Yuta Katsumi, PhD
@yutakatsumi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Neurology at MGH/Harvard Medical School. Assoc Director of PET Imaging Ops in MGH's Frontotemporal Disorders Unit. We can't be friends if you're using the jet colormap in your work.
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Detecting short-interval longitudinal cortical atrophy in neurodegenerative dementias via cluster scanning: A proof of concept
Regional brain atrophy estimated from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used measure of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD), Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), a...
www.medrxiv.org
**New Preprint** We show that pooling morphometric estimates via "cluster scanning" (i.e., repeat T1w MPRAGE scans with AT = ~2 min/ea.) allows detection of cortical atrophy in phenotypically vulnerable regions in phenotypes of AD and FTLD over 3- and 6-months.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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September 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We’re offering free vaccine clinics in Boston. Vaccines are safe, effective, and protect against serious illness. Getting vaccinated keeps you healthy and helps protect your family, friends, and community.
Learn more at boston.gov/vaccine-clinics.
Learn more at boston.gov/vaccine-clinics.
If you're an ISTAART member, please consider voting for me as one of your incoming Steering Committee members for the Neuroimaging PIA! I'd love the opportunity to be part of this exciting community of scientists and shape the future of translational neuroimaging.
1️⃣ Voting is now open for the 2025-26 Executive Committee!
Please cast a vote, if you haven't done so already, for the future Neuroimaging PIA representatives:
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Please cast a vote, if you haven't done so already, for the future Neuroimaging PIA representatives:
act.alz.org/site/R?i=ylM...
June 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If you're an ISTAART member, please consider voting for me as one of your incoming Steering Committee members for the Neuroimaging PIA! I'd love the opportunity to be part of this exciting community of scientists and shape the future of translational neuroimaging.
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The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
April 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Reposted by Yuta Katsumi, PhD
One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
@evanbush.bsky.social reports at @nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
@evanbush.bsky.social reports at @nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 bra...
www.nbcnews.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
@evanbush.bsky.social reports at @nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
@evanbush.bsky.social reports at @nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
March 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
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NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts. @msnbc.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts. @msnbc.com
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Temporary restraining order issued last night for the public health-related lawsuit against HHS on Tuesday)
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
Judge Blocks H.H.S. From Terminating $11 Billion in Public Health Grants (Gift Article)
A coalition of states sued over the Trump administration’s unexpected move to cut off the funds, which they said imperiled everything from childhood vaccination programs to opioid addiction treatment.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Temporary restraining order issued last night for the public health-related lawsuit against HHS on Tuesday)
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
If you're at #CNS2025, be sure to check out the poster presentation Monday morning (D139) by our wonderful mentee Josh on flatsurfer -- our soon-to-be-released python package to create limbic-centered flat maps of the cerebral cortex. w/ @jtheriault.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If you're at #CNS2025, be sure to check out the poster presentation Monday morning (D139) by our wonderful mentee Josh on flatsurfer -- our soon-to-be-released python package to create limbic-centered flat maps of the cerebral cortex. w/ @jtheriault.bsky.social
**New Preprint** We show that pooling morphometric estimates via "cluster scanning" (i.e., repeat T1w MPRAGE scans with AT = ~2 min/ea.) allows detection of cortical atrophy in phenotypically vulnerable regions in phenotypes of AD and FTLD over 3- and 6-months.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Detecting short-interval longitudinal cortical atrophy in neurodegenerative dementias via cluster scanning: A proof of concept
Regional brain atrophy estimated from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used measure of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD), Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), a...
www.medrxiv.org
March 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
**New Preprint** We show that pooling morphometric estimates via "cluster scanning" (i.e., repeat T1w MPRAGE scans with AT = ~2 min/ea.) allows detection of cortical atrophy in phenotypically vulnerable regions in phenotypes of AD and FTLD over 3- and 6-months.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Now published in Brain! Check out the paper here: academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
November 11, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Now published in Brain! Check out the paper here: academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
***New preprint!*** We show that 18F-Flortaucipir PET signal within the canonical DMN is a relatively specific and strong predictor of clinical decline in early symptomatic patients with atypical AD clinical syndromes.
Default mode network tau predicts future clinical decline in atypical early Alzheimer's disease
medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences
www.medrxiv.org
April 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
***New preprint!*** We show that 18F-Flortaucipir PET signal within the canonical DMN is a relatively specific and strong predictor of clinical decline in early symptomatic patients with atypical AD clinical syndromes.