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Armin Raznahan is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has a research profile that spans multiple disciplines within biological and medical sciences. Their body of work integrates genetics, neuroscience, and medicine, with a strong emphasis on the molecular and neurodevelopmental mechanisms underlying human brain organization and disorders.

The primary fields of study associated with Raznahan include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Medicine. Within these broad areas, their research further specializes in Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Raznahan's research topics focus on various aspects of brain connectivity and genetics, particularly:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Congenital Heart Defects Research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities

Their publication record highlights frequent contributions to several scientific journals, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • eLife

Noteworthy recent publications by Raznahan include:

  • Neurodevelopment of the association cortices: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications for psychopathology (2021, Neuron)
  • neuromaps: structural and functional interpretation of brain maps (2022, Nature Methods)
  • Transcriptomic and cellular decoding of regional brain vulnerability to neurogenetic disorders (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Individual Variation in Functional Topography of Association Networks in Youth (2020, Neuron)
  • Integrative structural, functional, and transcriptomic analyses of sex-biased brain organization in humans (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Collaboration is a notable component of Raznahan's work, with frequent coauthors including Siyuan Liu, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Aaron Alexander-Bloch, Liv Clasen, and Russell T. Shinohara.

Best Publications

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • How Does Your Cortex Grow

    Armin Raznahan;Phillip Shaw;Francois Lalonde;Mike Stockman

  • On testing for spatial correspondence between maps of human brain structure and function.

    Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch;Haochang Shou;Siyuan Liu;Theodore D. Satterthwaite

  • Development of the cerebral cortex across adolescence: A multisample study of inter-related longitudinal changes in cortical volume, surface area, and thickness

    Christian Krog Tamnes;Megan M. Herting;Anne-Lise Goddings;Rosa Meuwese

  • Neurodevelopment of the association cortices: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications for psychopathology.

    Valerie J. Sydnor;Bart Larsen;Danielle S. Bassett;Aaron Alexander-Bloch;Aaron Alexander-Bloch

  • Structural brain development between childhood and adulthood: Convergence across four longitudinal samples

    Kathryn L. Mills;Anne-Lise Goddings;Megan M. Herting;Rosa Meuwese

  • Development of structure–function coupling in human brain networks during youth

    Graham L. Baum;Graham L. Baum;Zaixu Cui;Zaixu Cui;David R. Roalf;David R. Roalf;Rastko Ciric

  • The convergence of maturational change and structural covariance in human cortical networks

    Aaron Alexander-Bloch;Armin Raznahan;Ed Bullmore;Ed Bullmore;Jay Giedd

  • neuromaps: structural and functional interpretation of brain maps

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  • Morphometric Similarity Networks Detect Microscale Cortical Organization and Predict Inter-Individual Cognitive Variation

    Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;František Váša;Maxwell Shinn;Rafael Romero-Garcia

  • Review: magnetic resonance imaging of male/female differences in human adolescent brain anatomy

    Jay N Giedd;Armin Raznahan;Kathryn L Mills;Kathryn L Mills;Rhoshel K Lenroot

  • Cortical patterning of abnormal morphometric similarity in psychosis is associated with brain expression of schizophrenia-related genes.

    Sarah E. Morgan;Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;Kirstie J. Whitaker;Kirstie J. Whitaker;Rafael Romero-Garcia

  • Performing label‐fusion‐based segmentation using multiple automatically generated templates

    M. Mallar Chakravarty;M. Mallar Chakravarty;Patrick Steadman;Matthijs C. van Eede;Rebecca D. Calcott

  • Sex differences in the developing brain: insights from multimodal neuroimaging

    Antonia N. Kaczkurkin;Armin Raznahan;Theodore D. Satterthwaite

  • Child psychiatry branch of the National Institute of Mental Health longitudinal structural magnetic resonance imaging study of human brain development.

    Jay N Giedd;Armin Raznahan;Aaron Alexander-Bloch;Eric Schmitt

  • Longitudinal four-dimensional mapping of subcortical anatomy in human development

    Armin Raznahan;Phillip W. Shaw;Jason P. Lerch;Liv S. Clasen

  • Patterns of coordinated anatomical change in human cortical development: a longitudinal neuroimaging study of maturational coupling.

    Armin Raznahan;Jason P. Lerch;Nancy Lee;Dede Greenstein

  • Studying neuroanatomy using MRI

    Jason P Lerch;André J W van der Kouwe;Armin Raznahan;Tomáš Paus;Tomáš Paus

  • Clustering autism: using neuroanatomical differences in 26 mouse models to gain insight into the heterogeneity

    J Ellegood;E Anagnostou;B A Babineau;J N Crawley;J N Crawley

  • Longitudinally mapping the influence of sex and androgen signaling on the dynamics of human cortical maturation in adolescence

    Armin Raznahan;Yohan Lee;Reva Stidd;Robert Long

  • Transcriptomic and cellular decoding of regional brain vulnerability to neurogenetic disorders.

    Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;Ajay Nadig;Siyuan Liu;Richard A. I. Bethlehem

  • Individual Variation in Functional Topography of Association Networks in Youth

    Zaixu Cui;Hongming Li;Cedric H. Xia;Bart Larsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Liv S. Clasen
Liv S. Clasen National Institutes of Health
Jay N. Giedd
Jay N. Giedd University of California, San Diego
Jakob Seidlitz
Jakob Seidlitz University of Pennsylvania
Aaron Alexander-Bloch
Aaron Alexander-Bloch University of Pennsylvania
M. Mallar Chakravarty
M. Mallar Chakravarty McGill University
Theodore D. Satterthwaite
Theodore D. Satterthwaite University of Pennsylvania
Russell T. Shinohara
Russell T. Shinohara University of Pennsylvania
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania

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