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Juan Fernandez-Ruiz is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research primarily spans neuroscience, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing significantly to these disciplines over numerous publications.

The focus of their work includes various subfields such as molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Their research topics emphasize genetic neurodegenerative diseases, mitochondrial function and pathology, neurological disorders and treatments, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, and DNA repair mechanisms.

Their frequent publication venues reflect their specialization and include:

  • The Cerebellum
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Movement Disorders
  • Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • PLoS ONE

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Mapping the Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome in Patients with Chronic Cerebellar Strokes" (2021, The Cerebellum)
  • "Founder Effects of Spinocerebellar Ataxias in the American Continents and the Caribbean" (2020, The Cerebellum)
  • "ATTCT and ATTCC repeat expansions in the ATXN10 gene affect disease penetrance of spinocerebellar ataxia type 10" (2022, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances)
  • "Cerebellar Degeneration Signature in Huntington's Disease" (2021, The Cerebellum)
  • "Cognitive Impairments in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 10 and Their Relation to Cortical Thickness" (2021, Movement Disorders)

Juan Fernandez-Ruiz often collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Carlos R. Hernandez-Castillo
  • Amanda Chirino-Pérez
  • Gabriel Ramirez-Garcia
  • Rosalinda Díaz
  • Angel Omar Romero-Molina

Best Publications

  • Relation between reaction time and reach errors during visuomotor adaptation

    Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;William Wong;Irene T. Armstrong;J. Randall Flanagan

  • Visual habit formation in monkeys with neurotoxic lesions of the ventrocaudal neostriatum

    Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;Jin Wang;Thomas G. Aigner;Mortimer Mishkin

  • Human Parietal “Reach Region” Primarily Encodes Intrinsic Visual Direction, Not Extrinsic Movement Direction, in a Visual–Motor Dissociation Task

    Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;Herbert C. Goltz;Herbert C. Goltz;Herbert C. Goltz;Joseph F. X. DeSouza;Joseph F. X. DeSouza;Tutis Vilis;Tutis Vilis

  • Prism adaptation in normal aging: slower adaptation rate and larger aftereffect.

    Juan Fernández-Ruiz;Juan Fernández-Ruiz;Cynthia Hall;Patricia Vergara;Rosalinda Dı́az

  • Prism adaptation and aftereffect: specifying the properties of a procedural memory system.

    Juan Fernández-Ruiz;Rosalinda Díaz

  • Sex-related differences in motor learning and performance.

    Pablo Moreno-Briseño;Rosalinda Díaz;Aurelio Campos-Romo;Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;Juan Fernandez-Ruiz

  • Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2: Clinicogenetic Aspects, Mechanistic Insights, and Management Approaches

    Luis C. Velázquez-Pérez;Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada;Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;Juan Fernandez-Ruiz

  • Comprehensive Study of Early Features in Spinocerebellar Ataxia 2: Delineating the Prodromal Stage of the Disease

    Luis Velázquez-Pérez;Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada;Edilia M. Cruz-Rivas;Juan Fernández-Ruiz

  • Olfaction and neurodegeneration in HD.

    Fernando A. Barrios;Leopoldo Gonzalez;Rafael Favila;Maria E. Alonso

  • Progression markers of Spinocerebellar ataxia 2. A twenty years neurophysiological follow up study.

    Luis Velázquez-Perez;Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada;Nalia Canales-Ochoa;Gilberto Sanchez-Cruz

  • Normal prism adaptation but reduced after-effect in basal ganglia disorders using a throwing task.

    J. Fernandez‐Ruiz;R. Diaz;C. Hall‐Haro;P. Vergara

  • Gray and white matter alterations in spinocerebellar ataxia type 7: An in vivo DTI and VBM study

    Sarael Alcauter;Fernando A. Barrios;Rosalinda Díaz;Juan Fernández-Ruiz;Juan Fernández-Ruiz

  • Adapting to inversion of the visual field: a new twist on an old problem

    Timothy P. Lillicrap;Pablo Moreno-Briseño;Rosalinda Diaz;Douglas B. Tweed

  • Cognitive Deterioration and Functional Compensation in ALS Measured with fMRI Using an Inhibitory Task

    Kelsey Witiuk;Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;Ryan McKee;Nadia Alahyane

  • Prism adaptation in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2.

    Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;Luis Velásquez-Perez;Rosalinda Díaz;René Drucker-Colín

  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 olfactory impairment shows a pattern similar to other major neurodegenerative diseases.

    Luis Velázquez-Pérez;Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;Rosalinda Díaz;Ruth Pérez González

  • The effect of Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease on human visuomotor learning

    Juan Manuel Gutierrez-Garralda;Pablo Moreno-Briseño;Marie-Catherine Boll;Consuelo Morgado-Valle

  • Age related prefrontal compensatory mechanisms for inhibitory control in the antisaccade task

    Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;Alicia Peltsch;Nadia Alahyane;Nadia Alahyane;Donald C. Brien

  • Unique degeneration signatures in the cerebellar cortex for spinocerebellar ataxias 2, 3, and 7

    Carlos R. Hernandez-Castillo;Maedbh King;Jörn Diedrichsen;Juan Fernandez-Ruiz

  • Olfactory dysfunction in hereditary ataxia and basal ganglia disorders.

    Juan Fernandez-Ruiz;Rosalinda Díaz;Cynthia Hall-Haro;Patricia Vergara

  • Disruption of visual and motor connectivity in spinocerebellar ataxia type 7.

    Carlos R. Hernandez-Castillo;Sarael Alcauter;Victor Galvez;Fernando A. Barrios

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas P. Munoz
Douglas P. Munoz Queen's University
René Drucker-Colín
René Drucker-Colín National Autonomous University of Mexico
Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni
Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni National Autonomous University of Mexico
Doris J. Doudet
Doris J. Doudet University of British Columbia
J. Douglas Crawford
J. Douglas Crawford York University
Tutis Vilis
Tutis Vilis University of Western Ontario
Ricardo Tapia
Ricardo Tapia National Autonomous University of Mexico
Georgina M. Jackson
Georgina M. Jackson University of Nottingham
Nikolaus F. Troje
Nikolaus F. Troje York University
Tetsuo Ashizawa
Tetsuo Ashizawa Houston Methodist

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