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12500
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6588
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Overview

Kenneth O. Johnson was affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research focused predominantly within the field of Medicine, with particular attention to Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Their work spanned several main topics including retinal imaging and analysis, connective tissue disorders research, child abuse and related trauma, ophthalmology and eye disorders, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, dementia and cognitive impairment research, as well as glaucoma and retinal disorders.

Johnson collaborated frequently with certain co-authors, contributing jointly to multiple publications. These co-authors included Oana M. Dumitrascu, Dale Sherman, Steven Verdooner, Keith L. Black, and Patrick D. Lyden.

Their recent publications were representative of their research interests and included the following papers:

  • "Retinal Venular Tortuosity Jointly with Retinal Amyloid Burden Correlates with Verbal Memory Loss: A Pilot Study," 2021, published in Cells
  • "Distinctive retinal peri-arteriolar versus peri-venular amyloid plaque distribution correlates with the cognitive performance," 2024, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Integrated Retinal Amyloid Burden With Retinal Venular Tortuosity Predicts Verbal Memory Impairment," 2021, published in Research Square (Research Square)
  • "Combination of Oculomics-Based Artery-Derived Fractal Features and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers Improves Discrimination of Alzheimer's Disease from Healthy Controls," 2024, published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Johnson published in a variety of venues, some of which appeared more than once throughout their work. These publication venues included:

  • Cells
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • The roles and functions of cutaneous mechanoreceptors.

    Kenneth O Johnson

  • Attention modulates synchronized neuronal firing in primate somatosensory cortex.

    Peter N. Steinmetz;A. Roy;P. J. Fitzgerald;S. S. Hsiao

  • Tactile spatial resolution. I. Two-point discrimination, gap detection, grating resolution, and letter recognition

    K. O. Johnson;J. R. Phillips

  • Neural Mechanisms of Tactual form and Texture Perception

    K O Johnson;S S Hsiao

  • The limit of tactile spatial resolution in humans Grating orientation discrimination at the lip, tongue, and finger

    R. W. Van Boven;K. O. Johnson

  • Tactile functions of mechanoreceptive afferents innervating the hand.

    K O Johnson;T Yoshioka;F Vega-Bermudez

  • Tactile spatial resolution. II. Neural representation of Bars, edges, and gratings in monkey primary afferents

    J. R. Phillips;K. O. Johnson

  • Tactile spatial resolution. III. A continuum mechanics model of skin predicting mechanoreceptor responses to bars, edges, and gratings

    J. R. Phillips;K. O. Johnson

  • "Cold" fiber population innervating palmar and digital skin of the monkey: responses to cooling pulses.

    I Darian-Smith;K O Johnson;R Dykes

  • Effects of selective attention on spatial form processing in monkey primary and secondary somatosensory cortex

    S. S. Hsiao;D. M. O'Shaughnessy;K. O. Johnson

  • Detection of Vibration Transmitted Through an Object Grasped in the Hand

    A. J. Brisben;S. S. Hsiao;K. O. Johnson;K. O. Johnson

  • Peripheral neural determinants of temperature discrimination in man: a correlative study of responses to cooling skin.

    K O Johnson;I Darian-Smith;C LaMotte

  • Neural Coding Mechanisms in Tactile Pattern Recognition: The Relative Contributions of Slowly and Rapidly Adapting Mechanoreceptors to Perceived Roughness

    David Trumbull Blake;Steven S. Hsiao;Kenneth O. Johnson

  • Formants of children, women, and men: The effects of vocal intensity variation

    Jessica E. Huber;Elaine T. Stathopoulos;Gina M. Curione;Theresa A. Ash

  • Structure of Receptive Fields in Area 3b of Primary Somatosensory Cortex in the Alert Monkey

    James J. DiCarlo;Kenneth O. Johnson;Steven S. Hsiao

  • Human tactile pattern recognition: active versus passive touch, velocity effects, and patterns of confusion.

    F. Vega-Bermudez;K. O. Johnson;S. S. Hsiao

  • Spatial pattern representation and transformation in monkey somatosensory cortex

    J R Phillips;K O Johnson;S S Hsiao

  • A psychophysical study of the mechanisms of sensory recovery following nerve injury in humans

    R W Van Boven;K O Johnson

  • The netrin 1 receptors Unc5h3 and Dcc are necessary at multiple choice points for the guidance of corticospinal tract axons.

    Jacqueline H. Finger;Rod T. Bronson;Belinda Harris;Kenneth Johnson

  • Synchrony: a neuronal mechanism for attentional selection?

    Ernst Niebur;Steven S Hsiao;Kenneth O Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven S. Hsiao
Steven S. Hsiao Johns Hopkins University
Sliman J. Bensmaia
Sliman J. Bensmaia University of Chicago
Hanzhang Lu
Hanzhang Lu Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Susan L. Ackerman
Susan L. Ackerman University of California, San Diego
Stefan Mihalas
Stefan Mihalas Allen Institute for Brain Science
Frederick Lenz
Frederick Lenz Johns Hopkins University
Shinji Ohara
Shinji Ohara Johns Hopkins University

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