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Overview

Dwight C. German is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, focusing particularly on neurodevelopmental disorders, dementia, and metabolomics.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Blood biomarker discovery for autism spectrum disorder: A proteomic analysis, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Targeted Metabolomic Analysis in Alzheimer's Disease Plasma and Brain Tissue in Non-Hispanic Whites, 2022, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Blood biomarkers in Down syndrome: Facilitating Alzheimer's disease detection and monitoring, 2024, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Mapping reward mechanisms by intracerebral self-stimulation in the rhesus monkey ( Macaca mulatta ), 2021, The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • Blood biomarker discovery for autism spectrum disorder: A proteomic analysis, 2024, PLoS ONE

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Virology and Viral Diseases
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

The primary fields of study covered are medicine and neuroscience. Within these fields, their subfields of study include cognitive neuroscience, genetics, epidemiology, molecular biology, and physiology.

Frequent publication venues for their research encompass:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Neurology

Dwight C. German has collaborated regularly with a set of coauthors who have appeared on multiple works, including Laura Hewitson, Jeremy A. Mathews, Morgan Devlin, Claire Schutte, and Jeon Lee.

Best Publications

  • DISEASE-SPECIFIC PATTERNS OF LOCUS COERULEUS CELL LOSS

    Dwight C. German;Kebreten F. Manaye;Charles L White;Donald J. Woodward

  • Midbrain dopaminergic cell loss in Parkinson's disease: computer visualization.

    Dwight C. German;Kebreten Manaye;Wade K. Smith;Donald J. Woodward

  • Double-knockout mice for α- and β-synucleins: Effect on synaptic functions

    Sreeganga Chandra;Francesco Fornai;Hyung Bae Kwon;Umar Yazdani

  • Midbrain Dopaminergic Cell Loss in Parkinson's Disease and MPTP‐Induced Parkinsonism: Sparing of Calbindin‐D25k—Containing Cells

    Dwight C. German;Kebreten F. Manaye;Patricia K. Sonsalla;Barbara A. Brooks

  • Decreased adult hippocampal neurogenesis in the PDAPP mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

    Michael H. Donovan;Umar Yazdani;Rebekah D. Norris;Dora Games

  • Catecholamine systems as the neural substrate for intracranial self-stimulation: a hypothesis.

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  • Activity of mesencephalic dopamine and non-dopamine neurons across stages of sleep and waking in the rat

    Joseph D. Miller;Jorge Farber;Pam Gatz;Howard Roffwarg

  • Midbrain dopaminergic neurons (nuclei A8, A9, and A10): Three‐dimensional reconstruction in the rat

    Dwight C. German;Kebreten F. Manaye

  • Reduced number of mediodorsal and anterior thalamic neurons in schizophrenia

    Keith A. Young;Kebreten F. Manaye;Chang Lin Liang;Paul B. Hicks

  • Axonal and transneuronal transport in the transmission of neurological disease: Potential role in system degenerations, including alzheimer's disease

    C.B. Saper;B.H. Wainer;D.C. German

  • Elevated serum pesticide levels and risk for Alzheimer disease.

    Jason R. Richardson;Ananya Roy;Stuart L. Shalat;Richard T. von Stein

  • 1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine-induced Parkinsonian syndrome in Macaca fascicularis: Which midbrain dopaminergic neurons are lost?

    Dwight C German;M. Dubach;S. Askari;S. G. Speciale

  • Locus coeruleus cell loss in the aging human brain: a non-random process.

    Kebreten F. Manaye;Donald D. McIntire;David M. A. Mann;Dwight C. German

  • Alzheimer's disease: neurofibrillary tangles in nuclei that project to the cerebral cortex

    D. C. German;C. L. White;D. R. Sparkman

  • The human locus coeruleus: computer reconstruction of cellular distribution

    DC German;BS Walker;K Manaye;WK Smith

  • Identification of Candidate IgG Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease via Combinatorial Library Screening

    M. Muralidhar Reddy;M. Muralidhar Reddy;Rosemary Wilson;Johnnie Wilson;Steven Connell

  • Mitochondria mass is low in mouse substantia nigra dopamine neurons: Implications for Parkinson's disease

    Chang Lin Liang;Tom T. Wang;Kate Luby-Phelps;Dwight C. German

  • Neurodegeneration in the Niemann-Pick C mouse: glial involvement.

    Dwight C German;C. L. Liang;T. Song;U. Yazdani

  • Calbindin-D28K-containing neurons in animal models of neurodegeneration: possible protection from excitotoxicity

    A. Iacopino;S. Christakos;D. German;P.K. Sonsalla

  • Primate neostriatal neurons containing tyrosine hydroxylase: immunohistochemical evidence.

    Mark Dubach;Richard Schmidt;Dennis Kunkel;Douglas M. Bowden

  • Neuronal pathology in the nucleus basalis and associated cell groups in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type Possible role in cell loss

    Clifford B. Saper;Dwight C. German;Charles L. White

Frequent Co-Authors

Kebreten F. Manaye
Kebreten F. Manaye Howard University
Clifford B. Saper
Clifford B. Saper Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Patricia K. Sonsalla
Patricia K. Sonsalla Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert H. Edwards
Robert H. Edwards University of California, San Francisco
Bruce H. Wainer
Bruce H. Wainer Emory University

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