Leon J. Thal

40.8k citations

204 papers · 25.4k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 69

Impact in

Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.05%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Developmental Neuroscience top 0.1%
- Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

Papers in

Psychiatry and Mental health 78
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research 72
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 57
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research 28
- Nerve injury and regeneration 15

Co-authors: Michael Grundman Ronald G. Thomas Rachelle S. Doody Mary Sano Richard C. Mohs John C. Morris Martin N. Rossor Alexander Kurz
Journals: Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders (13 papers)Neurobiology of Aging (13 papers)Alzheimer s & Dementia (12 papers)Brain Research (10 papers)Neurology (9 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Italy

In The Last Decade

Leon J. Thal

200 papers receiving 24.4k citations

Hit Papers

11 papers align trajectories log scale

Vitamin E and Donepezil for the Treatment of Mild Cognitive Impairment 2005 · 1.3k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2005 New England Journal of Medicine
2005 Nature Medicine
2005 Neuroimaging Clinics of North America
2005 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2003 PubMed
2003 JAMA
2001 Archives of Neurology
2000 PubMed
2000 Journal of Neuroscience
1997 New England Journal of Medicine
1997 Journal of Neuroscience

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	The Role of Biomarkers in Clinical Trials for Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders ·Leon J. Thal, Kejal Kantarci, Eric M. Reiman, William E. Klunk, Michael W. Weiner, Henrik Zetterberg, Douglas Galasko, Domenico Praticò, Sue Griffin, Dale Schenk, Eric Siemers	2006	179
2	Assessment of Capacity to Consent to Research Among Older Persons With Schizophrenia, Alzheimer Disease, or Diabetes Mellitus Archives of General Psychiatry ·Barton W. Palmer, Laura B. Dunn, Paul S. Appelbaum, Sunder Mudaliar, Leon J. Thal, Robert R. Henry, Shahrokh Golshan, Dilip V. Jeste	2005	154
3	A Randomized, Double-Blind, Study of Rofecoxib in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment Neuropsychopharmacology ·(unknown), Leon J. Thal, Steven H. Ferris, Louis Kirby, Gilbert Block, Christopher R. Lines, Eric Yuen, Christopher Assaid, Michael L. Nessly, k Porcazni, Christine Baranak, Scott A. Reines	2005	307
4	Conjugated Equine Estrogens and Incidence of Probable Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Postmenopausal Women: Women???s Health Initiative Memory Study Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey ·Sally A. Shumaker, Claudine Legault, Lewis H. Kuller, Stephen R. Rapp, Leon J. Thal, Dorothy S. Lane, Howard Fillit, Marcia L. Stefanick, Susan L. Hendrix, Cora E. Lewis, Kamal Masaki, Laura H. Coker	2004	26
5	Decline in verbal memory during preclinical Alzheimer's disease: Examination of the effect of APOE genotype Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society ·Kelly L. Lange, Mark W. Bondi, David P. Salmon, Douglas Galasko, Dean C. Delis, Ronald G. Thomas, Leon J. Thal	2002	103
6	Modulation of Sensory Inputs and Ectopic Presence of Schwann Cells Depend upon the Route and Duration of Nerve Growth Factor Administration Experimental Neurology ·Donald Pizzo, Jürgen Winkler, Rophinta Violyta, Jerene J. Waite, Leon J. Thal	2002	10
7	No Long-Term Effect of Behavioral Treatment on Psychotropic Drug Use for Agitation in Alzheimer's Disease Patients Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology ·Myron Weiner, Rochelle E. Tractenberg, Mary Sano, Rebecca G. Logsdon, Linda Teri, Douglas Galasko, Anthony Gamst, К. А. Наумова, Leon J. Thal	2002	19
8	Blood Levels of Alpha-1-Antichymotrypsin and Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease: Effects of Gender and Apolipoprotein E Genotype Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders ·Federico Licastro, Eliezer Masliah, Steve Pedrini, Leon J. Thal	2000	136
9	Mini-Mental State Examination and Mattis Dementia Rating Scale performance differs in Hispanic and non-Hispanic Alzheimer's disease patients Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society ·I. S. Lee, Michael Grundman, David P. Salmon, Ronald G. Thomas, Leon J. Thal	1999	33
10	Expression Pattern of Synucleins (Non‐Aβ Component of Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid Precursor Protein/α‐Synuclein) During Murine Brain Development Journal of Neurochemistry ·Leigh J. Hsu, Margaret Mallory, Yu Xia, Isaac Veinbergs, Makoto Hashimoto, Makoto Yoshimoto, Leon J. Thal, Tsunao Saitoh, Eliezer Masliah	1998	154
11	Diagnostic Validity of the Dementia Questionnaire for Alzheimer Disease Archives of Neurology ·Ronald J. Ellis, Dodik Nursanto M.Biomed, Claudia H. Kawas, William C. Koller, Kelly E. Lyons, Dilip V. Jeste, P. Vion, Leon J. Thal	1998	59
12	A Multicenter Evaluation of New Treatment Efficacy Instruments for Alzheimerʼs Disease Clinical Trials Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders ·Steven H. Ferris, Joan Mackell, Richard C. Mohs, Lon S. Schneider, Douglas Galasko, Peter J. Whitehouse, Frederick A. Schmitt, Mary Sano, Ronald G. Thomas, Christopher Ernesto, Michael Grundman, Kimberly Schafer, Leon J. Thal	1997	37
13	Development of Cognitive Instruments for Use in Clinical Trials of Antidementia Drugs Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders ·Richard C. Mohs, David S. Knopman, Ronald C. Petersen, Steven H. Ferris, C. Ruja, Michael Grundman, Mary Sano, Linas A. Bieliauskas, David Geldmacher, Chris M. Clark, Leon J. Thal	1997	495
14	The Severe Impairment Battery Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders ·Frederick A. Schmitt, A. Schulze, Christopher Ernesto, Judith Saxton, Lon S. Schneider, Christopher M. Clark, Steven H. Ferris, Joan Mackell, Kimberly Schafer, Leon J. Thal	1997	126
15	Assessing Patterns of Agitation in Alzheimerʼs Disease Patients with the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders ·Elisabeth Koss, Myron Weiner, Christopher Ernesto, Jiska Cohen‐Mansfield, Steven H. Ferris, Michael Grundman, Kimberly Schafer, Mary Sano, Leon J. Thal, Ronald G. Thomas, Peter J. Whitehouse	1997	117
16	Multicenter Evaluation of New Instruments for Alzheimerʼs Disease Clinical Trials Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders ·Joan Mackell, Steven H. Ferris, Richard C. Mohs, Lon S. Schneider, Douglas Galasko, Peter J. Whitehouse, Frederick A. Schmitt, Mary Sano, Leon J. Thal	1997	13
17	Genetic studies in Alzheimer's disease with an NACP/α‐synuclein polymorphism Annals of Neurology ·Yu Xia, L Arutyanova, B.L. Rosi, Larry H. Yamaoka, Jacqueline Rimmler, Margaret A. Pericak‐Vance, Allen D. Roses, Xiaohua Chen, Eliezer Masliah, Richard DeTeresa, Akihiko Iwai, Mary Sundsmo, Ronald G. Thomas, C. Richard Hofstetter, Praveen Kumar Krishnamurthy, Lawrence A. Hansen, Robert Katzman, Leon J. Thal, Tsunao Saitoh	1996	91
18	The behavioral effects of heptylphysostigmine on rats lesioned in the nucleus basalis Neuroscience Research ·Jerene J. Waite, Leon J. Thal	1995	16
19	Nerve growth factor increases cortical choline acetyltransferase-positive fiber staining without affecting cortical cholinergic neurons Brain Research ·Ad J. Dekker, Leon J. Thal	1993	4
20	Independent effects of age and nucleus basalis magnocellularis lesion: Maze learning, cortical neurochemistry, and morphometry. Behavioral Neuroscience ·Donald J. Connor, Leon J. Thal, Ronald J. Mandel, Philip J. Langlais, et al	1992	15

About Leon J. Thal

Leon J. Thal is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Physiology, having authored 204 papers that have together received 25.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (72 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (57 papers), Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (37 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (28 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (24 papers), Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (18 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (15 papers) and Nerve injury and regeneration (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Psychiatry and Mental health (8.9k citations), Developmental Neuroscience (2.0k citations), Neurology (3.4k citations), Physiology (8.8k citations) and Biological Psychiatry (614 citations). Leon J. Thal has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Michael Grundman, Ronald G. Thomas, Rachelle S. Doody, Mary Sano, Richard C. Mohs, John C. Morris, Martin N. Rossor, Alexander Kurz, Karen Ritchie and Bengt Winblad. Their work appears in journals such as Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, Neurobiology of Aging, Alzheimer s & Dementia, Brain Research and Neurology.

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