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Donald G. McLaren

Donald G. McLaren

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Neuroscience

D-Index
37
Citations
6970
World Ranking
8730
National Ranking
3702

Overview

Donald G. McLaren is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Within these areas, their work has considerable overlap with subfields including Neurology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Demography, and Immunology.

The main topics addressed in their research cover a range of biomedical and neuroscience themes such as:

  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • RNA Regulation and Disease
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Gene Expression and Cancer Classification
  • Inflammation Biomarkers and Pathways
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research

Donald G. McLaren has contributed to a number of publications in various venues, frequently publishing in Neurology, which features 4 of their works. Other publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Journal of Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by McLaren include:

  • Genetic map of regional sulcal morphology in the human brain from UK biobank data (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • Rescue of in vitro models of CSF1R-related adult-onset leukodystrophy by iluzanebart: mechanisms and therapeutic implications of TREM2 agonism (2025), published in Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Mismatch between clinically defined classification of ALS stage and the burden of cerebral pathology (2024), published in Journal of Neurology
  • Interim Results on VGL101 from IGNITE: First Interventional Phase 2 Study in Patients with Adultonset Leukoencephalopathy with Axonal Spheroids and Pigmented Glia (ALSP) (S28.005) (2024), published in Neurology
  • Genetic map of regional sulcal morphology in the human brain (2021), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Throughout their career, McLaren has worked with a consistent group of frequent co-authors, including Benjamin B. Sun, Stephanie Loomis, Jeffrey M. Gelfand, Andreas Meier, and Rajasimhan Rajagovindan. Each of these collaborators has co-authored three publications with McLaren.

Best Publications

  • A generalized form of context-dependent psychophysiological interactions (gPPI): A comparison to standard approaches

    Donald G. McLaren;Michele L. Ries;Guofan Xu;Sterling C. Johnson

  • Human Amygdala Responsivity to Masked Fearful Eye Whites

    Paul J. Whalen;Jerome Kagan;Robert G. Cook;F. Caroline Davis

  • Automatic segmentation of the spinal cord and intramedullary multiple sclerosis lesions with convolutional neural networks.

    Charley Gros;Benjamin De Leener;Atef Badji;Josefina Maranzano

  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals White Matter Reorganization in Early Blind Humans

    J.S. Shimony;H. Burton;A.A. Epstein;D.G. McLaren

  • A population-average MRI-based atlas collection of the rhesus macaque

    Donald G. McLaren;Kristopher J. Kosmatka;Terrance R. Oakes;Christopher D. Kroenke;Christopher D. Kroenke

  • Cortical activity to vibrotactile stimulation: An fMRI study in blind and sighted individuals

    Harold Burton;Robert J. Sinclair;Donald G. McLaren

  • Shaped by the Past: The Default Mode Network Supports Cognition that Is Independent of Immediate Perceptual Input

    Mahiko Konishi;Donald George McLaren;Haakon Engen;Jonathan Smallwood

  • Harvard Aging Brain Study: Dataset and accessibility

    Alexander Dagley;Molly LaPoint;Willem Huijbers;Trey Hedden

  • Neurophysiology of swallowing: Effects of age and bolus type

    Ianessa A. Humbert;Michelle E. Fitzgerald;Donald G. McLaren;Sterling C. Johnson

  • Early deficits in cortical control of swallowing in Alzheimer’s disease

    Ianessa A. Humbert;Donald G. McLaren;Kris Kosmatka;Michelle Fitzgerald

  • Reading embossed capital letters: an fMRI study in blind and sighted individuals.

    H. Burton;D.G. McLaren;R.J. Sinclair

  • Microstructural Diffusion Changes are Independent of Macrostructural Volume Loss in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease

    Elisa Canu;Donald G. McLaren;Michele E. Fitzgerald;Barbara B. Bendlin

  • Longitudinal Volumetric Changes following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Tensor-Based Morphometry Study

    Kimberly D.M. Farbota;Aparna Sodhi;Barbara B. Bendlin;Donald G. McLaren

  • The influence of parental history of Alzheimer's disease and apolipoprotein E e4 on the BOLD signal during recognition memory

    Guofan Xu;Donald G. Mclaren;Michele L. Ries;Michele E. Fitzgerald

  • Amyloid Deposition Is Linked to Aberrant Entorhinal Activity among Cognitively Normal Older Adults

    Willem Huijbers;Elizabeth C. Mormino;Sarah E. Wigman;Sarah E. Wigman;Andrew M. Ward;Andrew M. Ward

  • A calorie-restricted diet decreases brain Iron accumulation and preserves motor performance in old rhesus monkeys

    Erik K. Kastman;Auriel A. Willette;Christopher L. Coe;Barbara B. Bendlin

  • Low HDL Cholesterol is Associated with Lower Gray Matter Volume in Cognitively Healthy Adults

    Michael A. Ward;Barbara B. Bendlin;Donald G. McLaren;Timothy M. Hess

  • Memory self-awareness in the preclinical and prodromal stages of Alzheimer’s disease

    Patrizia Vannini;Patrizia Vannini;Rebecca Amariglio;Bernard Hanseeuw;Keith A. Johnson

  • Rhesus Macaque Brain Morphometry: A Methodological Comparison of Voxel-Wise Approaches

    Donald G. McLaren;Kristopher J. Kosmatka;Erik K. Kastman;Barbara B. Bendlin

  • Cortical network for vibrotactile attention: A fMRI study

    Harold Burton;Robert J. Sinclair;Donald G. McLaren

Frequent Co-Authors

Reisa A. Sperling
Reisa A. Sperling Brigham and Women's Hospital
Elisa Canu
Elisa Canu Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Aaron P. Schultz
Aaron P. Schultz Harvard University
Trey Hedden
Trey Hedden Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mark A. Sager
Mark A. Sager University of Wisconsin–Madison
Julien Cohen-Adad
Julien Cohen-Adad Polytechnique Montréal
Andrew L. Alexander
Andrew L. Alexander University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dorene M. Rentz
Dorene M. Rentz Harvard Medical School
Sanjay Asthana
Sanjay Asthana University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jasmeer P. Chhatwal
Jasmeer P. Chhatwal Harvard University

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