Michael Ewers

21.8k citations

147 papers · 8.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 51

Impact in

Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.2%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Neurology top 0.2%
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Papers in

Psychiatry and Mental health 83
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research 80
Cognitive Neuroscience 60
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies 56
- Neural dynamics and brain function 11

Co-authors: Harald Hampel Stefan Teipel Nicolai Franzmeier Arun L.W. Bokde Michael W. Weiner Martin Dichgans Katharina Büerger Marco Duering
Journals: Alzheimer s & Dementia (44 papers)Journal of Alzheimer s Disease (9 papers)Neurobiology of Aging (8 papers)Alzheimer s Research & Therapy (6 papers)Neurology (5 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States Sweden

In The Last Decade

Michael Ewers

140 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Whitepaper: Defining and investigating cognitive reserve, brain reserve, and brain maintenance 2018 · 964 citations

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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.

2018 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2016 Alzheimer s & Dementia

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1	Synaptic loss pattern is constrained by brain connectome and modulated by phosphorylated tau in Alzheimer’s disease Nature Communications ·Evelina Juozaiė-Ngugu, Weiyi Wang, Qi Huang, Wang Shanyuan, Sarah Umetsu, КУРБОНОВ А.Р., Anna Steward, Sebastian Niclas Roemer, Yihui Guan, Michael Ewers, Michael Schöll, Ruiqing Ni, Binyin Li, Nicolai Franzmeier, Fang Xie	2025	4
2	Cortical tau aggregation drives axonal degeneration in white matter fiber tracts in Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer s & Dementia ·Satoshi TOKUE, Anna Dewenter, Anna Steward, Amir Dehsarvi, Sarah Ballew Hicks, Jennifer L. Bartels, Zeyu Zhu, Michael Ewers, Sebastian Niclas Roemer, Matthias Brendel, Nicolai Franzmeier	2024	1
3	Elevated CSF GAP-43 is associated with accelerated tau accumulation and spread in Alzheimer’s disease Nature Communications ·Nicolai Franzmeier, Amir Dehsarvi, Anna Steward, Davina Biel, Anna Dewenter, Sebastian Niclas Roemer, Sarah Ballew Hicks, Jennifer L. Bartels, Matthias Brendel, Alexis Moscoso, Guanting Zhou, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Michael Ewers, Michael Schöll	2024	18
4	The Role of ApoE4 in The Acceleration of Tau Aggregation Alzheimer s & Dementia ·Anna Steward, Davina Biel, Sebastian Niclas Roemer, Zeyu Zhu, Satoshi TOKUE, Sarah Ballew Hicks, Jennifer L. Bartels, Martin Dichgans, Michael Ewers, Amir Dehsarvi, Matthias Brendel, Nicolai Franzmeier	2024	1
5	sTREM2 is associated with amyloid‐related p‐tau increases and glucose hypermetabolism in Alzheimer's disease EMBO Molecular Medicine ·Davina Biel, Marc Suárez‐Calvet, Paul Hager, Anna Rubinski, Anna Dewenter, Anna Steward, Sebastian Niclas Roemer, Michael Ewers, Christian Haass, Matthias Brendel, Nicolai Franzmeier, (unknown)	2023	27
6	Polygenic Effect on Tau Pathology Progression in Alzheimer's Disease Annals of Neurology ·Anna Rubinski, Amanda Baldessar, Rainer Malik, Nicolai Franzmeier, Alfredo Ramı́rez, Martin Dichgans, Michael Ewers, (unknown)	2022	6
7	Disentangling the effects of Alzheimer’s and small vessel disease on white matter fibre tracts Brain ·Anna Dewenter, Mina A. Jacob, Mengfei Cai, Benno Gesierich, Paul Hager, Anna Kopczak, Davina Biel, Michael Ewers, Anil M. Tuladhar, Frank-Erik de Leeuw, Martin Dichgans, Nicolai Franzmeier, Marco Duering	2022	35
8	Earlier Alzheimer’s disease onset is associated with tau pathology in brain hub regions and facilitated tau spreading Nature Communications ·Lukas Frontzkowski, Michael Ewers, Matthias Brendel, Davina Biel, Rik Ossenkoppele, Paul Hager, Anna Steward, Anna Dewenter, نیما خالدی, Anna Rubinski, Katharina Büerger, Daniel Janowitz, Alexa Pichet Binette, Ruben Smith, Olof Strandberg, Timur Kırgız, Martin Dichgans, Oskar Hansson, Nicolai Franzmeier	2022	42
9	Lower cerebral perfusion is associated with tau-PET in the entorhinal cortex across the Alzheimer's continuum Neurobiology of Aging ·Anna Rubinski, Duygu Tosun, Nicolai Franzmeier, Julia Neitzel, Lukas Frontzkowski, Michael W. Weiner, Michael Ewers	2021	30
10	Patient-centered connectivity-based prediction of tau pathology spread in Alzheimer’s disease Science Advances ·Nicolai Franzmeier, Anna Dewenter, Lukas Frontzkowski, Martin Dichgans, Anna Rubinski, Julia Neitzel, Ruben Smith, Olof Strandberg, Rik Ossenkoppele, Katharina Büerger, Marco Duering, Oskar Hansson, Michael Ewers	2020	95
11	Higher CSF sTREM2 and microglia activation are associated with slower rates of beta‐amyloid accumulation EMBO Molecular Medicine ·Michael Ewers, Gloria Biechele, Marc Suárez‐Calvet, Christian Sacher, Tanja Blume, Estrella Morenas‐Rodríguez, Yuetiva Deming, Laura Piccio, Carlos Cruchaga, Gernot Kleinberger, Leslie M. Shaw, John Q. Trojanowski, Jochen Herms, Martin Dichgans, (unknown), Matthias Brendel, Christian Haass, Nicolai Franzmeier	2020	80
12	Increased soluble TREM2 in cerebrospinal fluid is associated with reduced cognitive and clinical decline in Alzheimer’s disease Science Translational Medicine ·Michael Ewers, Nicolai Franzmeier, Marc Suárez‐Calvet, Estrella Morenas‐Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel Araque Caballero, Gernot Kleinberger, Laura Piccio, Carlos Cruchaga, Yuetiva Deming, Martin Dichgans, John Q. Trojanowski, Leslie M. Shaw, Michael W. Weiner, Christian Haass, (unknown)	2019	201
13	Neuronal injury biomarkers for assessment of the individual cognitive reserve in clinically suspected Alzheimer's disease NeuroImage Clinical ·Leonie Beyer, Sunghoon Baek, Philipp M. Kazmierczak, Michael Ewers, Sonja Schönecker, Catharina Prix, M.E. Muller, Marcus Unterrainer, Cihan Catak, Oliver Pogarell, Robert Perneczky, Nathalie L. Albert, Peter Bartenstein, Adrian Danek, Katharina Büerger, Johannes Levin, Axel Rominger, Matthias Brendel	2019	10
14	Resting-State Connectivity of the Left Frontal Cortex to the Default Mode and Dorsal Attention Network Supports Reserve in Mild Cognitive Impairment Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience ·Nicolai Franzmeier, Jens Göttler, Timo Grimmer, Alexander Drzezga, 黄思聪, Lee Simon‐Vermot, Alexander N.W. Taylor, Katharina Bürger, Cihan Catak, Daniel Janowitz, Claudia Müller, Marco Duering, Christian Sorg, Michael Ewers	2017	70
15	The Primacy Effect in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: Associations with Hippocampal Functional Connectivity Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience ·Katharina Brueggen, Elisabeth Kasper, Martin Dyrba, Davide Bruno, Nunzio Pomara, Michael Ewers, Marco Duering, Katharina Bürger, Stefan Teipel	2016	17
16	Using Support Vector Machines with Multiple Indices of Diffusion for Automated Classification of Mild Cognitive Impairment PLoS ONE ·Laurence O’Dwyer, Franck Lamberton, Arun L.W. Bokde, Michael Ewers, Yetunde O. Faluyi, Colby J. Tanner, Bernard Mazoyer, Desmond O’Neill, Mairead M. Bartley, Rónán Collins, Tara Coughlan, David Prvulovic, Harald Hampel	2012	75
17	Prediction of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease dementia based upon biomarkers and neuropsychological test performance Neurobiology of Aging ·Michael Ewers, Cathal Walsh, John Q. Trojanowski, Leslie M. Shaw, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack, Howard Feldman, Arun L.W. Bokde, Gene E. Alexander, Philip Scheltens, Bruno Vellas, Bruno Dubois, Michael W. Weiner, Harald Hampel	2010	297
18	Amygdala reduction in patients with ADHD compared with major depression and healthy volunteers Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica ·Thomas Frodl, X. H. iJuan, Özgür Akgül, Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Johanna Scheuerecker, Michael Ewers, Anne-Marie Granié, 张振东, Harald Hampel, Maximilian F. Reiser, H.‐J. Möller, Eva Meisenzahl	2009	60
19	Lithium trial in Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter 10-week study. PubMed ·Harald Hampel, Michael Ewers, Katharina Bürger, Peter Annas, Anette Mörtberg, Anna Bogstedt, Lutz Frölich, Johannes Schröder, Peter Schönknecht, Matthias W. Riepe, Nisa Rosa, Thomas Gasser, Thomas Leyhe, Hans‐Jürgen Möller, Alexander Kurz, Hans Basun	2009	252
20	Multizentrische Reliabilität MRT-gestützter Volumetrie des Gehirns Der Nervenarzt ·S Teipel, Michael Ewers, Olaf Dietrich, Stefan O. Schoenberg, Frank Jessen, Reinhard Heun, Nikolaus Freymann, Eko Apriansyah, Harald Hampel	2005	6

About Michael Ewers

Michael Ewers is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Neurology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, having authored 147 papers that have together received 8.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (80 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (72 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (56 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (30 papers), Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (16 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (11 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (10 papers) and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Psychiatry and Mental health (3.9k citations), Neurology (1.9k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (2.8k citations), Physiology (3.7k citations) and Biological Psychiatry (244 citations). Michael Ewers has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Harald Hampel, Stefan Teipel, Nicolai Franzmeier, Arun L.W. Bokde, Michael W. Weiner, Martin Dichgans, Katharina Büerger, Marco Duering, Kaj Blennow and Reisa A. Sperling. Their work appears in journals such as Alzheimer s & Dementia, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, Neurobiology of Aging, Alzheimer s Research & Therapy and Neurology.

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