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Overview

David C. Glahn is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the biological and medical sciences, with a focus on genetics, neuroimaging, and psychiatry. The main fields of study in their work include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine.

The subfields of study that characterize their research include Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Molecular Biology. Their work addresses a range of scientific topics such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

David C. Glahn has authored numerous papers published in frequent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, Human Brain Mapping, European Neuropsychopharmacology, and Molecular Psychiatry. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan, 2022, Nature
  • A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes, 2023, Nature
  • Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use, 2022, Nature
  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years, 2021, Human Brain Mapping

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Laura Almasy
  • John Blangero
  • Sébastien Jacquemont
  • Paul M. Thompson
  • Amanda Rodrigue

Best Publications

  • Correspondence of the brain's functional architecture during activation and rest.

    Stephen M. Smith;Peter T. Fox;Karla L. Miller;David C. Glahn

  • Meta-analytic evidence for a superordinate cognitive control network subserving diverse executive functions

    Tara A. Niendam;Angela R. Laird;Kimberly L. Ray;Y. Monica Dean

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • Meta-analysis of 41 Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Executive Function in Schizophrenia

    Michael J. Minzenberg;Angela R. Laird;Sarah Thelen;Cameron S. Carter

  • Cortical Thickness or Grey Matter Volume? The Importance of Selecting the Phenotype for Imaging Genetics Studies

    Anderson M. Winkler;Peter V. Kochunov;John Blangero;Laura Almasy

  • Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium

    T. G M van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • Behavioral interpretations of intrinsic connectivity networks

    Angela R. Laird;P. Mickle Fox;Simon B. Eickhoff;Jessica A. Turner

  • ALE meta-analysis: Controlling the false discovery rate and performing statistical contrasts

    Angela R. Laird;P. Mickle Fox;Cathy J. Price;David C. Glahn

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder : An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

    D P Hibar;L T Westlye;L T Westlye;N T Doan;N T Doan;N Jahanshad

  • Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

    Gail Davies;Max Lam;Sarah E. Harris;Joey W. Trampush

  • Beyond hypofrontality: A quantitative meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of working memory in schizophrenia

    David C. Glahn;J. Daniel Ragland;Adir Abramoff;Jennifer Barrett

  • Meta-analysis of gray matter anomalies in schizophrenia: application of anatomic likelihood estimation and network analysis.

    David C. Glahn;Angela R. Laird;Ian Ellison-Wright;Sarah M. Thelen

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

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

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • The anatomy of first-episode and chronic schizophrenia: an anatomical likelihood estimation meta-analysis.

    M.R.C.P. Ian Ellison-Wright;David C. Glahn;Angela R. Laird;B.S. Sarah M. Thelen

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Investigating the Functional Heterogeneity of the Default Mode Network Using Coordinate-Based Meta-Analytic Modeling

    Angela R. Laird;Simon B. Eickhoff;Karl Li;Donald A. Robin

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Erratum: Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) DOI:10.1038/mp.2015.63)

    T. G.M. Van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

Frequent Co-Authors

John Blangero
John Blangero The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Peter T. Fox
Peter T. Fox The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Anderson M. Winkler
Anderson M. Winkler National Institutes of Health
Neda Jahanshad
Neda Jahanshad University of Southern California
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway
Emma Sprooten
Emma Sprooten Radboud University
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Laura Almasy
Laura Almasy University of Pennsylvania

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