Dr. Steven T Dekosky MD
Neurologist | Neurology
Uva Primary Care Ctr Lee Street, 1st Floo Charlottesville VA, 22908About
He has served on and led numerous NIH review and advisory committees, and taught and mentored in clinical research training programs sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National ...
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- 1979
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The temporal relationship between depressive symptoms and dementia: a community-based prospective study.
- Genetic polymorphism in the persyn (gamma-synuclein) gene and the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
- One-year study of spatial memory performance, brain morphology, and cholinergic markers after moderate controlled cortical impact in rats.
- A novel mutation in the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE*4 Pittsburgh) is associated with the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
- Small head size is related to low Mini-Mental State Examination scores in a community sample of nondemented older adults.
- Differential effects of traumatic brain injury on vesicular acetylcholine transporter and M2 muscarinic receptor mRNA and protein in rat.
- Neutrophils do not mediate blood-brain barrier permeability early after controlled cortical impact in rats.
- Psychiatric medication and abnormal behavior as predictors of progression in probable Alzheimer disease.
- Accuracy of four clinical diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative dementias.
- PET imaging of serotonin type 2A receptors in late-life neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Ten-year incidence of dementia in a rural elderly US community population: the
- Predictors of progression in patients with AD and Lewy bodies.
- Severity of cognitive impairment and the clinical diagnosis of AD with Lewy bodies.
- Promoting interactions with basic scientists and clinicians: the NIA Alzheimer's Disease Data Coordinating Center.
- Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and Alzheimer disease: The Indo-US Cross-National Dementia Study.
Fellowships
- Neurochemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA 1978
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