Professor, Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Neurology
Dr. Oscar L. Lopez, MD
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Oscar Lopez is an expert in the field of Neurology. Oscar Lopez is also a published physician. He has 100 paper published. The most recent paper is: Longitudinal Relationships between Caloric Expenditure and Gray Matter in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Doctor Oscar L. Lopez, MD is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease and Death, Dementia, and Coronary Heart Disease in Patients 80+ Years.
- GWAS for executive function and processing speed suggests involvement of the CADM2 gene.
- Association of Long Runs of Homozygosity With Alzheimer Disease Among African American Individuals.
- Trajectories of peripheral interleukin-6, structure of the hippocampus, and cognitive impairment over 14Â years in older adults.
- Fetuin-A and risk of coronary heart Disease: A Mendelian randomization analysis and a pooled analysis of AHSG genetic variants in 7 prospective studies.
- Quantitative Neuroimaging Software for Clinical Assessment of Hippocampal Volumes on MR Imaging.
- Risk of Dementia and death in the long-term follow-up of the Pittsburgh Cardiovascular Health Study-Cognition Study.
- Objective measures of physical activity, white matter integrity and cognitive status in adults over age 80.
- Association of Alzheimer's Disease GWAS loci with MRI markers of brain aging.
- A novel Alzheimer Disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein.
- Voxel Level Survival Analysis of Grey Matter Volume and Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment or Alzheimer's Disease.
- Genetic Determinants of Survival in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease.
- Statins and brain integrity in older adults: Secondary analysis of the Health ABC study.
- Rarity of the Alzheimer Disease-Protective APP A673T Variant in the United States.
- A genome-wide association meta-analysis of plasma Aβ peptides concentrations in the elderly.
- Genome-wide Studies of Verbal Declarative Memory in Nondemented Older People: The Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Consortium.
- Effects of Multiple Genetic Loci on Age at Onset in Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease: A Genome-Wide Association Study.
- Genetic Variation in Imprinted Genes is Associated with Risk of Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease.
- Racial differences in Gray Matter Integrity by Diffusion Tensor in Black and White Octogenarians.
- Brain Volume as an Integrated Marker for the Risk of Death in a Community-Based Sample: Age Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study.
- Regular fish consumption and age-related brain gray matter loss.
- Relationship between Systemic and Cerebral Vascular Disease and Brain Structure Integrity in Normal Elderly Individuals.
- Use of cardiac implantable electronic devices in older adults with cognitive impairment.
- Physical activity, body mass index, and brain atrophy in Alzheimer's Disease.
- Can Performance on Daily Activities Discriminate Between Older Adults with Normal Cognitive Function and Those with Mild Cognitive Impairment?
- Physical activity, inflammation, and volume of the aging brain.
- Change in inflammatory markers and cognitive status in the oldest-old women from the study of osteoporotic fractures.
- Arterial Stiffness and β-Amyloid Progression in Nondemented Elderly Adults.
- TAR DNA-binding protein 43 pathology in Alzheimer's Disease with psychosis.
- Psychotic Alzheimer's Disease is associated with gender-specific tau phosphorylation abnormalities.
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in late-life depression and comorbid mild cognitive impairment: a longitudinal study.
- Investigation of an amyloid precursor protein protective mutation (A673T) in a North American case-control sample of late-onset Alzheimer's Disease.
- Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's Disease.
- Rare coding variants in the phospholipase D3 gene confer risk for Alzheimer's Disease.
- Hyperphosphorylated Tau is Elevated in Alzheimer's Disease with Psychosis.
- Markers of cholesterol transport are associated with amyloid deposition in the brain.
- Long-term survival in adults 65 years and older with white matter hyperintensity: association with performance on the digit symbol substitution test.
- Design of a comprehensive Alzheimer's Disease clinic and research center in Spain to meet critical patient and family needs.
- Dissecting phenotypic traits linked to human resilience to Alzheimer's pathology.
- Bidirectional Relationship between Cognitive Function and Pneumonia.
- ATP5H/KCTD2 locus is associated with Alzheimer's Disease risk.
- In vivo assessment of amyloid-β deposition in nondemented very elderly subjects.
- Cognitive trajectories associated with β-amyloid deposition in the oldest-old without Dementia.
- Variants in the ATP-binding cassette transporter (ABCA7), apolipoprotein E ?4,and the risk of late-onset Alzheimer Disease in African Americans.
- Exploratory analysis of seven Alzheimer's Disease genes: Disease progression.
- Phenotypic variability in three families with valosin-containing protein mutation.
- Classification of amyloid-positivity in controls: Comparison of visual read and quantitative approaches.
- Pulmonary function impairment may be an early risk factor for late-life cognitive impairment.
- Genetic association between APOE*4 and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with probable Alzheimer's Disease is dependent on the psychosis phenotype.
- Common genetic variants in the CLDN2 and PRSS1-PRSS2 loci alter risk for alcohol-related and sporadic pancreatitis.
- Physical Activity, Brain Plasticity, and Alzheimer's Disease.
- Patterns of compensation and vulnerability in normal subjects at risk of Alzheimer's Disease.
- A pilot study of the effects of internet-based cognitive stimulation on neuropsychological function in HIV Disease.
- The growing burden of alzheimer's Disease.
- Collaborative research between academia and industry using a large clinical trial database: A case study in Alzheimer's Disease.
- White matter lesions and brain gray matter volume in cognitively normal elders.
- Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A new direction. The 2010 Jay L. Foster Memorial Lecture.
- TOMM40 poly-T repeat lengths, age of onset and psychosis risk in Alzheimer Disease.
- Concurrent Validity of a Computer-Based Cognitive Screening Tool for Use in Adults with HIV Disease.
- Genome-wide association studies of cerebral white matter lesion burden: The CHARGE consortium.
- Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's Disease.
- No association of psychosis in Alzheimer Disease with neurodegenerative pathway genes.
- Trajectory of cognitive decline as a predictor of psychosis in early Alzheimer Disease in the cardiovascular health study.
- The effect of midlife physical activity on cognitive function among older adults: AGES--Reykjavik Study.
- Predicting cognitive decline in Alzheimer's Disease: an integrated analysis.
- The effects of physical activity, education, and body mass index on the aging brain.
- Association of CLU and PICALM variants with Alzheimer's Disease.
- Fractal analysis of retinal vessels: peeping at the tree of life?
- Developing a national strategy to prevent Dementia: Leon Thal Symposium 2009.
- Brain structure and obesity.
- Commentary on "Developing a national strategy to prevent dementia: Leon Thal Symposium 2009." Is dementia among older individuals 75+ a unique Disease?
- Commentary on "Developing a national strategy to prevent Dementia: Leon Thal Symposium 2009." Dementia risk indices: A framework for identifying individuals ...
- Multivariate tensor-based morphometry on surfaces: application to mapping ventricular abnormalities in HIV/AIDS.
- Imaging cerebral blood flow in the cognitively normal aging brain with arterial spin labeling: implications for imaging of neurodegenerative Disease.
- Depressed mood is not a risk factor for incident Dementia in a community-based cohort.
- Creating a transatlantic research enterprise for preventing Alzheimer's Disease.
- The expanding role of genetics in the lewy body Diseases: the glucocerebrosidase gene.
- Amyloid imaging in mild cognitive impairment subtypes.
- Genomewide association studies of stroke.
- The Spanish translation and adaptation of the Uniform Data Set of the National Institute on Aging Alzheimer's Disease Centers.
- Patterns of mild cognitive impairment after treatment of depression in the elderly.
- Mild cognitive impairment and alzheimer Disease: patterns of altered cerebral blood flow at MR imaging.
- Midlife and late-life obesity and the risk of Dementia: cardiovascular health study.
- The relationship of excess cognitive impairment in MCI and early Alzheimer's Disease to the subsequent emergence of psychosis.
- Effects of image normalization on the statistical analysis of perfusion MRI in elderly brains.
- Localized measures of callosal atrophy are associated with late-life hypertension: AGES-Reykjavik Study.
- Ginkgo biloba for prevention of Dementia: a randomized controlled trial.
- Effectiveness and safety of donepezil in Hispanic patients with Alzheimer's Disease: a 12-week open-label study.
- Basal forebrain atrophy is a presymptomatic marker for Alzheimer's Disease.
- Abnormal regional cerebral blood flow in cognitively normal elderly subjects with hypertension.
- Dementia: is it time for a change in focus?
- Enhanced risk for Alzheimer Disease in persons with type 2 diabetes and APOE epsilon4: the Cardiovascular Health Study Cognition Study.
- Prediction of psychosis onset in Alzheimer Disease: the role of depression symptom severity and the HTR2A T102C polymorphism.
- Gene-environment interactions with cognition in late life and compression of morbidity.
- Focal atrophy and cerebrovascular Disease increase dementia risk among cognitively normal older adults.
- Ventricular volume and Dementia progression in the Cardiovascular Health Study.
- Incidence of Dementia in mild cognitive impairment in the cardiovascular health study cognition study.
- Tracking Alzheimer's Disease.
- Longitudinal Relationships between Caloric Expenditure and Gray Matter in the Cardiovascular Health Study.
Procedures Preformed
- EMG (Electromyography)
Conditions Treated
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Concussion
- Convulsions
- Dementia
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurology
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health America PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Community Blue PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- UPMC PPO
- UPMC Health Plan
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1487623518 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | LOPEZ | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | OSCAR | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 152133236 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Neurology | |
| Total Claim Count | 1099.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1487623518 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | LOPEZ |
| First Name Of The Provider | OSCAR |
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