Laura Ekblad
MD, PhD
llekbl@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5863-8088 |
Areas of expertise
positron emission tomography; Alzheimer´s Disease; Insulin resistance; cognition; memory disorders
positron emission tomography; Alzheimer´s Disease; Insulin resistance; cognition; memory disorders
Research community or research topic
Specialist in Geriatrics and Family Medicine. Senior researcher, Turku Alzheimer Imaging Group, Turku PET Centre.
Specialist in Geriatrics and Family Medicine. Senior researcher, Turku Alzheimer Imaging Group, Turku PET Centre.
Research
My research focuses on early risk factors for memory disorders, especially Alzheimer´s disease. I am particularly interested in the associations between metabolic risk factors (insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, obesity) and cognitive decline.
Our lab uses multimodal neuroimaging (PET-imaging, MRI) combined with blood and CSF biomarkers and cognitive testing to explore the association between different risk factors and early cerebral changes of memory disorders.
I also run a project that examines possible cardiac side effects of anti-dementia agents in elderly memory clinic patients.
Teaching
Publications
- Iäkkäiden muistisairaudet tarvitsevat erikoisosaajia (2022)
- LääkärilehtiDiabetes Care
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Insulin Resistance and the Brain-Novel Insights Combining Metabolic Research and NeuroscienceProteomic correlates of cortical thickness in cognitively normal individuals with normal and abnormal cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid1-42 (2022)
- Metabolites
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Neuropsykologiset tehtäväsarjat Alzheimerin taudin prekliinisen vaiheen hienoisen kognitiivisen heikentymisen havaitsemisessa (2022)
- DuodecimNeurobiology of Aging
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Prevalence Estimates of Amyloid Abnormality Across the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum (2022)
- JAMA Neurology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of Early β-Amyloid Accumulation and Neuroinflammation Measured With [11C]PBR28 in Elderly Individuals Without Dementia (2021)
- Neurology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Brain Glucose Metabolism in Health, Obesity, and Cognitive Decline-Does Insulin Have Anything to Do with It? A Narrative Review (2021)
- Journal of Clinical Medicine
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Episodic memory and cortical amyloid pathology: PET study in cognitively discordant twin pairs (2021)
- Neurobiology of Aging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Four subgroups based on tau levels in Alzheimer's disease observed in two independent cohorts (2021)
- Alzheimer's Research and Therapy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Oral Glucose Tolerance Test Predicts Episodic Memory Decline: A 10-Year Population-Based Follow-up Study (2021)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2021)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



