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Overview

Jakob Seidlitz is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant number of publications in related subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their work covers several main research topics, including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks.

Jakob Seidlitz has contributed to numerous scientific articles. Some of the more recent papers include:

  • "Brain charts for the human lifespan" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Neurodevelopment of the association cortices: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications for psychopathology" (2021), published in Neuron
  • "neuromaps: structural and functional interpretation of brain maps" (2022), published in Nature Methods
  • "Transcriptomic and cellular decoding of regional brain vulnerability to neurogenetic disorders" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Cortical structural differences in major depressive disorder correlate with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures" (2021), published in Nature Communications

Jakob Seidlitz frequently collaborates with a group of researchers, including:

  • Richard A.I. Bethlehem
  • Aaron Alexander-Bloch
  • Edward T. Bullmore
  • Theodore D. Satterthwaite
  • Raquel E. Gur

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, which include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Nature Communications
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Best Publications

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • Neurodevelopment of the association cortices: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications for psychopathology.

    Valerie J. Sydnor;Bart Larsen;Danielle S. Bassett;Aaron Alexander-Bloch;Aaron Alexander-Bloch

  • Microstructural and functional gradients are increasingly dissociated in transmodal cortices

    Casey Paquola;Reinder Vos De Wael;Konrad Wagstyl;Richard A. I. Bethlehem

  • neuromaps: structural and functional interpretation of brain maps

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  • Morphometric Similarity Networks Detect Microscale Cortical Organization and Predict Inter-Individual Cognitive Variation

    Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;František Váša;Maxwell Shinn;Rafael Romero-Garcia

  • Cortical patterning of abnormal morphometric similarity in psychosis is associated with brain expression of schizophrenia-related genes.

    Sarah E. Morgan;Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;Kirstie J. Whitaker;Kirstie J. Whitaker;Rafael Romero-Garcia

  • Adolescent Tuning of Association Cortex in Human Structural Brain Networks.

    František Váša;Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;Rafael Romero-Garcia;Kirstie J Whitaker;Kirstie J Whitaker

  • Transcriptomic and cellular decoding of regional brain vulnerability to neurogenetic disorders.

    Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;Ajay Nadig;Siyuan Liu;Richard A. I. Bethlehem

  • Cortical structural differences in major depressive disorder correlate with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures.

    Jiao Li;Jakob Seidlitz;John Suckling;Feiyang Fan

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging

    Michael P. Milham;Michael P. Milham;Lei Ai;Bonhwang Koo;Ting Xu

  • Normative brain size variation and brain shape diversity in humans

    P. K. Reardon;Jakob Seidlitz;Simon Vandekar;Siyuan Liu

  • A population MRI brain template and analysis tools for the macaque

    Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;Caleb Sponheim;Daniel R. Glen;Frank Q. Ye

  • Dispersion of functional gradients across the adult lifespan.

    Richard A. I. Bethlehem;Casey Paquola;Jakob Seidlitz;Lisa Ronan

  • Structural covariance networks are coupled to expression of genes enriched in supragranular layers of the human cortex

    Rafael Romero-Garcia;Kirstie J Whitaker;František Váša;Jakob Seidlitz

  • Mapping gene transcription and neurocognition across human neocortex.

    Justine Y Hansen;Ross D Markello;Jacob W Vogel;Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz

  • Intrinsic activity development unfolds along a sensorimotor–association cortical axis in youth

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  • Longitudinally Mapping Childhood Socioeconomic Status Associations with Cortical and Subcortical Morphology.

    Cassidy L. McDermott;Jakob Seidlitz;Ajay Nadig;Siyuan Liu

  • Integrative structural, functional, and transcriptomic analyses of sex-biased brain organization in humans

    Siyuan Liu;Jakob Seidlitz;Jonathan D. Blumenthal;Liv S. Clasen

  • A comprehensive macaque fMRI pipeline and hierarchical atlas

    Benjamin Jung;Paul A. Taylor;Jakob Seidlitz;Caleb Sponheim

  • Shifts in myeloarchitecture characterise adolescent development of cortical gradients.

    Casey Paquola;Richard Ai Bethlehem;Jakob Seidlitz;Konrad Wagstyl

  • Conservative and disruptive modes of adolescent change in human brain functional connectivity.

    František Váša;Rafael Romero-Garcia;Manfred G. Kitzbichler;Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz

  • Clinical presentation of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections in research and community settings.

    Susan E. Swedo;Jakob Seidlitz;Miro Kovacevic;M. Elizabeth Latimer

  • Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging

    Michael Milham;Christopher I. Petkov;Daniel S. Margulies;Charles E. Schroeder

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra E. Vértes
Petra E. Vértes University of Cambridge
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Armin Raznahan
Armin Raznahan National Institutes of Health
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Aaron Alexander-Bloch
Aaron Alexander-Bloch University of Pennsylvania
Liv S. Clasen
Liv S. Clasen National Institutes of Health
Boris C. Bernhardt
Boris C. Bernhardt Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Casey Paquola
Casey Paquola Forschungszentrum Jülich

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