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Michael A. Yassa

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Neuroscience

D-Index
54
Citations
14806
World Ranking
4854
National Ranking
2185

Michael A. Yassa publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael A. Yassa sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 272 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Michael A. Yassa D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael A. Yassa sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 50th percentile

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Overview

Michael A. Yassa is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with 233 and 151 publications respectively. Subfields of study include Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Physiology.

The main topics of Yassa's work cover a range of areas related to brain health and cognitive function. These include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disability Research, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Frailty in Older Adults, and Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments.

Yassa has published frequently in several scientific venues, with notable publication counts in:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • SLEEP
  • Scientific Reports

Selected recent papers by Yassa include:

  • The ANTsX ecosystem for quantitative biological and medical imaging, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • The Computerized Cognitive Composite (C3) in A4, an Alzheimer's Disease Secondary Prevention Trial, 2021, The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Alzheimer-Related Cerebrovascular Disease in Down Syndrome, 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • Benefit of human moderate running boosting mood and executive function coinciding with bilateral prefrontal activation, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Aberrant Maturation of the Uncinate Fasciculus Follows Exposure to Unpredictable Patterns of Maternal Signals, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Liv McMillan, David B. Keator, Adam M. Brickman, Ira T. Lott, and Mithra Sathishkumar, reflecting consistent co-authorship patterns across numerous publications.

Best Publications

  • Pattern separation in the hippocampus.

    Michael A. Yassa;Craig E.L. Stark

  • Reduction of hippocampal hyperactivity improves cognition in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

    Arnold Bakker;Gregory L. Krauss;Marilyn S. Albert;Caroline L. Speck

  • Pattern separation deficits associated with increased hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus activity in nondemented older adults

    Michael A. Yassa;Joyce W. Lacy;Shauna M. Stark;Marilyn S. Albert

  • A task to assess behavioral pattern separation (BPS) in humans: Data from healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment.

    Shauna M. Stark;Michael A. Yassa;Joyce W. Lacy;Craig E.L. Stark

  • High-resolution structural and functional MRI of hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus in patients with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Michael A. Yassa;Shauna M. Stark;Arnold Bakker;Marilyn S. Albert

  • Age-related memory deficits linked to circuit-specific disruptions in the hippocampus

    Michael A. Yassa;Aaron T. Mattfeld;Shauna M. Stark;Craig E. L. Stark

  • Distinct pattern separation related transfer functions in human CA3/dentate and CA1 revealed using high-resolution fMRI and variable mnemonic similarity

    Joyce W. Lacy;Michael A. Yassa;Shauna M. Stark;L. Tugan Muftuler

  • 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

  • A quantitative evaluation of cross-participant registration techniques for MRI studies of the medial temporal lobe.

    Michael A. Yassa;Craig E. L. Stark

  • Post-study caffeine administration enhances memory consolidation in humans

    Daniel Borota;Elizabeth Murray;Gizem Keceli;Allen Chang

  • Ultrahigh-resolution microstructural diffusion tensor imaging reveals perforant path degradation in aged humans in vivo

    Michael A. Yassa;L. Tugan Muftuler;Craig E. L. Stark

  • Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease

    Freddie Márquez;Michael A. Yassa

  • Object and spatial mnemonic interference differentially engage lateral and medial entorhinal cortex in humans

    Zachariah M. Reagh;Michael A. Yassa

  • Integrating new findings and examining clinical applications of pattern separation

    Stephanie L. Leal;Michael A. Yassa

  • Individual differences in spatial pattern separation performance associated with healthy aging in humans

    Shauna M. Stark;Michael A. Yassa;Craig E.L. Stark

  • Familial risk for Alzheimer's disease alters fMRI activation patterns

    Susan Spear Bassett;David M. Yousem;Catherine Cristinzio;Ivana Kusevic

  • Neurocognitive Aging and the Hippocampus across Species

    Stephanie L. Leal;Stephanie L. Leal;Michael A. Yassa

  • Amygdala-hippocampal dynamics during salient information processing

    Jie Zheng;Kristopher L. Anderson;Stephanie L. Leal;Avgusta Shestyuk

  • Functional Imbalance of Anterolateral Entorhinal Cortex and Hippocampal Dentate/CA3 Underlies Age-Related Object Pattern Separation Deficits.

    Zachariah M. Reagh;Jessica A. Noche;Nicholas J. Tustison;Derek Delisle

  • Functional MRI of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis during conditions of uncertainty in generalized anxiety disorder.

    Michael A. Yassa;Richard L. Hazlett;Craig E.L. Stark;Rudolf Hoehn-Saric

  • Regional white matter change in pre-symptomatic Huntington's disease: A diffusion tensor imaging study

    Sarah A.J. Reading;Michael A. Yassa;Arnold Bakker;Adam C. Dziorny

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig E.L. Stark
Craig E.L. Stark University of California, Irvine
Adam M. Brickman
Adam M. Brickman Columbia University
Nicole Schupf
Nicole Schupf Columbia University
H. Diana Rosas
H. Diana Rosas Massachusetts General Hospital
Heidi I.L. Jacobs
Heidi I.L. Jacobs Harvard University
Robert T. Knight
Robert T. Knight University of California, Berkeley
Arne D. Ekstrom
Arne D. Ekstrom University of Arizona
Philip A. Cook
Philip A. Cook University of Pennsylvania
Brian B. Avants
Brian B. Avants University of Virginia
Michela Gallagher
Michela Gallagher Johns Hopkins University

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