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Joshua M. Shulman is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. The primary research focus lies within the fields of medicine and neuroscience, with notable contributions in neurology, cognitive neuroscience, physiology, molecular biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics include Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, neurological disorders and treatments, lysosomal storage disorders research, neurological diseases and metabolism, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, autism spectrum disorder research, and cellular transport and secretion.

Frequent publication venues where Joshua M. Shulman contributes include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain, Alzheimer's & Dementia, npj Parkinson's Disease, and Brain Communications.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Joshua M. Shulman are:

  • "Genetics and Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Syndrome," 2022, Annual Review of Pathology Mechanisms of Disease
  • "Serum neuronal exosomes predict and differentiate Parkinson's disease from atypical parkinsonism," 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • "Biomarkers of conversion to α-synucleinopathy in isolated rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour disorder," 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • "Parkinson's disease-associated alterations of the gut microbiome predict disease-relevant changes in metabolic functions," 2020, BMC Biology
  • "Finding genetically-supported drug targets for Parkinson's disease using Mendelian randomization of the druggable genome," 2021, Nature Communications

Joshua M. Shulman has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Huw R. Morris
  • Michael Lawton
  • Johannes Klein
  • Ziv Gan-Or
  • Yoav Ben-Shlomo

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

  • Tauopathy in Drosophila: Neurodegeneration Without Neurofibrillary Tangles

    Curtis W. Wittmann;Matthew F. Wszolek;Joshua M. Shulman;Paul M. Salvaterra

  • Large-scale proteomic analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain and cerebrospinal fluid reveals early changes in energy metabolism associated with microglia and astrocyte activation

    Erik C.B. Johnson;Eric B. Dammer;Duc M. Duong;Lingyan Ping

  • Parkinson's Disease: Genetics and Pathogenesis

    Joshua M. Shulman;Philip L. De Jager;Mel B. Feany

  • Differential recruitment of Dishevelled provides signaling specificity in the planar cell polarity and Wingless signaling pathways

    Jeffrey D. Axelrod;Jeffrey R. Miller;Joshua M. Shulman;Randall T. Moon

  • Prickle mediates feedback amplification to generate asymmetric planar cell polarity signaling.

    David R.P. Tree;Joshua M. Shulman;Raphaël Rousset;Matthew P. Scott

  • Excessive burden of lysosomal storage disorder gene variants in Parkinson's disease

    L.A. Robak;L.A. Robak;I.E. Jansen;I.E. Jansen;J van Rooij;A.G. Uitterlinden

  • Loss of VPS13C Function in Autosomal-Recessive Parkinsonism Causes Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Increases PINK1/Parkin-Dependent Mitophagy.

    Suzanne Lesage;Valérie Drouet;Elisa Majounie;Vincent Deramecourt

  • Functional links between Aβ toxicity, endocytic trafficking, and Alzheimer's disease risk factors in yeast

    Sebastian Treusch;Shusei Hamamichi;Shusei Hamamichi;Jessica L. Goodman;Kent E. S. Matlack

  • GWAS of Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau Levels Identifies Risk Variants for Alzheimer’s Disease

    Carlos Cruchaga;John S.K. Kauwe;Oscar Harari;Sheng Chih Jin

  • Parkinson's disease age at onset genome-wide association study: Defining heritability, genetic loci, and α-synuclein mechanisms.

    Cornelis Blauwendraat;Karl Heilbron;Costanza L. Vallerga;Sara Bandres-Ciga

  • The Drosophila homolog of C. elegans PAR-1 organizes the oocyte cytoskeleton and directs oskar mRNA localization to the posterior pole.

    Joshua M Shulman;Richard Benton;Daniel St Johnston

  • Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions.

    S K Sieberts;T M Perumal;M M Carrasquillo;M Allen

  • TOR-Mediated Cell-Cycle Activation Causes Neurodegeneration in a Drosophila Tauopathy Model

    Vikram Khurana;Yiran Lu;Michelle L. Steinhilb;Sean Oldham

  • Genetic Modifiers of Tauopathy in Drosophila

    Joshua M Shulman;Mel B Feany

  • Association of CR1, CLU, and PICALM with Alzheimer’s disease in a cohort of clinically characterized and neuropathologically verified individuals

    Jason J. Corneveaux;Amanda J. Myers;April N. Allen;Jeremy J. Pruzin

  • Common variants at 12q14 and 12q24 are associated with hippocampal volume

    Joshua C Bis;Charles DeCarli;Albert Vernon Smith;Fedde van der Lijn

  • Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals

    Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Hieab H.H. Adams;Derrek Hibar;Charles C. White;Charles C. White

  • Tau Activates Transposable Elements in Alzheimer's Disease.

    Caiwei Guo;Caiwei Guo;Hyun-Hwan Jeong;Hyun-Hwan Jeong;Yi-Chen Hsieh;Yi-Chen Hsieh;Hans-Ulrich Klein;Hans-Ulrich Klein

  • Functional Links Between Aβ Toxicity, Endocytic Trafficking, and Alzheimer's Disease Risk Factors in Yeast

    J. M. Shulman;A. Parrado;M. Lindhagen-Persson;E. M. Reiman

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip L. De Jager
Philip L. De Jager Columbia University
David A. Bennett
David A. Bennett Rush University Medical Center
Lori B. Chibnik
Lori B. Chibnik Harvard University
Peter Heutink
Peter Heutink German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Joseph Jankovic
Joseph Jankovic Baylor College of Medicine
Eric M. Reiman
Eric M. Reiman Arizona State University
Javier Simón-Sánchez
Javier Simón-Sánchez University of Tübingen
Nicholas T. Seyfried
Nicholas T. Seyfried Emory University
Mike A. Nalls
Mike A. Nalls National Institutes of Health
Lei Yu
Lei Yu Rush University Medical Center

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