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James T. Becker
Researcher at University of Pittsburgh
Publications - 438
Citations - 38819
James T. Becker is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Alzheimer's disease. The author has an hindex of 97, co-authored 427 publications receiving 35818 citations. Previous affiliations of James T. Becker include Johns Hopkins University & Aerospace Medical Association.
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Updated research nosology for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders
Andrea Antinori,Gabriele Arendt,James T. Becker,Bruce J. Brew,Desiree Byrd,Mariana Cherner,David B. Clifford,Paola Cinque,Leon G. Epstein,K. Goodkin,Magnus Gisslén,Igor Grant,Robert K. Heaton,Jeymohan Joseph,Karen Marder,Camillo Marra,Justin C. McArthur,Michael Nunn,Richard W. Price,Lynn Pulliam,Kevin Robertson,Ned Sacktor,Victor Valcour,Valerie Wojna +23 more
TL;DR: This report reviews the collective experience with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND), particularly since the advent of highly active antiretroviral treatment, and their definitional criteria; discusses the impact of comorbidities; and suggests inclusion of the term asymptomatic neuroc cognitive impairment to categorize individuals with subclinical impairment.
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Hippocampus, space, and memory
TL;DR: It is proposed that the hippocampus is selectively involved in behaviors that require working memory, irrespective of the type of material (spatial or nonspatial) that is to be processed by that memory.
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Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease.
Sudha Seshadri,Annette L. Fitzpatrick,M. Arfan Ikram,Anita L. DeStefano,Vilmundur Gudnason,Mercè Boada,Joshua C. Bis,Albert V. Smith,Minerva M. Carassquillo,Jean-Charles Lambert,Denise Harold,Elisabeth M. C. Schrijvers,Reposo Ramírez-Lorca,Stéphanie Debette,W. T. Longstreth,A. Cecile J.W. Janssens,V. Shane Pankratz,Jean-François Dartigues,Paul Hollingworth,Thor Aspelund,Isabel Hernández,Alexa S. Beiser,Lewis H. Kuller,Peter J. Koudstaal,Dennis W. Dickson,Christophe Tzourio,Richard Abraham,Carmen Antúnez,Yangchun Du,Jerome I. Rotter,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Tamara B. Harris,Ronald C. Petersen,Claudine Berr,Michael John Owen,Jesús López-Arrieta,Badri N. Varadarajan,James T. Becker,Fernando Rivadeneira,Mike A. Nalls,Neill R. Graff-Radford,Dominique Campion,Sanford Auerbach,Kenneth Rice,Albert Hofman,Palmi V. Jonsson,Helena Schmidt,Mark Lathrop,Thomas H. Mosley,Rhoda Au,Bruce M. Psaty,André G. Uitterlinden,Lindsay A. Farrer,Thomas Lumley,Agustín Ruiz,Julie Williams,Philippe Amouyel,Steve G. Younkin,Philip A. Wolf,Lenore J. Launer,Oscar L. Lopez,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Monique M.B. Breteler +62 more
TL;DR: Although CLU and PICALM were confirmed to be associated with AD in this independent sample, they did not improve the ability of a model that included age, sex, and APOE to predict incident AD.
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Nomenclature and research case definitions for neurologic manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 (HIV-1) infection
Robert S. Janssen,David R. Cornblath,Leon G. Epstein,Richard P. Foa,Justin C. McArthur,Richard W. Price,Arthur K. Asbury,Alexandra Beckett,D. Frank Benson,T.Peter Bridge,Carl M. Leventhal,Paul Satz,Andrew J. Saykin,John J. Sidtis,Susan Tross,James T. Becker,Kenneth G. Castro,Bruce A. Cohen,Marshall F. Folstein,Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano,Igor Grant,Mario Maj,R. H. McAllister,M.-Marsel Mesulam,Eric N. Miller,Margaret J. Oxtoby,Norman Sartorius,Ola A. Selnes,Janet B. W. Williams,Michael Zaudig +29 more
TL;DR: These definitions have been developed in conjunction with the International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10, unpublished draft of the World Health Organization) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV, unpublishedDraft of the American Psychiatric Association) and are not identical.
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Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease
Rebecca Sims,Sven J. van der Lee,Adam C. Naj,Céline Bellenguez,Céline Bellenguez,Nandini Badarinarayan,Johanna Jakobsdottir,Brian W. Kunkle,Anne Boland,Rachel Raybould,Joshua C. Bis,Eden R. Martin,Benjamin Grenier-Boley,Benjamin Grenier-Boley,Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach,Vincent Chouraki,Vincent Chouraki,Amanda B. Kuzma,Kristel Sleegers,Kristel Sleegers,Maria Vronskaya,Agustín Ruiz,Robert R. Graham,Robert Olaso,Per Hoffmann,Per Hoffmann,Megan L. Grove,Badri N. Vardarajan,Mikko Hiltunen,Markus M. Nöthen,Charles C. White,Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson,Jacques Epelbaum,Wolfgang Maier,Wolfgang Maier,Seung Hoan Choi,Gary W. Beecham,Cécile Dulary,Stefan Herms,Stefan Herms,Albert V. Smith,Cory C. Funk,Céline Derbois,Andreas J. Forstner,Shahzad Ahmad,Hong-Dong Li,Delphine Bacq,Denise Harold,Claudia L. Satizabal,Claudia L. Satizabal,Otto Valladares,Alessio Squassina,Rhodri Thomas,Jennifer A. Brody,Liming Qu,Pascual Sánchez-Juan,Taniesha Morgan,Frank J. Wolters,Yi Zhao,Florentino Sanchez Garcia,Nicola Denning,Myriam Fornage,John Malamon,Maria Candida Deniz Naranjo,Elisa Majounie,Thomas H. Mosley,Beth A. Dombroski,David Wallon,Michelle K. Lupton,Michelle K. Lupton,Josée Dupuis,Patrice L. Whitehead,Laura Fratiglioni,Laura Fratiglioni,Christopher Medway,Xueqiu Jian,Shubhabrata Mukherjee,Lina Keller,Kristelle Brown,Honghuang Lin,Laura B. Cantwell,Francesco Panza,Bernadette McGuinness,Sonia Moreno-Grau,Jeremy D. Burgess,Vincenzo Solfrizzi,Petra Proitsi,Hieab H.H. Adams,Mariet Allen,Davide Seripa,Pau Pastor,L. Adrienne Cupples,L. Adrienne Cupples,Nathan D. Price,Didier Hannequin,Ana Frank-García,Ana Frank-García,Daniel Levy,Daniel Levy,Paramita Chakrabarty,Paolo Caffarra,Paolo Caffarra,Ina Giegling,Alexa S. Beiser,Alexa S. Beiser,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Harald Hampel,Harald Hampel,Melissa E. Garcia,Xue Wang,Lars Lannfelt,Patrizia Mecocci,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Paul K. Crane,Florence Pasquier,Florence Pasquier,Virginia Boccardi,Isabel Henández,Robert Barber,Martin Scherer,Lluís Tárraga,Perrie M. Adams,Markus Leber,Yuning Chen,Marilyn S. Albert,Steffi G. Riedel-Heller,Valur Emilsson,Duane Beekly,Anne Braae,Reinhold Schmidt,Deborah Blacker,Carlo Masullo,Helena Schmidt,Rachelle S. Doody,Gianfranco Spalletta,W. T. Longstreth,Thomas Fairchild,Paola Bossù,Oscar L. Lopez,Matthew P. Frosch,Eleonora Sacchinelli,Bernardino Ghetti,Qiong Yang,Ryan M. Huebinger,Frank Jessen,Frank Jessen,Frank Jessen,Shuo Li,M. Ilyas Kamboh,John C. Morris,Oscar Sotolongo-Grau,Mindy J. Katz,Chris Corcoran,Melanie L. Dunstan,Amy Braddel,Charlene Thomas,Alun Meggy,Rachel Marshall,Amy Gerrish,Jade Chapman,Miquel Aguilar,Sarah Taylor,Matt Hill,Monica Diez Fairen,Angela Hodges,Bruno Vellas,Hilkka Soininen,Iwona Kłoszewska,Makrina Daniilidou,James Uphill,Yogen Patel,Joseph T. Hughes,Jenny Lord,James Turton,Annette M. Hartmann,Roberta Cecchetti,Chiara Fenoglio,Maria Serpente,Marina Arcaro,Carlo Caltagirone,Maria Donata Orfei,Antonio Ciaramella,Sabrina Pichler,Manuel Mayhaus,Wei Gu,Alberto Lleó,Juan Fortea,Rafael Blesa,Imelda Barber,Keeley J. Brookes,Chiara Cupidi,Raffaele Maletta,David Carrell,Sandro Sorbi,Susanne Moebus,Maria Urbano,Alberto Pilotto,Johannes Kornhuber,Paolo Bosco,Stephen Todd,David Craig,Janet A. Johnston,Michael Gill,Brian A. Lawlor,Aoibhinn Lynch,Nick C. Fox,John Hardy,Roger L. Albin,Liana G. Apostolova,Liana G. Apostolova,Liana G. Apostolova,Steven E. Arnold,Sanjay Asthana,Craig S. Atwood,Clinton T. Baldwin,Lisa L. Barnes,Sandra Barral,Thomas G. Beach,James T. Becker,Eileen H. Bigio,Thomas D. Bird,Bradley F. Boeve,James Bowen,Adam L. Boxer,James R. Burke,Jeffrey M. Burns,Joseph D. Buxbaum,Nigel J. Cairns,Chuanhai Cao,Christopher S. Carlson,Cynthia M. Carlsson,Regina M. Carney,Minerva M. Carrasquillo,Steven L. Carroll,Carolina Ceballos Diaz,Helena C. Chui,David G. Clark,David G. Clark,David H. Cribbs,Elizabeth Crocco,Charles DeCarli,Malcolm B. Dick,Ranjan Duara,Denis A. Evans,Kelley Faber,Kenneth B. Fallon,David W. Fardo,Martin R. Farlow,Steven H. Ferris,Tatiana Foroud,Douglas Galasko,Marla Gearing,Daniel H. Geschwind,John R. Gilbert,Neill R. Graff-Radford,Robert C. Green,John H. Growdon,Ronald L. Hamilton,Lindy E. Harrell,Lawrence S. Honig,Matthew J. Huentelman,Christine M. Hulette,Bradley T. Hyman,Gail P. Jarvik,Erin L. Abner,Lee-Way Jin,Gyungah Jun,Anna Karydas,Jeffrey Kaye,Jeffrey Kaye,Ronald C. Kim,Neil W. Kowall,Joel H. Kramer,Frank M. LaFerla,James J. Lah,James B. Leverenz,Allan I. Levey,Ge Li,Andrew P. Lieberman,Kathryn L. Lunetta,Constantine G. Lyketsos,Daniel C. Marson,Frank Martiniuk,Deborah C. Mash,Eliezer Masliah,Wayne C. McCormick,Susan M. McCurry,Andrew McDavid,Ann C. McKee,M.-Marsel Mesulam,Bruce L. Miller,Carol A. Miller,Joshua W. Miller,Jill R. Murrell,Amanda J. Myers,Sid E. O'Bryant,John M Olichney,Vernon S. Pankratz,Joseph E. Parisi,Henry L. Paulson,William Perry,Elaine R. Peskind,Aimee Pierce,Wayne W. Poon,Huntington Potter,Joseph F. Quinn,Joseph F. Quinn,Ashok Raj,Murray A. Raskind,Barry Reisberg,Christiane Reitz,John M. Ringman,Erik D. Roberson,Ekaterina Rogaeva,Howard J. Rosen,Roger N. Rosenberg,Mark A. Sager,Andrew J. Saykin,Julie A. Schneider,Lon S. Schneider,William W. Seeley,Amanda Smith,Joshua A. Sonnen,Salvatore Spina,Robert S. Stern,Russell H. Swerdlow,Rudolph E. Tanzi,Tricia A. Thornton-Wells,John Q. Trojanowski,Juan C. Troncoso,Vivianna M. Van Deerlin,Linda J. Van Eldik,Harry V. Vinters,Jean Paul G. Vonsattel,Sandra Weintraub,Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer,Kirk C. Wilhelmsen,Jennifer Williamson,Thomas S. Wingo,Randall L. Woltjer,Clinton B. Wright,Chang En Yu,Lei Yu,Fabienne Garzia,Feroze Golamaully,Gislain Septier,Sebastien Engelborghs,Rik Vandenberghe,Peter Paul De Deyn,Carmen Muñoz Fernadez,Yoland Aladro Benito,Håkan Thonberg,Charlotte Forsell,Lena Lilius,Anne Kinhult-Ståhlbom,Lena Kilander,RoseMarie Brundin,Letizia Concari,Letizia Concari,Seppo Helisalmi,Anne M. Koivisto,Annakaisa Haapasalo,Vincent Dermecourt,Nathalie Fievet,Olivier Hanon,Carole Dufouil,Carole Dufouil,Alexis Brice,Alexis Brice,Karen Ritchie,Bruno Dubois,Bruno Dubois,Jayanadra J. Himali,C. Dirk Keene,JoAnn T. Tschanz,Annette L. Fitzpatrick,Walter A. Kukull,Maria C. Norton,Thor Aspelund,Eric B. Larson,Eric B. Larson,Ronald G. Munger,Jerome I. Rotter,Richard B. Lipton,María J. Bullido,María J. Bullido,Albert Hofman,Thomas J. Montine,Eliecer Coto,Eric Boerwinkle,Eric Boerwinkle,Ronald C. Petersen,Victoria Alvarez,Fernando Rivadeneira,Eric M. Reiman,Maura Gallo,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Joan S. Reisch,Amalia C. Bruni,Donald R. Royall,Martin Dichgans,Martin Dichgans,Mary Sano,Daniela Galimberti,Peter St George-Hyslop,Peter St George-Hyslop,Elio Scarpini,Debby W. Tsuang,Michelangelo Mancuso,Ubaldo Bonuccelli,Ashley R. Winslow,Antonio Daniele,Chuang Kuo Wu,Oliver Peters,Benedetta Nacmias,Matthias Riemenschneider,Reinhard Heun,Carol Brayne,David C. Rubinsztein,Jose Bras,Jose Bras,Rita Guerreiro,Rita Guerreiro,Ammar Al-Chalabi,Christopher Shaw,John Collinge,David G. Mann,David G. Mann,Jordi Clarimón,Rebecca Sussams,Simon Lovestone,Michael Conlon O'Donovan,Michael John Owen,Timothy W. Behrens,Simon Mead,André G. Uitterlinden,André G. Uitterlinden,Carlos Cruchaga,Martin Ingelsson,David A. Bennett,John Powell,Todd E. Golde,Caroline Graff,Philip L. De Jager,Kevin Morgan,Nilufer Ertekin-Taner,Onofre Combarros,Bruce M. Psaty,Peter Passmore,Steven G. Younkin,Claudine Berr,Vilmundur Gudnason,Dan Rujescu,Dennis W. Dickson,Jean-François Dartigues,Anita L. DeStefano,Anita L. DeStefano,Sara Ortega-Cubero,Hakon Hakonarson,Dominique Campion,Mercè Boada,John K Kauwe,Lindsay A. Farrer,Christine Van Broeckhoven,Christine Van Broeckhoven,M. Arfan Ikram,Lesley Jones,Jonathan L. Haines,Christophe Tzourio,Lenore J. Launer,Lenore J. Launer,Valentina Escott-Price,Richard Mayeux,Jean-François Deleuze,Najaf Amin,Alison Goate,Margaret A. Pericak-Vance,Peter Holmans,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Alfredo Ramirez,Alfredo Ramirez,Li-San Wang,Jean-Charles Lambert,Jean-Charles Lambert,Sudha Seshadri,Sudha Seshadri,Julie Williams,Gerard D. Schellenberg +487 more
TL;DR: Three new genome-wide significant nonsynonymous variants associated with Alzheimer's disease are observed, providing additional evidence that the microglia-mediated innate immune response contributes directly to the development of Alzheimer's Disease.