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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society In recognition of his comprehensive determination of the organization of the thalamus and the basis for the dynamic regulation of cortical excitability
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1931 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Edward G. Jones was affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the broad field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Epidemiology, and Surgery.

The main topics in Jones's work encompassed cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, congenital heart defects research, congenital heart disease studies, aortic disease and treatment approaches, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, Williams syndrome research, and RNA research and splicing.

Jones had a number of frequent co-authors, including Shaine A. Morris, Andrew P. Landstrom, Hugh D. Allen, Jill A. Rosenfeld, and Alan C. Braverman. Their research was published in multiple venues, with recurring publications in:

  • Circulation
  • The British Journal of Social Work
  • Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
  • CNS Drugs
  • Genome Medicine

Some of Jones's recent papers included:

  • Meta-analysis of cardiomyopathy-associated variants in troponin genes identifies loci and intragenic hot spots that are associated with worse clinical outcomes (2020, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology)
  • Orexin Receptor Antagonists in the Treatment of Depression: A Leading Article Summarising Pre-clinical and Clinical Studies (2022, CNS Drugs)
  • NODAL variants are associated with a continuum of laterality defects from simple D-transposition of the great arteries to heterotaxy (2024, Genome Medicine)
  • PRDM16 Deletion Is Associated With Sex-dependent Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Mortality: A Translational, Multi-Institutional Cohort Study (2023, Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine)
  • Signal-to-Noise Analysis Can Inform the Likelihood That Incidentally Identified Variants in Sarcomeric Genes Are Associated with Pediatric Cardiomyopathy (2022, Journal of Personalized Medicine)

Throughout their career, Edward G. Jones received several recognitions including becoming a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2004 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. Additionally, they were awarded the Karl Spencer Lashley Award by The American Philosophical Society in 2001 for their work on the organization of the thalamus and the basis for dynamic regulation of cortical excitability.

Best Publications

  • Retrograde axonal transport and the demonstration of non-specific projections to the cerebral cortex and striatum from thalamic intralaminar nuclei in the rat, cat and monkey.

    E. G. Jones;Randi Y. Leavitt

  • Gene expression for glutamic acid decarboxylase is reduced without loss of neurons in prefrontal cortex of schizophrenics.

    Schahram Akbarian;James J. Kim;Steven G. Potkin;Jennifer O. Hagman

  • Intracortical connectivity of architectonic fields in the somatic sensory, motor and parietal cortex of monkeys

    E. G. Jones;J. D. Coulter;S. H. C. Hendry

  • New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons

    Javier DeFelipe;Pedro L. López-Cruz;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Concha Bielza

  • The thalamic matrix and thalamocortical synchrony.

    Edward G Jones

  • Altered Distribution of Nicotinamide-Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate—Diaphorase Cells in Frontal Lobe of Schizophrenics Implies Disturbances of Cortical Development

    Schahram Akbarian;William E. Bunney;Steven G. Potkin;Sharon B. Wigal

  • Some aspects of the organization of the thalamic reticular complex

    E. G. Jones

  • Varieties and distribution of non-pyramidal cells in the somatic sensory cortex of the squirrel monkey.

    E. G. Jones

  • Distribution of cerebellar terminations and their relation to other afferent terminations in the ventral lateral thalamic region of the monkey

    C. Asanuma;W.T. Thach;E.G. Jones

  • Numbers and proportions of GABA-immunoreactive neurons in different areas of monkey cerebral cortex.

    S. H. C. Hendry;H. D. Schwark;E. G. Jones;J. Yan

  • Altered cortical glutamatergic and GABAergic signal transmission with glial involvement in depression

    Prabhakara V Choudary;M. Molnar;S. J. Evans;H. Tomita

  • Cells of origin and terminal distribution of descending projections of the rat somatic sensory cortex

    S. P. Wise;E. G. Jones

  • The organization and postnatal development of the commissural projection of the rat somatic sensory cortex.

    S. P. Wise;E. G. Jones

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • Size, laminar and columnar distribution of efferent cells in the sensory-motor cortex of monkeys.

    E. G. Jones;S. P. Wise

  • Two classes of cortical gaba neurons defined by differential calcium binding protein immunoreactivities

    S. H. C. Hendry;E. G. Jones;P. C. Emson;D. E. M. Lawson

  • GABAergic Neurons and Their Role in Cortical Plasticity in Primates

    E. G. Jones

  • Viewpoint: the core and matrix of thalamic organization.

    E.G Jones

  • Developmental studies of thalamocortical and commissural connections in the rat somatic sensory cortex

    S. P. Wise;E. G. Jones

  • Thalamic oscillations and signaling.

    Mircea Steriade;Edward G. Jones;Rodolfo R. Llinás

Frequent Co-Authors

Huda Akil
Huda Akil University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard M. Myers
Richard M. Myers HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Jun Li
Jun Li University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Stanley J. Watson
Stanley J. Watson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
S. H. C. Hendry
S. H. C. Hendry Johns Hopkins University
Tsutomu Hashikawa
Tsutomu Hashikawa RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Schahram Akbarian
Schahram Akbarian Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Kenneth L. Casey
Kenneth L. Casey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William D. Willis
William D. Willis The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

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