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Kevin P Conway

National Institute of Mental Health
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[HTML][HTML] The conception of the ABCD study: From substance use to a broad NIH collaboration

…, WT Riley, MH Bloch, K Conway… - Developmental cognitive …, 2018 - Elsevier
Adolescence is a time of dramatic changes in brain structure and function, and the adolescent
brain is highly susceptible to being altered by experiences like substance use. However, …

Literature review of methods to translate health‐related quality of life questionnaires for use in multinational clinical trials

C Acquadro, K Conway, A Hareendran… - Value in …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: We conducted a literature review to respond to regulatory concerns about the
quality of translated patient‐reported outcome questionnaires. Our main objective was to …

[HTML][HTML] Common liability to addiction and “gateway hypothesis”: theoretical, empirical and evolutionary perspective

…, L Kirisci, MD Reynolds, MJ Kreek, KP Conway… - Drug and alcohol …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Two competing concepts address the development of involvement with
psychoactive substances: the “gateway hypothesis” (GH) and common liability to addiction (CLA…

Race, breast cancer subtypes, and survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study

…, CA Livasy, LG Dressler, D Cowan, K Conway… - Jama, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
ContextGene expression analysis has identified several breast cancer subtypes, including
basal-like, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 positive/estrogen receptor negative (…

Acceleration of oligomerization, not fibrillization, is a shared property of both α-synuclein mutations linked to early-onset Parkinson's disease: implications for …

KA Conway, SJ Lee, JC Rochet… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
The Parkinson's disease (PD) substantia nigra is characterized by the presence of Lewy bodies
containing fibrillar α-synuclein. Early-onset PD has been linked to two point mutations in …

Accelerated in vitro fibril formation by a mutant α-synuclein linked to early-onset Parkinson disease

KA Conway, JD Harper, PT Lansbury - Nature medicine, 1998 - nature.com
Two mutations in the gene encoding α-synuclein have been linked to early-onset Parkinson's
disease 1, 2, 3 (PD). α-Synuclein is a component of Lewy bodies, the fibrous cytoplasmic …

NACP, a protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease and learning, is natively unfolded

PH Weinreb, W Zhen, AW Poon, KA Conway… - Biochemistry, 1996 - ACS Publications
… For each protein, K r was calculated as the slope of a plot of log R f vs % acrylamide (Ferguson
plot). A plot of K r vs MW was used to estimate an approximate M r of 20 kDa for NACP. (C…

Cognition assessment using the NIH Toolbox

…, JJ Manly, B Borosh, R Havlik, K Conway… - Neurology, 2013 - AAN Enterprises
Cognition is 1 of 4 domains measured by the NIH Toolbox for the Assessment of Neurological
and Behavioral Function (NIH-TB), and complements modules testing motor function, …

Kinetic stabilization of the α-synuclein protofibril by a dopamine-α-synuclein adduct

KA Conway, JC Rochet, RM Bieganski, PT Lansbury Jr - Science, 2001 - science.org
The substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease (PD) is depleted of dopaminergic neurons and
contains fibrillar Lewy bodies comprising primarily α-synuclein. We screened a library to …

Epidemiology of basal-like breast cancer

…, B Newman, CK Tse, PG Moorman, K Conway… - Breast cancer research …, 2008 - Springer
Risk factors for the newly identified “intrinsic” breast cancer subtypes (luminal A, luminal B,
basal-like and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive/estrogen receptor-negative…