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Denmark
2026

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Neuroscience

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108
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39614
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593
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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2009 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Albert Gjedde is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology, and Neurology.

Gjedde's work encompasses a range of main topics such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, and Diet and Metabolism Studies.

Some of their recent papers include the following:

  • Synaptic Vesicle Glycoprotein 2A: Features and Functions, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Transcranial photoacoustic imaging of NMDA-evoked focal circuit dynamics in the rat hippocampus, 2020, Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Effects of ketogenic diet and ketone monoester supplement on acute alcohol withdrawal symptoms in male mice, 2021, Psychopharmacology
  • In Alzheimer's disease, amyloid beta accumulation is a protective mechanism that ultimately fails, 2022, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Dopaminergic Activity in Antipsychotic-Naïve Patients Assessed With Positron Emission Tomography Before and After Partial Dopamine D2 Receptor Agonist Treatment: Association With Psychotic Symptoms and Treatment Response, 2021, Biological Psychiatry

Their research has been published predominantly in journals such as Frontiers in Neuroscience, Research Square, Scientific Reports, Journal of Neural Engineering, and Psychopharmacology.

  • Dean F. Wong
  • Yoshitaka Kumakura
  • Egill Rostrup
  • Anne M. Landau
  • Anne Sigvard

Albert Gjedde has been recognized with several distinctions including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1999, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003 within the Academy of Science, and becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Consensus nomenclature for in vivo imaging of reversibly binding radioligands

    Robert B. Innis;Vincent Joseph Cunningham;Jacques Delforge;Masahiro Fujita

  • Lateralization of phonetic and pitch discrimination in speech processing

    Robert J. Zatorre;Alan C. Evans;Ernst Meyer;Albert Gjedde

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

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

  • Distributed processing of pain and vibration by the human brain.

    RC Coghill;JD Talbot;AC Evans;E Meyer

  • 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

  • Neurologic Sequelae of Domoic Acid Intoxication Due to the Ingestion of Contaminated Mussels

    Jeanne S. Teitelbaum;Robert J. Zatorre;Stirling Carpenter;Daniel Gendron

  • Unilateral transplantation of human fetal mesencephalic tissue into the caudate nucleus of patients with parkinson’s disease

    Dennis D. Spencer;Dennis D. Spencer;Richard J. Robbins;Frederick Naftolin;Frederick Naftolin;Kenneth L. Marek;Kenneth L. Marek

  • PET Studies of Phonetic Processing of Speech: Review, Replication, and Reanalysis

    Robert J. Zatorre;Ernst Meyer;Albert Gjedde;Alan C. Evans

  • Diagnostic precision of PET imaging and functional MRI in disorders of consciousness: a clinical validation study

    Johan Stender;Johan Stender;Olivia Gosseries;Marie Aurélie Bruno;Vanessa Charland-Verville

  • Calculation of cerebral glucose phosphorylation from brain uptake of glucose analogs in vivo: A re-examination

    Albert Gjedde

  • Neuronal–Glial Glucose Oxidation and Glutamatergic–GABAergic Function

    Fahmeed Hyder;Anant B Patel;Albert Gjedde;Douglas L Rothman

  • In Alzheimer's Disease, 6-Month Treatment with GLP-1 Analog Prevents Decline of Brain Glucose Metabolism: Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Clinical Trial.

    Michael Gejl;Albert Gjedde;Lærke Egefjord;Lærke Egefjord;Arne Møller

  • Elevated dopa decarboxylase activity in living brain of patients with psychosis

    J. Reith;C. Benkelfat;A. Sherwin;Y. Yasuhara

  • Cross-modal plasticity revealed by electrotactile stimulation of the tongue in the congenitally blind.

    Maurice Ptito;Solvej M Moesgaard;Albert Gjedde;Rron Kupers

  • High‐ and Low‐Affinity Transport of D‐Glucose from Blood to Brain

    Albert Gjedde

  • Lactate Receptor Sites Link Neurotransmission, Neurovascular Coupling, and Brain Energy Metabolism

    Knut H. Lauritzen;Cecilie Morland;Maja Puchades;Signe Holm-Hansen

  • Quantification of Neuroreceptors in the Living Human Brain. I. Irreversible Binding of Ligands

    Dean F. Wong;Albert Gjedde;Henry N. Wagner

  • Increased occupancy of dopamine receptors in human striatum during cue-elicited cocaine craving.

    Dean F. Wong;Dean F. Wong;Hiroto Kuwabara;David J. Schretlen;Katherine R. Bonson;Katherine R. Bonson

  • To musicians, the message is in the meter pre-attentive neuronal responses to incongruent rhythm are left-lateralized in musicians.

    Peter Vuust;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Christopher J. Bailey;Christopher J. Bailey;Titia L. van Zuijen

  • Cognitive control in auditory working memory is enhanced in musicians

    Karen Johanne Pallesen;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Christopher J. Bailey;Antti Korvenoja

  • Positron emission tomography of cortical centers of tinnitus.

    Frank Mirz;Christian Brahe Pedersen;Koichi Ishizu;Peter Johannsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Cumming
Paul Cumming Queensland University of Technology
Dean F. Wong
Dean F. Wong Washington University in St. Louis
Arne Møller
Arne Møller Aarhus University
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Hiroto Kuwabara
Hiroto Kuwabara Johns Hopkins University
Leif Østergaard
Leif Østergaard Aarhus University
Antony D. Gee
Antony D. Gee King's College London
Doris J. Doudet
Doris J. Doudet University of British Columbia
Maurice Ptito
Maurice Ptito University of Montreal
Linda H. Bergersen
Linda H. Bergersen University of Oslo

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