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Nancy C. Andreasen

Nancy C. Andreasen

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Neuroscience
USA
2026

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
164
Citations
104839
World Ranking
84
National Ranking
50

Best Scientists

D-Index
164
Citations
104839
World Ranking
1088
National Ranking
648

Neuroscience

D-Index
164
Citations
104989
World Ranking
93
National Ranking
61

Medicine

D-Index
164
Citations
102704
World Ranking
660
National Ranking
381

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2000 - US President's National Medal of Science "For her pivotal contributions to the social and behavioral sciences, through the integrative study of mind, brain, and behavior, by joining behavioral science with the technologies of neuroscience and neuroimaging in order to understand mental processes such as memory and creativity, and mental illnesses such as schizophrenia.", Presented by Dr. Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, at a black-tie dinner awards ceremony at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, Friday, December 1, 2000.
  • 1999 - Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, National Academy of Medicine
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Nancy C. Andreasen is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their primary fields of study include Medicine and Neuroscience, with 16 and 9 publications respectively. Within these fields, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Molecular Biology.

Their research covers a range of main topics including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Retinal Imaging and Analysis, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Acute Ischemic Stroke Management, and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies.

Recent significant publications by Nancy C. Andreasen include:

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Subcortical volumes across the lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Cortical Thickness Trajectories across the Lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2020, bioRxiv - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Subcortical Volume Trajectories across the Lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2020, bioRxiv - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Phase 1/2a Intravenous and Subcutaneous Oligomer-Specific Antibody KHK6640 in Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease (2024, The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Beng-Choon Ho, Thomas Nickl-Jockschat, Amirhossein Modabbernia, Efstathios Papachristou, and Gaëlle E. Doucet.

They have published in various academic venues, most frequently in Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Human Brain Mapping, The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease, and PLoS ONE.

In addition to articles, Nancy C. Andreasen has authored books, such as the Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry, published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks in 2020.

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
  • US President's National Medal of Science (2000) "For her pivotal contributions to the social and behavioral sciences, through the integrative study of mind, brain, and behavior, by joining behavioral science with the technologies of neuroscience and neuroimaging in order to understand mental processes such as memory and creativity, and mental illnesses such as schizophrenia."
  • Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, National Academy of Medicine (1999)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1998)
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (1992)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Negative v positive schizophrenia. Definition and validation.

    Nancy C. Andreasen;Scott A. Olsen

  • Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Definition and Reliability

    Nancy C. Andreasen

  • Remission in Schizophrenia: Proposed Criteria and Rationale for Consensus

    Nancy C. Andreasen;William T. Carpenter;John M. Kane;Robert A. Lasser

  • The Longitudinal Interval Follow-up Evaluation. A comprehensive method for assessing outcome in prospective longitudinal studies

    Martin B. Keller;Philip W. Lavori;Barbara Friedman;Eileen Nielsen

  • Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms

    Nancy C. Andreasen

  • The Family History Method Using Diagnostic Criteria: Reliability and Validity

    Nancy C. Andreasen;Jean Endicott;Robert L. Spitzer;George Winokur

  • The Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS): conceptual and theoretical foundations.

    Nancy C. Andreasen

  • The Comprehensive Assessment of Symptoms and History (CASH). An instrument for assessing diagnosis and psychopathology.

    Nancy C. Andreasen;Michael C. Flaum;Stephan Arndt

  • “Cognitive Dysmetria” as an Integrative Theory of Schizophrenia: A Dysfunction in Cortical-Subcortical-Cerebellar Circuitry?

    Nancy C. Andreasen;Sergio Paradiso;Daniel S. O'Leary

  • Awareness of Illness in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective and Mood Disorders

    Xavier F. Amador;Michael Flaum;Nancy C. Andreasen;David H. Strauss

  • Hypofrontality in neuroleptic-naive patients and in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Assessment with xenon 133 single-photon emission computed tomography and the Tower of London.

    Nancy C. Andreasen;Karim Rezai;Randall Alliger;Victor W. Swayze

  • Creativity and mental illness: prevalence rates in writers and their first-degree relatives.

    Nancy C. Andreasen

  • Long-term Antipsychotic Treatment and Brain Volumes: A Longitudinal Study of First-Episode Schizophrenia

    Beng-Choon Ho;Nancy C. Andreasen;Steven Ziebell;Ronald Pierson

  • Predictive Values of Neurocognition and Negative Symptoms on Functional Outcome in Schizophrenia: A Longitudinal First-Episode Study With 7-Year Follow-Up

    Peter Milev;Beng-Choon Ho;Stephan Arndt;Nancy C. Andreasen

  • Consensus Paper: The Cerebellum's Role in Movement and Cognition

    Leonard F. Koziol;Deborah Budding;Nancy Andreasen;Stefano D’Arrigo

  • Thought, language, and communication disorders. I. Clinical assessment, definition of terms, and evaluation of their reliability.

    Nancy C. Andreasen

  • Antipsychotic Dose Equivalents and Dose-Years: A Standardized Method for Comparing Exposure to Different Drugs

    Nancy C. Andreasen;Marcus Pressler;Peg Nopoulos;Del Miller

  • Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Methods, Meanings, and Mechanisms

    Nancy C. Andreasen;Stephan Arndt;Randall Alliger;Del Miller

  • The family history method using diagnostic criteria

    N. C. Andreasen;Jean Endicott;R. L. Spitzer;George Winokur

  • Thalamic abnormalities in schizophrenia visualized through magnetic resonance image averaging

    Nancy C. Andreasen;Stephan Arndt;Victor Swayze;Ted Cizadlo

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. O'Leary
Daniel S. O'Leary University of Iowa
Stephan Arndt
Stephan Arndt University of Iowa
Vincent A. Magnotta
Vincent A. Magnotta University of Iowa
Richard D. Hichwa
Richard D. Hichwa University of Iowa
Beng-Choon Ho
Beng-Choon Ho University of Iowa
Laura L. Boles Ponto
Laura L. Boles Ponto University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Benedicto Crespo-Facorro
Benedicto Crespo-Facorro University of Seville
Vince D. Calhoun
Vince D. Calhoun Georgia State University
William Coryell
William Coryell University of Iowa
Martin B. Keller
Martin B. Keller Brown University

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