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494

Neuroscience

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113
Citations
49551
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487
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Overview

Edythe D. London is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their academic work spans several domains within neuroscience and medicine, focusing heavily on cognitive and molecular aspects. London's research portfolio includes 70 publications in neuroscience and 38 in medicine, with subfields that emphasize cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, molecular biology, and genetics.

Themes prominent in London's research include functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology investigations, the influence of neurotransmitter receptors on behavior, mental health topics, genetic associations and epidemiology, heart rate variability coupled with autonomic control, and neuropharmacology.

Frequent publication venues for Edythe London's work include:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Addiction Biology
  • Neuropsychopharmacology

London has collaborated extensively with several researchers, notably Dara G. Ghahremani (24 joint publications), Andy C. Dean (15), Jean-Baptiste Pochon (11), Nicole Petersen (9), and Martin P. Paulus (7).

Key publications by London showcase a focus on neuroimaging, addiction, and psychological regulation, including:

  • A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus (2022) published in Nature Protocols
  • Mapping cortical and subcortical asymmetries in substance dependence: Findings from the ENIGMA Addiction Working Group (2021) published in Addiction Biology
  • Neural Basis of Smoking-Related Difficulties in Emotion Regulation (2020) published in The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Effects of oral contraceptive pills on mood and magnetic resonance imaging measures of prefrontal cortical thickness (2021) published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • White matter microstructure differences in individuals with dependence on cocaine, methamphetamine, and nicotine: Findings from the ENIGMA-Addiction working group (2021) published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Best Publications

  • Nitric oxide mediates glutamate neurotoxicity in primary cortical cultures.

    Valina L. Dawson;Ted M. Dawson;Edythe D. London;David S. Bredt

  • 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

  • Activation of memory circuits during cue-elicited cocaine craving

    Steven Grant;Edythe D. London;David B. Newlin;Victor L. Villemagne

  • Gender-Linked Brain Injury in Experimental Stroke

    Nabil J. Alkayed;Izumi Harukuni;Alane S. Kimes;Edythe D. London

  • Drug abusers show impaired performance in a laboratory test of decision making.

    Steven Grant;Carlo Contoreggi;Edythe D London

  • Structural Abnormalities in the Brains of Human Subjects Who Use Methamphetamine

    Paul M. Thompson;Kiralee M. Hayashi;Sara L. Simon;Jennifer A. Geaga

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

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

  • Orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction in abstinent cocaine abusers performing a decision-making task

    Karen I. Bolla;Dana A. Eldreth;Edythe D. London;Kent A. Kiehl;Kent A. Kiehl

  • Steroid Binding at σ Receptors Suggests a Link between Endocrine, Nervous, and Immune Systems

    Tsung-Ping Su;Edythe D. London;Jerome H. Jaffe

  • The neurosteroid dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate is an allosteric antagonist of the GABAA receptor

    Maria Dorota Majewska;Serdar Demirgo¨ren;Charles E. Spivak;Edythe D. London

  • Neural systems and cue-induced cocaine craving.

    Katherine R Bonson;Steven J Grant;Carlo S Contoreggi;Jonathan M Links

  • Brain metabolic changes during cigarette craving.

    Arthur L. Brody;Mark A. Mandelkern;Edythe D. London;Anna Rose Childress

  • Decision-making in a Risk-taking Task: A PET Study

    Monique Ernst;Karen Bolla;Maria Mouratidis;Carlo Contoreggi

  • Orbitofrontal Cortex and Human Drug Abuse: Functional Imaging

    Edythe D. London;Monique Ernst;Steven Grant;Katherine Bonson

  • Deficits in response inhibition associated with chronic methamphetamine abuse

    John R. Monterosso;Adam R. Aron;Xochitl Cordova;Jiansong Xu

  • Higher levels of nicotine in arterial than in venous blood after cigarette smoking

    Jack E. Henningfield;June M. Stapleton;Neal L. Benowitz;Roger F. Grayson

  • Differences between smokers and nonsmokers in regional gray matter volumes and densities.

    Arthur L Brody;Mark A Mandelkern;Mark A Mandelkern;Murray E Jarvik;Murray E Jarvik;Grace S Lee

  • Mood disturbances and regional cerebral metabolic abnormalities in recently abstinent methamphetamine abusers.

    Edythe D. London;Sara L. Simon;Steven M. Berman;Mark A. Mandelkern

  • Cigarette Smoking Saturates Brain α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors

    Arthur L. Brody;Mark A. Mandelkern;Edythe D. London;Richard E. Olmstead

  • A phenome-wide examination of neural and cognitive function

    R.A. Poldrack;E. Congdon;W. Triplett;K.J. Gorgolewski

  • Striatal Dopamine D2/D3 Receptor Availability Is Reduced in Methamphetamine Dependence and Is Linked to Impulsivity

    Buyean Lee;Edythe D. London;Russell A Poldrack;Judah Farahi

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine E. Burdick
Katherine E. Burdick Brigham and Women's Hospital
Robert M. Bilder
Robert M. Bilder University of California, Los Angeles
Russell A. Poldrack
Russell A. Poldrack Stanford University
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Ole A. Andreassen
Ole A. Andreassen Oslo University Hospital
Fred W. Sabb
Fred W. Sabb University of Oregon
Tyrone D. Cannon
Tyrone D. Cannon Yale University
Nikolaos Smyrnis
Nikolaos Smyrnis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Ingrid Melle
Ingrid Melle University of Oslo
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital

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