Laura Ekblad
MD, PhD
positron emission tomography; Alzheimer´s Disease; Insulin resistance; cognition; memory disorders
Specialist in Geriatrics and Family Medicine. Senior researcher, Turku Alzheimer Imaging Group, Turku PET Centre.
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.
- Midlife insulin resistance and brain beta-amyloid accumulation as predictors of change in late-life cognitive function – A 20-year follow-up study (2026) Pietilä, Elina; Karrasch, Mira; Helin, Semi; Snellman, Anniina; Viitanen, Matti; Jula, Antti; Rinne, Juha O.; Ekblad, Laura L.
- Valmistautuminen muistisairauksiin vanhusväestössä - askelmat ja osapuolet (2026) Roitto, Hanna-Maria; Ekblad, Laura
- APOE4 carriership status influences [11C]PiB white matter retention in cognitively healthy older adults (2025) Tato-Fernández Claudia; Ekblad Laura L.; Bucci Marco; Tuisku Jouni; Parkkola Riitta; Helin Semi; Rinne Juha O.; Snellman Anniina
- Associations of lifestyle factors with amyloid pathology in persons without dementia (2025)
- Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Oomens, Julie E.; Vos, Stephanie J. B.; Maserejian, Nancy N.; Boada, Mercè; Didic, Mira; Engelborghs, Sebastiaan; Fladby, Tormod; van der Flier, Wiesje M.; Frisoni, Giovanni B.; Fröhlich, Lutz; Gill, Kiran Dip; Grimmer, Timo; Hort, Jakub; Itoh, Yoshiaki; Iwatsubo, Takeshi; Klimkowicz-Mrowiec, Aleksandra; Landau, Susan M.; Lee, Dong Young; Lleó, Alberto; Martinez-Lage, Pablo; de Mendonça, Alexandre; Meyer, Philipp T.; Parchi, Piero; Pardini, Matteo; Parnetti, Lucilla; Popp, Julius; Rami, Lorena; Reiman, Eric M.; Rinne, Juha O.; Rodrigue, Karen M.; Sánchez-Juan, Pascual; Santana, Isabel; Scarmeas, Nikolaos; Scheltens, Philip; Skoog, Ingmar; Sperling, Reisa A.; Stern, Yaakov; Villeneuve, Sylvia; Waldemar, Gunhild; Wiltfang, Jens; Zetterberg, Henrik; Alcolea, Daniel; Allegri, Ricardo F.; Altomare, Daniele; Bateman, Randall J.; Baiardi, Simone; Baldeiras, Ines; Blennow, Kaj; den Braber, Anouk; van Buchem, Mark A.; Byun, Min Soo; Cerman, Jiří; Chen, Kewei; Chipi, Elena; Day, Gregory S.; Drzezga, Alexander; Ekblad, Laura L.; Förster, Stefan; Fortea, Juan; Freund-Levi, Yvonne; Frings, Lars; Guedj, Eric; Habeck, Christian G.; Handels, Ron; Hausner, Lucrezia; Hellwig, Sabine; Jiménez-Bonilla, Julio F.; Juaristi, Ane Iriondo; Kandimalla, Ramesh; Kern, Silke; Bordewick Kirsebom, Bjørn-Eivind S.; Kornhuber, Johannes; Legdeur, Nienke; Levin, Johannes; Maier, Wolfgang; Marquié, Marta; Minatani, Shinobu; Morbelli, Silvia Daniela; Mroczko, Barbara; Ntanasi, Eva; de Oliveira, Catarina Resende; Orellana, Adelina; Peters, Oliver; Prabhakar, Sudesh; Ramakers, Inez H.; Rodríguez-Rodriguez, Eloy; Ruiz, Agustín; Rüther, Eckart; Sakhardande, Jayant; Selnes, Per; Silva, Dina; Soininen, Hilkka; Spiru, Luiza; Takeda, Akitoshi; Teunissen, Charlotte E.; Tijms, Betty M.; Vermunt, Lisa; Wallin, Åsa K.; Wiels, Wietse; Yannakoulia, Mary; Yi, Dahyun; Zettergren, Anna; Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI); A4 Study group; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN); European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia (EPAD) consortium, Fundació ACE Healthy Brain Initiative (FACEHBI); Japan Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (J-ADNI), Korean Brain Aging Study for the Early Diagnosis and Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease (KBASE); Presymptomatic Evaluation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (PREVENT-AD) research group; Ossenkoppele, Rik; Verhey, Frans R. J.; Visser, Pieter Jelle; Jansen, Willemijn J.
- Depressive Symptoms and Amyloid Pathology (2025) Wiels, Wietse A.; Oomens, Julie E.; Engelborghs, Sebastiaan; Baeken, Chris; von Arnim, Christine A.F.; Boada, Mercè; Didic, Mira; Dubois, Bruno; Fladby, Tormod; van der Flier, Wiesje M.; Frisoni, Giovanni B.; Fröhlich, Lutz; Gill, Kiran Dip; Grimmer, Timo; Hildebrandt, Helmut; Hort, Jakub; Itoh, Yoshiaki; Iwatsubo, Takeshi; Klimkowicz-Mrowiec, Aleksandra; Lee, Dong Young; Lleó, Alberto; Martinez-Lage, Pablo; de Mendonça, Alexandre; Meyer, Philipp T.; Kapaki, Elisabeth N.; Parchi, Piero; Pardini, Matteo; Parnetti, Lucilla; Popp, Julius; Rami, Lorena; Reiman, Eric M.; Rinne, Juha O.; Rodrigue, Karen M.; Sánchez-Juan, Pascual; Santana, Isabel; Sarazin, Marie; Scarmeas, Nikolaos; Skoog, Ingmar; Snyder, Peter J.; Sperling, Reisa A.; Villeneuve, Sylvia; Wallin, Anders; Wiltfang, Jens; Zetterberg, Henrik; Ossenkoppele, Rik; Verhey, Frans R. J.; Vos, Stephanie J. B.; Visser, Pieter Jelle; Jansen, Willemijn J.; Alcolea, Daniel; Altomare, Daniele; Baiardi, Simone; Baldeiras, Ines; Bateman, Randall J.; Blennow, Kaj; Bottlaender, Michel; den Braber, Anouk; van Buchem, Mark A.; Byun, Min Soo; Cerman, Jiří; Chen, Kewei; Chipi, Elena; Day, Gregory S.; Drzezga, Alexander; Eckerström, Marie; Ekblad, Laura L.; Epelbaum, Stéphane; Förster, Stefan; Fortea, Juan; Freund-Levi, Yvonne; Frings, Lars; Guedj, Eric; Hausner, Lucrezia; Hellwig, Sabine; Huey, Edward D.; Jiménez-Bonilla, Julio F.; Johnson, Keith A.; Juaristi, Ane Iriondo; Kandimalla, Ramesh; Paraskevas, George; Kern, Silke; Kirsebom, Bjørn-Eivind S.; Kornhuber, Johannes; Lagarde, Julien; Landau, Susan M.; Legdeur, Nienke; Llibre Guerra, Jorge J.; Maserejian, Nancy N.; Marquié, Marta; Minatani, Shinobu; Morbelli, Silvia Daniela; Mroczko, Barbara; Ntanasi, Eva; de Oliveira, Catarina Resende; Olivieri, Pauline; Orellana, Adelina; Perrin, Richard J.; Peters, Oliver; Prabhakar, Sudesh; Ramakers, Inez H.; Rodríguez-Rodriguez, Eloy; Ruiz, Agustín; Rüther, Eckart; Selnes, Per; Silva, Dina; Soininen, Hilkka; Spiru, Luiza; Takeda, Akitoshi; Teichmann, Marc; Tijms, Betty M.; Teunissen, Charlotte E.; Thompson, Loisa I.; Vogelgsangs, Jonathan; Vöglein, Jonathan; Waldemar, Gunhild; Wallin, Åsa K.; Yannakoulia, Mary; Yi, Dahyun; Zettergren, Anna.
- Effects of Cholinesterase Inhibitor Medication on QTc Interval in Memory Clinic Patients (2025)
- Annals of Pharmacotherapy
Isotalo, Hanna Karita; Lehtovaara, Joanna Karoliina; Ekblad, Laura Linnea; Nuotio, Maria Susanna; Langén, Ville Lauri Johannes
- Enhancing dementia prediction: A 19-year validation of the CAIDE risk score with insulin resistance and APOE ε4 integration in a population-based cohort (2025)
- The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease
Pietilä, Elina; Löyttyniemi, Eliisa; Koskinen, Seppo; Lehtisalo, Jenni; Viitanen, Matti; Rinne, Juha O; Jula, Antti; Ekblad, Laura L
- Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease as a predictor of cognitive performance: An 11-year population-based follow-up study (2025)
- Digestive and Liver Disease
Vataja, Emilia; Viitanen, Matti; Rinne, Juha O; Lehtisalo, Jenni; Erlund, Iris; Ngandu, Tiia; Koskinen, Seppo; Åberg, Fredrik; Jula, Antti; Ekblad, Laura
- Neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s disease : A study with [11C]PBR28 PET and cerebrospinal fluid markers (2025)
- Parkinsonism and Related Disorders
Al-Abdulrasul, H.; Ajalin, R.; Tuisku, J.; Zetterberg, H.; Blennow, K.; Vahlberg, T.; Ekblad, L.; Helin, S.; Forsback, S.; Rinne, J.O.; Brück, A.
- Blood biomarkers of neurodegeneration associate differently with amyloid deposition, medial temporal atrophy, and cerebrovascular changes in APOE ε4-enriched cognitively unimpaired elderly (2024)
- Alzheimer's Research and Therapy
Koivumäki, Mikko; Ekblad, Laura; Lantero-Rodriguez, Juan; Ashton, Nicholas J.; Karikari, Thomas K.; Helin, Semi; Parkkola, Riitta; Lötjönen, Jyrki; Zetterberg, Henrik; Blennow, Kaj; Rinne, Juha O.; Snellman, Anniina
