Babak Hooshmand


PhD Student, Medicine
+46 8 690 6853
babak.hooshmand@ki.se

Babak HooshmandBabak Hooshmand is currently a PhD student at the Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, and works under the supervision of Professor. Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD. Babak is a medical doctor and in addition has a Master of Public Health, with a focus on Public Health Nutrition. His major research interest includes the association of nutritional and vascular risk factors with dementia, cognitive functioning, and structural brain changes with a focus on homocysteine and B vitamins in population based studies as well as clinical studies.

Selected publications

Hooshmand B, Solomon A, Kåreholt I, Leiviskä J, Rusanen M, Ahtiluoto S, Winblad B, Laatikainen T, Soininen H, Kivipelto M. Homocysteine and holotranscobalamin and the risk of Alzheimer disease: a longitudinal study. Neurology, 2010;75:1408–1414.

Hooshmand B, Solomon A, Kåreholt I, Rusanen M, Hänninen S, Leviskä J, Winblad B, Laatikainen T, Soininen H, Kivipelto M. Associations between serum homocysteine, holotranscobalamin, folate and cognition in the elderly: a longitudinal study. J Intern Med. 2012 Feb;271(2):204-12.

Miralbell J, Spulber G, Hooshmand B, Besga A, Mataró M, Cedazo-Minguez A, Kivipelto M, Wahlund LO. Grey matter and cognitive patterns in cognitive impaired subjects using CSF biomarker cut-offs. J Alzheimers Dis. 2012;29(4):741-9.

Besga A, Cedazo-Minguez A, Kåreholt I, Solomon A, Björkhem I, Winblad B, Leoni V, Hooshmand B, Spulber G, Gonzalez-Pinto A, Kivipelto M, Wahlund LO. Differences in brain cholesterol metabolism and insulin in two subgroups of patients with different CSF biomarkers but similar white matter lesions suggest different pathogenic mechanisms. Neurosci Lett. 2012 Feb 29;510(2):121-6.

Kivipelto M, Hooshmand B, Solomon A. Chapter 11. Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke, and Dementia. In Crawford MH, DiMarco JP, Paulus WJ, Editors. Cardiology (3rd ed.). Elsevier; Sep 2009. p. 135-154. ISBN-13: 978-0-7234-3485-6; ISBN-10: 0-7234-3485-9.

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Herlitz, Agneta
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Marengoni, Alessandra
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Darin Mattsson, Alexander
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Hooshmand, Babak
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Caracciolo, Barbara
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Dahlberg, Lena
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Lövdén, Martin
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Thorslund, Mats
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Kivipelto, Miia
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Agahi, Neda
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Köhncke, Ylva
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