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Rik Vandenberghe

Researcher at Allen Institute for Brain Science

Publications -  430
Citations -  26622

Rik Vandenberghe is an academic researcher from Allen Institute for Brain Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Frontotemporal dementia & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 355 publications receiving 21180 citations. Previous affiliations of Rik Vandenberghe include Northwestern University & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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Null mutations in progranulin cause ubiquitin-positive frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 17q21

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that FTDU-17 is caused by mutations in the gene coding for progranulin (PGRN), a growth factor involved in multiple physiological and pathological processes including tumorigenesis, and evidence that P GRN haploinsufficiency leads to neurodegeneration because of reduced PGRN-mediated neuronal survival is provided.
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Functional anatomy of a common semantic system for words and pictures

TL;DR: This study studied the functional anatomy of semantic processing by using positron-emission tomography to contrast activity during two semantic tasks (probing knowledge of associations between concepts, and knowledge of the visual attributes of these concepts), performed either with words or with pictures.
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Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

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- 01 Sep 2017 - 
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.