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Raj C. Shah, MD

Raj C. Shah, MD
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Specialty:
  • Geriatric Medicine
Board Certification:
  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Family Practice
Faculty Rank: Associate Professor
Medical or Graduate Education: University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
Residency: West Suburban Family Practice - Family Medicine
Fellowship: Rush University Medical Center - Geriatric Medicine
Clinical Expertise:
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Dementia
  • Older adult health
Research Interests:
  • Clinical trials for dementia
  • Clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease
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Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

  1. MRI-based volumetric measurement of the substantia innominata in amnestic MCI and mild AD
    George S, Mufson EJ, Leurgans S, Shah RC, Ferrari C, Detoledo-Morrell L
    Neurobiol Aging
    2011 Oct
    32(10):1756-64.
  2. Recruitment and enrollment of caregivers for a lifestyle physical activity clinical trial.
    Etkin CD, Farran CJ, Barnes LL, Shah RC.
    Res Nurs Health.
    2011 Nov 14
    doi: 10.1002/nur.20466
  3. Daytime sleepiness in mild Alzheimer's disease with and without parkinsonian features
    Park M, Shah RC, Fogg LF, Wyatt JK
    Sleep Med
    2011 Mar 7
  4. Medical foods for Alzheimer's disease.
    Shah RC.
    Drugs Aging.
    2011 Jun 1
    28(6):421-8. doi: 10.2165/11587380-000000000-00000.
  5. Musculoskeletal pain is associated with incident mobility disability in community-dwelling elders
    Shah RC, Buchman AS, Boyle PA, Leurgans SE, Wilson RS, Andersson GB, Bennett DA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
    2011 Jan
    66(1):82-8
  6. Entorhinal cortex volume is associated with episodic memory related brain activation in normal aging and amnesic mild cognitive impairment
    Trivedi MA, Stoub TR, Murphy CM, George S, Detoledo-Morrell L, Shah RC, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Gabrieli JD, Stebbins GT
    Brain Imaging Behav
    2011 Feb 17
  7. Age-related changes in the mesial temporal lobe: the parahippocampal white matter region.
    Stoub T, Barnes CA, Shah RC, Stebbins GT, Ferrari C, Detoledo-Morrell L.
    Neurobiol Aging.
    2011 Apr 1
  8. Musculoskeletal pain and incident disability in community-dwelling older adults
    Buchman AS, Shah RC, Leurgans SE, Boyle PA, Wilson RS, Bennett DA
    Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)
    2010 Sep
    62(9):1287-93
  9. Atrophy and dysfunction of parahippocampal white matter in mild Alzheimer's disease
    Wang C, Stebbins GT, Medina DA, Shah RC, Bammer R, Moseley ME, Detoledo-Morrell L
    Neurobiol Aging
    2010 Mar 30
  10. Kidney function is associated with the rate of cognitive decline in the elderly
    Buchman AS, Tanne D, Boyle PA, Shah RC, Leurgans SE, Bennett DA
    Neurology
    2009 Sep 22
    73(12):920-7
  11. Relation of hemoglobin to level of cognitive function in older persons
    Shah RC, Wilson RS, Tang Y, Dong X, Murray A, Bennett DA
    Neuroepidemiology
    2009
    32(1):40-6
  12. A population-based study of hemoglobin, race, and mortality in elderly persons
    Dong X, Mendes de Leon C, Artz A, Tang Y, Shah R, Evans D
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
    2008 Aug
    63(8):873-8
  13. fMRI activation changes during successful episodic memory encoding and recognition in amnestic mild cognitive impairment relative to cognitively healthy older adults
    Trivedi MA, Murphy CM, Goetz C, Shah RC, Gabrieli JD, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Turner DA, Stebbins GT
    Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord
    2008
    26(2):123-37
  14. Respiratory muscle strength predicts decline in mobility in older persons
    Buchman AS, Boyle PA, Wilson RS, Leurgans S, Shah RC, Bennett DA
    Neuroepidemiology
    2008
    31(3):174-80

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