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Laura
Ekblad

Docent, Department of Clinical Medicine
MD, PhD
Specialist in Geriatrics and Family Medicine. Senior researcher, Turku Alzheimer Imaging Group, Turku PET Centre.

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Areas of expertise

positron emission tomography
Alzheimer´s Disease
Insulin resistance
cognition
memory disorders

Research

My research focuses on early risk factors for memory disorders, especially Alzheimer´s disease. I am particularly interested in the associations between metabolic risk factors (insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, obesity) and cognitive decline.

Our lab uses multimodal neuroimaging (PET-imaging, MRI) combined with blood and CSF biomarkers and cognitive testing to explore the association between different risk factors and early cerebral changes of memory disorders.

I also run a project that examines possible cardiac side effects of anti-dementia agents in elderly memory clinic patients. 

Publications

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Associations of lifestyle factors with amyloid pathology in persons without dementia (2025)

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Oomens, Julie E.; Vos, Stephanie J. B.; Maserejian, Nancy N.; Boada, Mercè; Didic, Mira; Engelborghs, Sebastiaan; Fladby, Tormod; van der Flier, Wiesje M.; Frisoni, Giovanni B.; Fröhlich, Lutz; Gill, Kiran Dip; Grimmer, Timo; Hort, Jakub; Itoh, Yoshiaki; Iwatsubo, Takeshi; Klimkowicz-Mrowiec, Aleksandra; Landau, Susan M.; Lee, Dong Young; Lleó, Alberto; Martinez-Lage, Pablo; de Mendonça, Alexandre; Meyer, Philipp T.; Parchi, Piero; Pardini, Matteo; Parnetti, Lucilla; Popp, Julius; Rami, Lorena; Reiman, Eric M.; Rinne, Juha O.; Rodrigue, Karen M.; Sánchez-Juan, Pascual; Santana, Isabel; Scarmeas, Nikolaos; Scheltens, Philip; Skoog, Ingmar; Sperling, Reisa A.; Stern, Yaakov; Villeneuve, Sylvia; Waldemar, Gunhild; Wiltfang, Jens; Zetterberg, Henrik; Alcolea, Daniel; Allegri, Ricardo F.; Altomare, Daniele; Bateman, Randall J.; Baiardi, Simone; Baldeiras, Ines; Blennow, Kaj; den Braber, Anouk; van Buchem, Mark A.; Byun, Min Soo; Cerman, Jiří; Chen, Kewei; Chipi, Elena; Day, Gregory S.; Drzezga, Alexander; Ekblad, Laura L.; Förster, Stefan; Fortea, Juan; Freund-Levi, Yvonne; Frings, Lars; Guedj, Eric; Habeck, Christian G.; Handels, Ron; Hausner, Lucrezia; Hellwig, Sabine; Jiménez-Bonilla, Julio F.; Juaristi, Ane Iriondo; Kandimalla, Ramesh; Kern, Silke; Bordewick Kirsebom, Bjørn-Eivind S.; Kornhuber, Johannes; Legdeur, Nienke; Levin, Johannes; Maier, Wolfgang; Marquié, Marta; Minatani, Shinobu; Morbelli, Silvia Daniela; Mroczko, Barbara; Ntanasi, Eva; de Oliveira, Catarina Resende; Orellana, Adelina; Peters, Oliver; Prabhakar, Sudesh; Ramakers, Inez H.; Rodríguez-Rodriguez, Eloy; Ruiz, Agustín; Rüther, Eckart; Sakhardande, Jayant; Selnes, Per; Silva, Dina; Soininen, Hilkka; Spiru, Luiza; Takeda, Akitoshi; Teunissen, Charlotte E.; Tijms, Betty M.; Vermunt, Lisa; Wallin, Åsa K.; Wiels, Wietse; Yannakoulia, Mary; Yi, Dahyun; Zettergren, Anna; Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI); A4 Study group; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN); European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia (EPAD) consortium, Fundació ACE Healthy Brain Initiative (FACEHBI); Japan Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (J-ADNI), Korean Brain Aging Study for the Early Diagnosis and Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease (KBASE); Presymptomatic Evaluation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (PREVENT-AD) research group; Ossenkoppele, Rik; Verhey, Frans R. J.; Visser, Pieter Jelle; Jansen, Willemijn J.
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Blood biomarkers of neurodegeneration associate differently with amyloid deposition, medial temporal atrophy, and cerebrovascular changes in APOE ε4-enriched cognitively unimpaired elderly (2024)

Alzheimer's Research and Therapy
Koivumäki Mikko, Ekblad Laura, Lantero-Rodriguez Juan, Ashton Nicholas J., Karikari Thomas K., Helin Semi, Parkkola Riitta, Lötjönen Jyrki, Zetterberg Henrik, Blennow Kaj, Rinne Juha O., Snellman Anniina
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )