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Marcio LF Balthazar

Professor, Department of Neurology - FCM - UNICAMP
Verified email at unicamp.br
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Neuropsychiatric symptoms in the prodromal stages of dementia

F Stella, M Radanovic, MLF Balthazar… - Current opinion in …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Although neuropsychiatric symptoms are strongly associated with a higher risk of cognitive
and functional deterioration, frequently the clinician does not acknowledge these conditions …

Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease are related to functional connectivity alterations in the salience network

MLF Balthazar, FRS Pereira, TM Lopes… - Human brain …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Neuropsychiatric syndromes are highly prevalent in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but their
neurobiology is not completely understood. New methods in functional magnetic resonance …

Self, cortical midline structures and the resting state: implications for Alzheimer's disease

…, G Northoff, BP Damasceno, MLF Balthazar - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Different aspects of the self have been reported to be affected in many neurological or psychiatric
diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), including mainly higher-level cognitive self…

Semantic error patterns on the Boston Naming Test in normal aging, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and mild Alzheimer's disease: is there semantic disruption?

MLF Balthazar, F Cendes, BP Damasceno - Neuropsychology, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Naming difficulty is common in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the nature of this problem is
not well established. The authors investigated the presence of semantic breakdown and the …

MR imaging texture analysis of the corpus callosum and thalamus in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer disease

MS De Oliveira, MLF Balthazar… - American Journal …, 2011 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: TA is a branch of image processing that seeks to reduce
image information by extracting texture descriptors from the image. TA of MR images of …

[PDF][PDF] Palmitate is increased in the cerebrospinal fluid of humans with obesity and induces memory impairment in mice via pro-inflammatory TNF-α

…, A Gruart, LA Velloso, MLF Balthazar… - Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
Obesity has been associated with cognitive decline, atrophy of brain regions related to
learning and memory, and higher risk of developing dementia. However, the molecular …

Whole cortical and default mode network mean functional connectivity as potential biomarkers for mild Alzheimer's disease

MLF Balthazar, BM de Campos, AR Franco… - Psychiatry Research …, 2014 - Elsevier
… Although we know that functional connectivity measures may be influenced by atrophy, as
we discussed in a recent article (Balthazar et al., 2013), we believe that correcting fMRI results …

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in blood using a disposable electrochemical microfluidic platform

…, PR Manzine, TNC Magalhaes, MLF Balthazar… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition that affects a large number of
elderly people worldwide and has a high social and economic impact. The diagnosis of AD in …

Learning, retrieval, and recognition are compromised in aMCI and mild AD: are distinct episodic memory processes mediated by the same anatomical structures?

MLF Balthazar, CL Yasuda, F Cendes… - Journal of the …, 2010 - cambridge.org
Performance of different episodic memory processes in patients with amnestic mild cognitive
impairment (aMCI) and mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and their anatomical correlates are …

Widespread neuronal damage and cognitive dysfunction in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3

…, G Castellano, JC Somazz, MLF Balthazar… - Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Previous studies demonstrated cognitive impairments in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3/MJD);
however, there is no consensus about the cognitive domains affected and the …