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Species | Brandon E GavettSummaryAffiliation: Boston University Country: USA Publications
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Predicting cognitive decline and conversion to Alzheimer's disease in older adults using the NAB List Learning testBrandon E Gavett
Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 2526, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 16:651-60. 2010..The predictive validity of the NAB List Learning algorithm makes it a clinically useful tool for the assessment of older adults...
Mild traumatic brain injury: a risk factor for neurodegenerationBrandon E Gavett
Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord St, B 7800, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Alzheimers Res Ther 2:18. 2010....
Diagnostic utility of the NAB List Learning test in Alzheimer's disease and amnestic mild cognitive impairmentBrandon E Gavett
Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 2526, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 15:121-9. 2009..58 to .92 and univariate specificity values ranged from .52 to .97. Multivariate ordinal regression produced a model that classified individuals with 80% accuracy and good predictive power. (JINS, 2009, 15, 121-129.)...
Clock drawing test ratings by dementia specialists: interrater reliability and diagnostic accuracyAnil K Nair
Alzheimer s Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 22:85-92. 2010..Based on rating systems, clock drawing test scoring by dementia clinicians had excellent interrater reliability and sensitivity for differentiating the mild Alzheimer's disease subjects from comparison subjects...
Lower-extremity function in cognitively healthy aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's diseaseLaura H Eggermont
Alzheimer s Disease Clinical and Research Program, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118 2526, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 91:584-8. 2010..To examine differences in lower-extremity function in cognitive healthy older persons, older persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and older persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD)...
Clinical appraisal of chronic traumatic encephalopathy: current perspectives and future directionsBrandon E Gavett
Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University, and Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Curr Opin Neurol 24:525-31. 2011..This review provides an update on recent literature pertaining to clinically relevant procedures that--presently or in the future--may be useful for the in-vivo detection, characterization, and/or prediction of CTE...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: neurodegeneration following repetitive concussive and subconcussive brain traumaChristine M Baugh
Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, MA 02118, USA
Brain Imaging Behav 6:244-54. 2012..This review examines research to date and suggests future directions worthy of exploration...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes: progressive tauopathy after repetitive head injuryAnn C McKee
Department of Neurology, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 68:709-35. 2009..Deposition of beta-amyloid, most commonly as diffuse plaques, occurs in fewer than half the cases. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a neuropathologically distinct slowly progressive tauopathy with a clear environmental etiology...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a potential late effect of sport-related concussive and subconcussive head traumaBrandon E Gavett
Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy and Alzheimer s Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, B 7800, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Clin Sports Med 30:179-88, xi. 2011..No formal clinical or pathologic diagnostic criteria for CTE currently exist, but the distinctive neuropathologic profile of the disorder lends promise for future research into its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment...
TDP-43 proteinopathy and motor neuron disease in chronic traumatic encephalopathyAnn C McKee
Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Bedford Veterans Administration Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 69:918-29. 2010..This is the first pathological evidence that repetitive head trauma experienced in collision sports might be associated with the development of a motor neuron disease...
