Neuroinflammation in World Trade Center responders at midlife: A pilot study using [ 18 F]-FEPPA PET imaging
Background: Neuroinflammation has long been theorized to arise from exposures to fine particulate matter and to be modulated when individuals experience chronic stress, both of which are also though to cause cognitive decline in part as […]
A deep learning approach for monitoring parietal-dominant Alzheimer’s disease in World Trade Center responders at midlife
Little is known about the characteristics and causes of early-onset cognitive impairment. Responders to the 2001 New York World Trade Center disaster represent an ageing population that was recently shown to have an excess prevalence of […]
Traumatic exposures, posttraumatic stress disorder, and cognitive functioning in World Trade Center responders
Introduction: This study examined whether World Trade Center (WTC)-related exposures and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were associated with cognitive function and whether WTC responders’ cognition differed from normative data. Methods: A computer-assisted neuropsychological battery was administered […]
