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Nasim Sheikh-Bahaei

Title(s)Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology and Neurology
Address1500 San Pablo Street
Health Sciences Campus
Los Angeles CA 90033
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0001-7029-7215 Additional info
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    Western Neuroradiological Society2018Gabriel H Wilson Award
    Cambridge University2016EG Fearnside Scholarship
    Cambridge University Hospitals2013Charles Freer Scholarship

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    Dr. Sheikh-Bahaei is a double board-certified physician in internal medicine and radiology with subspecialty training in neuroradiology. She received her M.D. from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and her PhD on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) imaging from University of Cambridge, U.K. Her PhD was a multimodality imaging study focusing on positron emission tomography (PET), MR spectroscopy (MRS) and susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) in AD, funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
    Dr. Sheikh-Bahaei’s main research interest is the imaging biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of different neurodegenerative diseases and dementias utilizing advanced MRI techniques and PET scans with various tracers for metabolism, amyloid and tau. She is currently a Co-Investigator in the imaging core of Alzheimer’s disease research center (ADRC) at USC and working on different imaging cohorts at Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LONI) and ADRC. Her active research studies are:
    • Neurodegenerative diseases including AD, Primary Progressive aphasia and PDD/DLB.
    a. Synaptic function in Alzheimer’s disease and its association with amyloid beta and tau proteins.
    b. Interaction between the level of different neurotransmitters measured by MRS and function and density of synapses and their relationship with tractography in AD.
    c. Development of new tracers for AD and other dementias and optimizing the production of current tracers and improving the quality of PET images and establishing a semi-automated high-quality quantitative PET analysis system.
    • The role of microvascular changes (i.e. cerebral microbleeds, perivascular spaces and white matter changes) in different neurological disorders including:
    a. Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias: investigating the interaction between vascular changes and proteinopathy in AD. She was involved in developing an automated software for quantification of perivascular spaces at USC and currently working on a new atlas for normal and abnormal distribution of perivascular spaces across the life span.
    b. Migraine and other headaches, using 7T MRI to investigate the microvascular changes, perfusion and functional alteration in different types of Migraine.
    c. Normal pressure hydrocephalus, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension and Spontaneous intracranial hypotension; investigating the glymphatic system and perivascular spaces and the role of CSF clearance in various disorders associated with CSF flow impairment

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    Vascular and Connectivity changes in chronic migraines and episodic migraines without aura using ultra high field MRI
    Center for Image Acquisition PG-7TMRIFeb 26, 2020 - Feb 26, 2021
    Role: Principal Investogator
    Motor, Visual, and Olfactory Changes in Genetic Subtypes of Alzheimer?s Disease
    NIH/NIA R01AG062007Feb 15, 2019 - Nov 30, 2023
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Alzheimer Disease Research Center
    NIH 5P50AG005142-35Apr 15, 1997 - Mar 31, 2020
    Role: Co-Investigator

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    1. Body mass index, time of day, and genetics affect perivascular spaces in the white matter. BioRxiv. 2020. Giuseppe Barisano, Farshid Sepehrband, Nasim Sheikh-Bahaei, Meng Law, Arthur W. Toga.
    2. Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES): Pathophysiology and Neuro-Imaging. Frontier in Neurology. 2020; 11:463. Redmond-Craig Anderson, Vishal Patel, Nasim Sheikh-Bahaei, Chia Shang J. Liu, Anandh G. Rajamohan, Mark S. Shiroishi, Paul E. Kim, John L. Go, Alexander Lerner, Jay Acharya.
    3. Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES): Pathophysiology and Neuro-Imaging. Front Neurol. 2020; 11:463. Anderson RC, Patel V, Sheikh-Bahaei N, Liu CSJ, Rajamohan AG, Shiroishi MS, Kim PE, Go JL, Lerner A, Acharya J. PMID: 32612567.
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    4. Common Data Elements in Head and Neck Radiology Reporting. Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2020 Aug; 30(3):379-391. Rajamohan AG, Patel V, Sheikh-Bahaei N, Liu CJ, Go JL, Kim PE, Gibbs W, Acharya J. PMID: 32600638.
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    5. MR spectroscopy in Alzheimer’s disease. Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging. 2020; 9:13-21. View Publication.
    6. Advanced Imaging Techniques in Diagnosis of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES). Front Neurol. 2020; 11:165. Sheikh-Bahaei N, Acharya J, Rajamohan A, Kim PE. PMID: 32218764.
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    7. Alteration of perivascular spaces in early cognitive decline. biorxiv. 2020. Farshid Sepehrband, Giuseppe Barisano, Nasim Sheikh-Bahaei, Jeiran Choupan, Ryan P Cabeen , Malcolm S Crawford, Wendy J Mack, Helena C Chui, John M Ringman, Arthur W Toga.
    8. Image processing approaches to enhance perivascular space visibility and quantification using MRI. Sci Rep. 2019 08 26; 9(1):12351. Sepehrband F, Barisano G, Sheikh-Bahaei N, Cabeen RP, Choupan J, Law M, Toga AW. PMID: 31451792.
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    9. Nonparenchymal fluid is the source of increased mean diffusivity in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2019 Dec; 11:348-354. Sepehrband F, Cabeen RP, Barisano G, Sheikh-Bahaei N, Choupan J, Law M, Toga AW. PMID: 31049392.
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    10. Correlation of Lobar Cerebral Microbleeds with Amyloid, Perfusion, and Metabolism in Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 2019; 68(4):1489-1497. Sheikh-Bahaei N, Manavaki R, Sajjadi SA, Priest AN, O'Brien JT, Gillard JH. PMID: 30909210.
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    11. Positron emission tomography-guided magnetic resonance spectroscopy in Alzheimer disease. Ann Neurol. 2018 04; 83(4):771-778. Sheikh-Bahaei N, Sajjadi SA, Manavaki R, McLean M, O'Brien JT, Gillard JH. PMID: 29518282.
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    12. Cerebral small vessel disease in middle age and genetic predisposition to late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement. 2018 02; 14(2):253-258. Stefaniak JD, Su L, Mak E, Sheikh-Bahaei N, Wells K, Ritchie K, Waldman A, Ritchie CW, O'Brien JT. PMID: 29156222.
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    13. Current Role for Biomarkers in Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia. Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2017 Nov 14; 19(12):46. Sheikh-Bahaei N, Sajjadi SA, Pierce AL. PMID: 29134465.
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    14. Imaging Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. J Alzheimers Dis Rep. 2017 Jul 19; 1(1):71-88. Sheikh-Bahaei N, Sajjadi SA, Manavaki R, Gillard JH. PMID: 30480230.
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    15. Can MRI Visual Assessment Differentiate the Variants of Primary-Progressive Aphasia? AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2017 May; 38(5):954-960. Sajjadi SA, Sheikh-Bahaei N, Cross J, Gillard JH, Scoffings D, Nestor PJ. PMID: 28341715.
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    16. In: Saba L., Raz E. eds. Neurovascular Imaging, from basic to advanced concepts,. Anatomy of the neck artery. 2016; 1-9. Sheikh-Bahaei N., Matyz T., Gillard J.
    17. An audit of CT colonography-compliance with NICE guidelines. Clinical Radiology. 2016; 71(S1):15. Khwaja SA., Dambha F., Sheikh-Bahaei N., Pym A., Whitley S.
    18. How does juxtaluminal calcium affect critical mechanical conditions in carotid atherosclerotic plaque? An exploratory study. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2014 Jan; 61(1):35-40. Sadat U, Mercer JR, Bahaei NS, Thomas OM, Gillard JH. PMID: 23912462.
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    19. Intraplaque stretch in carotid atherosclerotic plaque--an effective biomechanical predictor for subsequent cerebrovascular ischemic events. PLoS One. 2013; 8(4):e61522. Teng Z, Sadat U, Wang W, Bahaei NS, Chen S, Young VE, Graves MJ, Gillard JH. PMID: 23626694.
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    20. In Adam A., Dixon A., Gillard J.H., Schaefer-Prokop C.M. eds. Grainger & Allison’s Diagnostic Radiology. Postoperative Spine. 2013; 1364-1373. Matyz T., Sheikh-Bahaei N., Gillard J.
    21. Critical mechanical conditions around neovessels in carotid atherosclerotic plaque may promote intraplaque hemorrhage. Atherosclerosis. 2012 Aug; 223(2):321-6. Teng Z, He J, Degnan AJ, Chen S, Sadat U, Bahaei NS, Rudd JH, Gillard JH. PMID: 22762729.
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    22. JAMA. Review of MRI Atlas of human White matter. 2012; 308(21):2280-2281. Thomas O.M., Sheikh-Bahaei N..
    23. Physics MCQs for the part 1 FRCR. 2011. Ilyas S., Matys T., Sheikh-Bahaei N., Yamamoto A., Graves M.
    24. The relation between intracranial and intraocular pressures: study of 50 patients. Ann Neurol. 2006 May; 59(5):867-70. Sajjadi SA, Harirchian MH, Sheikhbahaei N, Mohebbi MR, Malekmadani MH, Saberi H. PMID: 16634008.
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    25. Photodynamic therapy of head and neck basal cell carcinoma according to different clinicopathologic features. Lasers Surg Med. 2005 Jun; 36(5):377-82. Kaviani A, Ataie-Fashtami L, Fateh M, Sheikhbahaee N, Ghodsi M, Zand N, Djavid GE. PMID: 15965991.
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