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75
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20620
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2012
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964

Overview

Lei Wang is a researcher affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States, specializing in fields related to medicine and neuroscience. Their work spans significant subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and physiology. This diverse expertise reflects a broad engagement with complex biomedical topics.

Their research topics cover a variety of advanced areas in brain science and neurological disorders. Key themes include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Lei Wang has contributed multiple papers to the scientific literature, some of which include:

  • "ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries" (2020), published in Translational Psychiatry
  • "Hippocampal subfield volumetry from structural isotropic 1mm3MRI scans: A note of caution" (2020), published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "SCN1A Mutation-Beyond Dravet Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis" (2021), published in Frontiers in Neurology
  • "Using machine learning to quantify structural MRI neurodegeneration patterns of Alzheimer's disease into dementia score: Independent validation on 8,834 images from ADNI, AIBL, OASIS, and MIRIAD databases" (2020), published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "Relationship Between Type 2 Diabetes and White Matter Hyperintensity: A Systematic Review" (2020), published in Frontiers in Endocrinology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lei Wang include:

  • Mirza Faisal Beg
  • Karteek Popuri
  • Jane Stocks
  • Ashley Heywood
  • Jessica A. Turner

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in the following venues:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • NeuroImage Clinical

Best Publications

  • Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium

    T. G M van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Hippocampal morphometry in schizophrenia by high dimensional brain mapping

    John G. Csernansky;Sarang Joshi;Lei Wang;John W. Haller

  • Plasma cortisol and progression of dementia in subjects with Alzheimer-type dementia.

    John G. Csernansky;Hongxin Dong;Anne M. Fagan;Lei Wang

  • Preclinical detection of Alzheimer's disease: hippocampal shape and volume predict dementia onset in the elderly.

    J.G. Csernansky;L. Wang;J. Swank;J.P. Miller

  • Changes in hippocampal volume and shape across time distinguish dementia of the Alzheimer type from healthy aging

    Lei Wang;Jeffrey S. Swank;Irena E. Glick;Mokhtar H. Gado

  • Quantitative Comparison of 21 Protocols for Labeling Hippocampal Subfields and Parahippocampal Subregions in In Vivo MRI: Towards a Harmonized Segmentation Protocol

    Paul A. Yushkevich;Robert S C Amaral;Jean C. Augustinack;Andrew R. Bender

  • Correlative three-dimensional super-resolution and block-face electron microscopy of whole vitreously frozen cells

    David P. Hoffman;Gleb Shtengel;C. Shan Xu;Kirby R. Campbell

  • Early DAT is distinguished from aging by high-dimensional mapping of the hippocampus

    John G. Csernansky;L. Wang;S. Joshi;J. P. Miller

  • Erratum: Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) DOI:10.1038/mp.2015.63)

    T. G.M. Van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • Hippocampal Deformities in Schizophrenia Characterized by High Dimensional Brain Mapping

    John G. Csernansky;Lei Wang;Lei Wang;Donald Jones;Donald Jones;Devna Rastogi-Cruz;Devna Rastogi-Cruz

  • Prostaglandin E2 mediates sensory nerve regulation of bone homeostasis

    Hao Chen;Hao Chen;Bo Hu;Bo Hu;Xiao Lv;Shouan Zhu

  • High-dimensional mapping of the hippocampus in depression

    Joel A. Posener;Joel A. Posener;Lei Wang;Joseph L. Price;Joseph L. Price;Mokhtar H. Gado;Mokhtar H. Gado

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

    Sophia Frangou;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Steven C. R. Williams;Efstathios Papachristou

  • Dietary supplementation with l-arginine or N-carbamylglutamate enhances intestinal growth and heat shock protein-70 expression in weanling pigs fed a corn- and soybean meal-based diet

    Xin Wu;Zheng Ruan;Yunling Gao;Yulong Yin;Yulong Yin;Yulong Yin

  • FreeSurfer-Initiated Fully-Automated Subcortical Brain Segmentation in MRI Using Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping

    Ali R. Khan;Lei Wang;Mirza Faisal Beg

  • Patterns of Gray Matter Abnormalities in Schizophrenia Based on an International Mega-analysis

    Cota Navin Gupta;Vince Daniel Calhoun;Vince Daniel Calhoun;Vince Daniel Calhoun;Srinivas Rachakonda;Jiayu Chen

  • Large Deformation Diffeomorphism and Momentum Based Hippocampal Shape Discrimination in Dementia of the Alzheimer type

    Lei Wang;F. Beg;T. Ratnanather;C. Ceritoglu

  • Abnormalities of thalamic volume and shape in schizophrenia.

    John G. Csernansky;Mathew K. Schindler;N. Reagan Splinter;Lei Wang

  • Abnormalities of hippocampal surface structure in very mild dementia of the Alzheimer type.

    Lei Wang;J. Philip Miller;Mokhtar H. Gado;Daniel W. McKeel

Frequent Co-Authors

Guoyao Wu
Guoyao Wu Texas A&M University
Jessica A. Turner
Jessica A. Turner The Ohio State University
Vince D. Calhoun
Vince D. Calhoun Georgia State University
John C. Morris
John C. Morris Washington University in St. Louis
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis
David C. Glahn
David C. Glahn Boston Children's Hospital
Theo G.M. van Erp
Theo G.M. van Erp University of California, Irvine
Michael P. Harms
Michael P. Harms Washington University in St. Louis

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