White matter lesions
Spatial heterogeneity, links to risk factors, cognition, genetics, and atrophy
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- Received July 28, 2017
- Accepted in final form June 4, 2018
- First Published August 3, 2018.
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Author Disclosures
- Mohamad Habes, PhD,
- Aristeidis Sotiras, PhD,
- Guray Erus, PhD,
- Jon B. Toledo, MD,
- Deborah Janowitz, MD,
- David A. Wolk, MD,
- Haochang Shou, PhD,
- Nick R. Bryan, MD,
- Jimit Doshi, MSc,
- Henry Völzke, MD,
- Ulf Schminke, MD,
- Wolfgang Hoffmann, MD, MPH,
- Susan M. Resnick, PhD‡,
- Hans J. Grabe, MD‡ and
- Christos Davatzikos, PhD‡
- Mohamad Habes, PhD,
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NIH (grant no. 1RF1AG054409)
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Dr. Mohamad Habes was supported in part by ?Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach? foundation. This work has been supported in part by The Allen H. and Selma W. Berkman Charitable Trust (Accelerating Research on Vascular Dementia)
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- Aristeidis Sotiras, PhD,
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(1) Method and device for efficient parallel message computation for maximum a posteriori inference
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This work has been supported in part by NIH (grant no. 1RF1AG054409). Stock/Stock Options, Medical Equipment & Materials: (1) TheraPanacea (<1year)
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- Guray Erus, PhD,
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This work has been supported in part by NIH (grant no. 1RF1AG054409)
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- Jon B. Toledo, MD,
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Eli-Lilly
NIH
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- Deborah Janowitz, MD,
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- David A. Wolk, MD,
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1. GE Healthcare, meeting registration
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Merck Eli Lilly Janssen
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1. Eli Lilly, Inc 2. AVID Radiopharmaceuticals 3. Merck 4. Biogen 5. Functional Neuromodulation
1. NIH, AG040271, PI, 08/1/12-05/31/17 2. NIH, AG010124, Co-I, 09/30/90 - 06/30/16 3. NIH, EB016923, Co-I, 05/1/14 - 4/30/16 4. NIH, EB017255, Co-I, 08/01/2014 - 07/31/2019 5. NIH, AG047866, Co-I, 08/20/20015- 07/31/2019 6. NIH, AG024904, Site-PI, 09/30/2004 - 7/31/2016 7. NIH, AG055005, PI, 3/1/2017 - 2/28/2022 8. NIH, AG058065, MPI, 12/1/17 ? 11/30/22 9. NIH, AG054435, MPI, 04/01/17 ? 03/31/21 10. NIH, AG054409, MPI, 04/15/2017 ? 03/31/2022
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1. Michael J. Fox/Alzheimer?s Association 2. Alzheimer's Association
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- Haochang Shou, PhD,
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(1) Scientific reports, editorial member, 2015-present
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- Nick R. Bryan, MD,
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NIH; PI Longitudinal Studies of Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults; MRI Reading Center (CARDIA) 000501394-sc007, 2008-2017
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GalileoCDS, Inc; founder, board member; stock equity; 2015 Stock/Stock Options, Medical Equipment & Materials: GalileoCDS, Inc; founder, board member; stock equity; 2015
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- Jimit Doshi, MSc,
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- Henry Völzke, MD,
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- Ulf Schminke, MD,
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I received travel expenses and/or honoraria for lectures or educational activities not funded by industry and I received speaker?s honoraria from UCB Pharma GmbH, Germany.
Member of the Editorial board of Cerebrovascular Diseases and Journal of Clinical Ultrasound
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I received royalties from the publication of the book Podrecznik diagnostyki ultrasonograficznej w neurologii from Czelej Publisher, Poland, in 2011, and from the book SOP's Neurophysiologische Diagnostik from Thieme Publisher, Germany, in 2018.
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My research activities were funded Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany.
My research activities were funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (subaward #A08580 M10A10647), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (grant #03IS2061A), the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany.
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- Wolfgang Hoffmann, MD, MPH,
(1) non-profit External Scientific Advisory Board of the centralized Interdisciplinary Bank of Biomaterials and Data W?rzburg (ibdw) (2) External scientific Advisory Board Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS)
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commercial, monetary honorarium, speaker honorarium at Siemens Roadshow 2013, Roche Symposia on CRISP Lung Cancer Registry (total 4 times 2016-2018)
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(1)Federal ministry of Social Affairs of Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, Summative Evaluation Kif?g M-V, PI, 2012-2018; PI (2) Federal Ministry of Economy, Work and Health, Exemplary health care solutions for challenged regions in M-V (2016-2020)
(1) BMBF (Ministry of Science), Feasibility- Studien/Pretest Nationale Kohorte: Zentrales Datenmanagement, PI, 2010-2013 (2)BMBF (Ministry of Science), Gesundheitsregion Ostseek?ste - HICARE; Projektfeld 4: "IT & Epidemiologie", PI, 2011-2014 (3) BMBF (Ministry of Science), GANI_MED Teilprojekt SB3: Medizininformatik (Kohortenmanagement und Forschungsplattform), PI, 2010-2014 (4)BMBF (Ministry of Science), Integrated Data Management and telemedical Monitoring (DZHK: PI.4 IT), PI, 2011-2015 (5) DFG, Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgungs- und Informationssysteme (LIS) - Modulares Unterst?tzungssystem zur Planung und Implementierung eines zentralen Datenmanagements f?r Forschungsprojekte der Gesundheitsforschung, PI, 2012-2015
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- Susan M. Resnick, PhD‡,
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Dr. Resnick has received travel reimbursement for her participation on the international advisory board for the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging; Spouse has consulted and received travel reimbursement and honoraria from Dart Neuroscience and Roche and has received travel reimbursement and honoraria from University of California, Los Angeles
Brain and Cognition (Action Editor)
spouse has patent pending on Photoacoustic Voltage Sensitive Dyes for In Vivo Imaging
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spouse - consultant Dart Neuroscience and Roche
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spouse - grant and/or contract support unrelated to this study: Addex, Avid, Dart Neuroscience, Johnson and Johnson, Intracellular, Lundbeck, Pfizer, Roche, Takeda
NIA Intramural Research Program - Senior Investigator; spouse has NIH and CDC grants and contracts managed through Johns Hopkins University
spouse - employed by Johns Hopkins University
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- Hans J. Grabe, MD‡ and
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Fresenius Medical Care
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Janssen
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Fresenius Medical Care
BMBF, DFG
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Damp
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- Christos Davatzikos, PhD‡
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- From the Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (M.H., A.S., G.E., N.R.B., J.D., C.D.), Department of Neurology and Penn Memory Center (M.H., D.A.W.), and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology (H.S.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Department of Psychiatry (M.H., D.J., H.J.G.), Institute for Community Medicine (M.H., H.V., W.H.), and Department of Neurology (U.S.), University of Greifswald, Germany; Department of Neurology (J.B.T.), Houston Methodist Hospital, TX; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (W.H., H.J.G.), Rostock/Greifswald, Germany; and Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience (S.M.R.), National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD.
- Correspondence
Dr. Habes habesm{at}uphs.upenn.edu
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