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Kristine Yaffe, MD

Low blood levels of beta-amyloid 42, a protein-like substance, were associated with the risk of significant cognitive decline within nine years in a group of elders, in a study led by Kristine Yaffe, MD , chief of geriatric psychiatry at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Beta-amyloid 42 has long been known to collect in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease. The study also showed that, among the elders with low beta-amyloid 42, cognitive decline was less pronounced in those who had higher literacy, or more education, or who lacked the APOE e4 gene known to be associated with a greater risk of dementia. The researchers describe this set of conditions as "cognitive reserve."
The study appears in the January 19, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Cancer

Stephen Bent, MD

Lilly Y.W. Bourguignon, PhD

Matthew R. Cooperberg, MD, MPH

Rajvir Dahiya, PhD

Ruby Ghadially, MBCHB, FRCP

Millie Hughes-Fulford, PhD

Karla Kerlikowske, MD

Yun-Fai Chris Lau, PhD

William S. McIntire, PhD

Benjamin M. Yeh, MD

Cardiovascular

Anthony J. Baker, PhD

Caroline Behler, MD, MS

Marek Brzezinski, MD, PhD

Gary Cecchini, PhD

Kenneth Feingold, MD

Mary O. Gray, MD

Julius M. Guccione, Ph.D.

Joel S. Karliner, MD

Edmund Keung, MD

Michael J. Mann, MD

Barry M. Massie, MD

Robert L. Raffai, PhD

Joseph Rapp, MD

Mark Ratcliffe, MD

David Saloner, PhD

Kendrick A. Shunk, MD, PhD

Joel A. Simon, MD, MPH

Paul C. Simpson, MD

John R. Teerlink, MD

Elaine Tseng, MD

Donald A. Vessey, PhD

Arthur Wallace, MD, PhD

Mary Whooley, MD

Dermatology

Mary-Margaret Chren, MD

Peter M. Elias, MD

Walter M. Holleran, PharmD

Theodora Mauro, MD

Dennis H. Oh, MD, PhD

Yoshikazu Uchida, PhD

Maria L. Wei, MD, PhD

Gastroenterology

Amandeep Shergill, MD

Geriatrics/Patient Care

Deborah E. Barnes, PhD

W. John Boscardin, PhD

Martha Buffum, DNSc, RN, PMHCNS-BC

Kenneth Covinsky, MD, MPH

Deborah Grady, MD, MPH

Sharad Jain, MD

Sara J. Knight, PhD

Seth Landefeld, MD

Sei J. Lee, MD, MAS

Kala M. Mehta, PhD

Alexander K. Smith, MD, MS, MPH

Michael Steinman, MD

Rebecca Sudore, MD

Louise C. Walter, MD

Brie Williams, MD, MS

HIV/AIDS

Carl Grunfeld, MD, PhD

Harry Lampiris, MD

Lynn Pulliam, MS, PhD

Phyllis C. Tien, MD

Paul Volberding, MD

Joseph K. Wong, MD

Immunology

David I. Daikh, MD, PhD

Mary C. Nakamura, MD

William Seaman, MD

David Wofsy, MD

Infectious Diseases

John McLeod Griffiss, MD

Gary Jarvis, PhD

Paul M. Sullam, MD

Mental Health

Steven L. Batki, MD

Jennifer E. Boyd, PhD

William Byerley, MD

Timothy P. Carmody, PhD

Beth Cohen, MD MAS

Timothy C. Durazzo, PhD

Judith M. Ford, PhD

Shira Maguen, PhD

Daniel H Mathalon, MD, PhD

Shannon McCaslin-Rodrigo, PhD

Thomas C Neylan, MD

Karen Seal, MD, MPH

Sophia Vinogradov, MD

Kristine Yaffe, MD

Musculoskeletal

Daniel D. Bikle, MD, PhD

Wenhan Chang, PhD

Bernard Halloran, PhD

Hubert T. Kim, MD, PhD

Alfred C. Kuo, MD, PhD

Robert A. Nissenson, PhD

Dolores Shoback, MD

Zhongjian Xie, MD, PhD

Nephrology

Kirsten Johansen, MD

Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH

Neuroimaging

Valerie Cardenas-Nicholson, PhD

Linda Chao, PhD

Geon-Ho Jahng, PhD

Gerald B. Matson, PhD

Dieter Johannes Meyerhoff, Dr. rer. nat

Susanne G. Mueller, MD

Norbert Schuff, PhD

Michael W. Weiner, MD

Karl Young, PhD

Neuroscience

Gary M. Abrams, MD

Conrad C. Alano, PhD

Anthony J. W. Chen, MA, MD

Steven W. Cheung, MD

Grant E. Gauger, MD

Eric J. Huang, MD, PhD

Tiina Kauppinen, PhD

Daniel A. Lim, MD, PhD

Jialing Liu, PhD

William J. Marks, Jr., MD

Stephen Massa, MD, PhD

S. Scott Panter, PhD

Sang Won Suh, MD, PhD

Raymond A. Swanson, MD

Midori A. Yenari, MD

Pulmonary

James K. Brown, MD

George H. Caughey, MD

James A. Frank, MD

Meshell D. Johnson, MD