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Neuroscience

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Overview

Kirk R. Daffner is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions to Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Neurology.

The scientist has published extensively in several areas related to cognitive health and aging. Their main research topics include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

Notable publications by Kirk R. Daffner include:

  • "Promoting Successful Cognitive Aging: A Ten-Year Update" (2021) published in the Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • "BDNF mediates improvement in cognitive performance after computerized cognitive training in healthy older adults" (2022) published in Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions
  • "Cognitive Impairment in Aging Physicians" (2020) published in Neurology Clinical Practice
  • "Capacity-limited resources are used for managing sensory degradation and cognitive demands: Implications for age-related cognitive decline and dementia" (2020) published in Cortex
  • "Point: Healthcare Providers Should Receive Treatment Priority During a Pandemic" (2021) published in Journal of Hospital Medicine

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Seth A. Gale
  • Brittany McFeeley
  • Scott M. McGinnis
  • David Silbersweig
  • Casey M Nicastri

Their work appears across various academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Journal of Neuropsychiatry
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Neurology
  • Journal of Hospital Medicine
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease

Best Publications

  • The central role of the prefrontal cortex in directing attention to novel events.

    Kirk R. Daffner;Marek-Marsel Mesulam;L. F.M. Scinto;D. Acar

  • THE COMPORTMENTAL LEARNING DISABILITIES OF EARLY FRONTAL LOBE DAMAGE

    Bruce Heimburger Price;Kirk R. Daffner;Robert C Stowe;M. Marsel Mesulam

  • Regional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lesion Burden and Cognitive Function in Multiple Sclerosis: A Longitudinal Study

    Reisa A. Sperling;Charles R. G. Guttmann;Marika J. Hohol;Simon K. Warfield

  • A potential noninvasive neurobiological test for Alzheimer's disease

    Leonard F. M. Scinto;Kirk R. Daffner;David Dressler;Bernard I. Ransil

  • Promoting Successful Cognitive Aging: A Comprehensive Review

    Kirk R. Daffner

  • When false recognition is unopposed by true recognition: gist-based memory distortion in Alzheimer's disease.

    Andrew E. Budson;Kirk R. Daffner;Rahul Desikan;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Donepezil therapy in clinical practice: a randomized crossover study.

    Steven M. Greenberg;Marsha K. Tennis;Laura B. Brown;Teresa Gomez-Isla

  • BDNF Responses in Healthy Older Persons to 35 Minutes of Physical Exercise, Cognitive Training, and Mindfulness: Associations with Working Memory Function.

    Krister Håkansson;Aurélie Ledreux;Kirk Daffner;Yvonne Terjestam

  • Frontal and Parietal Components of a Cerebral Network Mediating Voluntary Attention to Novel Events

    K. R. Daffner;L. F. M. Scinto;A. M. Weitzman;R. Faust

  • Dissociated neglect behavior following sequential strokes in the right hemisphere.

    Kirk R. Daffner;Geoffrey L. Ahern;Sandra Weintraub;M‐Marsel ‐M Mesulam

  • Mechanisms underlying age-and performance-related differences in working memory

    Kirk R. Daffner;Hyemi Chong;Xue Sun;Elise C. Tarbi

  • Associative recognition in Alzheimer's disease: evidence for impaired recall-to-reject.

    David A. Gallo;Alison L. Sullivan;Kirk R. Daffner;Daniel L. Schacter

  • Suppression of false recognition in Alzheimer’s disease and in patients with frontal lobe lesions

    A. E. Budson;A. L. Sullivan;E. Mayer;K. R. Daffner

  • Diminished curiosity in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease as measured by exploratory eye movements

    Kirk R. Daffner;L.F.M. Scinto;S. Weintraub;J. E. Guinessey

  • Promoting Successful Cognitive Aging: A Ten-Year Update.

    Taylor J. Krivanek;Seth A. Gale;Brittany M. McFeeley;Casey M. Nicastri

  • Functional imaging of human right hemispheric activation for exploratory movements.

    Darren R. Gitelman;Darren R. Gitelman;Nathaniel M. Alpert;Stephen Kosslyn;Kirk Daffner

  • Regulation of attention to novel stimuli by frontal lobes: An event- related potential study

    K. R. Daffner;M. M. Mesulam;L. F. M. Scinto;L. G. Cohen

  • An electrophysiological index of stimulus unfamiliarity

    Kirk R. Daffner;M. Marsel Mesulam;Leonard F.M. Scinto;Vivian Calvo

  • Non-Invasive Method for Diagnosing Alzheimer's in a Patient

    Scinto Leonard;Daffner Kirk R

  • Frontal lobe dysfunction following infarction of the left-sided medial thalamus.

    Thomas A. Sandson;Kirk R. Daffner;Paulo A. Carvalho;M-Marsel Mesulam

  • Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

    Elizabeth Finger;Kirk R. Daffner;Kirk R. Daffner

  • Regional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lesion Burden and Cognitive Function in Multiple Sclerosis

    Reisa A. Sperling;Charles R. G. Guttmann;Marika J. Hohol;Simon K. Warfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip J. Holcomb
Phillip J. Holcomb San Diego State University
Andrew E. Budson
Andrew E. Budson Boston University
Dorene M. Rentz
Dorene M. Rentz Harvard Medical School
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Abdul H. Mohammed
Abdul H. Mohammed Linnaeus University
M.-Marsel Mesulam
M.-Marsel Mesulam Northwestern University
Sandra Weintraub
Sandra Weintraub Northwestern University
Reisa A. Sperling
Reisa A. Sperling Brigham and Women's Hospital
David A. Wolk
David A. Wolk University of Pennsylvania
Darren R. Gitelman
Darren R. Gitelman Northwestern University

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