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Overview

Alan A. Wilson is affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine and neuroscience, with significant contributions to pharmacology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, toxicology, pathology, forensic medicine, and neurology.

Their main study topics cover multiple areas including cannabis and cannabinoid research, forensic toxicology and drug analysis, alcohol consumption and health effects, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, diet, metabolism, and disease, as well as neuroscience of respiration and sleep.

Wilson has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Addiction Biology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Annals of Nuclear Medicine
  • Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Their recent notable papers are:

  • "Lower brain fatty acid amide hydrolase in treatment-seeking patients with alcohol use disorder: a positron emission tomography study with [C-11]CURB" (2020, Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • "Fatty acid amide hydrolase is lower in young cannabis users" (2020, Addiction Biology)
  • "Imaging Brain Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase in Untreated Patients With Psychosis" (2020, Biological Psychiatry)
  • "In vivo imaging translocator protein (TSPO) in autism spectrum disorder" (2022, Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • "In vivo brain endocannabinoid metabolism is related to hippocampus glutamate and structure - a multimodal imaging study with PET, 1H-MRS, and MRI" (2022, Neuropsychopharmacology)

Wilson frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Pablo Rusjan (6 joint publications)
  • Sylvain Houle (5 joint publications)
  • Rachel F. Tyndale (4 joint publications)
  • Romina Mizrahi (4 joint publications)
  • Isabelle Boileau (3 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Positron emission tomography reveals elevated D2 dopamine receptors in drug-naive schizophrenics

    Dean F. Wong;Henry N. Wagner;Larry E. Tune;Robert F. Dannals

  • Role of translocator protein density, a marker of neuroinflammation, in the brain during major depressive episodes.

    Elaine Setiawan;Alan A. Wilson;Alan A. Wilson;Romina Mizrahi;Pablo M. Rusjan

  • Effects of age on dopamine and serotonin receptors measured by positron tomography in the living human brain

    D F Wong;H N Wagner;R F Dannals;J M Links

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of encoding in episodic memory: levels of processing effect

    Shitij Kapur;Fergus I. M. Craik;Endel Tulving;Alan A. Wilson

  • Elevated Monoamine Oxidase A Levels in the Brain: An Explanation for the Monoamine Imbalance of Major Depression

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Nathalie Ginovart;Anahita Boovariwala;Sandra Sagrati

  • Serotonin transporter occupancy of five selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors at different doses: an [11C]DASB positron emission tomography study.

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Alan A. Wilson;Sandra Sagrati;Doug Hussey

  • 5-HT2 and D2 Receptor Occupancy of Olanzapine in Schizophrenia: A PET Investigation

    Shitij Kapur;Robert B. Zipursky;Gary Remington;Corey Jones

  • In-vivo imaging of Alzheimer disease beta-amyloid with [11C]SB-13 PET.

    Nicolaas P L G Verhoeff;Alan A Wilson;Shinichiro Takeshita;Liat Trop

  • Occupancy of serotonin transporters by paroxetine and citalopram during treatment of depression: a [(11)C]DASB PET imaging study.

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Alan A. Wilson;Nathalie Ginovart;Verdell Goulding

  • Increased dopamine D2 receptor binding after long-term treatment with antipsychotics in humans: a clinical PET study.

    Simone Silvestri;Mary V. Seeman;Juan-Carlos Negrete;Sylvain Houle

  • PET imaging of cortical S2 serotonin receptors after stroke: lateralized changes and relationship to depression.

    Mayberg Hs;Robinson Rg;Wong Df;Parikh R

  • Lower dopamine transporter binding potential in striatum during depression

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Stephanie Krüger;Alan A. Wilson;Bruce K. Christensen

  • Seasonal variation in human brain serotonin transporter binding.

    Nicole Praschak-Rieder;Matthaeus Willeit;Alan A. Wilson;Sylvain Houle

  • Imaging opiate receptors in the human brain by positron tomography.

    Frost Jj;Wagner Hn;Dannals Rf;Ravert Ht

  • Dysfunctional Attitudes and 5-HT2 Receptors During Depression and Self-Harm

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Shelley McMain;Sidney H. Kennedy;Lorne Korman

  • Imaging the serotonin transporter with positron emission tomography: initial human studies with [11C]DAPP and [11C]DASB.

    S. Houle;N. Ginovart;D. Hussey;J.H. Meyer

  • Radiosynthesis and evaluation of [11C]-(+)-4-propyl-3,4,4a,5,6,10b-hexahydro-2H-naphtho[1,2-b][1,4]oxazin-9-ol as a potential radiotracer for in vivo imaging of the dopamine D2 high-affinity state with positron emission tomography.

    Alan A. Wilson;Patrick McCormick;Shitij Kapur;Matthaeus Willeit

  • The D2 dopamine receptor occupancy of risperidone and its relationship to extrapyramidal symptoms: A pet study

    Shitij Kapur;Gary Remington;Robert B Zipursky;Alan A Wilson

  • High levels of dopamine D2 receptor occupancy with low-dose haloperidol treatment: a PET study

    Shitij Kapur;Gary Remington;Corey Jones;Alan Wilson

  • An Explanation for the Monoamine Imbalance of Major Depression

    Jeffrey H. Meyer;Nathalie Ginovart;Anahita Boovariwala;Sandra Sagrati

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvain Houle
Sylvain Houle University of Toronto
Shitij Kapur
Shitij Kapur King's College London
Robert F. Dannals
Robert F. Dannals Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hayden T. Ravert
Hayden T. Ravert Johns Hopkins University
Henry N. Wagner
Henry N. Wagner Penn State Cancer Institute
Isabelle Boileau
Isabelle Boileau Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Stephen J. Kish
Stephen J. Kish Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Ariel Graff-Guerrero
Ariel Graff-Guerrero Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
José N. Nobrega
José N. Nobrega Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Gary Remington
Gary Remington Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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