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Helen Barbas is a researcher affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Neuroscience, with extensive focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and related subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Neurology.

The core topics of Helen Barbas's research cover Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, and Stress Responses and Cortisol.

Recent publications by Helen Barbas include:

  • The prefrontal cortex, pathological anxiety, and anxiety disorders, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Serial Prefrontal Pathways Are Positioned to Balance Cognition and Emotion in Primates, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Organization of primate amygdalar-thalamic pathways for emotions, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • Pathways for Contextual Memory: The Primate Hippocampal Pathway to Anterior Cingulate Cortex, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • The Cortical Spectrum: a robust structural continuum in primate cerebral cortex revealed by histological staining and magnetic resonance imaging, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Helen Barbas include Basilis Zikopoulos, Miguel Ángel García-Cabezas, Yohan J. John, Mary Kate P. Joyce, and Jingyi Wang.

Helen Barbas publishes regularly in several venues, with repeated contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, Neuropsychopharmacology, Cerebral Cortex, and European Journal of Neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Architecture and intrinsic connections of the prefrontal cortex in the rhesus monkey.

    H. Barbas;D. N. Pandya;D. N. Pandya

  • Sequence of information processing for emotions based on the anatomic dialogue between prefrontal cortex and amygdala

    H. T. Ghashghaei;Claus C. Hilgetag;Claus C. Hilgetag;Helen Barbas;Helen Barbas

  • Pathways for emotion: Interactions of prefrontal and anterior temporal pathways in the amygdala of the rhesus monkey

    H.T Ghashghaei;H Barbas;H Barbas

  • Connections underlying the synthesis of cognition, memory, and emotion in primate prefrontal cortices.

    Helen Barbas

  • Architecture and frontal cortical connections of the premotor cortex (area 6) in the rhesus monkey

    H. Barbas;D. N. Pandya

  • Organization of afferent input to subdivisions of area 8 in the rhesus monkey.

    H Barbas;H Barbas;M M Mesulam;M M Mesulam

  • Anatomic organization of basoventral and mediodorsal visual recipient prefrontal regions in the rhesus monkey.

    H. Barbas

  • Topographically specific hippocampal projections target functionally distinct prefrontal areas in the rhesus monkey

    Helen Barbas;Gene J. Blatt

  • Cortical structure predicts the pattern of corticocortical connections.

    H Barbas;N Rempel-Clower

  • Serial Pathways from Primate Prefrontal Cortex to Autonomic Areas May Influence Emotional Expression

    Helen Barbas;Helen Barbas;Subhash Saha;Nancy Rempel-Clower;Troy Ghashghaei

  • General cortical and special prefrontal connections: principles from structure to function.

    Helen Barbas

  • Anatomic basis of cognitive-emotional interactions in the primate prefrontal cortex.

    H Barbas

  • CORTICAL AFFERENT INPUT TO THE PRINCIPALS REGION OF THE RHESUS MONKEY

    Helen Barbas;Helen Barbas;M M Mesulam;M M Mesulam

  • Changes in prefrontal axons may disrupt the network in autism.

    Basilis Zikopoulos;Helen Barbas

  • Projections from the amygdala to basoventral and mediodorsal prefrontal regions in the rhesus monkey.

    H. Barbas;J. de Olmos

  • Additional Factors Influencing Sensitivity in the Tetramethyl Benzidine Method for Horseradish Peroxidase Neurohistochemistry

    M M Mesulam;E Hegarty;H Barbas;K A Carson

  • Prefrontal projections to the thalamic reticular nucleus form a unique circuit for attentional mechanisms.

    Basilis Zikopoulos;Helen Barbas

  • Pattern in the laminar origin of corticocortical connections

    H. Barbas

  • Medial prefrontal cortices are unified by common connections with superior temporal cortices and distinguished by input from memory-related areas in the rhesus monkey.

    H. Barbas;H. Ghashghaei;S.M. Dombrowski;N.L. Rempel-Clower

  • Altered neural connectivity in excitatory and inhibitory cortical circuits in autism

    Basilis Zikopoulos;Helen Barbas

  • Organization of cortical afferent input to orbitofrontal areas in the rhesus monkey.

    H. Barbas

Frequent Co-Authors

Claus C. Hilgetag
Claus C. Hilgetag University of Hamburg
Deepak N. Pandya
Deepak N. Pandya Boston University
M.-Marsel Mesulam
M.-Marsel Mesulam Northwestern University
Alan Peters
Alan Peters Boston University
Clifford B. Saper
Clifford B. Saper Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Brett D. Mensh
Brett D. Mensh Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Brent A. Vogt
Brent A. Vogt Boston University
Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp Washington State University
Michael C. Anderson
Michael C. Anderson University of Cambridge

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