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Overview

Katherine L. Narr is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans several facets of medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, pharmacology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their work has considerably contributed to the understanding of functional brain connectivity, especially in relation to major depression and electroconvulsive therapy. The main topics covered in their publications include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Katherine L. Narr has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Randall Espinoza, Shantanu H. Joshi, Roger P. Woods, Kirsten A. Donald, and Dan J. Stein. Their research contributions have predominantly appeared in respected publication venues such as Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain Stimulation, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Human Brain Mapping.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Modulation of amygdala reactivity following rapidly acting interventions for major depression, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Neuroimaging young children and associations with neurocognitive development in a South African birth cohort study, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Parsing the Network Mechanisms of Electroconvulsive Therapy, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Hippocampal subregions and networks linked with antidepressant response to electroconvulsive therapy, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Effects of Serial Ketamine Infusions on Corticolimbic Functional Connectivity in Major Depression, 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Their research outputs indicate a significant engagement with psychiatric disorders, brain imaging techniques, and treatment modalities, especially focusing on major depression and therapeutic interventions such as electroconvulsive therapy and ketamine infusions.

Katherine L. Narr's fields of study, based on their publications, mostly include medicine and neuroscience, with 252 publications in medicine and 128 in neuroscience.

In the subfields of study, their work contributes significantly to:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Pharmacology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Best Publications

  • A probabilistic atlas and reference system for the human brain: International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM)

    J. Mazziotta;A. Toga;A. Evans;P. Fox

  • Genetic influences on brain structure

    Paul M. Thompson;Tyrone D. Cannon;Katherine L. Narr;Theo van Erp

  • Construction of a 3D Probabilistic Atlas of Human Cortical Structures

    David W. Shattuck;Mubeena Mirza;Vitria Adisetiyo;Cornelius Hojatkashani

  • Mapping Cortical Thickness and Gray Matter Concentration in First Episode Schizophrenia

    Katherine L. Narr;Robert M. Bilder;Arthur W. Toga;Roger P. Woods

  • A four-dimensional probabilistic atlas of the human brain

    J. Mazziotta;A. Toga;A. Evans;Peter T Fox

  • Localization of deformations within the amygdala in individuals with psychopathy.

    Yaling Yang;Adrian Raine;Katherine L. Narr;Patrick Colletti

  • Relationships between IQ and Regional Cortical Gray Matter Thickness in Healthy Adults

    Katherine L. Narr;Roger P. Woods;Paul M. Thompson;Philip Szeszko

  • A curvature-based approach to estimate local gyrification on the cortical surface

    Eileen Luders;Paul M. Thompson;Katherine Narr;Arthur W. Toga

  • Cortex mapping reveals regionally specific patterns of genetic and disease-specific gray-matter deficits in twins discordant for schizophrenia

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Paul M. Thompson;Theo G. M. van Erp;Arthur W. Toga

  • Gender effects on cortical thickness and the influence of scaling

    E. Luders;K.L. Narr;P.M. Thompson;D.E. Rex

  • Gender differences in cortical complexity

    Eileen Luders;Katherine L Narr;Paul M Thompson;David E Rex

  • Regional specificity of hippocampal volume reductions in first-episode schizophrenia.

    Katherine L. Narr;Paul M. Thompson;Philip R. Szeszko;Delbert Robinson

  • Structural Plasticity of the Hippocampus and Amygdala Induced by Electroconvulsive Therapy in Major Depression.

    Shantanu H. Joshi;Randall T. Espinoza;Tara Pirnia;Jie Shi

  • The unique brain anatomy of meditation practitioners: alterations in cortical gyrification

    Eileen Luders;Florian Kurth;Emeran A. Mayer;Arthur W. Toga

  • Enhanced Brain Connectivity in Long-term Meditation Practitioners

    Eileen Luders;Kristi Clark;Katherine L. Narr;Arthur W. Toga

  • Why sex matters: brain size independent differences in gray matter distributions between men and women.

    Eileen Luders;Christian Gaser;Katherine L. Narr;Arthur W. Toga

  • Hippocampal Morphology and Distinguishing Late-Onset From Early-Onset Elderly Depression

    Martina Ballmaier;Katherine L. Narr;Arthur W. Toga;Virginia Elderkin-Thompson

  • Regional gray matter variation in male-to-female transsexualism

    Eileen Luders;Francisco J. Sánchez;Christian Gaser;Arthur W. Toga

  • Brain Anatomical Structure Segmentation by Hybrid Discriminative/Generative Models

    Zhuowen Tu;K.L. Narr;P. Dollar;I. Dinov

  • Cortical Thinning in Cingulate and Occipital Cortices in First Episode Schizophrenia

    Katherine L. Narr;Arthur W. Toga;Philip Szeszko;Paul M. Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur W. Toga
Arthur W. Toga University of Southern California
Roger P. Woods
Roger P. Woods University of California, Los Angeles
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Amber M. Leaver
Amber M. Leaver Northwestern University
Gerhard Hellemann
Gerhard Hellemann University of California, Los Angeles
Prabha Siddarth
Prabha Siddarth University of California, Los Angeles
Robert M. Bilder
Robert M. Bilder University of California, Los Angeles
Keith H. Nuechterlein
Keith H. Nuechterlein University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth R. Sowell
Elizabeth R. Sowell University of Southern California
Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine University of Pennsylvania

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