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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2004 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Judith L. Rapoport is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of neuroscience, with specific contributions in cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics related to sleep and wakefulness research, sleep and related disorders, congenital heart defects research, neuroscience and neural engineering, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, restless legs syndrome research, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Recent publications by Judith L. Rapoport include the following:

  • Neuronal defects in a human cellular model of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Sleep spindle activity in childhood onset schizophrenia: Diminished and associated with clinical symptoms, 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • Activity-Dependent Transcriptional Program in NGN2+ Neurons Enriched for Genetic Risk for Brain-Related Disorders, 2023, Biological Psychiatry
  • Sleep neurophysiology in childhood onset schizophrenia, 2020, Journal of Sleep Research
  • Sleep spindles across youth affected by schizophrenia or anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate-receptor encephalitis, 2023, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Andjela Markovic
  • Ashura Buckley
  • Leila Tarokh
  • David Driver
  • Peter Gochman

Their work has been published in prominent journals such as:

  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Nature Medicine
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Throughout their career, Judith L. Rapoport has received several awards, including:

  • Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award (2004)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000)
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (1993)

Best Publications

  • Dynamic mapping of human cortical development during childhood through early adulthood

    Nitin Gogtay;Jay N. Giedd;Leslie Lusk;Kiralee M. Hayashi

  • Brain development during childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal MRI study.

    Jay N. Giedd;Jonathan Blumenthal;Neal O. Jeffries;F. X. Castellanos

  • Developmental trajectories of brain volume abnormalities in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    F. Xavier Castellanos;F. Xavier Castellanos;Patti P. Lee;Wendy Sharp;Neal O. Jeffries

  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a delay in cortical maturation

    P. Shaw;K. Eckstrand;W. Sharp;J. Blumenthal

  • Rare Structural Variants Disrupt Multiple Genes in Neurodevelopmental Pathways in Schizophrenia

    Tom Walsh;Jon M. McClellan;Shane E. McCarthy;Anjené M. Addington

  • Neurodevelopmental Trajectories of the Human Cerebral Cortex

    Philip Shaw;Noor J. Kabani;Jason P. Lerch;Kristen Eckstrand

  • Quantitative Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

    F X Castellanos;J N Giedd;W L Marsh;S D Hamburger

  • Structural Maturation of Neural Pathways in Children and Adolescents: In Vivo Study

    Tomáš Paus;Alex Zijdenbos;Keith Worsley;D. Louis Collins

  • A developmental functional mri study of prefrontal activation during performance of a go-no-go task

    B. J. Casey;Rolf J. Trainor;Jennifer L. Orendi;Anne B. Schubert

  • Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Brain Development: Ages 4–18

    Jay N. Giedd;John W. Snell;Nicholas Lange;Jagath C. Rajapakse

  • The neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia: update 2005.

    J L Rapoport;A M Addington;S Frangou;M R C Psych

  • Implication of right frontostriatal circuitry in response inhibition and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    B.J. Casey;F. Xavier Castellanos;Jay N. Giedd;Wendy L. Marsh

  • Structural MRI of pediatric brain development: what have we learned and where are we going?

    Jay N. Giedd;Judith L. Rapoport

  • Mapping adolescent brain change reveals dynamic wave of accelerated gray matter loss in very early-onset schizophrenia

    Paul M. Thompson;Christine Vidal;Jay N. Giedd;Peter Gochman

  • Neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia: update 2012

    J L Rapoport;J N Giedd;N Gogtay

  • Quantitative MRI of the temporal lobe, amygdala, and hippocampus in normal human development: Ages 4–18 years

    Jay N. Giedd;A. Catherine Vaituzis;Susan D. Hamburger;Nicholas Lange

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents Clinical Phenomenology of 70 Consecutive Cases

    Susan E. Swedo;Judith L. Rapoport;Henrietta L. Leonard;Marge Lenane

  • Longitudinal mapping of cortical thickness and clinical outcome in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Philip Shaw;Jason Lerch;Deanna Greenstein;Wendy Sharp

  • Statistical approach to segmentation of single-channel cerebral MR images

    J.C. Rajapakse;J.N. Giedd;J.L. Rapoport

  • Cerebellum in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a morphometric MRI study.

    P. C. Berquin;J. N. Giedd;L. K. Jacobsen;S. D. Hamburger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay N. Giedd
Jay N. Giedd University of California, San Diego
Deanna Greenstein
Deanna Greenstein National Institutes of Health
Liv S. Clasen
Liv S. Clasen National Institutes of Health
Susan E. Swedo
Susan E. Swedo National Institutes of Health
F. Xavier Castellanos
F. Xavier Castellanos New York University
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Theodore P. Zahn
Theodore P. Zahn National Institutes of Health
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Arthur W. Toga
Arthur W. Toga University of Southern California
Guy A. Rouleau
Guy A. Rouleau Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

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