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Overview

Hoi-Chung Leung is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily spans within the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with particular focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Imaging.

Their work centers around several main topics including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes, as well as Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments.

Frequent publication venues for Leung's research include:

  • npj Parkinson s Disease
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Brain Connectivity

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Leung are:

  • Akinetic rigid symptoms are associated with decline in a cortical motor network in Parkinson's disease, 2020, npj Parkinson s Disease
  • Functional neural network configuration in late childhood varies by age and cognitive state, 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • The Effects of Amyloid and Tau on Functional Network Connectivity in Older Populations, 2021, Brain Connectivity
  • Longitudinal corpus callosum microstructural decline in early-stage Parkinson's disease in association with akinetic-rigid symptom severity, 2022, npj Parkinson s Disease
  • Topographic Mapping as a Basic Principle of Functional Organization for Visual and Prefrontal Functional Connectivity., 2021, PubMed

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Leung include:

  • Jonathan F. O'Rawe
  • Lea R. Dougherty
  • Daniel N. Klein
  • Elizabeth P. Hayden
  • Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam

Best Publications

  • A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Bipolar Disorder: State- and Trait-Related Dysfunction in Ventral Prefrontal Cortices

    Hilary P. Blumberg;Hoi-Chung Leung;Pawel Skudlarski;Cheryl M. Lacadie

  • An Event-related Functional MRI Study of the Stroop Color Word Interference Task

    Hoi-Chung Leung;Pawel Skudlarski;James C. Gatenby;Bradley S. Peterson

  • An event-related functional MRI study comparing interference effects in the Simon and Stroop tasks.

    Bradley S Peterson;Michael J Kane;Gerianne M Alexander;Cheryl Lacadie

  • An FMRI Stroop task study of ventromedial prefrontal cortical function in pathological gamblers.

    Marc N. Potenza;Hoi-Chung Leung;Hilary P. Blumberg;Bradley S. Peterson

  • Sustained Mnemonic Response in the Human Middle Frontal Gyrus during On-Line Storage of Spatial Memoranda

    H.-C. Leung;J. C. Gore;P. S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Frontostriatal abnormalities in adolescents with bipolar disorder: preliminary observations from functional MRI.

    Hilary P. Blumberg;Andrés Martin;Joan Kaufman;Hoi Chung Leung

  • Frontal activations associated with accessing and evaluating information in working memory: an fMRI study

    John X Zhang;Hoi-Chung Leung;Marcia K Johnson

  • Common and Differential Ventrolateral Prefrontal Activity during Inhibition of Hand and Eye Movements

    Hoi-Chung Leung;Weidong Cai

  • A Stimulus-Driven Approach to Object Identity and Location Processing in the Human Brain

    René Marois;Hoi-Chung Leung;John C. Gore

  • The impact of NMDA receptor blockade on human working memory-related prefrontal function and connectivity.

    Naomi R. Driesen;Gregory McCarthy;Zubin Bhagwagar;Zubin Bhagwagar;Michael H. Bloch

  • Impairment of working memory maintenance and response in schizophrenia: Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence.

    Naomi R. Driesen;Naomi R. Driesen;Hoi Chung Leung;Vincent D. Calhoun;R. Todd Constable

  • Prediction of complex two-dimensional trajectories by a cerebellar model of smooth pursuit eye movement

    R. E. Kettner;S. Mahamud;H.-C. Leung;N. Sitkoff

  • Changes in functional connectivity of human MT/V5 with visual motion input.

    Michelle Hampson;Ingrid R. Olson;Hoi-Chung Leung;Pawel Skudlarski

  • Functional architecture of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in monkeys and humans

    Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic;Hoi-Chung Leung

  • The effect of memory load on cortical activity in the spatial working memory circuit.

    Hoi-Chung Leung;David Seelig;John C. Gore

  • Rule-Guided Executive Control of Response Inhibition: Functional Topography of the Inferior Frontal Cortex

    Weidong Cai;Weidong Cai;Hoi-Chung Leung

  • Resting-state functional connectivity of the striatum in early-stage Parkinson's disease: Cognitive decline and motor symptomatology.

    Peter Manza;Sheng Zhang;Chiang-Shan R. Li;Hoi-Chung Leung

  • Alterations in visual cortical activation and connectivity with prefrontal cortex during working memory updating in major depressive disorder

    Thang M. Le;John A. Borghi;Autumn J. Kujawa;Daniel N. Klein

  • Alpha Power Gates Relevant Information during Working Memory Updating

    Peter Manza;Chui Luen Vera Hau;Hoi-Chung Leung

  • Neuronal representation of occluded objects in the human brain.

    Ingrid R Olson;J Christopher Gatenby;Hoi Chung Leung;Pawel Skudlarski

  • Research report An event-related functional MRI study comparing interference effects in the Simon and Stroop tasks

    Bradley S. Peterson;Michael J. Kane;Gerianne M. Alexander;Cheryl Lacadie

Frequent Co-Authors

Pawel Skudlarski
Pawel Skudlarski Yale University
Chiang-shan R. Li
Chiang-shan R. Li Yale University
Sheng Zhang
Sheng Zhang Yale University
Hilary P. Blumberg
Hilary P. Blumberg Yale University
Daniel N. Klein
Daniel N. Klein Stony Brook University
Ingrid R. Olson
Ingrid R. Olson Temple University
Roman Kotov
Roman Kotov Stony Brook University
Gerianne M. Alexander
Gerianne M. Alexander Texas A&M University
Gregory J. Zelinsky
Gregory J. Zelinsky Stony Brook University

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