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Michael F. Egan 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 F. Egan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 180 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Michael F. Egan 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 F. Egan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael F. Egan is affiliated with MSD in the United States and has contributed to the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on subfields such as Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Economics and Econometrics, and Statistics and Probability.

Their research covers a range of topics including Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, functional brain connectivity studies, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, statistical methods in clinical trials, ethics in clinical research, and virology and viral diseases.

Michael F. Egan has authored several papers published in varied academic journals. Notable works include:

  • "BACE inhibition causes rapid, regional, and non-progressive volume reduction in Alzheimer's disease brain," 2020, Brain
  • "Clinical Meaningfulness in Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trials. A Report from the EU-US CTAD Task Force," 2024, The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease
  • "Establishing an immune correlate of protection for Nipah virus in nonhuman primates," 2024, npj Vaccines
  • "Post-operative ureteral injury after cytoreductive surgery for ovarian cancer managed by primary repair through minimally invasive approach," 2022, International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
  • "The Science of Bureaucracy: Risk Decision-Making and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency," 2024, Isis

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Egan has coauthored papers with Cyrille Sur, James Kost, David Scott, Katarzyna Adamczuk, and Nick C. Fox.

Their publications appear consistently in journals such as Brain, The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease, npj Vaccines, International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, and Isis.

Best Publications

  • Serotonin Transporter Genetic Variation and the Response of the Human Amygdala

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Tessitore;Bhaskar Kolachana

  • 5-HTTLPR polymorphism impacts human cingulate-amygdala interactions: a genetic susceptibility mechanism for depression

    Lukas Pezawas;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Emily M Drabant;Beth A Verchinski

  • Functional Analysis of Genetic Variation in Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT): Effects on mRNA, Protein, and Enzyme Activity in Postmortem Human Brain

    Jingshan Chen;Barbara K. Lipska;Nader Halim;Quang D. Ma

  • Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor val66met Polymorphism Affects Human Memory-Related Hippocampal Activity and Predicts Memory Performance

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Terry E. Goldberg;Venkata S. Mattay;Bhaskar S. Kolachana

  • Catechol O-methyltransferase val158-met genotype and individual variation in the brain response to amphetamine.

    Venkata S. Mattay;Terry E. Goldberg;Francesco Fera;Ahmad R. Hariri

  • The Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor val66met Polymorphism and Variation in Human Cortical Morphology

    Lukas Pezawas;Beth A. Verchinski;Venkata S. Mattay;Joseph H. Callicott

  • A Susceptibility Gene for Affective Disorders and the Response of the Human Amygdala

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Emily M. Drabant;Karen E. Munoz;Bhaskar S. Kolachana

  • Prefrontal neurons and the genetics of schizophrenia.

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Michael F. Egan;Alessandro Bertolino;Joseph H. Callicott

  • Complexity of prefrontal cortical dysfunction in schizophrenia: more than up or down.

    Joseph H. Callicott;Venkata S. Mattay;Beth A. Verchinski;Stefano Marenco

  • Executive subprocesses in working memory: relationship to catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype and schizophrenia.

    Terry E. Goldberg;Michael F. Egan;Tonya Gscheidle;Richard Coppola

  • Evidence for abnormal cortical functional connectivity during working memory in schizophrenia.

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Jean-Baptiste Poline;Philip D. Kohn;John L. Holt

  • Cognitive Impairments in Patients With Schizophrenia Displaying Preserved and Compromised Intellect

    Thomas W. Weickert;Terry E. Goldberg;James M. Gold;Llewellen B. Bigelow

  • Regionally specific disturbance of dorsolateral prefrontal-hippocampal functional connectivity in schizophrenia.

    Andreas S. Meyer-Lindenberg;Rosanna K. Olsen;Philip D. Kohn;Timothy Brown

  • Randomized Trial of Verubecestat for Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease

    Michael F. Egan;James Kost;Pierre N. Tariot;Paul S. Aisen

  • Variation in DISC1 affects hippocampal structure and function and increases risk for schizophrenia

    Joseph H. Callicott;Richard E. Straub;Lukas Pezawas;Michael F. Egan

  • Abnormal fMRI response of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in cognitively intact siblings of patients with schizophrenia.

    Joseph H. Callicott;Michael F. Egan;Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Bertolino

  • Randomized Trial of Verubecestat for Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease

    Michael F. Egan;James Kost;Tiffini Voss;Yuki Mukai

  • Variation in GRM3 affects cognition, prefrontal glutamate, and risk for schizophrenia.

    Michael F. Egan;Richard E. Straub;Terry E. Goldberg;Imtiaz Yakub

  • The BACE1 inhibitor verubecestat (MK-8931) reduces CNS β-amyloid in animal models and in Alzheimer’s disease patients

    Matthew E. Kennedy;Andrew W. Stamford;Xia Chen;Kathleen Cox

  • Comparison of Ketamine-Induced Thought Disorder in Healthy Volunteers and Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia

    Caleb M. Adler;Anil K. Malhotra;Igor Elman;Terry Goldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
Terry E. Goldberg
Terry E. Goldberg Columbia University
Bhaskar Kolachana
Bhaskar Kolachana National Institutes of Health
Joseph H. Callicott
Joseph H. Callicott National Institutes of Health
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Venkata S. Mattay
Venkata S. Mattay Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Thomas M. Hyde
Thomas M. Hyde Johns Hopkins University
Alessandro Bertolino
Alessandro Bertolino University of Bari Aldo Moro
Thomas W. Weickert
Thomas W. Weickert SUNY Upstate Medical University
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri Duke University

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