Bengt Winblad

119.9k total citations · 21 hit papers
1.2k papers, 79.5k citations indexed

About

Bengt Winblad is a scholar working on Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bengt Winblad has authored 1.2k papers receiving a total of 79.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 436 papers in Physiology, 380 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 285 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Bengt Winblad's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (398 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (355 papers) and Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (129 papers). Bengt Winblad is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (398 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (355 papers) and Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (129 papers). Bengt Winblad collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Bengt Winblad's co-authors include Laura Fratiglioni, Matti Viitanen, Anders Wimo, Miia Kivipelto, Chengxuan Qiu, Agneta Nordberg, Lars Bäckman, Hui‐Xin Wang, Hilkka Soininen and Rolf Adolfsson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Bengt Winblad

1.2k papers receiving 76.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

An active and socially integrated lifestyle in late life might protect against dementia

2004 1.5k citations Laura Fratiglioni, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
A pathogenic mutation for probable Alzheimer's disease in the APP gene at the N–terminus of β–amyloid

1992 1.1k citations Henry Houlden, Lena Lilius et al. profile →
Influence of social network on occurrence of dementia: a community-based longitudinal study

2000 1.0k citations Laura Fratiglioni, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
Obesity and Vascular Risk Factors at Midlife and the Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

2005 961 citations Laura Fratiglioni, Ingemar Kåreholt et al. profile →
Alzheimer's disease: clinical trials and drug development

2010 940 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
The age-dependent relation of blood pressure to cognitive function and dementia

2005 848 citations Chengxuan Qiu, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
The worldwide economic impact of dementia 2010

2013 797 citations Anders Wimo, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
Risk score for the prediction of dementia risk in 20 years among middle aged people: a longitudinal, population-based study

2006 775 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
Leisure-time physical activity at midlife and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease

2005 759 citations Ingemar Kåreholt, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
The worldwide costs of dementia 2015 and comparisons with 2010

2016 759 citations Anders Wimo, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
The amyloid β-peptide is imported into mitochondria via the TOM import machinery and localized to mitochondrial cristae

2008 583 citations Homira Behbahani, Birgitta Wiehager et al. profile →
A 1-year, randomized, placebo-controlled study of donepezil in patients with mild to moderate AD

2001 578 citations Bengt Winblad, Anders Wimo et al. Neurology profile →
DEFECTIVE BRAIN MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

1986 578 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
Cerebrospinal Fluid β-Amyloid(1-42) in Alzheimer Disease

1999 543 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
Clinical trials and late‐stage drug development for Alzheimer's disease: an appraisal from 1984 to 2014

2014 510 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
APP mouse models for Alzheimer's disease preclinical studies

2017 500 citations John Hardy, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
Person-centred care of people with severe Alzheimer's disease: current status and ways forward

2008 477 citations David Edvardsson, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
Distribution of different fiber types in human skeletal muscles: Effects of aging studied in whole muscle cross sections

1983 435 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
Influence of age and time interval between death and autopsy on dopamine and 3-methoxytyramine Levels in human basal ganglia

1976 245 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
The affordability of lecanemab, an amyloid-targeting therapy for Alzheimer's disease: an EADC-EC viewpoint

2023 75 citations Anders Wimo, Milica G. Kramberger et al. profile →
Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and incident dementia in the community

2025 29 citations Chengxuan Qiu, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The relationship between change in cardiovascular health and rate of cognitive decline: a population-based study 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Milica G. Kramberger, Bengt Winblad, Lars Bäckman, (unknown), Erika J. Laukka	1
2	Association of objective sleep duration with cognition and brain aging biomarkers in older adults 2024 ·Brain Communications ·(unknown), Rui Liu, Juan Ren, Lin Song, Lingling Dong, Qin Yu, (unknown), Yongxiang Wang, Yi Dong, (unknown), Cuicui Liu, Tingting Hou, Lin Cong, Shireen Sindi, Bengt Winblad, Yifeng Du, Chengxuan Qiu	10
3	Distinctive alteration of presynaptic proteins in the outer molecular layer of the dentate gyrus in Alzheimer’s disease 2021 ·Brain Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Bengt Winblad, Christophe Mulle, Lars O. Tjernberg, Ann‐Charlotte Granholm, Susanne Frykman, Gaël Barthet	15
4	Insights into the changes in the proteome of Alzheimer disease elucidated by a meta-analysis 2021 ·Scientific Data ·(unknown), Rui Benfeitas, Sophia Schedin‐Weiss, Erika Bereczki, Melinda Rezeli, Richard D. Unwin, Xusheng Wang, Eric B. Dammer, Erik C. B. Johnson, Nicholas T. Seyfried, Bengt Winblad, Betty M. Tijms, Pieter Jelle Visser, Susanne Frykman, Lars O. Tjernberg	19
5	Well‐being and thriving in sheltered housing versus ageing in place: Results from the U‐age sheltered housing study 2019 ·Journal of Advanced Nursing ·(unknown), Anders Sköldunger, Karin Sjögren, Hugo Lövheim, Marie Lindkvist, Anders Wimo, Bengt Winblad, Per‐Olof Sandman, David Edvardsson	9
6	Thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke in patients with dementia 2017 ·Neurology ·(unknown), Mia von Euler, Ingemar Kåreholt, (unknown), Johan Fastbom, Bo Norrving, Dorota Religa, Milica G. Kramberger, Bengt Winblad, Kristina Johnell, Maria Eriksdotter, Sara García‐Ptacek	29
7	Clinical validity of increased cortical uptake of amyloid ligands on PET as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease in the context of a structured 5-phase development framework 2017 ·Neurobiology of Aging ·Konstantinos Chiotis, Laure Saint‐Aubert, Marina Boccardi, Anton Gietl, Agnese Picco, Andrea Varrone, Valentina Garibotto, Karl Herholz, Flavio Nobili, Agneta Nordberg, Giovanni B. Frisoni, Bengt Winblad, Clifford R. Jack	48
8	Heart Failure and Dementia: Survival in Relation to Types of Heart Failure and Different Dementia Disorders 2015 ·European Journal of Heart Failure ·Pavla Čermáková, Lars H. Lund, Seyed‐Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Kristina Johnell, Bengt Winblad, Ulf Dahlström, Maria Eriksdotter, Dorota Religa	62
9	Cardiovascular medication burden in dementia disorders: a nationwide study of 19,743 dementia patients in the Swedish Dementia Registry 2014 ·Alzheimer s Research & Therapy ·Pavla Čermáková, Seyed‐Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Kristina Johnell, Bengt Winblad, Maria Eriksdotter, Dorota Religa	26
10	Twenty-year changes in dementia occurrence suggest decreasing incidence in central Stockholm, Sweden 2013 ·Neurology ·Chengxuan Qiu, Eva von Strauss, Lars Bäckman, Bengt Winblad, Laura Fratiglioni	219
11	Cerebrospinal Fluid Alzheimer Markers in Depressed Elderly Subjects with and without Alzheimer’s Disease 2012 ·Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra ·Milica G. Kramberger, Vesna Jelić, Ingemar Kåreholt, Daniela Enache, Maria Eriksdotter, Bengt Winblad, Dag Aarsland	40
12	Biased recognition of positive faces in aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. 2010 ·Psychology and Aging ·Katja Werheid, (unknown), Norbert Kathmann, Håkan Fischer, Ove Almkvist, Bengt Winblad	46
13	Mitochondrial γ‐secretase participates in the metabolism of mitochondria‐associated amyloid precursor protein 2010 ·The FASEB Journal ·Pavel F. Pavlov, Birgitta Wiehager, Jun Sakai, Susanne Frykman, Homira Behbahani, Bengt Winblad, Maria Ankarcrona	94
14	Absence of apoptosis but increased DNA fragmentation in subregions of the Alzheimer hippocampus: Relationship to patterns of cell loss and nNOS immunoreactivity 1998 ·Neurobiology of Aging ·Paul J. Lucassen, Goran Šimić, E. R. de Kloet, Bengt Winblad, Nenad Bogdanović	3
15	[1997 Nobel Prize to Stanley Prusiner for the discovery of prions]. 1997 ·PubMed ·Krister Kristensson, Bengt Winblad	0
16	Effects of serum vitamin B₁₂ and folate status on episodic memory performance in very old age: A population-based study. 1996 ·Psychology and Aging ·Åke Wåhlin, Robert D. Hill, Bengt Winblad, Lars Bäckman	54
17	APOLIPOPROTEIN-E GENOTYPE AND ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE 1993 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·John Hardy, Henry Houlden, John Collinge, (unknown), (unknown), Martin N. Rossor, Lars Lannfelt, Lena Lilius, Bengt Winblad, Richard Crook, Karen Duff	246
18	Cholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer's disease 1993 ·Munksgaard eBooks ·Agneta Nordberg, Bengt Winblad	1
19	GLUTAMATE DEFICITS IN ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE 1987 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·John Hardy, (unknown), A.J.L. Barton, Gary Reynolds, (unknown), A-M O'Carroll, P.O. Wester, Bengt Winblad	1
20	Repair of Experimental Tympanic Membrane Perforations 1980 ·Acta Oto-Laryngologica ·Lars‐Eric Stenfors, Bengt Carlsöö, Bengt Salén, Bengt Winblad	68

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