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Ahmed A. Moustafa

Ahmed A. Moustafa

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Psychology

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51
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12478
World Ranking
5161
National Ranking
292

Overview

Ahmed A. Moustafa is a researcher affiliated with Bond University in Australia, with a multidisciplinary focus spanning psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. Their work encompasses 178 publications in psychology, 171 in medicine, and 142 in neuroscience, reflecting a broad engagement across these intersecting fields.

Their research contributions cover several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience (107 publications), clinical psychology (68 publications), psychiatry and mental health (60 publications), experimental and cognitive psychology (55 publications), and social psychology (26 publications). This multidisciplinary approach contributes to an understanding of mental health, cognitive processes, and brain function.

Key research topics addressed by Moustafa include dementia and cognitive impairment research, memory and neural mechanisms, schizophrenia research and treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, and various aspects of anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other areas of interest include neural and behavioral psychology studies and broader mental health research topics.

The researcher has published in several frequent venues, with notable contributions to:

  • Current Psychology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Brain Sciences
  • Scientific Reports

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ahmed A. Moustafa are:

  • Applications of machine learning in metabolomics: Disease modeling and classification, 2022, Frontiers in Genetics
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging, deep learning, and Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review, 2022, Journal of Neuroimaging
  • Social support, psychological flexibility and coping mediate the association between COVID-19 related stress exposure and psychological distress, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • The Impact of Different Types of Abuse on Depression, 2021, Depression Research and Treatment
  • A practical introduction to using the drift diffusion model of decision-making in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and health sciences, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology

Collaborations feature frequent co-authors such as Mohamad El Haj, Eid Abo Hamza, Hany Alashwal, Richard Tindle, and Samuel L. Warren, with varying degrees of joint publications.

In addition to journal articles, Ahmed A. Moustafa has contributed to scholarly books published by Frontiers Media, including a work on schizophrenia titled Schizophrenia: Human and Animal Studies released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Hold your horses: impulsivity, deep brain stimulation, and medication in parkinsonism.

    Michael J. Frank;Johan Samanta;Johan Samanta;Ahmed A. Moustafa;Scott J. Sherman

  • Genetic triple dissociation reveals multiple roles for dopamine in reinforcement learning

    Michael J. Frank;Ahmed A. Moustafa;Heather M. Haughey;Tim Curran

  • Motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease: A unified framework.

    Ahmed A. Moustafa;Ahmed A. Moustafa;Srinivasa Chakravarthy;Joseph R. Phillips;Ankur Gupta

  • Reward-learning and the novelty-seeking personality: a between- and within-subjects study of the effects of dopamine agonists on young Parkinson's patients

    Nikoletta Bodi;Szabolcs Keri;Helga Gabriella Nagy;Ahmed A Moustafa

  • Thinking, Walking, Talking: Integratory Motor and Cognitive Brain Function.

    Gerry Leisman;Ahmed A. Moustafa;Tal Shafir

  • The cerebellum and psychiatric disorders.

    Joseph R. Phillips;Doaa H. Hewedi;Abeer M. Eissa;Ahmed A. Moustafa;Ahmed A. Moustafa

  • Freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease is associated with functional decoupling between the cognitive control network and the basal ganglia

    James M. Shine;Elie Matar;Philip B. Ward;Michael J. Frank

  • A dopaminergic basis for working memory, learning and attentional shifting in Parkinsonism.

    Ahmed A. Moustafa;Scott J. Sherman;Michael J. Frank

  • The Application of Unsupervised Clustering Methods to Alzheimer's Disease.

    Hany Alashwal;Mohamed El Halaby;Jacob J. Crouse;Areeg Abdalla

  • Toward a unified theory of childhood trauma and psychosis: A comprehensive review of epidemiological, clinical, neuropsychological and biological findings.

    Błażej Misiak;Maja Krefft;Tomasz Bielawski;Ahmed A. Moustafa

  • Parkinson's disease as a system-level disorder

    Daniele Caligiore;Rick C Helmich;Mark Hallett;Ahmed A Moustafa

  • Homocysteine levels in schizophrenia and affective disorders-focus on cognition.

    Ahmed A. Moustafa;Doaa H. Hewedi;Abeer M. Eissa;Dorota Frydecka

  • Interactions Between Variation in Candidate Genes and Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: a Systematic Review.

    Błażej Misiak;Filip Stramecki;Łukasz Gawęda;Łukasz Gawęda;Katarzyna Prochwicz

  • A Role for Dopamine in Temporal Decision Making and Reward Maximization in Parkinsonism

    Ahmed A. Moustafa;Michael X. Cohen;Scott J. Sherman;Michael J. Frank

  • A model of amygdala–hippocampal–prefrontal interaction in fear conditioning and extinction in animals

    Ahmed A. Moustafa;Mark W. Gilbertson;Mark W. Gilbertson;Scott P. Orr;Mohammad M. Herzallah;Mohammad M. Herzallah

  • Factors underlying cognitive decline in old age and Alzheimer’s disease: the role of the hippocampus

    Wafa Jaroudi;Julia Garami;Sandra Garrido;Michael Hornberger;Michael Hornberger

  • Impulsivity and its relationship with anxiety, depression and stress

    Ahmed A. Moustafa;Richard Tindle;Dorota Frydecka;Błażej Misiak

  • Time representation in reinforcement learning models of the basal ganglia

    Samuel Joseph Gershman;Ahmed A. Moustafa;Elliot A. Ludvig

  • Mindfulness and meditation: treating cognitive impairment and reducing stress in dementia.

    Jesse Russell-Williams;Wafa Jaroudi;Tania Perich;Tania Perich;Siobhan Hoscheidt

  • Metabolic Effectors Secreted by Bacterial Pathogens: Essential Facilitators of Plastid Endosymbiosis?

    Steven G. Ball;Agathe Subtil;Debashish Bhattacharya;Ahmed Moustafa

  • Postural instability and falls in Parkinson's disease.

    Jacob J Crouse;Joseph R Phillips;Marjan Jahanshahi;Ahmed A Moustafa

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