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Office
Neuropathology Div, Box 1194
Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gutave L. Levy Place
New York, NY 10029Fax+1 212-426-5129
Education & Training
- B. J. Medical College AhmedabadClass of 1969
Certifications & Licensure
- NY State Medical License 1993 - 2026
- American Board of Pathology Anatomic Pathology
- American Board of Pathology Neuropathology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Merit Award, Best Poster Presentation on Psychiatric Disease International Congress of Neuropathology, 2000
- Fellow College of American Pathologists, 1999
- Honorable Mention, Moore Award, Best Paper on Clinico-pathological Correlation American Association of Neuropathologists, 1997
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 283 citationsIncreased Hippocampal Plaques and Tangles in Patients With Alzheimer Disease With a Lifetime History of Major DepressionMichael A. Rapp, Michal Schnaider-Beeri, Hillel Grossman, Mary Sano, Daniel P. Perl
Archives of General Psychiatry. 2006-02-01 - 439 citationsNeurochemical correlates of dementia severity in Alzheimer's disease: relative importance of the cholinergic deficits.Linda M. Bierer, Vahram Haroutunian, S. Gabriel, P. Knott, Lorna S. Carlin
Journal of Neurochemistry. 2002-11-23 - 51 citationsContribution of Lewy body inclusions to dementia in patients with and without Alzheimer disease neuropathological conditions.Vahram Haroutunian, Michael Serby, Dushyant P. Purohit, Daniel P. Perl, Deborah B. Marin
Archives of Neurology. 2000-08-01
Journal Articles
- Cell cycle checkpoint abnormalities during dementia: A plausible association with the loss of protection against oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease [corrected]Katsel P, Tan W, Fam P, Purohit DP, Haroutunian V, PLoS One, 1/1/2013
- Characterizing Cognitive Deficits and Dementia in an Aging Urban Population in IndiaNair G, Van Dyk, U. Shah, D. P. Purohit, C. Pinto, A. B. Shah, H. Grossman, D. Perl, V. Ganwir, S. Shanker, and M. Sano, Int J Alzheimer's Dis, 1/1/2012
- Serum lipids are related to Alzheimer’s pathology in nursing home patientsLesser GT, Haroutunian V, Purohit DP, Schnaider Beeri M, Schmeidler J, Honkanen L, Neufeld R, Libow LS, Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord, 1/1/2009
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Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Age-Related Cognitive Loss in Mumbai, India, A Research Partnership 2004-2012.Purohit DP, Sano M, Batheja P, Pinto, Deshpande J, Shah AB and Jashnani J, 10th Anniversary Brain Disorders in Developing Countries Symposium, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD, 1/11/2014
- A Clinicopathological Correlation Study of Cognitive Status and Senile Plaques and Neurofibrillary Tangles in Clinically Well- Characterized Individuals of Extreme old...Purohit DP, FASEB Journal; Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting of American Association of Neuropathologists, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2008
- Clinical and neuropathologic studies of age-related cognitive loss in Mumbai, India.Purohit DP, Alzheimer’s and Dementia; 10th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and related Disorders, Madrid, Spain, 1/15/2006
Lectures
- Type-2 Diabetes, Cognitive Impairment and DementiaSir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai, India - 1/13/2015
- Single Episode of Severe Axonal Injury in Humans Can Lead to Tau Pathology Resembling Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.Portland, OR - 1/12/2014
- Direct and Indirect Impacts of Research Collaborations in Developing CountriesNIH Campus, Bethesda, MD - 1/11/2014
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Grant Support
- Mechanisms of Primary Age-Related TauopathyNIA/NIH2015–2020
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Neuropathology CoreNIH/NIA2015–2020
- Mount Sinai NIH Brain and Tissue Repository (NBTR)NIH/NIMH/NICHD/NINDS2013–2018
- Age Related Cognitive Loss In Mumbai, IndiaNational Institute On Aging2010
- Age Related Cognitive Loss In Mumbai, IndiaNational Institute On Aging2006–2009
- Age-Related Cognitive Loss In Mumbai, IndiaNational Institute On Aging2004–2005
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