Selection (link to full list of publications provided in section "People")
McAleese KE, Walker L, Colloby SJ, Taylor JP, Thomas AJ, DeCarli C, Attems J (2018). Cortical tau pathology: a major player in fibre-specific white matter reductions in Alzheimer's disease? Brain 2018 Jun 1;141(6):e44
Attems J, Jellinger K (2018). Proteomics for synaptic markers for cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases. Brain Feb 1;141(2):329-331.
Erskine D, Ding J, Thomas AJ, Kaganovich A, Khundakar AA, Hanson PS, Taylor JP, McKeith IG, Attems J, Cookson MR, Morris CM (2018). Molecular changes in the absence of severe pathology in the puvinar in dementia with Lewy bodies. Movement Disorders [Epub ahead of print]
Thomas AJ, Mahin-Babaei F, Saidi M, Lett D, Taylor JP, Walker L, Attems J (2018). Improving the identification of dementia with Lewy bodies in the context of an Alzheimer's-type dementia. Alzheimer's Research and Therapy 1;10(1):27.
Erskine D, Patterson L, Alexandris A, Hanson PS, McKeith IG, Attems J, Morris CM (2017) Regional levels of physiological α-synuclein are directly associated with Lewy body pathology. Acta Neuropathologica, 2018 Jan;135(1):153-154..
McAleese KE, Walker L, Graham S, Moya ELJ, Johnson M, Erskine D, Colloby S, Dey M, Martin-Ruiz C, Taylor JP, Thomas AJ, McKeith IG, DeCarli C, Attems J (2017) Parietal white matter lesions in Alzheimer's disease are associated with cortical neurodegenerative pathology and not small vessel disease. Acta Neuropathologica, 134(3):459-473.
Walker L, McAleese KE, Johnson M, Khundakar AA, Erskine D, Thomas AJ, McKeith IG, Attems J (2017) Quantitative neuriopathology:an update on automated methodologies and implications for large scale cohorts. Journal of Neural Transmission 124(6):671-683.
Attems J (2017) Alzheimer's disease pathology in synucleinopathies. Lancet Neurol 16:22-23.
Thomas AJ, Attems J, Colloby SJ, O'Brien JT, McKeith I, Walker R, Lee L, Burn D, Lett DJ, Walker Z (2016) Autopsy validation of 123I-FP-CIT dopaminergic neuroimaging for the diagnosis of DLB. Neurology [Epub ahead of print].
Skrobot OA, Attems J, Esiri M, Hortobagyi T, Ironside J, Kalaria RN, King A, Lammie GA, Mann D, Neal J, Ben-Shlomo Y, Kehoe PG, Love S (2016) Vascular Cognitive Impairment Neuropathology Guidelines (VCING) - a UK multi-centre consensus study. Brain [Epub ahead of print].
McAleese KE, Walker L, Erskine D, Thomas AJ, McKeith IG, Attems J (2016) TDP-43 pathology in Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and ageing. Brain Pathol [Epub ahead of print].
Erskine D, Thomas AJ, Attems J, Taylor JP, McKeith IG, Morris CM, Khundakar AA (2016) Specific patterns of neuronal loss in the pulvinar nucleus in dementia with Lewy bodies. Mov Disord in press.
Keogh MJ, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Griffin H, Douroudis K, Ayers KL, Hussein RI, Hudson G, Pyle A, Cordell HJ, Attems J, McKeith IG, O'Brien JT, Burn DJ, Morris CM, Thomas AJ, Chinnery PF (2016) Exome sequencing in dementia with Lewy bodies. Transl Psychiatry 6:e728.
Bereczki E, Francis PT, Howlett D, Pereira JB, Höglund K, Bogstedt A, Cedazo-Minguez A, Baek JH, Hortobágyi T, Attems J, Ballard C, Aarsland D (2016) Synaptic proteins predict cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia. Alzheimers Dement 12:1149-58.
Khundakar AA, Hanson PS, Erskine D, Lax NZ, Roscamp J, Karyka E, Tsefou E, Singh P, Cockell SJ, Gribben A, Ramsay L, Blain PJ, Mosimann UP, Lett DJ, Elstner M, Turnbull DM, Xiang CC, Brownstein MJ, O'Brien JT, Taylor JP, Attems J, Thomas AJ, McKeith IG, Morris CM (2016) Analysis of primary visual cortex in dementia with Lewy bodies indicates GABAergic involvement associated with recurrent complex visual hallucinations. Acta Neuropathol Commun 4:66.
McAleese KE, Alafuzoff I, Charidimou A, De Reuck J, Grinberg LT, Hainsworth AH, Hortobagyi T, Ince P, Jellinger K, Gao J, Kalaria RN, Kovacs GG, Kovari E, Love S, Popovic M, Skrobot O, Taipa R, Thal DR, Werring D, Wharton SB, Attems J (2016) Post-mortem assessment in vascular dementia: advances and aspirations. BMC Med 14:129.
Erskine D, Taylor JP, Firbank MJ, Patterson L, Onofrj M, O'Brien JT, McKeith IG, Attems J, Thomas AJ, Morris CM, Khundakar AA (2016) Changes to the lateral geniculate nucleus in Alzheimer's disease but not dementia with Lewy bodies. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 42:366-76.
McAleese K, Firbank M, Dey M, Colloby SJ, Walker L, Johnson M, Beverley JR, Taylor JP, Thomas AJ, O'Brien JT, Attems J (2015) Cortical tau load is associated with white matter hyperintensities. Acta Neuropathol Commun 3:60.
Walker L, McAleese KE, Thomas AJ, Johnson M, Martin-Ruiz C, Parker C, Colloby SJ, Jellinger K, Attems J (2015) Neuropathologically mixed Alzheimer's and Lewy body disease: burden of pathological protein aggregates differs between clinical phenotypes. Acta Neuropathol 129:729-48.
Tiraboschi P, Attems J, Thomas A, Brown A, Jaros E, Lett DJ, Ossola M, Perry RH, Ramsay L, Walker L, McKeith IG (2015) Clinicians' ability to diagnose dementia with Lewy bodies is not affected by β-amyloid load. Neurology 84:496-9.
Attems J, Walker L, Jellinger KA (2014) Olfactory bulb involvement in neurodegenerative diseases. Acta Neuropathol 127:459-75.
Mandler M, Walker L, Santic R, Hanson P, Upadhaya AR, Colloby SJ, Morris CM, Thal DR, Thomas AJ, Schneeberger A, Attems J (2014) Pyroglutamylated amyloid-beta is associated with hyperphosphorylated tau and severity of Alzheimer's disease. Acta Neuropathol 128:67-79.
Attems J, Neltner JH, Nelson PT (2014) Quantitative neuropathological assessment to investigate cerebral multi-morbidity. Alzheimers Res Ther 6:85
Attems J, Jellinger KA (2014) The overlap between vascular disease and Alzheimer's disease--lessons from pathology. BMC Med 12:206.
McAleese KE, Firbank M, Hunter D, Sun L, Hall R, Neal JW, Mann DM, Esiri M, Jellinger KA, O'Brien JT, Attems J (2013) Magnetic resonance imaging of fixed post-mortem brains reliably reflects subcortical vascular pathology of frontal, parietal and occipital white matter. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 39:485-97.
Attems J, Jellinger K (2013) Amyloid and tau: neither chicken nor egg but two partners in crime! Acta Neuropathol 126:619-21.
Attems J, Alpar A, Spence L, McParland S, Heikenwalder M, Uhlén M, Tanila H, Hökfelt TG, Harkany T (2012) Clusters of secretagogin-expressing neurons in aged human olfactory tract lack terminal differentiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:6259-64.
Perry EK, Johnson M, Ekonomou A, Perry RH, Ballard C, Attems J (2012) Neurogenic abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease differ between stages of neurogenesis and are partly related to cholinergic pathology. Neurobiol Dis 47:155-62.
Colloby SJ, McParland S, O'Brien JT, Attems J (2012) Neuropathological correlates of dopaminergic imaging in Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia. Brain 135:2798-808.