schuff;D. Amend;M. P. Laakso

  • Prevalence and classification of mild cognitive impairment in the Cardiovascular Health Study Cognition Study: part 1.

    Oscar L. Lopez;William J. Jagust;Steven T. DeKosky;James T. Becker

  • Earliest accumulation of β-amyloid occurs within the default-mode network and concurrently affects brain connectivity

    Sebastian Palmqvist;Michael Schöll;Michael Schöll;Olof Strandberg;Niklas Mattsson

  • Associations between cognitive, functional, and FDG-PET measures of decline in AD and MCI

    Susan M. Landau;Danielle J Harvey;Cindee M. Madison;Robert A. Koeppe

  • Episodic memory loss is related to hippocampal-mediated -amyloid deposition in elderly subjects

    E. C. Mormino;J. T. Kluth;C. M. Madison;G. D. Rabinovici;G. D. Rabinovici;G. D. Rabinovici

Frequent Co-Authors

Gil D. Rabinovici
Gil D. Rabinovici University of California, San Francisco
Bruce L. Miller
Bruce L. Miller University of California, San Francisco
Suzanne L. Baker
Suzanne L. Baker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael W. Weiner
Michael W. Weiner University of California, San Francisco
Susan M. Landau
Susan M. Landau University of California, Berkeley
Bruce R Reed
Bruce R Reed University of California, Davis
Norbert Schuff
Norbert Schuff University of California, San Francisco
Ronald C. Petersen
Ronald C. Petersen University of Pennsylvania
Paul S. Aisen
Paul S. Aisen University of Southern California
Charles DeCarli
Charles DeCarli University of California, Davis

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