Imaging Seminar Series with the Center for Alzheimer Research
Join us as we discuss the latest brain imaging research. We host an imaging seminar every month, typically the last Friday of the month, over zoom with two researchers discussing their work. Welcome!
Please join us on Zoom:
Seminars spring 2025
February 28 at 13.00 - 14.00
Theme: Synaptic density imaging
Elijah Mak, Mayo Clinic, USA
"Mapping synaptic density using UCBJ PET imaging in neurodegenerative conditions: an overview"
Annette Johansen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
"Creation of an in vivo high-resolution human brain atlas of synaptic density"
March 28 at 13.00 - 14.00
Theme: The Olfactory System - from Perception to Disease
Putu Agus Khorisantono, 探花精选
"A Common Neural Code for Tastes and Odours in the Human Insula"
Beno卯t Jobin, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Trois-Rivi猫res, Canada
"Early Olfactory System Neurodegeneration as a Marker for Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease"
Save the date for upcoming spring seminars 2025:
- April 25 - no April seminar!
- May 16 at 13-14
- June 13 at 13-14
Seminars fall 2024
September 23 at 13-14 (Monday)
Theme: Neural mechanisms linked to vascular burden
Matthijs Biesbroek, UMC Utrecht and Diakonessenhuis Hospital, The Netherlands
"WMH locations associated with vascular risk factors and amyloid pathology"
Catarina Trist茫o Pereira Mass General Hospital, USA
"Longitudinal interplay between subclinical atherosclerosis, cardiovascular risk factors and cerebral glucose metabolism in midlife 鈥 the PESA study"
October 25 at 13-14
Theme: Networks in Neurology
Tanmayee Samantaray, 探花精选
"Can a brain network be encoded?"
Silvia Basaia, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy
"Brain connectivity networks constructed using MRI for predicting patterns of atrophy progression in Parkinson鈥檚 disease"
November 29 at 13-14
Theme: Morphometric heterogeneity in aging and AD
Giulia Lorenzon, 探花精选
"Brain heterogeneity within aging and cognitive impairment: implications for precision medicine and prevention"
Wiesje Pelkmans, Barcelona尾eta Brain Research Center, Spain
"Neurobiological correlates of grey matter morphometry changes in preclinical Alzheimer鈥檚 disease"
December 13 at 11-12
Theme: Alpha-rhythms & cognition
Natalie Schaworonkow, Ernst-Str眉ngmann-Institute for Neuroscience, Germany
"Is sensor space analysis good enough? Spatial patterns as a tool for assessing spatial mixing of EEG/MEG rhythms"
Niloufar Zebarjadi, 探花精选
"Alpha-rhythms in empathy: neural mechanisms and variability across individuals"
Seminars spring 2024
Wednesday January 24 from 15.00 - 16.00
Stockholm time zone, online seminar on zoom:
Seminar theme: Quantification of small vessel disease markers
Erin Gibson, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Kanada
"SynthSegCSVD: Enhanced quantification of key neuroimaging markers of cerebral small vessel disease"
Friday February 23 at 13-14
Linking pathology and brain atrophy
Daniel Kor, University of Oxford, UK
"Understanding the histological basis of MRI"
Niels Reijner, Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands
"Clinical phenotypes of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease: atrophy patterns and their pathological correlates"
Friday March 22 at 13-14
Seminar theme: Machine/deep learning applications in neuroimaging
Evangelos Galaris, 探花精选
"Identifying spatial patterns of white matter hyperintensities using spectral clustering"
Farshad Falahati, 探花精选
"SynthSegCSVD: Enhanced quantification of key neuroimaging markers of cerebral small vessel disease"
Friday April 26 at 13-14
Reaching the hippocampus
Elva Arulchelvan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
"Stimulating the hippocampus via a locus coeruleus-noradrenaline (LC-NA) pathway: A peripheral nerve stimulation approach"
Katharina Klink, UPD APP Bern, Switzerland
"Targeting hippocampal hyperactivity in mild cognitive impairment with real-time fMRI neurofeedback"
Friday May 24 at 13-14
Theme: Linking brain imaging to plasma biomarkers
Marina Bluma, 探花精选
"Profiling plasma biomarkers in memory clinic patients"
Laura Ekblad, University of Turku, Finland
"Imaging and blood biomarkers of neuroinflammation and beta-amyloid in APOE4 homozygotes, heterozygotes and non-carriers"
Friday June 14 at 13-14
Theme: Imaging in subjective & early cognitive decline
Lidia Mulet Pons, University of Barcelona, Spain
"Cognitive dispersion in structural and functional brain connectivity: Implications of subjective cognitive complaints in healthy adults"
Michael Lassi, Sant鈥橝nna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
"Characterizing Early Stages of Cognitive Decline Through EEG Microstates Dynamics"
Seminars, fall 2023
August 25 at 1 pm
Czech Technical University, Czech Republic and KI
"Basal Forebrain, Cholinergic White Matter Pathways and Cognition in Normal Aging and Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease"
Niels Okkels, Aarhus University, Denmark
"Cholinergic changes in the brain and abdominal organs in dementia with Lewy bodies"
September 29 at 10 am (please not the time!)
Lyduine Collij, Lund University
"Disease heterogeneity in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease: spatial-temporal subtypes in amyloid pathology based on PET imaging"
探花精选
"Weighted gene co-expression network analysis detects changes in the peripheral blood transcriptome in asymptomatic Alzheimer鈥檚 disease"
October 27 at 1 pm
Jessica Samuelsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
"Associations between dietary patterns and dementia-related neuroimaging markers"
Laura Stankeviciute, BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center, Spain
"Sleep in preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease: A multimodal biomarkers approach"
November 24 at 1 pm
Jos茅 Paredes Pacheco, University of M谩laga, Spain
"An online platform for the Monte Carlo simulation of realistic brain PET data: SimPET"
Francisco Javier L贸pez, Fundaci贸n CIEN, Spain
"Quantification methods of PET biomarkers in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease"
December 15 at 1 pm
13.00 to 14.00, Stockholm time zone, online seminar on zoom:
Luigi Lorenzini, Amsterdam UMC, The Nederlands
"Interaction of amyloid and vascular factors in preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease"
Marco D眉ring, University of Basel, Switzerland
"Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease 鈥 STRIVE-2"
Seminars, spring 2023
February 24 at 1 pm
KI
"Deciphering the interplay between reactive astrogliosis and tau pathology in 4R tauopathies"
Kevin Oliveira Hauer, Lunds universitet
"Performance of [18F]RO948 PET, MRI and CSF neurofilament light in the differential diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy"
March 27 at 1 pm
KI
"MRI data-driven clustering reveals different subtypes of Dementia with Lewy bodies"
Han Soo Yoo, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
"Multitracer PET imaging to evaluate dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)"
April 28 at 1 pm
KI
鈥淒ecoding the heterogeneity of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease diagnosis & progression using multilayer networks鈥
Anthipa Chokesuwattanaskul, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
The architecture of abnormal reward behaviour in dementia鈥
May 26 at 1 pm
KI
鈥淧re-clinical validation of SV2A-PET tracer UCB-J for detecting synaptic loss in AD and PSP鈥
Stephen Carter, University of Cambridge
鈥淓MIF PreclinAD: dementia biomarkers, longitudinal cognitive trajectories and brain resilience in cognitively unimpaired elderly鈥
June 30 at 1 pm
KI
"Understanding complex walking in Parkinson's disease, from gait analysis to neuroimaging"
Rodrigo Vitorio, Northumbria University
"The control of walking in Parkinson's disease: illuminating mechanisms and interventions with fNIRS"
Seminars 2022
December 16 at 1 pm
Annemieke ter Telgte, VASCage, Austria
鈥淥n the origin of cerebral small vessel disease鈥
November 25 at 1 pm
KI
(Dis-)connected Dots in Dementia with Lewy Bodies 鈥 A Systematic Review of Connectivity Studies
Ramtin Mehraram, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lewy body dementia: EEG-network biomarkers and visual hallucinations
October 28 at 1 pm
Anna Dewenter, Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research
The effects of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and cerebral small vessel disease on white matter fiber tracts
Nira Cedres, University Fernando Pessoa-Canarias
Association between cerebrovascular and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers and the degeneration of the cholinergic system
September 30 at 1 pm
Yuanjing Li, KI
Thalamic gray matter volume mediates the association between KIBRA polymorphism and olfactory function among older adults
Olof Lindberg, KI
Reduced blood oxygen dependent signal in the anterior cingulate cortex and the anterior insula in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia when viewing images of hands in painful situations
August 26 at 1 pm
Marco Bucci, KI
Levels of plasma neurofilament light alone or in combination with pTau-181 predict for steeper cognitive decline in Typical AD and Hippocampal-sparing subtype but not in Limbic-predominant AD subtype
Konstantinos Chiotis, KI
Tracking reactive astrocytes in autosomal dominant Alzheimer鈥檚 disease with plasma GFAP and multi-modal PET
June 24 at 1 pm
Goran Papenberg, KI
Aging-related losses in fronto-striatal dopamine D2 receptor availability is linked to working-memory decline across five years
Alireza Salami, KI and Ume氓 University
Bi-phasic patterns of age-related differences in dopamine D1 receptors across the adult lifespan
May 27, at 1 pm
Einar August H酶gest酶l, University of Oslo
The brain age paradigm across neurodegenerative disorders
Daniel Vereb, KI
Directed connectivity networks across Alzheimer鈥檚 disease spectrum
April 29 at 1 pm
Laia Montoliu-Gaya, University of Gothenburg
Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid GFAP levels in Down syndrome and sporadic Alzheimer鈥檚 disease: a cross-sectional study
Bruno Robalo, University of Utrecht
Diffusion MRI harmonization enables joint-analysis of multicenter data of patients with cerebral small vessel disease
March 22 at 1 pm
Silvia Fanton, KI
NetPlotBrain: A Python package to easily create 3D network visualizations on a brain and its usage in pain neuroimaging
Didac Vidal Pineiro, University of Oslo
ggseg: visualization of brain statistics in R and applications in lifespan cognitive neuroscience
February 25 at 1 pm
Robin Pedersen, Ume氓 University
Inter-regional dopamine D1 co-variability reflects functional brain architecture
Jonatan Gustavsson, KI
Brain iron and the dopaminergic system: Links to cognition in aging
January 28 at 1 pm
Anna Canal Garc铆a, KI
Multiplex connectome changes across the Alzheimer鈥檚 disease spectrum using gray matter and amyloid data
Mite Mijalkov, KI
Directed brain connectivity identifies widespread functional network changes in Parkinson鈥檚 disease