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Overview

Lori L. Beason-Held is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medical and neuroscience fields, with a significant emphasis on advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications.

Their body of work spans several main topics, including:

  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Bone and Joint Diseases
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Beason-Held's research contributes to multiple subfields such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and Physiology.

Frequently publishing in venues including Alzheimer's & Dementia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), NeuroImage, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and arXiv (Cornell University), their work is well represented across leading journals in medicine and neuroscience.

Among recent notable publications are:

  • "PreQual: An automated pipeline for integrated preprocessing and quality assurance of diffusion weighted MRI images" (2021) published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • "Associations between cognitive and brain volume changes in cognitively normal older adults" (2020) published in NeuroImage
  • "Harmonizing functional connectivity reduces scanner effects in community detection" (2022) published in NeuroImage
  • "Hippocampal activation and connectivity in the aging brain" (2020) published in Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • "Lasting consequences of concussion on the aging brain: Findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging" (2020) published in NeuroImage

Their frequent collaborators include Susan M. Resnick, Bennett A. Landman, Derek B. Archer, Timothy J. Hohman, and Kurt G. Schilling.

Best Publications

  • Changes in brain function occur years before the onset of cognitive impairment.

    Lori L. Beason-Held;Joshua O. Goh;Joshua O. Goh;Yang An;Michael A. Kraut

  • Hippocampal formation lesions produce memory impairment in the rhesus monkey.

    Lori L. Beason-Held;Douglas L. Rosene;Ronald J. Killiany;Mark B. Moss

  • Longitudinal Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow in the Older Hypertensive Brain

    Lori L. Beason-Held;Abhay Moghekar;Alan B. Zonderman;Michael A. Kraut

  • APOE ε4 Genotype and Longitudinal Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow in Normal Aging

    Madhav Thambisetty;Lori Beason-Held;Yang An;Michael A. Kraut

  • Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Longitudinal Changes in Memory and Brain Function

    Timothy J. Hohman;Lori L. Beason-Held;Melissa Lamar;Susan M. Resnick

  • Statins and serum cholesterol's associations with incident dementia and mild cognitive impairment

    May A Beydoun;Lori L Beason-Held;Melissa H Kitner-Triolo;Hind A Beydoun

  • Alzheimer Risk Variant CLU and Brain Function During Aging

    Madhav Thambisetty;Lori L. Beason-Held;Yang An;Michael Kraut

  • Sex differences in brain aging and predictors of neurodegeneration in cognitively healthy older adults.

    Nicole M. Armstrong;Yang An;Lori Beason-Held;Jimit Doshi

  • Longitudinal Cerebral Blood Flow and Amyloid Deposition: An Emerging Pattern?

    Jitka Sojkova;Lori Beason-Held;Yun Zhou;Yang An

  • I. Longitudinal changes in aging brain function.

    L.L. Beason-Held;M.A. Kraut;S.M. Resnick

  • Associations between cognitive and brain volume changes in cognitively normal older adults.

    Nicole M. Armstrong;Yang An;John J. Shin;Owen A. Williams

  • FTO genotype and aging: pleiotropic longitudinal effects on adiposity, brain function, impulsivity and diet

    Yi-Fang Chuang;Toshiko Tanaka;Lori L. Beason-Held;Yang An

  • Heterogeneity of structural and functional imaging patterns of advanced brain aging revealed via machine learning methods

    Harini Eavani;Mohamad Habes;Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Yang An

  • Stability Of Default-Mode Network Activity In The Aging Brain

    L. L. Beason-Held;L. L. Beason-Held;M. A. Kraut;S. M. Resnick

  • Cognitive complaints, depressive symptoms, and cognitive impairment: are they related?

    Timothy J. Hohman;Timothy J. Hohman;Lori L. Beason-Held;Susan M. Resnick

  • Elevated Markers of Inflammation Are Associated With Longitudinal Changes in Brain Function in Older Adults.

    Kristen N Warren;Lori L Beason-Held;Olga Carlson;Josephine M Egan

  • Impaired glucose tolerance in midlife and longitudinal changes in brain function during aging.

    Madhav Thambisetty;Lori L. Beason-Held;Yang An;Michael Kraut

  • PET reveals occipitotemporal pathway activation during elementary form perception in humans

    Lori L. Beason-Held;Keith P. Purpura;John W. Van Meter;Nina P. Azari

  • The impact of magnetic resonance imaging-detected white matter hyperintensities on longitudinal changes in regional cerebral blood flow

    Michael A Kraut;Lori L Beason-Held;Wendy D Elkins;Wendy D Elkins;Susan M Resnick

  • Intima-Media Thickness and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Older Adults

    Jitka Sojkova;Jitka Sojkova;Samer S. Najjar;Lori L. Beason-Held;E. Jeffrey Metter

  • Age-related differences in visual perception: a PET study

    B.K. Levine;L.L. Beason–Held;K.P. Purpura;D.M. Aronchick

  • The neural correlates of Neuroticism differ by sex prospectively mediate depressive symptoms among older women.

    Angelina R. Sutin;Lori L. Beason-Held;Vonetta M. Dotson;Susan M. Resnick

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan M. Resnick
Susan M. Resnick National Institutes of Health
Michael A. Kraut
Michael A. Kraut Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baxter P. Rogers
Baxter P. Rogers Vanderbilt University
Susan M. Resnick
Susan M. Resnick National Institutes of Health
Lance M. Optican
Lance M. Optican National Institutes of Health
Andrew B. Singleton
Andrew B. Singleton National Institutes of Health
Warren D. Taylor
Warren D. Taylor Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Angelina R. Sutin
Angelina R. Sutin Florida State University
Mike A. Nalls
Mike A. Nalls National Institutes of Health
Toshiko Tanaka
Toshiko Tanaka National Institutes of Health

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