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Jessica A. Bernard

Jessica A. Bernard

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
6555
World Ranking
8522
National Ranking
3631

Overview

Jessica A. Bernard is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience and neurology. The scientist has also worked in subfields such as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics of their work include functional brain connectivity studies, vestibular and auditory disorders, neural dynamics and brain function, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Jessica A. Bernard has published multiple papers, some of the recent ones are:

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Ageing (2023), published in The Cerebellum
  • Age Differences in the Subcomponents of Executive Functioning (2020), published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Don't forget the little brain: A framework for incorporating the cerebellum into the understanding of cognitive aging (2022), published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Shaky scaffolding: Age differences in cerebellar activation revealed through activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis (2020), published in Human Brain Mapping
  • Cerebellar Dentate Connectivity across Adulthood: A Large-Scale Resting State Functional Connectivity Investigation (2021), published in Cerebral Cortex Communications

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Jessica A. Bernard include:

  • T. Bryan Jackson
  • Tracey H. Hicks
  • Hannah K. Ballard
  • Ted Maldonado
  • Thamires Naela Cardoso Magalhães

Bernard frequently publishes in several venues, with the highest number of publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other regular publication venues are The Cerebellum, Human Brain Mapping, Alzheimer's & Dementia, and Neurobiology of Aging.

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Cerebellum
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Neurobiology of Aging

Jessica A. Bernard's scholarly output includes a total of 148 publications in neuroscience and 49 in medicine. Their focus on cognitive neuroscience accounts for 81 publications, while neurology accounts for 46. Additional fields such as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, and cellular and molecular neuroscience are also covered within their body of work.

Best Publications

  • Motor Control and Aging: Links to Age-Related Brain Structural, Functional, and Biochemical Effects

    Rachael D. Seidler;Jessica A. Bernard;Taritonye B. Burutolu;Brett W. Fling

  • Resting state cortico-cerebellar functional connectivity networks: a comparison of anatomical and self-organizing map approaches.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Rachael D. Seidler;Kelsey M. Hassevoort;Bryan L. Benson

  • Moving forward: age effects on the cerebellum underlie cognitive and motor declines.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Rachael D. Seidler

  • Relationships Between Regional Cerebellar Volume and Sensorimotor and Cognitive Function in Young and Older Adults

    Jessica A. Bernard;Rachael D. Seidler;Rachael D. Seidler

  • Drosophila Dorsal Paired Medial Neurons Provide a General Mechanism for Memory Consolidation

    Alex Carl Keene;Michael Jonathan Krashes;Benjamin M. Leung;Jessica A. Bernard

  • Neurological Soft Signs Predict Abnormal Cerebellar-Thalamic Tract Development and Negative Symptoms in Adolescents at High Risk for Psychosis: A Longitudinal Perspective

    Vijay A. Mittal;Derek J. Dean;Jessica A. Bernard;Joseph M. Orr

  • Neural effects of short-term training on working memory

    Martin Buschkuehl;Luis Hernandez-Garcia;Susanne M. Jaeggi;Jessica A. Bernard;Jessica A. Bernard

  • Evidence for motor cortex dedifferentiation in older adults

    Jessica A. Bernard;Rachael D. Seidler

  • Disrupted cortico-cerebellar connectivity in older adults.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Scott J. Peltier;Jillian Lee Wiggins;Susanne M. Jaeggi

  • The effects of working memory resource depletion and training on sensorimotor adaptation.

    Joaquin A. Anguera;Jessica A. Bernard;Susanne M. Jaeggi;Martin Buschkuehl

  • Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Error-Based Motor Learning

    Rachael D. Seidler;Youngbin Kwak;Youngbin Kwak;Brett W. Fling;Jessica A. Bernard

  • Cerebello-thalamo-cortical networks predict positive symptom progression in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis

    Jessica A. Bernard;Joseph M. Orr;Vijay A. Mittal

  • What Can Different Motor Circuits Tell Us About Psychosis? An RDoC Perspective

    Vijay A Mittal;Jessica A Bernard;Georg Northoff

  • Dysfunctional Activation of the Cerebellum in Schizophrenia A Functional Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis

    Jessica A. Bernard;Vijay A. Mittal

  • Cerebellar contributions to visuomotor adaptation and motor sequence learning: an ALE meta-analysis.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Rachael D. Seidler

  • Cerebellar networks in individuals at ultra high-risk of psychosis: impact on postural sway and symptom severity.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Derek J. Dean;Jerillyn S. Kent;Joseph M. Orr

  • Sleep dysfunction and thalamic abnormalities in adolescents at ultra high-risk for psychosis.

    Jessica R. Lunsford-Avery;Jessica R. Lunsford-Avery;Joseph M. Orr;Tina Gupta;Andrea Pelletier-Baldelli

  • Cerebellar-motor dysfunction in schizophrenia and psychosis-risk: the importance of regional cerebellar analysis approaches.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Vijay A. Mittal

  • Patients with schizophrenia show aberrant patterns of basal ganglia activation: Evidence from ALE meta-analysis.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Courtney E. Russell;Raeana E. Newberry;James R.M. Goen

  • Dissociable Functional Networks of the Human Dentate Nucleus

    Jessica A. Bernard;Scott J. Peltier;Bryan L. Benson;Jillian Lee Wiggins

  • Updating the research domain criteria: the utility of a motor dimension.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Vijay A. Mittal

Frequent Co-Authors

Vijay A. Mittal
Vijay A. Mittal Northwestern University
Rachael D. Seidler
Rachael D. Seidler University of Florida
Martin Buschkuehl
Martin Buschkuehl University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Susanne M. Jaeggi
Susanne M. Jaeggi University of California, Irvine
John Jonides
John Jonides University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Scott Peltier
Scott Peltier University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jessica A. Turner
Jessica A. Turner The Ohio State University
Sebastian Walther
Sebastian Walther University of Bern
Christopher S. Monk
Christopher S. Monk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marie T. Banich
Marie T. Banich University of Colorado Boulder

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