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Overview

Jordan Grafman is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their work spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a primary focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances, and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research.

Jordan Grafman has contributed to multiple publication venues with the highest number of papers appearing in Biological Psychiatry. Other frequent venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Cortex, and Research Square (Research Square).

They have co-authored extensively with several researchers, including Shan H. Siddiqi, Michael Fox, Edward D. Huey, Frank Krüeger, and Frédéric Schaper.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Brain lesions disrupting addiction map to a common human brain circuit, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • Alexithymia, 2021, Handbook of clinical neurology
  • A transdiagnostic network for psychiatric illness derived from atrophy and lesions, 2023, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Mapping Lesion-Related Epilepsy to a Human Brain Network, 2023, JAMA Neurology

Best Publications

  • Vascular dementia Diagnostic criteria for research studies: Report of the NINDS‐AIREN International Workshop*

    Gustavo C. Roman;T. K. Tatemichi;T. Erkinjuntti;J. L. Cummings

  • Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia.

    Katya Rascovsky;John R. Hodges;David Knopman;Mario F. Mendez

  • Clinical research criteria for the diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome) Report of the NINDS-SPSP International Workshop*

    I. Litvan;Y. Agid;D. Calne;G. Campbell

  • Activation of the primary visual cortex by Braille reading in blind subjects.

    Norihiro Sadato;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Jordan Grafman;Vicente Ibañez

  • Clock drawing in Alzheimer's disease. A novel measure of dementia severity.

    Trey Sunderland;James L. Hill;Alan M. Mellow;Brian A. Lawlor

  • The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition

    Etienne Koechlin;Gianpaolo Basso;Pietro Pietrini;Seth Panzer

  • The human amygdala: an evolved system for relevance detection.

    David Sander;Jordan Grafman;Tiziana Zalla

  • Human fronto-mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation.

    Jorge Moll;Frank Krueger;Roland Zahn;Matteo Pardini

  • Opinion: the neural basis of human moral cognition.

    Jorge Moll;Roland Zahn;Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza;Frank Krueger

  • Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer’s disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis

    Y. Iturria-Medina;R. C. Sotero;P. J. Toussaint;J. M. Mateos-Pérez

  • The functional neuroanatomy of depression: Distinct roles for ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

    Michael Koenigs;Jordan Grafman

  • Dorsolateral prefrontal contributions to human working memory

    Aron K. Barbey;Michael Koenigs;Jordan Grafman

  • Frontal lobe injuries, violence, and aggression: A report of the Vietnam Head Injury Study

    Jordan Grafman;Karen Schwab;D. Warden;A. Pridgen

  • Human prefrontal cortex: processing and representational perspectives

    Jacqueline N. Wood;Jordan Grafman

  • Modulation of cortical motor output maps during development of implicit and explicit knowledge

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Jordan Grafman;Mark Hallett

  • Safety and cognitive effect of frontal DC brain polarization in healthy individuals

    Meenakshi B Iyer;U. Mattu;J. Grafman;M. Lomarev

  • Modeling other minds.

    Vinod Goel;Jordan Grafman;Norihiro Sadato;Mark Hallett

  • Functional networks in emotional moral and nonmoral social judgments.

    Jorge Moll;Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza;Ivanei E. Bramati;Jordan Henry Grafman

  • Summation priming and coarse semantic coding in the right hemisphere

    Mark Beeman;Rhonda B. Friedman;Jordan Grafman;Enrique Perez

  • Are the frontal lobes implicated in “planning” functions? Interpreting data from the Tower of Hanoi

    Vinod Goel;Jordan Grafman

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Krueger
Frank Krueger George Mason University
Eric M. Wassermann
Eric M. Wassermann National Institutes of Health
Pietro Pietrini
Pietro Pietrini IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Aron K. Barbey
Aron K. Barbey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Irene Litvan
Irene Litvan University of California, San Diego
Roland Zahn
Roland Zahn King's College London
Barry Gordon
Barry Gordon Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Paolo Frigio Nichelli
Paolo Frigio Nichelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Vinod Goel
Vinod Goel York University

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