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Neuroscience

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45
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6849
National Ranking
2960

Psychology

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45
Citations
9998
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6615
National Ranking
3589

Overview

Michael J. Minzenberg is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily centers on neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, and clinical psychology.

Their work covers multiple specialized topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Michael J. Minzenberg has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators including Jong H. Yoon, Tyler A. Lesh, Tara A. Niendam, J. Daniel Ragland, and Juliana Corlier.

Their published works have appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including:

  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Psychiatric Practice

Notable recent papers include:

  • Effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) on cognitive control, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Reductions in synaptic marker SV2A in early-course Schizophrenia, 2023, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are associated with opposite brain reward anticipation-associated response, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Clinical Primer for Nonexperts, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Practice
  • Profiles in conspiracism: Associations with two psychiatric syndromes, religiosity and pandemic-related health behaviors, 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of 41 Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Executive Function in Schizophrenia

    Michael J. Minzenberg;Angela R. Laird;Sarah Thelen;Cameron S. Carter

  • Modafinil: A Review of Neurochemical Actions and Effects on Cognition

    Michael J Minzenberg;Cameron S Carter

  • Cognitive Control Deficits in Schizophrenia: Mechanisms and Meaning

    Tyler A Lesh;Tara A Niendam;Michael J Minzenberg;Cameron S Carter

  • GABA Concentration Is Reduced in Visual Cortex in Schizophrenia and Correlates with Orientation-Specific Surround Suppression

    Jong H. Yoon;Richard J. Maddock;Ariel Rokem;Michael A. Silver

  • Fronto-limbic dysfunction in response to facial emotion in borderline personality disorder: an event-related fMRI study.

    Michael J. Minzenberg;Michael J. Minzenberg;Michael J. Minzenberg;Jin Fan;Antonia S. New;Cheuk Y. Tang

  • Association of anticholinergic load with impairment of complex attention and memory in schizophrenia

    Michael J. Minzenberg;John H. Poole;Cynthia Benton;Sophia Vinogradov

  • Association of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction With Disrupted Coordinated Brain Activity in Schizophrenia: Relationship With Impaired Cognition, Behavioral Disorganization, and Global Function

    Jong H. Yoon;Michael J. Minzenberg;Stefan Ursu;Ryan Walters

  • The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Function and Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

    Charan Ranganath;Michael J. Minzenberg;J. Daniel Ragland

  • Reduced anterior and posterior cingulate gray matter in borderline personality disorder.

    Erin A. Hazlett;Antonia S. New;Antonia S. New;Randall Newmark;M. Mehmet Haznedar

  • Gamma Oscillatory Power is Impaired During Cognitive Control Independent of Medication Status in First-Episode Schizophrenia

    Michael J Minzenberg;Alana J Firl;Jong H Yoon;Glenn C Gomes

  • Modafinil Shifts Human Locus Coeruleus to Low-Tonic, High-Phasic Activity During Functional MRI

    Michael J. Minzenberg;Andrew J. Watrous;Jong H. Yoon;Stefan Ursu

  • Social-emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder.

    Michael J. Minzenberg;John H. Poole;Sophia Vinogradov

  • Proactive and reactive cognitive control and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex dysfunction in first episode schizophrenia

    Tyler A. Lesh;Andrew J. Westphal;Tara A. Niendam;Jong H. Yoon

  • Semantic priming in schizophrenia: a review and synthesis.

    Michael J. Minzenberg;Beth A. Ober;Sophia Vinogradov

  • Prefrontal Cortical Deficits and Impaired Cognition-Emotion Interactions in Schizophrenia

    Stefan Ursu;Ann M. Kring;Marja Germans Gard;Michael J. Minzenberg

  • Neuroimaging of cognitive disability in schizophrenia: search for a pathophysiological mechanism.

    John D Ragland;J. Yoon;M. J. Minzenberg;Cameron S Carter

  • A multimodal analysis of antipsychotic effects on brain structure and function in first-episode schizophrenia

    Tyler A. Lesh;Costin Tanase;Benjamin R. Geib;Tara A. Niendam

  • Extracellular serotonin and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid in hypothalamus of the unanesthetized rat measured by in vivo dialysis coupled to high-performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection: dialysate serotonin reflects neuronal release

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  • Frontolimbic structural changes in borderline personality disorder.

    Michael J. Minzenberg;Michael J. Minzenberg;Jin Fan;Antonia S. New;Cheuk Y. Tang

  • Impaired prefrontal-basal ganglia functional connectivity and substantia nigra hyperactivity in schizophrenia.

    Jong H. Yoon;Michael J. Minzenberg;Sherief Raouf;Mark D’Esposito

  • Developing treatments for impaired cognition in schizophrenia

    Michael J. Minzenberg;Cameron S. Carter

Frequent Co-Authors

Cameron S. Carter
Cameron S. Carter University of California, Irvine
J. Daniel Ragland
J. Daniel Ragland University of California, Davis
Larry J. Siever
Larry J. Siever Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Marjorie Solomon
Marjorie Solomon University of California, Davis
Antonia S. New
Antonia S. New Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ian A. Cook
Ian A. Cook University of California, Los Angeles
Jennifer G. Levitt
Jennifer G. Levitt University of California, Los Angeles
Jin Fan
Jin Fan City University of New York
Richard J. Maddock
Richard J. Maddock University of California, Davis
Philip D. Harvey
Philip D. Harvey University of Miami

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