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Robert A. Stern

Boston University · US
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Area of research
Astronomy and Astrophysics · Epidemiology
Research interest
Research interests include Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, and Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances.
h-index
97
citations
52,837
works
760
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Sex differences on tau, astrocytic, and neurodegenerative plasma biomarkers
Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025cited by 11position: middledoi
A structural haplotype in the 17q21.31 MAPT region is associated with increased risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy endophenotypes
Cell Reports Medicine 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Cognitive, functional, and neuropsychiatric correlates of regional tau pathology in autopsy-confirmed chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Molecular Neurodegeneration 2024cited by 31position: middledoi
Brain morphometry in former American football players: findings from the DIAGNOSE CTE research project
Brain 2024cited by 17position: middledoi
Inflammatory biomarkers for neurobehavioral dysregulation in former American football players: findings from the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project
Journal of Neuroinflammation 2024cited by 14position: middledoi
Examination of plasma biomarkers of amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration, and neuroinflammation in former elite American football players
Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024cited by 11position: middledoi
Substantia Nigra Pathology, Contact Sports Play, and Parkinsonism in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
JAMA Neurology 2024cited by 11position: middledoi
Cortical-sparing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CSCTE): a distinct subtype of CTE
Acta Neuropathologica 2024cited by 10position: middledoi
Duration of Ice Hockey Play and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
JAMA Network Open 2024cited by 10position: middledoi
Repetitive Head Impacts and Perivascular Space Volume in Former American Football Players
JAMA Network Open 2024cited by 8position: middledoi
Lack of Association of Informant-Reported Traumatic Brain Injury and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Journal of Neurotrauma 2024cited by 7position: middledoi
Leveraging football accelerometer data to quantify associations between repetitive head impacts and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in males
Nature Communications 2023cited by 148position: middledoi
Neuropathologic and Clinical Findings in Young Contact Sport Athletes Exposed to Repetitive Head Impacts
JAMA Neurology 2023cited by 134position: middledoi
Optimal blood tau species for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology: an immunoprecipitation mass spectrometry and autopsy study
Acta Neuropathologica 2023cited by 44position: middledoi
Neuropsychological test performance of former American football players
Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2023cited by 33position: middledoi
Cross‐sectional and longitudinal evaluation of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein to detect and predict clinical syndromes of Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring 2023cited by 31position: middledoi
Relative Contributions of Mixed Pathologies to Cognitive and Functional Symptoms in Brain Donors Exposed to Repetitive Head Impacts
Annals of Neurology 2023cited by 29position: middledoi
American Football Play and Parkinson Disease Among Men
JAMA Network Open 2023cited by 26position: middledoi
Amyloid PET across the cognitive spectrum in former professional and college American football players: findings from the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project
Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2023cited by 22position: firstdoi
Decreased myelin proteins in brain donors exposed to football-related repetitive head impacts
Brain Communications 2023cited by 21position: middledoi
Flortaucipir tau PET findings from former professional and college American football players in the DIAGNOSE CTE research project
Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023cited by 16position: middledoi
Severe CTE and TDP-43 pathology in a former professional soccer player with dementia: a clinicopathological case report and review of the literature
Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2023cited by 15position: middledoi
Sex Differences on Tau, Astrocytic and Neurodegeneration Plasma Biomarkers
Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023cited by 4position: middledoi
<i>MAPT</i> subhaplotypes and chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023cited by 0position: middledoi
Association of <i>APOE</i> Genotypes and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
JAMA Neurology 2022cited by 65position: middledoi
A comparison between tau and amyloid-β cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer disease
Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2022cited by 42position: middledoi
White matter hyperintensities in former American football players
Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022cited by 33position: middledoi
Association of Playing College American Football With Long-term Health Outcomes and Mortality
JAMA Network Open 2022cited by 29position: lastdoi
Ante-mortem plasma phosphorylated tau (181) predicts Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology and regional tau at autopsy
Brain 2022cited by 28position: middledoi
Associations between near end-of-life flortaucipir PET and postmortem CTE-related tau neuropathology in six former American football players
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2022cited by 23position: middledoi

Grants

RAPID survey of the bathymetry of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai caldera
NSF2223203$136,4822022–2023PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Magmatic and Mechanical Extension of the Challenger Deep Forearc Segment: Insights into Subduction Initiation
NSF2054555$176,9372021–2026PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Geoscience Animation: Construction, Evaluation, and Modification of Plate Tectonic Concepts for Geosciences Education
NSF1712495$139,9992017–2020PIRePORTER
Developing more realistic animations of subduction zone processes.
NSF1444954$49,9392014–2016PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: The Southeast Mariana Forearc Rifts and the Southernmost Mariana Trough Spreading Center: New Insights into the Tectonics and Magmatism of Intraoceanic Arcs
NSF0961352$205,4012010–2014PIRePORTER
RAPID: US Scientific Participation in Two JAMSTEC Cruises to Study the Mariana Arc
NSF1026150$34,2542010–2011PIRePORTER
MARGINS: Collaborative Research: Synthesis and Integration of Magmagenetic Controls for Subduction Factory Focus Sites
NSF0840794$193,0002009–2012PIRePORTER
SGER: US-Japan Collaborative Studies of Submarine Mariana Arc Volcanoes
NSF0909398$22,0812009–2010PIRePORTER
SGER for US-Japan Shinkai 6500 and Hyperdolphin ROV studies of the Mariana Arc
NSF0827817$46,1762008–2009PIRePORTER
Origin and Economic Significance of Neoproterozoic Ophiolites in the Southern Eastern Desert, Egypt: US-Egypt Joint Science Program
NSF0804749$29,9932008–2011PIRePORTER
US-Egypt Workshop: U.S. Participation in Project JEBEL Workshop; Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, October 2008
NSF0821257$27,4892008–2013PIRePORTER
Field, Remote Sensing and Geochemical Studies of Neoproterozoic Banded Iron Formation in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
NSF0509486$43,5892005–2008PIRePORTER
Mantle Inputs to the Subduction Factory: Assessing Scales of Spatial Variability along and across the IBM Convergent Margin
NSF0405651$449,8182004–2011PIRePORTER
US-Ethiopian Cooperative Research: Studies of Snowball Earth Sequences in N. Ethiopia
NSF0423639$26,9082004–2006PIRePORTER
Testing Models of Crustal Growth in the Neoproterozoic Arabian-Nubian Shield
NSF0309799$159,8012003–2005PIRePORTER
Development of a New Undergraduate Science Service Course to Attract Hispanic Students to Science: Geography, Resources, and Environment of Hispanic America
NSF0308333$69,9922003–2006PIRePORTER
US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Application of Remote Sensing/GIS Technique in Sustainable Development, Southern Egypt
NSF0204156$24,9662002–2004PIRePORTER
Collaborative Proposal: Mantle Inputs to the Subduction Factory: Assessing Scales of Spatial Variability along and across the IBM Convergent Margin
NSF0001827$388,7052000–2004PIRePORTER
U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Geochemical and Geophysical Studies of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc System
NSF9513105$41,6151996–1997PIRePORTER
Planning Visit for Cooperative Research on the Structure andComposition of the Kohistan Terrane, in Pakistan
NSF9509861$3,4851995–1996PIRePORTER
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (SITE) in Experimental Psychology
NSF9322217$130,6631994–1997PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Petrological and Geochemical Evolution of the Mariana Trench
NSF9302162$165,0001993–1996PIRePORTER
REU Site in Experimental Psychology
NSF9100507$123,4921991–1994PIRePORTER
Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Enriched Sources, Northern Mariana Arc System, Western Pacific
NSF8918481$192,3801990–1993PIRePORTER
Research Experience in Psychology
NSF9000706$35,6721990–1991PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Yorghos Tripodis · Boston University49 papers (2013–2024)Michael L. Alosco · Boston University49 papers (2016–2024)Ann C. McKee · Boston University37 papers (2012–2024)Jesse Mez · Boston University34 papers (2013–2024)Robert C. Cantu · Boston University33 papers (2012–2024)Brett Martin · Boston University32 papers (2013–2023)Thor D. Stein · Boston University26 papers (2012–2024)Neil W. Kowall · Boston University25 papers (2012–2024)Christine M. Baugh · University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus22 papers (2012–2021)Daniel H. Daneshvar · Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital22 papers (2012–2024)Christine E. Chaisson · Yale University19 papers (2013–2019)Joseph Palmisano · Boston University18 papers (2018–2024)Christopher J. Nowinski · Boston University18 papers (2012–2024)Martha E. Shenton · Brigham and Women's Hospital16 papers (2012–2021)Alexander Lin · Brigham and Women's Hospital16 papers (2012–2021)Lee E. Goldstein · Boston University15 papers (2012–2024)Inga K. Koerte · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München14 papers (2012–2021)Victor E. Alvarez · Boston University13 papers (2012–2024)Douglas I. Katz · Boston University12 papers (2014–2024)Bertrand R. Huber · Boston University12 papers (2016–2024)
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