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Linda K. McEvoy is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant number of publications in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work covers main topics including Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects, Diet and Metabolism Studies, and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology.

McEvoy has contributed numerous papers, including recent publications such as:

  • "MRI-assessed locus coeruleus integrity is heritable and associated with multiple cognitive domains, mild cognitive impairment, and daytime dysfunction", 2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Sex-dependent autosomal effects on clinical progression of Alzheimer's disease", 2020, Brain
  • "Association of Epigenetic Age Acceleration With Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Among Older Women", 2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • "Age and Sex Differences in the Associations of Pulse Pressure With White Matter and Subcortical Microstructure", 2021, Hypertension
  • "Sex differences in Alzheimer's disease: do differences in tau explain the verbal memory gap?", 2021, Neurobiology of Aging

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • William S. Kremen
  • Carol E. Franz
  • Jeremy A. Elman
  • Anders M. Dale
  • Donald J. Hagler

Linda K. McEvoy's work has been published predominantly in venues such as Alzheimer's & Dementia, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neurobiology of Aging, and Brain Communications.

Best Publications

  • High-resolution EEG mapping of cortical activation related to working memory: effects of task difficulty, type of processing, and practice.

    Alan Gevins;Michael E. Smith;Linda McEvoy;Daphne Yu

  • What is normal in normal aging? Effects of aging, amyloid and Alzheimer's disease on the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus

    Anders Martin Fjell;Linda McEvoy;Dominic Holland;Anders Dale

  • One-Year Brain Atrophy Evident in Healthy Aging

    Anders M. Fjell;Kristine B. Walhovd;Christine Fennema-Notestine;Linda K. McEvoy

  • Monitoring Working Memory Load during Computer-Based Tasks with EEG Pattern Recognition Methods

    Alan S. Gevins;Michael E. Smith;Harrison Leong;Linda McEvoy

  • Improved Detection of Common Variants Associated with Schizophrenia by Leveraging Pleiotropy with Cardiovascular-Disease Risk Factors

    Ole A. Andreassen;Ole A. Andreassen;Ole A. Andreassen;Srdjan Djurovic;Srdjan Djurovic;Wesley K. Thompson;Andrew J. Schork

  • Intracranial EEG Reveals a Time- and Frequency-Specific Role for the Right Inferior Frontal Gyrus and Primary Motor Cortex in Stopping Initiated Responses

    Nicole Swann;Nitin Tandon;Ryan Canolty;Timothy M. Ellmore

  • Effects of continuous positive airway pressure on neurocognitive function in obstructive sleep apnea patients: The Apnea Positive Pressure Long-term Efficacy Study (APPLES).

    Clete A. Kushida;Deborah A. Nichols;Tyson H. Holmes;Stuart F. Quan;Stuart F. Quan

  • Improved Detection of Common Variants Associated with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Using Pleiotropy-Informed Conditional False Discovery Rate

    Ole A. Andreassen;Wesley K. Thompson;Andrew J. Schork;Stephan Ripke

  • Genetic assessment of age-associated Alzheimer disease risk: Development and validation of a polygenic hazard score

    Rahul S. Desikan;Chun Chieh Fan;Yunpeng Wang;Yunpeng Wang;Yunpeng Wang;Andrew J. Schork

  • Neurophysiological signals of working memory in normal aging.

    Linda K McEvoy;Emiliana Pellouchoud;Michael E Smith;Alan Gevins

  • Neurophysiological indices of strategy development and skill acquisition

    Michael E Smith;Linda K McEvoy;Alan Gevins

  • Alzheimer Disease: Quantitative Structural Neuroimaging for Detection and Prediction of Clinical and Structural Changes in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Linda K. McEvoy;Christine Fennema-Notestine;J. Cooper Roddey;Donald J. Hagler

  • Regional rates of neocortical atrophy from normal aging to early Alzheimer disease

    C R. McDonald;L K. McEvoy;L Gharapetian;C Fennema-Notestine

  • Combining MR Imaging, Positron-Emission Tomography, and CSF Biomarkers in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Alzheimer Disease

    K.B. Walhovd;A.M. Fjell;J. Brewer;L.K. McEvoy

  • Dynamic cortical networks of verbal and spatial working memory: effects of memory load and task practice.

    L K McEvoy;M E Smith;A Gevins

  • Genome-wide Pleiotropy Between Parkinson Disease and Autoimmune Diseases.

    Aree Witoelar;Iris E. Jansen;Yunpeng Wang;Rahul S. Desikan

  • Deviant Auditory Stimuli Activate Human Left and Right Auditory Cortex Differently

    Sari Levänen;Antti Ahonen;Riitta Hari;Linda McEvoy

  • High resolution evoked potential imaging of the cortical dynamics of human working memory

    Alan Gevins;Michael E. Smith;Jian Le;Harrison Leong

  • Brain changes in older adults at very low risk for Alzheimer's disease.

    Anders M. Fjell;Linda McEvoy;Dominic Holland;Anders M. Dale

  • The impact of moderate sleep loss on neurophysiologic signals during working-memory task performance.

    Michael E. Smith;Linda K. McEvoy;Alan Gevins

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Christine Fennema-Notestine
Christine Fennema-Notestine University of California, San Diego
James B. Brewer
James B. Brewer University of California, San Diego
William S. Kremen
William S. Kremen University of California, San Diego
Yunpeng Wang
Yunpeng Wang University of Oslo
Alan Gevins
Alan Gevins San Francicso Brain Research Institute & SAM Technology
Wesley K. Thompson
Wesley K. Thompson University of California, San Diego
Carol E. Franz
Carol E. Franz University of California, San Diego
Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith University of California, Los Angeles
Bradley T. Hyman
Bradley T. Hyman Harvard University

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