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
Midlife Insulin Resistance as a Predictor for Late-Life Cognitive Function and Cerebrovascular Lesions (2019)
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Albuminuria and Microalbuminuria as Predictors of Cognitive Performance in a General Population: An 11-Year Follow-Up Study (2018)
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Keski-iän elämäntavat - ikkuna muistisairauden kehittymiselle? (2018)
Erikoislääkäri
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1))
Insulin resistance, cognition, and brain amyloid accumulation : an epidemiological and a positron emission tomography study (2018)
(Artikkeliväitöskirja (G5))Midlife insulin resistance, APOE genotype, and late-life brain amyloid accumulation (2018)
Neurology
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Albuminuria and Microalbuminuria as Predictors of Cognitive Performance in a General Population: An 11-Year Follow-Up Study (2018)
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Insulin Resistance Predicts Cognitive Decline: An 11-Year Follow-up of a Nationally Representative Adult Population Sample (2017)
Diabetes Care
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Response to Comment by Ayubi and Safiri. Insulin Resistance Predicts Cognitive Decline: An 11-Year Follow-up of a Nationally Representative Adult Population Sample. Diabetes Care 2017;40:751-758 (2017)
Diabetes Care
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Insulin resistance is associated with poorer verbal fluency performance in women (2015)
Diabetologia
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))