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2026

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Overview

Masud Husain is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work addresses several specialized areas, including:

  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments

Masud Husain has contributed to a number of recent publications, including:

  • "6-month neurological and psychiatric outcomes in 236,379 survivors of COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records," 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Incidence, co-occurrence, and evolution of long-COVID features: A 6-month retrospective cohort study of 273,618 survivors of COVID-19," 2021, PLoS Medicine
  • "Epilepsy in older people," 2020, The Lancet
  • "Cognition and Memory after Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample," 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Neural signatures of hyperdirect pathway activity in Parkinson's disease," 2021, Nature Communications

Their collaborative work includes frequent partnerships with several coauthors such as Sanjay Manohar, Sofia Toniolo, Bahaaeddin Attaallah, Sian Thompson, and Sijia Zhao.

Masud Husain's research has been disseminated across prominent scientific venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Brain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Brain Communications
  • Scientific Reports

The primary fields of study for Husain are medicine and neuroscience, reflecting a substantial body of work with 252 publications in medicine and 174 in neuroscience. Within these, their subfields of study cover cognitive neuroscience (118 publications), neurology (80 publications), psychiatry and mental health (62 publications), cellular and molecular neuroscience (37 publications), and experimental and cognitive psychology (30 publications).

Best Publications

  • Functional role of the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas

    Parashkev Nachev;Parashkev Nachev;Christopher Kennard;Masud Husain

  • 6-month neurological and psychiatric outcomes in 236 379 survivors of COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study using electronic health records.

    Maxime Taquet;Maxime Taquet;John R Geddes;John R Geddes;Masud Husain;Sierra Luciano

  • Dynamic Shifts of Limited Working Memory Resources in Human Vision

    Paul M. Bays;Masud Husain

  • Changing concepts of working memory.

    Wei Ji Ma;Masud Husain;Paul M Bays

  • The precision of visual working memory is set by allocation of a shared resource.

    Paul M. Bays;Raquel F. G. Catalao;Masud Husain

  • The anatomy of visual neglect

    D.J Mort;P Malhotra;S.K Mannan;C Rorden

  • Maintaining internal representations: the role of the human superior parietal lobe.

    Daniel M. Wolpert;Susan J. Goodbody;Masud Husain

  • Incidence, co-occurrence, and evolution of long-COVID features: A 6-month retrospective cohort study of 273,618 survivors of COVID-19.

    Maxime Taquet;Maxime Taquet;Quentin Dercon;Sierra Luciano;John R. Geddes;John R. Geddes

  • Symmetries in human brain language pathways correlate with verbal recall

    Marco Catani;Matthew P. G. Allin;Masud Husain;Luca Pugliese

  • Non-spatially lateralized mechanisms in hemispatial neglect.

    Masud Husain;Masud Husain;Chris Rorden

  • Neuroscience of apathy and anhedonia: a transdiagnostic approach

    Masud Husain;Jonathan P. Roiser

  • Space and the parietal cortex

    Masud Husain;Parashkev Nachev

  • The role of the pre-supplementary motor area in the control of action.

    Parashkev Nachev;Henrietta Wydell;Kevin O’Neill;Masud Husain

  • The impact of extensive medial frontal lobe damage on 'Theory of Mind' and cognition.

    Chris M. Bird;Fulvia Castelli;Omar Malik;Uta Frith

  • Abnormal temporal dynamics of visual attention in spatial neglect patients.

    Masud Husain;Kimron Shapiro;Jesse Martin;Christopher Kennard

  • The functional role of the inferior parietal lobe in the dorsal and ventral stream dichotomy

    Victoria Singh-Curry;Masud Husain

  • Neural response to emotional faces with and without awareness: event-related fMRI in a parietal patient with visual extinction and spatial neglect

    Patrik Vuilleumier;J. L. Armony;Karen Clarke;Masud Husain;Masud Husain

  • The hippocampus is required for short-term topographical memory in humans

    Tom Hartley;Chris M. Bird;Dennis Chan;Lisa Cipolotti

  • Human Medial Frontal Cortex Mediates Unconscious Inhibition of Voluntary Action

    Petroc Sumner;Parashkev Nachev;Peter Stanley Morris;Andrew M Peters

  • Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying subjective valuation of effort costs.

    Trevor T.-J. Chong;Matthew Apps;Kathrin Giehl;Kathrin Giehl;Annie Sillence

  • Motor role of human inferior parietal lobe revealed in unilateral neglect patients.

    Jason B. Mattingley;Masud Husain;Chris Rorden;Christopher Kennard

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Kennard
Christopher Kennard University of Oxford
Paul M. Bays
Paul M. Bays University of Cambridge
Michele T.M. Hu
Michele T.M. Hu University of Oxford
Stephen R. Jackson
Stephen R. Jackson University of Nottingham
Timothy L. Hodgson
Timothy L. Hodgson University of Lincoln
Clare E. Mackay
Clare E. Mackay University of Oxford
Petroc Sumner
Petroc Sumner Cardiff University
Chris Rorden
Chris Rorden University of South Carolina
Patricia L. Lockwood
Patricia L. Lockwood University of Birmingham
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees University College London

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