Steven Collins

Prion disease in Indigenous Australians

Peter K Panegyres, Christiane Stehmann, Genevieve M Klug, Colin L Masters, Steven Collins

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: Indigenous Australians are at increased risk of developing dementia - Alzheimer disease and mixed dementia diagnoses a..

The Three Glycotypes in the London Classification System of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Differ in Disease Duration

Blair Ney, Dhamidhu Eratne, Victoria Lewis, Luke Ney, Qiao-Xin Li, Christiane Stehmann, Steven Collins, Dennis Velakoulis

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is the most common form of CJD and is believed to be caused by the misfolding and aggreg..

Core Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarker assays are not affected by aspiration or gravity drip extraction methods

James D Doecke, Cindy Francois, Christopher J Fowler, Erik Stoops, Pierrick Bourgeat, Stephanie R Rainey-Smith, Qiao-Xin Li, Colin L Masters, Ralph N Martins, Victor L Villemagne, Steven J Collins, Hugo Marcel Vanderstichele

Journal article  |  2021  |  ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY

BACKGROUND: CSF biomarkers are well-established for routine clinical use, yet a paucity of comparative assessment exists regarding..

Biomarkers and diagnostic guidelines for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Peter Hermann, Brian Appleby, Jean-Philippe Brandel, Byron Caughey, Steven Collins, Michael D Geschwind, Alison Green, Stephane Haik, Gabor G Kovacs, Anna Ladogana, Franc Llorens, Simon Mead, Noriyuki Nishida, Suvankar Pal, Piero Parchi, Maurizio Pocchiari, Katsuya Satoh, Gianluigi Zanusso, Inga Zerr

Journal article  |  2021  |  LANCET NEUROLOGY

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by misfolded prion proteins (PrPSc). Effective ther..

Asymmetric thinning of the cerebral cortex across the adult lifespan is accelerated in Alzheimer's disease.

James M Roe, Didac Vidal-Piñeiro, Øystein Sørensen, Andreas M Brandmaier, Sandra Düzel, Hector A Gonzalez, Rogier A Kievit, Ethan Knights, Simone Kühn, Ulman Lindenberger, Athanasia M Mowinckel, Lars Nyberg, Denise C Park, Sara Pudas, Melissa M Rundle, Kristine B Walhovd, Anders M Fjell, René Westerhausen, undefined Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing

Journal article  |  2021  |  Nat Commun

Aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are associated with progressive brain disorganization. Although structural asymmetry is an orga..

Fifteen Years of the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) Study: Progress and Observations from 2,359 Older Adults Spanning the Spectrum from Cognitive Normality to Alzheimer's Disease

Christopher Fowler, Stephanie R Rainey-Smith, Sabine Bird, Julia Bomke, Pierrick Bourgeat, Belinda M Brown, Samantha C Burnham, Ashley Bush, Carolyn Chadunow, Steven Collins, James Doecke, Vincent Dore, Kathryn A Ellis, Lis Evered, Amir Fazlollahi, Jurgen Fripp, Samantha L Gardener, Simon Gibson, Robert Grenfell, Elise Harrison, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE REPORTS

Background: The Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) Study commenced in 2006 as a prospective study of 1,112 indivi..

Elevated levels of synaptic protein GAP‐43 associate with brain tauopathy, atrophy and cognition in Alzheimer’s disease

Kunal Dhiman, Victor LL Villemagne, Dhamidhu Eratne, Petra L Graham, Christopher J Fowler, Pierrick Bourgeat, Qiao‐Xin Li, Steven Collins, Ashley I Bush, Christopher C Rowe, David Ames, Colin L Masters, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Ralph N Martins, Veer Bala Gupta

Journal article  |  2020  |  Alzheimer's & Dementia

Intra-cerebral haemorrhage but not neurodegenerative disease appears over-represented in deaths of Australian cadaveric pituitary hormone recipients (vol 81, pg 78, 2020)

Sultan H Alnakhli, Handan Wand, Matthew Law, Shannon Sarros, Christiane Stehmann, Matteo Senesi, Genevieve M Klug, Marion Simpson, Victoria Lewis, Colin L Masters, Steven J Collins

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE

The authors regret that errors with citations reported in the galley proof were not subsequently corrected prior to publication, v..

Intra-cerebral haemorrhage but not neurodegenerative disease appears over-represented in deaths of Australian cadaveric pituitary hormone recipients

Sultan H Alnakhli, Handan Wand, Matthew Law, Shannon Sarros, Christiane Stehmann, Matteo Senesi, Genevieve M Klug, Marion Simpson, Victoria Lewis, Colin L Masters, Steven J Collins

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Recent scientific reports and epidemiological studies have engendered mounting concerns regarding the pote..

Identification of novel risk loci and causal insights for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a genome-wide association study

Emma Jones, Holger Hummerich, Emmanuelle Vir, James Uphill, Athanasios Dimitriadis, Helen Speedy, Tracy Campbell, Penny Norsworthy, Liam Quinn, Jerome Whitfield, Jacqueline Linehan, Zane Jaunmuktane, Sebastian Brandner, Parmjit Jat, Akin Nihat, Tze How Mok, Parvin Ahmed, Steven Collins, Christiane Stehmann, Shannon Sarros, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  LANCET NEUROLOGY

Background Human prion diseases are rare and usually rapidly fatal neurodegenerative disorders, the most common being sporadic Cre..