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Zahinoor Ismail

Zahinoor Ismail

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Psychology

D-Index
61
Citations
13886
World Ranking
3390
National Ranking
216

Overview

Zahinoor Ismail is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada, focusing on research within the field of medicine. Their work mainly spans several subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The research topics covered by Zahinoor Ismail are varied and include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Zahinoor Ismail has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent ones include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions

Their recent papers reflect a strong focus on dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and neuropsychiatric symptoms in cognitive disorders. Notable publications include:

  • Recommendations of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Mild Behavioral Impairment and Subjective Cognitive Decline Predict Cognitive and Functional Decline, 2021, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Psychosis in Alzheimer Disease - Mechanisms, Genetics and Therapeutic Opportunities, 2022, Nature Reviews Neurology

Zahinoor Ismail frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. The most frequent co-authors are:

  • Eric E. Smith
  • Dylan X. Guan
  • Byron Creese
  • Clive Ballard
  • Richard Camicioli

The scope of Ismail's work includes comprehensive investigations into diagnosis, treatment, and the neuropsychiatric aspects of cognitive disorders, contributing to advancing the understanding of dementia-related conditions and their management within clinical and research settings.

Best Publications

  • Neuropsychiatric symptoms as early manifestations of emergent dementia: Provisional diagnostic criteria for mild behavioral impairment

    Zahinoor Ismail;Eric E. Smith;Yonas Geda;David Sultzer

  • Effect of Citalopram on Agitation in Alzheimer Disease: The CitAD Randomized Clinical Trial

    Anton P. Porsteinsson;Lea T. Drye;Bruce G. Pollock;D. P. Devanand

  • Brief cognitive screening instruments: an update

    Zahinoor Ismail;Tarek K. Rajji;Kenneth I. Shulman

  • Prevalence of Depression in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Zahinoor Ismail;Heba Elbayoumi;Corinne E. Fischer;David B. Hogan

  • Age at onset and cognition in schizophrenia: meta-analysis.

    T. K. Rajji;Z. Ismail;B. H. Mulsant

  • The Mild Behavioral Impairment Checklist (MBI-C): A Rating Scale for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Pre-Dementia Populations

    Zahinoor Ismail;Luis Agüera-Ortiz;Henry Brodaty;Alicja Cieslak

  • Neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease: New treatment paradigms

    Krista L. Lanctôt;Joan Amatniek;Sonia Ancoli-Israel;Steven E. Arnold

  • Guidelines for the Pharmacotherapy of Schizophrenia in Adults.

    Gary Remington;Donald Addington;William Honer;Zahinoor Ismail

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) 2016 Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder: Section 6. Special Populations: Youth, Women, and the Elderly.

    Glenda M. MacQueen;Benicio N. Frey;Zahinoor Ismail;Natalia Jaworska

  • Apathy associated with neurocognitive disorders: Recent progress and future directions

    Krista L. Lanctôt;Krista L. Lanctôt;Luis Agüera-Ortiz;Henry Brodaty;Paul T. Francis

  • Recommendations of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia

    Zahinoor Ismail;Sandra E Black;Richard Camicioli;Howard Chertkow

  • Affective and emotional dysregulation as pre-dementia risk markers: exploring the mild behavioral impairment symptoms of depression, anxiety, irritability, and euphoria.

    Zahinoor Ismail;Jennifer Gatchel;Daniel R Bateman;Ricardo Barcelos-Ferreira

  • Mild Behavioral Impairment as a Marker of Cognitive Decline in Cognitively Normal Older Adults.

    Byron Creese;Helen Brooker;Zahinoor Ismail;Keith A. Wesnes

  • Prevalence of mild behavioral impairment in mild cognitive impairment and subjective cognitive decline, and its association with caregiver burden

    Faisal Sheikh;Zahinoor Ismail;Moyra E Mortby;Philip Barber

  • Sex differences in neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease dementia: a meta-analysis

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  • Discovering biomarkers for antidepressant response: protocol from the Canadian biomarker integration network in depression (CAN-BIND) and clinical characteristics of the first patient cohort

    Raymond W. Lam;Roumen Milev;Susan Rotzinger;Susan Rotzinger;Ana C. Andreazza;Ana C. Andreazza

  • Assessing Mild Behavioral Impairment with the Mild Behavioral Impairment-Checklist in People with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Sabela C Mallo;Zahinoor Ismail;Arturo X Pereiro;David Facal

  • Mild Behavioral Impairment and Subjective Cognitive Decline Predict Cognitive and Functional Decline.

    Zahinoor Ismail;Alexander McGirr;Alexander McGirr;Sascha Gill;Sophie Hu

  • Mild behavioral impairment is associated with β-amyloid but not tau or neurodegeneration in cognitively intact elderly individuals.

    Firoza Z Lussier;Tharick A Pascoal;Mira Chamoun;Joseph Therriault

  • Diagnostic criteria for apathy in neurocognitive disorders

    David S. Miller;Philippe Robert;Larry Ereshefsky;Lawrence Adler

  • Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Is Associated With Executive Dysfunction and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Nevicia F. Case;Anna Charlton;Angela Zwiers;Saima Batool

  • Prevalence estimates of mild behavioral impairment in a population-based sample of pre-dementia states and cognitively healthy older adults.

    Moyra E Mortby;Zahinoor Ismail;Kaarin J Anstey

  • EffectofCitalopramonAgitationinAlzheimerDisease The CitAD Randomized Clinical Trial

    Anton P. Porsteinsson;Lea T. Drye;Bruce G. Pollock;D. P. Devanand

Frequent Co-Authors

Corinne E. Fischer
Corinne E. Fischer St. Michael's Hospital
Tarek K. Rajji
Tarek K. Rajji Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Dag Aarsland
Dag Aarsland King's College London
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto
Kaarin J. Anstey
Kaarin J. Anstey University of New South Wales
Devangere P. Devanand
Devangere P. Devanand Columbia University
Roumen Milev
Roumen Milev Queen's University
Jerome A. Yesavage
Jerome A. Yesavage Stanford University
Geoffrey B. Hall
Geoffrey B. Hall McMaster University
Ariel Graff-Guerrero
Ariel Graff-Guerrero Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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