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John C. Dalrymple-Alford

John C. Dalrymple-Alford

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Neuroscience

D-Index
58
Citations
13339
World Ranking
4145
National Ranking
13

Overview

John C. Dalrymple-Alford is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and neuroscience, with extensive contributions in the subfields of neurology, cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

John C. Dalrymple-Alford has published research in several venues frequently, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Movement Disorders
  • Brain
  • Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators in their research include Tim Anderson, Tracy R. Melzer, Toni L. Pitcher, Daniel J. Myall, and Michael R. MacAskill.

Selected papers authored or co-authored by John C. Dalrymple-Alford illustrate the scope of their research:

  • "Analysis of DNA methylation associates the cystine-glutamate antiporter SLC7A11 with risk of Parkinson's disease" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "International Multicenter Analysis of Brain Structure Across Clinical Stages of Parkinson's Disease" (2021, Movement Disorders)
  • "Meta-analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation identifies shared associations across neurodegenerative disorders" (2021, Genome Biology)
  • "Extracellular vesicle biomarkers for cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease" (2022, Brain)
  • "How neurons exploit fractal geometry to optimize their network connectivity" (2021, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

  • The MoCA: Well-suited screen for cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease

    J.C. Dalrymple-Alford;M.R. MacAskill;C.T. Nakas;L. Livingston

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • Grey matter atrophy in cognitively impaired Parkinson's disease

    Tracy R Melzer;Richard Watts;Michael R MacAskill;Toni L Pitcher

  • Long term psychosocial outcomes after mild head injury in early childhood

    A McKinlay;J C Dalrymple-Alford;L J Horwood;D M Fergusson

  • A central executive deficit in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    J C Dalrymple-Alford;A S Kalders;R D Jones;R W Watson

  • The reuniens and rhomboid nuclei: neuroanatomy, electrophysiological characteristics and behavioral implications.

    Jean-Christophe Cassel;Anne Pereira de Vasconcelos;Michaël Loureiro;Thibault Cholvin

  • A profile of neuropsychiatric problems and their relationship to quality of life for Parkinson's disease patients without dementia.

    Audrey McKinlay;R Grace;J Dalrymple-Alford;T Anderson

  • Eye movement and visuomotor arm movement deficits following mild closed head injury

    M.H. Heitger;T.J. Anderson;R.D. Jones;J.C. Dalrymple-Alford

  • Arterial spin labelling reveals an abnormal cerebral perfusion pattern in Parkinson's disease

    Tracy R. Melzer;Richard Watts;Michael R. MacAskill;John F. Pearson

  • Characteristics of executive function impairment in Parkinson's disease patients without dementia.

    Audrey Mckinlay;Randolph C. Grace;John C. Dalrymple-Alford;Derek Roger

  • Motor deficits and recovery during the first year following mild closed head injury.

    Marcus H. Heitger;Richard D. Jones;John C. Dalrymple-Alford;Chris M. Frampton

  • White matter microstructure deteriorates across cognitive stages in Parkinson disease

    Tracy R. Melzer;Richard Watts;Michael R. MacAskill;Toni L. Pitcher

  • Characterizing mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease.

    John C. Dalrymple-Alford;John C. Dalrymple-Alford;Leslie Livingston;Michael R. MacAskill;Charlotte Graham

  • Both anteromedial and anteroventral thalamic lesions impair radial-maze learning in rats.

    Graham Byatt;John C. Dalrymple-Alford

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment as a Risk Factor for Parkinson's Disease Dementia

    Jeroen Hoogland;Judith A Boel;Rob M A de Bie;Ronald B Geskus

  • Comparisons of measures of dominance in the laboratory mouse

    David Benton;John C. Dalrymple-Alford;Paul F. Brain

  • Dissociable memory effects after medial thalamus lesions in the rat.

    Anna S. Mitchell;John C. Dalrymple-Alford

  • Analysis of DNA methylation associates the cystine-glutamate antiporter SLC7A11 with risk of Parkinson's disease.

    Costanza L Vallerga;Futao Zhang;Javed Fowdar;Allan F McRae

  • Sensitivity to genuine versus posed emotion specified in facial displays

    Tracey McLellan;Lucy Johnston;John Dalrymple-Alford;Richard Porter

  • Brain plasticity, learning, and memory

    Bruno Will;P. Schmitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Jones
Richard D. Jones University of Canterbury
Jean-Christophe Cassel
Jean-Christophe Cassel University of Strasbourg
Richard J Porter
Richard J Porter University of Otago
Randolph C. Grace
Randolph C. Grace University of Canterbury
David Benton
David Benton Swansea University
Irene Litvan
Irene Litvan University of California, San Diego
Penelope A. Lind
Penelope A. Lind QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Jennifer G. Goldman
Jennifer G. Goldman Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Peter M. Visscher
Peter M. Visscher University of Oxford
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel

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