Katherine Rankin

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Self awareness and personality change in dementia
    K P Rankin
    University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, CA 94143 1207, USA
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 76:632-9. 2005
  2. ncbi Double dissociation of social functioning in frontotemporal dementia
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California San Francisco, USA
    Neurology 60:266-71. 2003
  3. ncbi Detecting sarcasm from paralinguistic cues: anatomic and cognitive correlates in neurodegenerative disease
    Katherine P Rankin
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, Department of Neurology, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    Neuroimage 47:2005-15. 2009
  4. ncbi Spontaneous social behaviors discriminate behavioral dementias from psychiatric disorders and other dementias
    Katherine P Rankin
    Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143 1207, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 69:60-73. 2008
  5. ncbi A case-controlled study of altered visual art production in Alzheimer's and FTLD
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Cogn Behav Neurol 20:48-61. 2007
  6. ncbi Structural anatomy of empathy in neurodegenerative disease
    Katherine P Rankin
    Memory and Aging Center, UCSF Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco CA 94143 1207, USA
    Brain 129:2945-56. 2006
  7. ncbi Patterns of cognitive and emotional empathy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration
    Katherine P Rankin
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, California 94145 1203, USA
    Cogn Behav Neurol 18:28-36. 2005
  8. ncbi Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia with corticobasal degeneration pathology: phenotypic comparison to bvFTD with Pick's disease
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
    J Mol Neurosci 45:594-608. 2011
  9. ncbi Presurgical cognitive deficits in patients receiving coronary artery bypass graft surgery
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California at San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, California 94143 1207, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 9:913-24. 2003
  10. ncbi Right and left medial orbitofrontal volumes show an opposite relationship to agreeableness in FTD
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif, USA
    Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 17:328-32. 2004

Research Grants

  1. Neuroanatomy of social Function in FTD
    Katherine Rankin; Fiscal Year: 2005
  2. Measuring Altered Social Behavior in Neurodegenerative Disease
    Katherine Rankin; Fiscal Year: 2009
  3. Measuring Altered Social Behavior in Neurodegenerative Disease
    Katherine P Rankin; Fiscal Year: 2010

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Publications24

  1. ncbi Self awareness and personality change in dementia
    K P Rankin
    University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, CA 94143 1207, USA
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 76:632-9. 2005
    ..However, self awareness of personality has not been quantified in these patient groups...
  2. ncbi Double dissociation of social functioning in frontotemporal dementia
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California San Francisco, USA
    Neurology 60:266-71. 2003
    ..Efforts to characterize changes in social functioning in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) have failed to elicit clear dissociation between frontal and temporal variants of the disease based on behavioral measures...
  3. ncbi Detecting sarcasm from paralinguistic cues: anatomic and cognitive correlates in neurodegenerative disease
    Katherine P Rankin
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, Department of Neurology, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    Neuroimage 47:2005-15. 2009
    ....
  4. ncbi Spontaneous social behaviors discriminate behavioral dementias from psychiatric disorders and other dementias
    Katherine P Rankin
    Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco 94143 1207, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 69:60-73. 2008
    ..The object of this study was to improve screening for behavioral dementias in primary care and mental health settings by quantifying spontaneous social behaviors specific to FTLD...
  5. ncbi A case-controlled study of altered visual art production in Alzheimer's and FTLD
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Cogn Behav Neurol 20:48-61. 2007
    ..To characterize dementia-induced changes in visual art production...
  6. ncbi Structural anatomy of empathy in neurodegenerative disease
    Katherine P Rankin
    Memory and Aging Center, UCSF Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco CA 94143 1207, USA
    Brain 129:2945-56. 2006
    ..The results suggest that the right anterior temporal and medial frontal regions are essential for real-life empathic behaviour...
  7. ncbi Patterns of cognitive and emotional empathy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration
    Katherine P Rankin
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, California 94145 1203, USA
    Cogn Behav Neurol 18:28-36. 2005
    ..To examine the relationship between empathy and cognition in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)...
  8. ncbi Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia with corticobasal degeneration pathology: phenotypic comparison to bvFTD with Pick's disease
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
    J Mol Neurosci 45:594-608. 2011
    ..Despite a remarkable overlap between the two patient types, bvFTD patients with underlying CBD pathology show subtle clinical features that may distinguish them from patients with Pick's disease neuropathology...
  9. ncbi Presurgical cognitive deficits in patients receiving coronary artery bypass graft surgery
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California at San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, California 94143 1207, USA
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 9:913-24. 2003
    ..This corroborates previous research suggesting that patients requiring CABG surgery may evidence significant presurgical cognitive deficits as a result of existing vascular disease...
  10. ncbi Right and left medial orbitofrontal volumes show an opposite relationship to agreeableness in FTD
    Katherine P Rankin
    University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif, USA
    Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 17:328-32. 2004
    ..These data support the hypothesis that regulation of agreeableness arises from a balanced, mutually inhibitory circuit involving both hemispheres...
  11. ncbi Different regional patterns of cortical thinning in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia
    An Tao Du
    Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
    Brain 130:1159-66. 2007
    ..In conclusion, the characteristic patterns of cortical thinning in Alzheimer's disease and FTD suggest that cortical thickness may be a useful surrogate marker for these types of dementia...
  12. ncbi Anatomical correlates of early mutism in progressive nonfluent aphasia
    M L Gorno-Tempini
    UCSF Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, 350 Parnassus Ave, Suite 800, Box 1207, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    Neurology 67:1849-51. 2006
    ..Damage to the network of brain regions involved in both coordination and execution of speech causes mutism in PNFA...
  13. ncbi Hypoperfusion in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease by arterial spin labeling MRI
    A T Du
    Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, USA
    Neurology 67:1215-20. 2006
    ....
  14. ncbi Spatial cognition and the human navigation network in AD and MCI
    A R deIpolyi
    Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    Neurology 69:986-97. 2007
    ..We characterized navigation in AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to test the hypothesis that navigation disability reflects selective impairments in spatial cognition and relates to atrophy of specific brain regions...
  15. ncbi Atrophy progression in semantic dementia with asymmetric temporal involvement: a tensor-based morphometry study
    S M Brambati
    Memory Aging Center, UCSF Department of Neurology, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Neurobiol Aging 30:103-11. 2009
    ..These results identified the anatomic substrates of the previously reported clinical evolution of LTLV and RTLV into a unique 'merged' clinical syndrome characterized by semantic and behavioral deficits and bilateral temporal atrophy...
  16. ncbi Interpersonal traits change as a function of disease type and severity in degenerative brain diseases
    Marc Sollberger
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 82:732-9. 2011
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  17. ncbi The autonomic and behavioral profile of emotional dysregulation
    J D Woolley
    Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-1207, USA
    Neurology 63:1740-3. 2004
    ..This pattern of deficits supports a selective deficit in voluntary emotional control...
  18. ncbi Medial versus lateral frontal lobe contributions to voluntary saccade control as revealed by the study of patients with frontal lobe degeneration
    Adam L Boxer
    Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 1207, USA
    J Neurosci 26:6354-63. 2006
    ....
  19. ncbi Cognition and anatomy in three variants of primary progressive aphasia
    Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
    Department of Neurology, UCSF Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, 350 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Ann Neurol 55:335-46. 2004
    ..Cognitive, genetic, and anatomical features indicate that different PPA clinical variants may correspond to different underlying pathological processes...
  20. ncbi The early neuropsychological and behavioral characteristics of frontotemporal dementia
    Dana Wittenberg
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Neuropsychol Rev 18:91-102. 2008
    ..As this review underscores, frontotemporal dementia remains a powerful model for studying brain-behavior relationships...
  21. ncbi Clinical, cognitive and anatomical evolution from nonfluent progressive aphasia to corticobasal syndrome: a case report
    Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
    Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
    Neurocase 10:426-36. 2004
    ..This case demonstrates the clinical overlap between FTLD and CBS and shows that the two can appear in the same patient at different stages of the disease in relation to the progression of anatomical damage...
  22. ncbi Cinguloparietal atrophy distinguishes Alzheimer disease from semantic dementia
    Adam L Boxer
    Memory and Aging Center and the Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, 94143, USA
    Arch Neurol 60:949-56. 2003
    ..Progressive brain atrophy is associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) and other dementias. Regional differences in brain atrophy may reflect clinical features of disease...
  23. ncbi A tensor based morphometry study of longitudinal gray matter contraction in FTD
    Simona M Brambati
    Memory and Aging Center, UCSF Department of Neurology, 350 Parnassus Ave, Suite 706, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Neuroimage 35:998-1003. 2007
    ..These results suggest that TBM might be useful in tracking progression of regional atrophy in FTD...
  24. ncbi 17q-linked frontotemporal dementia-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis without tau mutations with tau and alpha-synuclein inclusions
    Kirk C Wilhelmsen
    Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, Emeryville, CA, USA
    Arch Neurol 61:398-406. 2004
    ..The most common familial form of this condition is caused by mutations in the microtubule-associated protein tau gene (MAP tau) and is associated with neuronal or glial tau inclusions...

Research Grants4

  1. Neuroanatomy of social Function in FTD
    Katherine Rankin; Fiscal Year: 2005
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  2. Measuring Altered Social Behavior in Neurodegenerative Disease
    Katherine Rankin; Fiscal Year: 2009
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  3. Measuring Altered Social Behavior in Neurodegenerative Disease
    Katherine P Rankin; Fiscal Year: 2010
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