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Overview

Junghee Lee is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. They have contributed extensively to the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Neurology.

Their research work covers a range of topics, primarily emphasizing schizophrenia research and treatment, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, mental health research topics, functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, autism spectrum disorder research, and the role of tryptophan in brain disorders.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Aberrant Tonic Inhibition of Dopaminergic Neuronal Activity Causes Motor Symptoms in Animal Models of Parkinson's Disease", 2020, published in Current Biology
  • "Proof of mechanism and target engagement of glutamatergic drugs for the treatment of schizophrenia: RCTs of pomaglumetad and TS-134 on ketamine-induced psychotic symptoms and pharmacoBOLD in healthy volunteers", 2020, published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Astrocytic autophagy plasticity modulates Aβ clearance and cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease", 2024, published in Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • "Experimental approaches to social disconnection in the general community: can we learn from schizophrenia research?", 2020, published in World Psychiatry
  • "Development and psychometric testing of the AASPIRE Adult Autism Healthcare Provider Self-Efficacy Scale", 2020, published in Autism

Frequent co-authors with whom Lee collaborates include Michael F. Green, William P. Horan, Jonathan K. Wynn, Eric A. Reavis, and Hoon Ryu.

Their publications are often found across venues such as UNC Libraries, Journal of the Korean Society of Cosmetology, Schizophrenia Research, Psychological Medicine, and the Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction.

Best Publications

  • Social cognition in schizophrenia

    Michael F. Green;Michael F. Green;William P. Horan;William P. Horan;Junghee Lee;Junghee Lee

  • Working memory impairments in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis.

    Junghee Lee;Sohee Park

  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibition by Sodium Butyrate Chemotherapy Ameliorates the Neurodegenerative Phenotype in Huntington's Disease Mice

    Robert J. Ferrante;James K. Kubilus;Junghee Lee;Hoon Ryu

  • Nonsocial and social cognition in schizophrenia: current evidence and future directions.

    Michael F. Green;Michael F. Green;William P. Horan;William P. Horan;Junghee Lee;Junghee Lee

  • Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Part 1: Performance Across Phase of Illness

    Michael F. Green;Carrie E. Bearden;Tyrone D. Cannon;Alan P. Fiske

  • From Perception to Functional Outcome in Schizophrenia: Modeling the Role of Ability and Motivation

    Michael F. Green;Gerhard Hellemann;William P. Horan;Junghee Lee

  • CAG repeat expansion in Huntington disease determines age at onset in a fully dominant fashion

    J.-M. Lee;E.M. Ramos;J.-H. Lee;T. Gillis

  • Sodium phenylbutyrate prolongs survival and regulates expression of anti‐apoptotic genes in transgenic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mice

    Hoon Ryu;Karen Smith;Sandra I. Camelo;Isabel Carreras

  • Translational control of inducible nitric oxide synthase expression by arginine can explain the arginine paradox.

    Junghee Lee;Hoon Ryu;Robert J. Ferrante;Sidney M. Morris

  • Arginase I and Polyamines Act Downstream from Cyclic AMP in Overcoming Inhibition of Axonal Growth MAG and Myelin In Vitro

    Dongming Cai;Kangwen Deng;Wilfredo Mellado;Junghee Lee

  • Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Part 2: 12-Month Stability and Prediction of Functional Outcome in First-Episode Patients

    William P. Horan;William P. Horan;Michael F. Green;Michael F. Green;Michael DeGroot;Michael DeGroot;Alan Fiske

  • ESET/SETDB1 gene expression and histone H3 (K9) trimethylation in Huntington's disease

    Hoon Ryu;Junghee Lee;Sean W. Hagerty;Byoung Yul Soh

  • Histone deacetylase inhibitors prevent oxidative neuronal death independent of expanded polyglutamine repeats via an Sp1-dependent pathway

    Hoon Ryu;Junghee Lee;Beatrix A. Olofsson;Aziza Mwidau

  • Sp1 and Sp3 are oxidative stress-inducible, antideath transcription factors in cortical neurons.

    Hoon Ryu;Junghee Lee;Khalequz Zaman;James Kubilis;James Kubilis

  • Mitochondrial Cyclic AMP Response Element-binding Protein (CREB) Mediates Mitochondrial Gene Expression and Neuronal Survival

    Junghee Lee;Junghee Lee;Chun Hyung Kim;David K. Simon;Lyaylya R. Aminova

  • Social and Nonsocial Cognition in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia: Relative Levels of Impairment

    Junghee Lee;Lori Altshuler;David C. Glahn;David J. Miklowitz

  • Graphene quantum dots prevent alpha-synucleinopathy in Parkinson's disease.

    Donghoon Kim;Je Min Yoo;Heehong Hwang;Junghee Lee

  • Chemotherapy for the Brain: The Antitumor Antibiotic Mithramycin Prolongs Survival in a Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease

    Robert J. Ferrante;Hoon Ryu;Hoon Ryu;James K. Kubilus;James K. Kubilus;Santosh D'Mello

  • SIRT3 deregulation is linked to mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.

    Junghee Lee;Junghee Lee;Yunha Kim;Tian Liu;Yu Jin Hwang

  • Impulsivity and risk taking in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

    L Felice Reddy;Junghee Lee;Michael C Davis;Lori Altshuler

  • Emotional intelligence in schizophrenia

    Kimmy S. Kee;Kimmy S. Kee;William P. Horan;Peter Salovey;Robert S. Kern

  • Antioxidants modulate mitochondrial PKA and increase CREB binding to D-loop DNA of the mitochondrial genome in neurons

    Hoon Ryu;Junghee Lee;Junghee Lee;Soren Impey;Rajiv R. Ratan

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Green
Michael F. Green University of California, Los Angeles
Hoon Ryu
Hoon Ryu Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Jonathan K. Wynn
Jonathan K. Wynn University of California, Los Angeles
Keith H. Nuechterlein
Keith H. Nuechterlein University of California, Los Angeles
Robert S. Kern
Robert S. Kern University of California, Los Angeles
Gerhard Hellemann
Gerhard Hellemann University of California, Los Angeles
Robert J. Ferrante
Robert J. Ferrante Boston University
Rajiv R. Ratan
Rajiv R. Ratan Cornell University
Ann C. McKee
Ann C. McKee Boston University
David C. Glahn
David C. Glahn Boston Children's Hospital

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