Dr Julie A. Schneider is The Deborah R. And Edgar D. Jannotta Presidential Professor of Pathology and Neurological Sciences, the Director at the NIA funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) at Rush. She completed her Neurology residency at the University of Chicago and Neuropathology fellowship at Emory University. Dr. Schneider is certified in Geriatric Neurology and has a master’s in clinical research. She reviews for over 20 journals; sits on 3 editorial boards, has over 600 peer-reviewed publications and 6 book chapters. She was an invited member of the National Advisory Council on Aging (NIA). She has served on numerous academic and industry advisory boards; gives national and international lectures, and mentors scientists and clinicians. Dr. Schneider’s research explores age-related cognitive decline and neuropathology, with a focus on Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy, Hippocampal Sclerosis of Aging, and Vascular Contributions to Alzheimer’s Disease, mixed, and other dementias. She leverages her expertise in neuropathology, neurology, and epidemiology to advance discovery of basic mechanisms, risk factors, biomarkers, and prevention/treatment for Alzheimer’s and other related dementias.

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Selected publications

Kapasi, A., Yu, L., Leurgans, S. E., Agrawal, S., Boyle, P. A., Bennett, D. A., Schneider, J. A., Association between hippocampal microglia, AD and LATE-NC, and cognitive decline in older adults, Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 20, e13780, 2024. DOI: 10.1002/alz.13780.

Nag, S., Schneider, J. A., Limbic-predominant age-related TDP43 encephalopathy (LATE) neuropathological change in neurodegenerative diseases, Nature Reviews Neurology, 19, 525-541, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41582-023-00846-7.

Yu, L., Boyle, P. A., Dawe, R. J., Bennett, D. A., Arfanakis, K., Schneider, J. A., Contribution of TDP and hippocampal sclerosis to hippocampal volume loss in older-old persons, Neurology, 94(2), e142-e152, 2020. DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000008679.

Kapasi, A., DeCarli, C., Schneider, J. A., Impact of multiple pathologies on the threshold for clinically overt dementia, Acta Neuropathologica, 134(2), 171-186, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s00401-017-1717-7.

James, B. D., Wilson, R. S., Boyle, P. A., Trojanowski, J. Q., Bennett, D. A., Schneider, J. A., TDP-43 stage, mixed pathologies, and clinical Alzheimer’s-type dementia, Brain, 139(11), 2983-2993, 2016. DOI: 10.1093/brain/aww224.

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