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  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Husseini K. Manji is primarily affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research concentrates on fields within Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Neurology, Infectious Diseases, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including:

  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis
  • Hereditary Neurological Disorders
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Parasitic infections in humans and animals

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Michael P. Lunn
  • Michael S. Zandi
  • Laura Benjamin
  • Stephen Keddie
  • Tom Solomon

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, with notable appearances in:

  • Brain
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Brain Communications
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Selected recent papers include:

  • Neurological and neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19 in 153 patients: a UK-wide surveillance study, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The emerging spectrum of COVID-19 neurology: clinical, radiological and laboratory findings, 2020, Brain
  • Epidemiological and cohort study finds no association between COVID-19 and Guillain-Barré syndrome, 2020, Brain
  • UK-Wide Surveillance of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Complications of COVID-19: The First 153 Patients, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • RFC1 expansions are a common cause of idiopathic sensory neuropathy, 2021, Brain

Husseini K. Manji has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2008.

Best Publications

  • A Randomized Trial of an N-methyl-D-aspartate Antagonist in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression

    Carlos A. Zarate;Jaskaran B. Singh;Paul J. Carlson;Nancy E. Brutsche

  • The cellular neurobiology of depression

    Husseini K. Manji;Wayne C. Drevets;Dennis S. Charney

  • New insights into BDNF function in depression and anxiety

    Keri Martinowich;Husseini Manji;Bai Lu

  • Discovering endophenotypes for major depression.

    Gregor Hasler;Wayne C Drevets;Husseini K Manji;Dennis S Charney

  • Cellular Mechanisms Underlying the Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine: Role of α-Amino-3-Hydroxy-5-Methylisoxazole-4-Propionic Acid Receptors

    Sungho Maeng;Carlos A. Zarate;Jing Du;Robert J. Schloesser

  • A Randomized Add-on Trial of an N-methyl-d-aspartate Antagonist in Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Depression

    Nancy Diazgranados;Lobna Ibrahim;Nancy E. Brutsche;Andrew Newberg

  • Targeting the glutamatergic system to develop novel, improved therapeutics for mood disorders

    Gerard Sanacora;Carlos A. Zarate;John H. Krystal;Husseini K. Manji

  • Enhancement of hippocampal neurogenesis by lithium.

    Guang Chen;Grazyna Rajkowska;Fu Du;Navid Seraji-Bozorgzad

  • Efficacy and Safety of Flexibly Dosed Esketamine Nasal Spray Combined With a Newly Initiated Oral Antidepressant in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Double-Blind Active-Controlled Study

    Vanina Popova;Ella J. Daly;Madhukar Trivedi;Kimberly Cooper

  • Efficacy and Safety of Intranasal Esketamine Adjunctive to Oral Antidepressant Therapy in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Ella J. Daly;Jaskaran B. Singh;Maggie Fedgchin;Kimberly Cooper

  • Preclinical models: Status of basic research in depression

    Eric J. Nestler;Elizabeth Gould;Husseini Manji

  • Enhancing neuronal plasticity and cellular resilience to develop novel, improved therapeutics for difficult-to-treat depression.

    Husseini K Manji;Jorge A Quiroz;Jonathan Sporn;Jennifer L Payne

  • The mood-stabilizing agents lithium and valproate robustly increase the levels of the neuroprotective protein bcl-2 in the CNS

    Guang Chen;Wei‐Zhang Zeng;Pei‐Xiong Yuan;Li‐Dong Huang

  • The role of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling pathway in mood modulation.

    Haim Einat;Peixiong Yuan;Todd D. Gould;Jianling Li

  • The mood-stabilizing agent valproate inhibits the activity of glycogen synthase kinase-3.

    Guang Chen;Li‐Dong Huang;Yi‐Ming Jiang;Husseini K Manji

  • Variation in the Gene Encoding the Serotonin 2A Receptor Is Associated with Outcome of Antidepressant Treatment

    Francis J. McMahon;Silvia Buervenich;Dennis Charney;Robert Lipsky

  • Dynamic regulation of mitochondrial function by glucocorticoids

    Jing Du;Yun Wang;Richard Hunter;Yanling Wei

  • Toward Constructing an Endophenotype Strategy for Bipolar Disorders

    Gregor Hasler;Wayne C. Drevets;Todd D. Gould;Irving I. Gottesman

  • Life stress, genes, and depression: multiple pathways lead to increased risk and new opportunities for intervention.

    Dennis S. Charney;Husseini K. Manji

  • Lithium increases N-acetyl-aspartate in the human brain: in vivo evidence in support of bcl-2's neurotrophic effects?

    Gregory J Moore;Joseph M Bebchuk;Khondakar Hasanat;Guang Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos A. Zarate
Carlos A. Zarate National Institutes of Health
William Z. Potter
William Z. Potter National Institutes of Health
Todd D. Gould
Todd D. Gould University of Maryland, Baltimore
Wayne C. Drevets
Wayne C. Drevets Johnson & Johnson (United States)
Dennis S. Charney
Dennis S. Charney Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David A. Luckenbaugh
David A. Luckenbaugh National Institutes of Health
Rodrigo Machado-Vieira
Rodrigo Machado-Vieira The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Gregory J. Moore
Gregory J. Moore Stanford University School of Medicine
Haim Einat
Haim Einat Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Francis J. McMahon
Francis J. McMahon National Institutes of Health

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