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Overview

Jean Logan is a researcher affiliated with New York University in the United States, specializing primarily in Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work encompasses several subfields including Genetics, Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, as well as Behavioral Neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in Logan's research cover a diverse range of medical and neuroscience areas. Key themes include estrogen and related hormone effects, menopause and its health impacts and treatments, stress responses involving cortisol, functional brain connectivity studies, treatment strategies for major depression, bone and joint diseases, and studies on head and neck cancer.

Logan has contributed to multiple publications, often collaborating with a core group of co-authors. Frequent co-authors include Gene-Jack Wang, Henry Rusinek, Anat Biegon, Nelly Alia-Klein, and Joanna S. Fowler. Their research has been disseminated through various scientific journals and conference proceedings, with repeated publications in venues such as Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Communications Biology, and the Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Scientific Meeting and Exhibition.

Some of the notable recent papers authored by Jean Logan include:

  • Assessment of metastatic lymph nodes in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas using simultaneous 18F-FDG-PET and MRI (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • Relationship of estrogen synthesis capacity in the brain with obesity and self-control in men and women (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Human Cognitive Ability Is Modulated by Aromatase Availability in the Brain in a Sex-Specific Manner (2020) published in Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Time-varying SUVr reflects the dynamics of dopamine increases during methylphenidate challenges in humans (2023) published in Communications Biology
  • Quantitative Breast Background Parenchymal Enhancement: Improved Effect Size when Expressed as Contrast Agent Concentration (2024) published in Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Scientific Meeting and Exhibition

Best Publications

  • Brain dopamine and obesity.

    Gene-Jack Wang;Gene-Jack Wang;Nora D Volkow;Nora D Volkow;Jean Logan;Naoml R Pappas

  • Consensus nomenclature for in vivo imaging of reversibly binding radioligands

    Robert B. Innis;Vincent Joseph Cunningham;Jacques Delforge;Masahiro Fujita

  • Graphical analysis of reversible radioligand binding from time-activity measurements applied to [N-11C-methyl]-(-)-cocaine PET studies in human subjects

    Jean Logan;Joanna S. Fowler;Nora D. Volkow;Alfred P. Wolf

  • Distribution Volume Ratios without Blood Sampling from Graphical Analysis of PET Data

    Jean Logan;Joanna S. Fowler;Nora D. Volkow;Nora D. Volkow;Gene Jack Wang

  • Cocaine cues and dopamine in dorsal striatum: mechanism of craving in cocaine addiction.

    Nora D Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Frank Telang;Joanna S Fowler

  • Decreased dopamine D2 receptor availability is associated with reduced frontal metabolism in cocaine abusers

    Nora D. Volkow;Joanna S. Fowler;Gene‐Jack ‐J Wang;Robert Hitzemann;Robert Hitzemann

  • Association of Dopamine Transporter Reduction With Psychomotor Impairment in Methamphetamine Abusers

    Nora D. Volkow;Linda Chang;Gene-Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler

  • Low Level of Brain Dopamine D2 Receptors in Methamphetamine Abusers: Association With Metabolism in the Orbitofrontal Cortex

    Nora D. Volkow;Linda Chang;Gene-Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler

  • Association between decline in brain dopamine activity with age and cognitive and motor impairment in healthy individuals

    Nora D. Volkow;Ruben C. Gur;Gene Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler

  • Decreased striatal dopaminergic responsiveness in detoxified cocaine-dependent subjects.

    N. D. Volkow;N. D. Volkow;G.-J. Wang;J. S. Fowler;J. Logan

  • Therapeutic doses of oral methylphenidate significantly increase extracellular dopamine in the human brain.

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler;Jean Logan

  • Inhibition of monoamine oxidase B in the brains of smokers

    J. S. Fowler;N. D. Volkow;N. D. Volkow;G.-J. Wang;N. Pappas

  • Evaluating Dopamine Reward Pathway in ADHD: Clinical Implications

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Scott H. Kollins;Tim L. Wigal

  • Dopamine Transporter Occupancies in the Human Brain Induced by Therapeutic Doses of Oral Methylphenidate

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler;Samuel J. Gatley

  • Relationship between subjective effects of cocaine and dopamine transporter occupancy

    N D Volkow;G J Wang;M W Fischman;R W Foltin

  • Loss of Dopamine Transporters in Methamphetamine Abusers Recovers with Protracted Abstinence

    Nora D. Volkow;Linda Chang;Gene-Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler

  • Is Methylphenidate Like Cocaine?: Studies on Their Pharmacokinetics and Distribution in the Human Brain

    Nora D. Volkow;Nora D. Volkow;Yu Shin Ding;Joanna S. Fowler;Gene Jack Wang

  • Low dopamine striatal D2 receptors are associated with prefrontal metabolism in obese subjects: possible contributing factors.

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Frank Telang;Joanna S. Fowler

  • Decreases in Dopamine Receptors but not in Dopamine Transporters in Alcoholics

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler;Jean Logan

  • Profound Decreases in Dopamine Release in Striatum in Detoxified Alcoholics: Possible Orbitofrontal Involvement

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Frank Telang;Joanna S. Fowler

Frequent Co-Authors

Joanna S. Fowler
Joanna S. Fowler Brookhaven National Laboratory
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health
Gene-Jack Wang
Gene-Jack Wang National Institutes of Health
Yu-Shin Ding
Yu-Shin Ding New York University
Frank Telang
Frank Telang National Institutes of Health
Alfred P. Wolf
Alfred P. Wolf Brookhaven National Laboratory
Dardo Tomasi
Dardo Tomasi National Institutes of Health
Anat Biegon
Anat Biegon Stony Brook University
James M. Swanson
James M. Swanson University of California, Irvine
Nelly Alia-Klein
Nelly Alia-Klein Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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