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21965
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2484
National Ranking
1177

Overview

Darren R. Gitelman is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions in the subfields of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Gitelman's work addresses several important topics, including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Their recent publications include:

  • Study design and methods: U.S. study to protect brain health through lifestyle intervention to reduce risk (U.S. POINTER), 2023, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Structured vs Self-Guided Multidomain Lifestyle Interventions for Global Cognitive Function, 2025, JAMA
  • Optimizing quantification of MK6240 tau PET in unimpaired older adults, 2022, NeuroImage
  • Cognitive Impairment in Aging Physicians, 2020, Neurology Clinical Practice
  • U.S. POINTER (USA), 2020, Alzheimer s & Dementia

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gitelman include:

  • Laura D. Baker
  • Heather M. Snyder
  • Mark A. Espeland
  • Rachel A. Whitmer
  • Laura Lovato

Gitelman's research has been published most often in the following venues:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Innovation in Aging
  • UNC Libraries
  • JAMA
  • NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • Chronic Back Pain Is Associated with Decreased Prefrontal and Thalamic Gray Matter Density

    A. Vania Apkarian;Yamaya Sosa;Sreepadma Sonty;Robert M. Levy

  • Functional localization of the system for visuospatial attention using positron emission tomography.

    A. C. Nobre;G. N. Sebestyen;D. R. Gitelman;M. M. Mesulam

  • Dissociation of neural representation of intensity and affective valuation in human gustation.

    Dana M Small;Michael D Gregory;Y.Erica Mak;Darren Gitelman

  • Modeling regional and psychophysiologic interactions in fMRI: the importance of hemodynamic deconvolution.

    Darren R. Gitelman;William D. Penny;John Ashburner;Karl J. Friston

  • A large-scale distributed network for covert spatial attention: further anatomical delineation based on stringent behavioural and cognitive controls.

    Darren R. Gitelman;Anna C. Nobre;Anna C. Nobre;Todd B. Parrish;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Neuroanatomic Overlap of Working Memory and Spatial Attention Networks: A Functional MRI Comparison within Subjects

    Kevin S. LaBar;Darren R. Gitelman;Todd B. Parrish;M.-Marsel Mesulam

  • Trajectories of cholinergic pathways within the cerebral hemispheres of the human brain.

    Nathan R. Selden;Darren R. Gitelman;Noriko Salamon-Murayama;Todd B. Parrish

  • Covert visual spatial orienting and saccades: overlapping neural systems.

    A C Nobre;A C Nobre;Gitelman;E C Dias;M M Mesulam

  • Hunger selectively modulates corticolimbic activation to food stimuli in humans.

    Kevin S. LaBar;Darren R. Gitelman;Todd B. Parrish;Yun Hee Kim

  • The large-scale neural network for spatial attention displays multifunctional overlap but differential asymmetry.

    Yun Hee Kim;Darren R. Gitelman;Anna C. Nobre;Todd B. Parrish

  • Neural development of selective attention and response inhibition.

    James R. Booth;Douglas D. Burman;Joel R. Meyer;Zhang Lei

  • Larger deficits in brain networks for response inhibition than for visual selective attention in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

    James R. Booth;James R. Booth;Douglas D. Burman;Joel R. Meyer;Zhang Lei

  • Functional Anatomy of Intra- and Cross-Modal Lexical Tasks

    James R. Booth;Douglas D. Burman;Joel R. Meyer;Darren R. Gitelman

  • Experience-dependent neural integration of taste and smell in the human brain.

    Dana M. Small;Joel Voss;Y. Erica Mak;Katharine B. Simmons

  • The posterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex mediate the anticipatory allocation of spatial attention.

    Dana M. Small;Darren R. Gitelman;Michael D. Gregory;Anna Christina Nobre;Anna Christina Nobre

  • Modality independence of word comprehension.

    James R. Booth;Douglas D. Burman;Joel R. Meyer;Darren R. Gitelman

  • Development of Brain Mechanisms for Processing Orthographic and Phonologic Representations

    James R. Booth;Douglas D. Burman;Joel R. Meyer;Darren R. Gitelman

  • Orienting Attention Based on Long-Term Memory Experience

    Jennifer Jane Summerfield;Jöran Lepsien;Darren R. Gitelman;Marsel M. Mesulam

  • ILAB: A program for postexperimental eye movement analysis

    Darren R. Gitelman

  • Attention to Odor Modulates Thalamocortical Connectivity in the Human Brain

    Jane Plailly;James D. Howard;Darren R. Gitelman;Jay A. Gottfried

  • The Spatial Attention Network Interacts with Limbic and Monoaminergic Systems to Modulate Motivation-Induced Attention Shifts

    Aprajita Mohanty;Darren R. Gitelman;Dana M. Small;M. Marsel Mesulam

Frequent Co-Authors

M.-Marsel Mesulam
M.-Marsel Mesulam Northwestern University
Todd B. Parrish
Todd B. Parrish Northwestern University
Anna C. Nobre
Anna C. Nobre Yale University
Kevin S. LaBar
Kevin S. LaBar Duke University
James R. Booth
James R. Booth Vanderbilt University
Sandra Weintraub
Sandra Weintraub Northwestern University
Dana M. Small
Dana M. Small McGill University
Paul J. Reber
Paul J. Reber Northwestern University
Cynthia K. Thompson
Cynthia K. Thompson Northwestern University

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