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Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

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Neuroscience

D-Index
59
Citations
11167
World Ranking
4040
National Ranking
1834

Overview

Margaret A. Niznikiewicz is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States, focusing research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their scholarly work spans a range of topics within cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's research encompasses several interrelated themes. Major topics include functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and music perception, neural dynamics and brain function, schizophrenia research and treatment, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Publications by Margaret A. Niznikiewicz have appeared frequently in several scientific venues. The most common publication outlets are Biological Psychiatry with 10 papers, Schizophrenia Bulletin with 5 papers, Schizophrenia Research with 5 papers, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 5 papers, and Psychiatry Research with 3 papers. This diverse range of journals reflects a focus on psychiatric conditions, brain imaging, and neuroscience methodologies.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Real-time fMRI neurofeedback reduces auditory hallucinations and modulates resting state connectivity of involved brain regions: Part 2: Default mode network - preliminary evidence (2020, Psychiatry Research)
  • Mismatch Negativity in Response to Auditory Deviance and Risk for Future Psychosis in Youth at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (2022, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Baseline Cortical Thickness Reductions in Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: Brain Regions Associated with Conversion to Psychosis Versus Non-Conversion as Assessed at One-Year Follow-Up in the Shanghai-At-Risk-for-Psychosis (SHARP) Study (2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin)
  • Neural characteristics of cognitive reappraisal success and failure: An ERP study (2020, Brain and Behavior)
  • Cognitive dysfunction in a psychotropic medication-naïve, clinical high-risk sample from the ShangHai-At-Risk-for-Psychosis (SHARP) study: Associations with clinical outcomes (2020, Schizophrenia Research)

Margaret A. Niznikiewicz collaborates regularly with several researchers in their field. Frequent coauthors include Daniel H. Mathalon, Brian J. Roach, Ayşenil Belger, Ricardo E. Carrión, and Kristin S. Cadenhead, each with approximately 20 joint publications. These collaborations reflect an emphasis on psychiatric neuroscience and clinical studies related to psychosis and brain function.

Best Publications

  • Abnormal Neural Synchrony in Schizophrenia

    Kevin M. Spencer;Paul Gerard Nestor;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Dean F. Salisbury

  • Neural synchrony indexes disordered perception and cognition in schizophrenia.

    Kevin M. Spencer;Paul Gerard Nestor;R. Perlmutter;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

  • DTI and MTR abnormalities in schizophrenia: analysis of white matter integrity.

    Marek R. Kubicki;H. Park;H. Park;H. Park;Carl-Fredrik Westin;Paul Gerard Nestor

  • White matter hemisphere asymmetries in healthy subjects and in schizophrenia: a diffusion tensor MRI study

    Hae-Jeong Park;Carl-Fredrik Westin;Marek R. Kubicki;Marek R. Kubicki;Stephan Ernst Maier

  • Left auditory cortex gamma synchronization and auditory hallucination symptoms in schizophrenia

    Kevin M. Spencer;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Paul Gerard Nestor;Paul Gerard Nestor;Martha E. Shenton;Martha E. Shenton

  • Sensory-evoked gamma oscillations in chronic schizophrenia.

    Kevin M. Spencer;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Robert William McCarley

  • Fornix Integrity and Hippocampal Volume in Male Schizophrenic Patients

    Noriomi Kuroki;Marek R. Kubicki;Paul Gerard Nestor;Dean F. Salisbury;Dean F. Salisbury

  • Corpus Callosum Abnormalities and Their Association with Psychotic Symptoms in Patients with Schizophrenia

    Thomas J. Whitford;Thomas J. Whitford;Marek Kubicki;Marek Kubicki;Jason S. Schneiderman;Lauren J. O'Donnell

  • Neuropsychological correlates of diffusion tensor imaging in schizophrenia.

    Paul Gerard Nestor;Marek R. Kubicki;Ronald Joseph Gurrera;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

  • Abnormal Angular Gyrus Asymmetry in Schizophrenia

    Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Robert Donnino;Robert William McCarley;Paul Gerard Nestor

  • MRI study of caudate nucleus volume and its cognitive correlates in neuroleptic-naive patients with schizotypal personality disorder.

    James Jonathan Levitt;Robert William McCarley;Chandlee C. Dickey;Martina M. Voglmaier

  • Schizotypal personality disorder and MRI abnormalities of temporal lobe gray matter.

    Chandlee C. Dickey;Robert William McCarley;Martina M. Voglmaier;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

  • Aberrant Semantic Activation in Schizophrenia: A Neurophysiological Study

    Paul G. Nestor;Matthew O. Kimble;Brian F. O'Donnell;Lloyd Smith

  • Functional and structural deficits in brain regions subserving face perception in schizophrenia.

    Toshiaki Onitsuka;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Kevin M. Spencer;Melissa Frumin

  • ERP assessment of visual and auditory language processing in schizophrenia.

    M. A. Niznikiewicz;B. F. O'Donnell;P. G. Nestor;P. G. Nestor;L. Smith

  • Fronto-temporal disconnectivity in schizotypal personality disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study.

    Motoaki Nakamura;Robert William McCarley;Marek R. Kubicki;Marek R. Kubicki;Chandlee C. Dickey;Chandlee C. Dickey

  • Attentional networks and cingulum bundle in chronic schizophrenia.

    Paul Gerard Nestor;Paul Gerard Nestor;Marek R. Kubicki;Marek R. Kubicki;Kevin M. Spencer;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

  • Cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: unifying basic research and clinical aspects

    Robert William McCarley;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Dean F. Salisbury;Paul Gerard Nestor

  • Identification of neural circuits underlying P300 abnormalities in schizophrenia

    Brian F. O'Donnell;Robert William McCarley;Geoffrey F. Potts;Dean F. Salisbury

  • Episodic memory and neuroimaging of hippocampus and fornix in chronic schizophrenia.

    Paul G. Nestor;Paul G. Nestor;Marek Kubicki;Noriomi Kuroki;Ronald J. Gurrera

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley Harvard Medical School
Paul G. Nestor
Paul G. Nestor University of Massachusetts Boston
Marek Kubicki
Marek Kubicki Brigham and Women's Hospital
James J. Levitt
James J. Levitt Brigham and Women's Hospital
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco
Kevin M. Spencer
Kevin M. Spencer VA Boston Healthcare System
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli Northeastern University
Diana O. Perkins
Diana O. Perkins University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sylvain Bouix
Sylvain Bouix Harvard Medical School

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