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A Systematic Approach for Variable Selection With Random Forests: Achieving Stable Variable Importance Values by Behnamian, Amir, Millard, Koreen, Banks, Sarah N., White, Lori, Richardson, Murray, Pasher, Jon

“…Random Forests variable importance measures are often used to rank variables by their relevance to a classification problem and subsequently reduce the number…”
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Sex differences for phenotype in pathologically defined dementia with Lewy bodies by Bayram, Ece, Coughlin, David G, Banks, Sarah J, Litvan, Irene

“…IntroductionSex differences in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) have been reported in clinically defined cohorts; however, clinical diagnostic accuracy in DLB…”
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Risk of impairment in cognitive instrumental activities of daily living for sexual and gender minority adults with reported Parkinson's disease by Bayram, Ece, Banks, Sarah J

“…To investigate the risk of impairment in cognitive instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) for people with Parkinson's (PwP) identifying as sexual…”
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome by Katz, Douglas I., Bernick, Charles, Dodick, David W., Mez, Jesse, Mariani, Megan L., Adler, Charles H., Alosco, Michael L., Balcer, Laura J., Banks, Sarah J., Barr, William B., Brody, David L., Cantu, Robert C., Dams-O'Connor, Kristen, Geda, Yonas E., Jordan, Barry D., McAllister, Thomas W., Peskind, Elaine R., Petersen, Ronald C., Wethe, Jennifer V., Zafonte, Ross D., Foley, Éimear M., Babcock, Debra J., Koroshetz, Walter J., Tripodis, Yorghos, McKee, Ann C., Shenton, Martha E., Cummings, Jeffrey L., Reiman, Eric M., Stern, Robert A.

“…To develop evidence-informed, expert consensus research diagnostic criteria for traumatic encephalopathy syndrome (TES), the clinical disorder associated with…”
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Sex differences in plasma p-tau181 associations with Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, cognitive decline, and clinical progression by Tsiknia, Amaryllis A., Edland, Steven D., Sundermann, Erin E., Reas, Emilie T., Brewer, James B., Galasko, Douglas, Banks, Sarah J.

“…Studies have shown that women on the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) continuum have more pathological tau in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), than men. Some…”
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Personal Protection of Permethrin-Treated Clothing against Aedes aegypti, the Vector of Dengue and Zika Virus, in the Laboratory by Orsborne, James, DeRaedt Banks, Sarah, Hendy, Adam, Gezan, Salvador A, Kaur, Harparkash, Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Lindsay, Steve W, Logan, James G

“…The dengue and Zika viruses are primarily transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which are most active during day light hours and feed both in and outside of…”
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Non-motor predictors of freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease by Banks, Sarah J., Bayram, Ece, Shan, Guogen, LaBelle, Denise R., Bluett, Brent

“…•Parkinson’s disease with freezing of gait is associated with sleep and mood problems.•Non-motor Parkinson’s disease symptoms can predict freezing of gait…”
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Verbal and non-verbal memory and hippocampal volumes in a memory clinic population by Bonner-Jackson, Aaron, Mahmoud, Shamseldeen, Miller, Justin, Banks, Sarah J

“…Better characterization of the relationship between episodic memory and hippocampal volumes is crucial in early detection of neurodegenerative disease. We…”
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Sleep quality and sleep duration predict brain microstructure among community-dwelling older adults by Tsiknia, Amaryllis A., Parada, Humberto, Banks, Sarah J., Reas, Emilie T.

“…•Examined associations of prior sleep patterns with late-life brain microstructure.•Poor sleep quality predicted abnormal brain microstructure, more strongly…”
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Repeated head trauma is associated with smaller thalamic volumes and slower processing speed: the Professional Fighters' Brain Health Study by Bernick, Charles, Banks, Sarah J, Shin, Wanyong, Obuchowski, Nancy, Butler, Sam, Noback, Michael, Phillips, Michael, Lowe, Mark, Jones, Stephen, Modic, Michael

“…Cumulative head trauma may alter brain structure and function. We explored the relationship between exposure variables, cognition and MRI brain structural…”
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Amygdala-frontal connectivity during emotion regulation by Banks, Sarah J., Eddy, Kamryn T., Angstadt, Mike, Nathan, Pradeep J., Phan, K. Luan

“…Successful control of affect partly depends on the capacity to modulate negative emotional responses through the use of cognitive strategies (i.e.,…”
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Canadian Wetland Inventory using Google Earth Engine: The First Map and Preliminary Results by Amani, Meisam, Mahdavi, Sahel, Afshar, Majid, Brisco, Brian, Huang, Weimin, Mohammad Javad Mirzadeh, Sayyed, White, Lori, Banks, Sarah, Montgomery, Joshua, Hopkinson, Christopher

“…Although wetlands provide valuable services to humans and the environment and cover a large portion of Canada, there is currently no Canada-wide wetland…”
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Sex differences in the association between tau PET and cognitive performance in a non‐Hispanic White cohort with preclinical AD by Wang, Xin, Sundermann, Erin E., Buckley, Rachel F., Banks, Sarah J.

“…INTRODUCTION We investigated how the associations between tau and cognitive measures differ by sex in the preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) stage. METHODS A…”
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Sex-dependent autosomal effects on clinical progression of Alzheimer's disease by Fan, Chun Chieh, Banks, Sarah J, Thompson, Wesley K, Chen, Chi-Hua, McEvoy, Linda K, Tan, Chin Hong, Kukull, Walter, Bennett, David A, Farrer, Lindsay A, Mayeux, Richard, Schellenberg, Gerard D, Andreassen, Ole A, Desikan, Rahul, Dale, Anders M

“…Sex differences in the manifestations of Alzheimer's disease are under intense investigation. Despite the emerging importance of polygenic predictions for…”
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Enrichment for clinical trials of early AD: Combining genetic risk factors and plasma p-tau as screening instruments by Wang, Xin, Wang, Xinran, Edland, Steven D, Broce, Iris J, Dale, Anders M, Banks, Sarah J

“…Identifying low-cost, minimally-invasive screening instruments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) trial enrichment will improve the efficiency of AD trials. A total…”
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The Second Generation Canadian Wetland Inventory Map at 10 Meters Resolution Using Google Earth Engine by Masoud Mahdianpari, Brian Brisco, Jean Elizabeth Granger, Fariba Mohammadimanesh, Bahram Salehi, Sarah Banks, Saeid Homayouni, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Qihao Weng

“…Recently, there has been a significant increase in efforts to better inventory and manage important ecosystems across Canada using advanced remote sensing…”
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Sex differences in Alzheimer's-related Tau biomarkers and a mediating effect of testosterone by Sundermann, Erin E, Panizzon, Matthew S, Chen, Xu, Andrews, Murray, Galasko, Douglas, Banks, Sarah J

“…Women show greater pathological Tau biomarkers than men along the Alzheimer's disease (AD) continuum, particularly among apolipoprotein ε-E4 (APOE4) carriers;…”
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Effects of Spiritual Care on Well-Being of Intensive Care Family Surrogates: A Clinical Trial by Torke, Alexia M., Varner-Perez, Shelley E., Burke, Emily S., Taylor, Tracy A., Slaven, James E., Kozinski, Kathryn L., Maiko, Saneta M., Pfeffer, Bruce J., Banks, Sarah K.

“…Critical illness of a family member is associated with high emotional and spiritual distress and difficult medical decisions. To determine if a semistructured…”
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Understanding white matter structural connectivity differences between cognitively impaired and nonimpaired active professional fighters by Mishra, Virendra R., Sreenivasan, Karthik R., Zhuang, Xiaowei, Yang, Zhengshi, Cordes, Dietmar, Banks, Sarah J., Bernick, Charles

“…Long‐term traumatic brain injury due to repeated head impacts (RHI) has been shown to be a risk factor for neurodegenerative disorders, characterized by a loss…”
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Sex differences in Alzheimer's disease: do differences in tau explain the verbal memory gap? by Banks, Sarah J., Andrews, Murray J., Digma, Leonardino, Madsen, John, Reas, Emilie T., Caldwell, Jessica Z.K., McEvoy, Linda K., Fan, Chun Chieh, Dale, Anders M., Brewer, James B.

“…To determine if sex differences in verbal memory in AD are related to differences in extent or distribution of pathological tau, we studied 275 participants…”
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