Below find selected scholarly publications featuring research conducted by Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center investigators.

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2004 (Web page)
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2006

Aggarwal NT, Bienias JL, Bennett DA, Wilson RS, Morris MC, Schneider JA, Shah RC, Evans DA. The Relation of Cigarette Smoking to Incident Alzheimer’s Disease in a Biracial Urban Population. Neuroepidemiology 2006; 26:140-146

Aggarwal NT, Wilson RS, Beck TL, Bienias JL, and Bennett DA. Motor dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment and risk of incident Alzheimer’s disease. Archives of Neurology in press.

Arvanitakis A, Schneider JA, Wilson RS, Li Y, Arnold SE, Wang Z, Bennett DA. Diabetes is related to Cerebral infarction but not to AD pathology in older persons. Neurology in press.

Arvanitakis Z, Wilson RS, Bennett DA. Diabetes mellitus, dementia, and cognitive function in older persons. J Nutr Health Aging 2006; 10(4):287-91.

Arvanitakis Z, Wilson RS, Li Y, Aggarwal NT, Bennett DA. Diabetes and function in different cognitive systems in older individuals without dementia. Diabetes Care. 2006: 29 (3):560-5

Barnes LL, Boyle P, Schneider JA, Bienias JL, Bennett DA. Memory complaints are related to Alzheimer disease pathology in older persons. Neurology, In press.

Barnes LL, Schneider JA, Boyle PA, Bienias JL, Bennett DA. Memory complaints are related to Alzheimer’s disease pathology in older persons. Neurology 2006. In press.

Barnes LL, Wilson RS, Bienias JL, Mendes de Leon CF, Kim HN, Buchman AS, Bennett DA. Correlates of Life Space in a volunteer cohort of older adults. Experimental Aging Research, In Press.

Barnes LL, Wilson RS, Li Y, Gilley DW, Bennett DA, Evans DA. Change in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans and white persons. Neuroepidemiology, 2006;26:16-22.

Barnes LL, Wilson RS, Mendes de Leon CF, Bennett DA. The relation of lifetime cognitive activity and lifetime access to resources to late-life cognitive function in older African Americans. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. 2006;13:516-528.

Bell KFS, Ducatenzeiler A, Ribeiro-da-Silva A, Duff K, Shigemoto R, Bennett DA, and Cuello AC. The Alzheimer’s disease-like amyloid pathology progresses in a neurotransmitter-specific manner. Neurobiology of Aging 2006;in press.

Bennett DA, Schneider JA, Aggarwal NT, Arvanitakis Z, Shah R, Kelly JF, Fox JH, Cochran EJ, Arends D, Treinkman A, Wilson RS. Prediction rules guiding the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in two community-based cohort studies compared to standard practice in a clinic-based cohort study. Neuroepidemiology in press.

Bennett DA, Schneider JA, Arnold SE, Tang Y, Wilson RS. The effect of social networks on the relation between Alzheimer’s disease pathology and level of cognitive function in old people: a longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Neurology 2006;5:406-412.

Bennett DA, Schneider JA, Arvanitakis Z, Kelly JF, Aggarwal NT, Shah RC, Wilson RS. Neuropathology of older persons without cognitive impairment from two community-based studies. Neurology 2006;66:1837-1844.

Boyle, PA, Wilson, RS, Aggarwal, NT, Arvanitakis, Z, Kelly, J, Bienias, JL and Bennett, D.A. Parkinsonian Signs in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment. Neurology 2006;65:1901-1906.

Boyle PA, Wilson RS, Aggarwal NT, Tang Y, and Bennett DA. Risk of Alzheimer’s disease and rate of cognitive decline among persons with mild cognitive impairment. Neurology 2006;67:441-445.

Buchman AS, Schneider JA, Wilson RS, Bienias JL, and Bennett DA. Body mass index in older persons is associated with Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Neurology in press.

Fleischman DA, Wilson RS, Schneider JA, Bienias JL, and Bennett DA. Parkinsonian Signs and Functional Disability in Old Age. Experimental Aging Research. Volume 33(2). In press.

Gauthier S, Reisberg B, Zaudig M, Peterson R, Ritchie K, Broich K, Belleville S, Brodaty H, Bennett DA, Chertkow H, Cummings JL, Feldman H, Ganguli M, Hampel H, Scheltens P, Tierney M, Whitehouse P, Winblad B, on behalf of the participants of the IPA Conference on MCI. Mild cognitive impairment. The Lancet 2006;367:1262-1270.

Grundman M, Petersen RC, Bennett DA, Feldman H, Salloway S, Jelle Visser P, Thal LJ, Schenk D, Khachaturian Z, Thies W for the Alzheimer’s Association Research Roundtable. Alzheimer Association Research Roundtable Meeting on Mild Cognitive Impairment: What have we learned? Alzheimer’s & Dementia 2006;2:220-233.

Kelly JF, Shah A, Storie K, Meeke KA, Bienias JL, Soriano E, and Bennett DA. Levels of estrogen receptors ? and ? in frontal cortex of patients with Alzheimer’s disease: Relationship to mini-mental state examination scores. Current Alzheimer’s Research. In press.

Koliatsos VE, Kecojevic A, Troncoso JC, Gastard MC, Bennett DA, Schneider JA. Early involvement of small inhibitory cortical interneurons in Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica 2006;112:147-162.

Krueger, K.R., Chow, C.S., & Wilson, R.S. (2006). The Word Accentuation Test-Chicago. The Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28(7): 1201-7.

Krueger KR, Wilson RS, Shah RC, Tang Y, Bennett DA. Personality and incident disability in older persons. Age Ageing. 2006; 35(4): 428-433.

Medina D, deToldeo-Morrell L, Urresta F, Gabrieli JDE, Moseley ME, Turner DA, Fleischman D, Bennett DA, Stebbins GT. White matter changes in mild cognitive impairment and AD: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Neurobiology of Aging 2006;27:663-672.

Morris MC, Evans DA, Tangney CC, Bienias JL. Associations of vegetable and fruit consumption with age-related cognitive change. Neurology (In press)

Morris MC, Evans DA, Tangney CC, Bienias JL, Schneider JA, Wilson RS, Scherr PA. Dietary copper in conjunction with high saturated/trans fats associated with cognitive decline. Arch of Neurology 2006: 63:1085-1088.

Morris MC, Evans DA, Schneider JA, Tangney CC, Bienias JL, Aggarwal NT. Dietary folate and vitamins B-12not associated with incident Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 2006;9:435-443.

Morris MC, Schneider JA, Tangney CC. Invited Commentary: Thoughts on B-Vitamins. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 2006; 9:429-433.

Park M, Comella CL, Leurgans SE, Fan W, Wilson RS, and Bennett DA. Association of sleep abnormalities and motor signs in Alzheimer’s disease. Sleep Medicine 2006;in press.

Schipper HM, Bennett DA, Lieberman A, Bienias JL, Schneider JA, Kelly JF, Arvanitakis Z. Heme oxygenase-1 expression in MCI and early AD. Neurobiology of Aging 2006;27:252-261.

Schneider JA, Li JL, Li Y, Wilson RS, Kordower JH, and Bennett DA. Neurofibrillary tangles in the substantia nigra are related to gait impairment in older persons. Annals of Neurology 2006;59:166-173.

Schneider JA, Tangney CC, Morris MC. Folic Acid and Cognition in older persons. Expert Opinion Drug Safety 2006: 5:511-522

Shah RC, Wilson RS, Bienias JL, Arvanitakis Z, Evans DA, Bennett DA. Blood pressure and risk of incident Alzheimer’s disease and change in global cognitive function in older persons. Neuroepidemiology. 2006;26(1):30-36.

Shah RC, Wilson RS, Bienias JL, Arvanitakis Z, Evans DA, Bennett DA. Blood pressure and lower limb function in older adults. The Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. 2006;61:839-843

Shah RC, Wilson RS, Bienias JL, Arvanitakis Z, Evans DA, Bennett DA. Effect of blood pressure on incident Alzheimer’s disease and change in global cognitive function in older persons. Neuroepidemiol 2006;26:30-6.

Stoub TR, deToledo-Morrell L, Stebbins GT, Leurgans S, Bennett DA, Shah RC, Turner DA. Hippocampal disconnection contributes to the memory dysfunction in individuals at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2006;103:10041-10045.

Wilson RS, Arnold SE, Schneider JA, Bienias JL, Bennett DA. Chronic distress, age-related neuropathology, and cognitive impairment in old age. Psychosomatic Medicine in press.

Wilson RS, Arnold SE, Schneider JA, Kelly JF, Tang Y, and Bennett DA. Chronic psychological distress and risk of Alzheimer’s disease in old age. Neuroepidemiology in press.

Wilson RS, Arnold SE, Tang Y, and Bennett DA. Odor identification and decline in different cognitive domains in old age. Neuroepidemiology 2006;26:61-67.

Wilson RS, Buchman AS, Arnold SE, Shah R, Tang Y, and Bennett DA. Harm avoidance and disability in old age. Experimental Aging Research 2006;32:243-261.

Wilson RS, Krueger KR, Arnold SE, Schneider JA, Kelly JF, Barnes LL, Tang Y, Bennett DA. Loneliness and risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Archives of General Psychiatry, In press.

Wilson RS, Krueger KR, Arnold SE, Barnes LL, Mendes de Leon CF, Bienias JL, Bennett DA. Childhood adversity and psychosocial adjustment in old age. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2006;14:307-315.

Wilson, R.S., Krueger, K.R., Gu, L., Bienias, J.L., Mendes de Leon, C.F., Evans, D.A. Neuroticism, extraversion, and mortality in a defined population of older persons. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2006;67(6): 841-5.

Wilson RS, Li Y, Aggarwal NT, McCann JJ, Gilley DW, Bienias JL, Barnes LL, Evans DA. Cognitive decline and survival in Alzheimer’s disease. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2006;21:356-362.

Wilson RS, Li Y, Bienias JL, and Bennett DA. Cognitive Decline in Old Age: Separating Practice Effects from the Effects of Growing Older. Psychology & Aging in press.

Woodruff BK, Graff-Radford NR, Ferman TJ, Dickson DW, DeLucia MW, Crook JE. Arvanitakis Z, Brassler S, Waters C, Barker W, Duara R. Family history of dementia is a risk factor for Lewy body dementia. Neurology 2006;66:1949-50.