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Alex C. Birdsill
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 27
Citations - 2253
Alex C. Birdsill is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: White matter & Cognitive decline. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 26 publications receiving 1877 citations. Previous affiliations of Alex C. Birdsill include Banner Health & University of Texas at Austin.
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Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders and Brain and Body Donation Program
Thomas G. Beach,Charles H. Adler,Lucia I. Sue,Geidy E. Serrano,Holly A. Shill,Douglas G. Walker,Lih-Fen Lue,Alex E. Roher,Brittany N. Dugger,Chera L. Maarouf,Alex C. Birdsill,Anthony Intorcia,Megan Saxon-LaBelle,Joel Pullen,Alexander Scroggins,Jessica Filon,Sarah Scott,Brittany Hoffman,Angelica Garcia,John N. Caviness,Joseph G. Hentz,Erika Driver-Dunckley,Sandra Jacobson,Kathryn J. Davis,Christine Belden,Kathy E. Long,Michael Malek-Ahmadi,Jessica Powell,Lisa D. Gale,Lisa R. Nicholson,Richard J. Caselli,Bryan K. Woodruff,Steven Z. Rapscak,Geoffrey L. Ahern,Jiong Shi,Anna D. Burke,Eric M. Reiman,Marwan N. Sabbagh +37 more
TL;DR: The Brain and Body Donation Program (BBDP) at Banner Sun Health Research Institute (http://www.brainandbodydonationprogram.org) started in 1987 with brain only donations and currently has banked more than 1600 brains as mentioned in this paper.
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Association of Insulin Resistance With Cerebral Glucose Uptake in Late Middle–Aged Adults at Risk for Alzheimer Disease
Auriel A. Willette,Barbara B. Bendlin,Erika J. Starks,Alex C. Birdsill,Sterling C. Johnson,Bradley T. Christian,Ozioma C. Okonkwo,Asenath La Rue,Bruce P. Hermann,Rebecca L. Koscik,Erin M. Jonaitis,Mark A. Sager,Sanjay Asthana +12 more
TL;DR: The results show that insulin resistance, a prevalent and increasingly common condition in developed countries, is associated with significantly lower regional cerebral glucose metabolism, which in turn may predict worse memory performance.
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Structural brain differences and cognitive functioning related to body mass index in older females
TL;DR: Despite the lack of significant group differences in memory and visuomotor speed, gray and white matter volumes predicted performance on these measures, providing additional evidence for a negative link between increased body fat and brain functioning in older females.
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Insulin resistance predicts brain amyloid deposition in late middle-aged adults.
Auriel A. Willette,Auriel A. Willette,Sterling C. Johnson,Alex C. Birdsill,Mark A. Sager,Bradley T. Christian,Laura D. Baker,Suzanne Craft,Jennifer M. Oh,Eric Statz,Bruce P. Hermann,Erin M. Jonaitis,Rebecca L. Koscik,Asenath La Rue,Sanjay Asthana,Barbara B. Bendlin +15 more
TL;DR: Insulin resistance (IR) increases Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk and is related to greater amyloid burden post‐mortem and increased deposition within areas affected by early AD.
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Insulin Resistance, Brain Atrophy, and Cognitive Performance in Late Middle–Aged Adults
Auriel A. Willette,Guofan Xu,Sterling C. Johnson,Alex C. Birdsill,Erin M. Jonaitis,Mark A. Sager,Bruce P. Hermann,Asenath La Rue,Sanjay Asthana,Barbara B. Bendlin +9 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that insulin resistance in an asymptomatic, late middle–aged cohort is associated with progressive atrophy in regions affected by early Alzheimer disease and the ability to encode episodic information by negatively influencing gray matter volume in medial temporal lobe.