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45471
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961
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515

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Anthony D. Wagner is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their recent publications include studies addressing various aspects of brain function and aging. Notable papers include: Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer's disease (2020, Nature); Organ aging signatures in the plasma proteome track health and disease (2023, Nature); Memory failure predicted by attention lapsing and media multitasking (2020, Nature); Cerebrospinal fluid immune dysregulation during healthy brain aging and cognitive impairment (2022, Cell); and Stress Disrupts Human Hippocampal-Prefrontal Function during Prospective Spatial Navigation and Hinders Flexible Behavior (2020, Current Biology).

Their work covers main topics including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Anthony D. Wagner frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Elizabeth C. Mormino (36 publications), Alexandra N. Trelle (28 publications), Victor W. Henderson (20 publications), Kathleen L. Poston (20 publications), and Tony Wyss-Coray (19 publications).

Their research findings have been published in a range of scientific venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 17 publications
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia - 10 publications
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences - 8 publications
  • Nature - 3 publications
  • eLife - 3 publications

Anthony D. Wagner's work spans 105 publications categorized under neuroscience and 49 publications under medicine. In subfields, 76 publications belong to cognitive neuroscience, 17 to neurology, 14 to psychiatry and mental health, 12 to physiology, and 10 to cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist has been recognized by professional societies, having been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive control in media multitaskers.

    Eyal Ophir;Clifford Ivar Nass;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Building Memories: Remembering and Forgetting of Verbal Experiences as Predicted by Brain Activity

    Anthony D. Wagner;Daniel L. Schacter;Michael Rotte;Wilma Koutstaal

  • Parietal lobe contributions to episodic memory retrieval

    Anthony D. Wagner;Benjamin J. Shannon;Itamar Kahn;Randy L. Buckner

  • Functional Specialization for Semantic and Phonological Processing in the Left Inferior Prefrontal Cortex

    Russell A. Poldrack;Anthony D. Wagner;Matthew W. Prull;John E. Desmond

  • Left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the cognitive control of memory.

    David Badre;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Semantic encoding and retrieval in the left inferior prefrontal cortex: a functional MRI study of task difficulty and process specificity

    Jonathan B. Demb;John E. Desmond;Anthony D. Wagner;Chandan J. Vaidya

  • Multiple routes to memory: Distinct medial temporal lobe processes build item and source memories

    Lila Davachi;Jason P. Mitchell;Anthony D. Wagner;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Recovering Meaning: Left Prefrontal Cortex Guides Controlled Semantic Retrieval

    Anthony D Wagner;Anthony D Wagner;E.Juliana Paré-Blagoev;Jill Clark;Russell A Poldrack

  • Dissociable controlled retrieval and generalized selection mechanisms in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.

    David Badre;David Badre;Russell A. Poldrack;E. Juliana Paré-Blagoev;Rachel Z. Insler

  • Observing the transformation of experience into memory

    Ken A. Paller;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer’s disease

    David Gate;David Gate;Naresha Saligrama;Olivia Leventhal;Andrew C. Yang

  • Medial temporal lobe activations in fMRI and PET studies of episodic encoding and retrieval.

    Daniel L. Schacter;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Cognitive control and right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex: reflexive reorienting, motor inhibition, and action updating.

    Benjamin J. Levy;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Prefrontal–Temporal Circuitry for Episodic Encoding and Subsequent Memory

    Brenda A. Kirchhoff;Anthony D. Wagner;Anthony D. Wagner;Anat Maril;Chantal E. Stern;Chantal E. Stern

  • Lobular patterns of cerebellar activation in verbal working-memory and finger-tapping tasks as revealed by functional MRI.

    John E. Desmond;John D. E. Gabrieli;Anthony D. Wagner;Bruce L. Ginier

  • Hippocampal Contributions to Episodic Encoding: Insights From Relational and Item-Based Learning

    Lila Davachi;Anthony D. Wagner

  • The Hippocampal Formation in Schizophrenia

    Carol A. Tamminga;Ana D. Stan;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Executive Control during Episodic Retrieval: Multiple Prefrontal Processes Subserve Source Memory

    Ian G Dobbins;Heather Foley;Daniel L Schacter;Anthony D Wagner

  • Integrating Memories in the Human Brain: Hippocampal–Midbrain Encoding of Overlapping Events

    Daphna Shohamy;Daphna Shohamy;Anthony D. Wagner

  • Functional MRI measurement of language Lateralization in Wada-tested patients

    J. E. Desmond;J. M. Sum;A. D. Wagner;J. B. Demb

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Randy L. Buckner
Randy L. Buckner Harvard University
Gary H. Glover
Gary H. Glover Stanford University
Wilma Koutstaal
Wilma Koutstaal University of Minnesota
David Badre
David Badre Brown University
John E. Desmond
John E. Desmond Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Alison R. Preston
Alison R. Preston The University of Texas at Austin
Itamar Kahn
Itamar Kahn Columbia University
Russell A. Poldrack
Russell A. Poldrack Stanford University

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