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David H. Salat is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans across medicine and neuroscience with a primary focus on cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers several major topics including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Salat has published extensively, with recent papers highlighting various methodological and clinical aspects of brain imaging and cognitive decline:

  • Resting state EEG biomarkers of cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Test-retest reliability of FreeSurfer automated hippocampal subfield segmentation within and across scanners, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Characterizing cerebral hemodynamics across the adult lifespan with arterial spin labeling MRI data from the Human Connectome Project-Aging, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Alzheimer's Disease Projection From Normal to Mild Dementia Reflected in Functional Network Connectivity: A Longitudinal Study, 2021, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • SDnDTI: Self-supervised deep learning-based denoising for diffusion tensor MRI, 2022, NeuroImage

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Salat include Meher R. Juttukonda, William Milberg, Regina E. McGlinchey, Catherine B. Fortier, and Chris Berka. These collaborations reflect an interdisciplinary approach combining expertise in neuroimaging, cognitive assessment, and clinical neuroscience.

Salat's publications are commonly found in venues such as:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • NeuroImage
  • NeuroImage Clinical

Best Publications

  • Whole brain segmentation: automated labeling of neuroanatomical structures in the human brain.

    Bruce Fischl;David H. Salat;Evelina Busa;Marilyn Albert

  • Automatically Parcellating the Human Cerebral Cortex

    Bruce Fischl;André van der Kouwe;Christophe Destrieux;Eric Halgren

  • A Hybrid Approach to the Skull Stripping Problem in MRI

    Florent Ségonne;Anders M. Dale;Evelina Busa;Maureen Glessner

  • Sequence-independent segmentation of magnetic resonance images.

    Bruce Fischl;Bruce Fischl;David H. Salat;André J.W. van der Kouwe;Nikos Makris

  • Thinning of the cerebral cortex in aging

    David H. Salat;Randy L. Buckner;Randy L. Buckner;Abraham Z. Snyder;Douglas N. Greve

  • Reliability of MRI-derived measurements of human cerebral cortical thickness: the effects of field strength, scanner upgrade and manufacturer.

    Xiao Han;Jorge Jovicich;David Salat;Andre van der Kouwe

  • The Cortical Signature of Alzheimer's Disease: Regionally Specific Cortical Thinning Relates to Symptom Severity in Very Mild to Mild AD Dementia and is Detectable in Asymptomatic Amyloid-Positive Individuals

    Bradford C. Dickerson;Akram Bakkour;David H. Salat;Eric Feczko

  • Regional and progressive thinning of the cortical ribbon in Huntington's disease

    H. D. Rosas;A. K. Liu;S. Hersch;M. Glessner

  • Regionally Localized Thinning of the Cerebral Cortex in Schizophrenia

    Gina R. Kuperberg;Matthew R. Broome;Philip K. McGuire;Anthony S. David

  • Increased hippocampal activation in mild cognitive impairment compared to normal aging and AD

    B. C. Dickerson;D. H. Salat;D. N. Greve;E. F. Chua

  • Age-related alterations in white matter microstructure measured by diffusion tensor imaging.

    D.H. Salat;D.S. Tuch;D.N. Greve;A.J.W. van der Kouwe

  • High Consistency of Regional Cortical Thinning in Aging across Multiple Samples

    Anders M. Fjell;Lars T. Westlye;Inge Amlien;Thomas Espeseth

  • MRI-derived measurements of human subcortical, ventricular and intracranial brain volumes: Reliability effects of scan sessions, acquisition sequences, data analyses, scanner upgrade, scanner vendors and field strengths

    Jorge Jovicich;Silvester Czanner;Xiao Han;David H. Salat

  • Effects of age on volumes of cortex, white matter and subcortical structures.

    Kristine B. Walhovd;Anders M. Fjell;Ivar Reinvang;Arvid Lundervold

  • Brain Morphometry with Multiecho MPRAGE

    André J. W. van der Kouwe;Thomas Benner;David H. Salat;Bruce Fischl;Bruce Fischl

  • Medial temporal lobe function and structure in mild cognitive impairment

    Bradford C. Dickerson;David H. Salat;Julianna F. Bates;Monika Atiya

  • Automated probabilistic reconstruction of white-matter pathways in health and disease using an atlas of the underlying anatomy.

    Anastasia Yendiki;Patricia Panneck;Priti Srinivasan;Allison Stevens

  • Consistent neuroanatomical age-related volume differences across multiple samples.

    Kristine B. Walhovd;Lars T. Westlye;Inge Amlien;Thomas Espeseth

  • Cerebral cortex and the clinical expression of Huntington's disease: complexity and heterogeneity.

    H. Diana Rosas;David H. Salat;Stephanie Y. Lee;Alexandra K. Zaleta

  • Regionally localized thinning of the cerebral cortex in schizophrenia

    G.R. Kuperberg;M. Broome;P.K. McGuire;A.S. David

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Fischl
Bruce Fischl Harvard University
Regina E. McGlinchey
Regina E. McGlinchey Boston University
William P. Milberg
William P. Milberg Boston University
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Douglas N. Greve
Douglas N. Greve Harvard University
H. Diana Rosas
H. Diana Rosas Massachusetts General Hospital
Mark W. Miller
Mark W. Miller Boston University
Erika J. Wolf
Erika J. Wolf Boston University
Randy L. Buckner
Randy L. Buckner Harvard University
André J. W. van der Kouwe
André J. W. van der Kouwe Harvard University

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