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1282
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paul A. Newhouse is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with significant contributions across subfields including Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Genetics, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Newhouse's work focuses on a variety of topics related to brain health and neurological function. Main areas of investigation include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Estrogen and related hormone effects
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

The scientist has published numerous papers in key venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Notable recent papers are:

  • "Alzheimer Disease as a Clinical-Biological Construct-An International Working Group Recommendation" (2024) published in JAMA Neurology
  • "Beyond Smoking Cessation: Investigating Medicinal Nicotine to Prevent and Treat COVID-19" (2020) published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • "In vivo network models identify sex differences in the spread of tau pathology across the brain" (2020) published in Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • "SAR-Connect: A Socially Assistive Robotic System to Support Activity and Social Engagement of Older Adults" (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • "Blood-based biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: a mini-review" (2022) published in Metabolic Brain Disease

Collaborations feature prominently in Newhouse's output, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Alexander C. Conley
  • Brian D. Boyd
  • Sepideh Shokouhi
  • Jason K Russell
  • Warren D. Taylor

Recognition for their scientific contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Clock drawing in Alzheimer's disease. A novel measure of dementia severity.

    Trey Sunderland;James L. Hill;Alan M. Mellow;Brian A. Lawlor

  • Effects of nicotinic stimulation on cognitive performance

    Paul A Newhouse;Alexandra Potter;Abhay Singh

  • Intravenous nicotine in Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study

    P. A. Newhouse;T. Sunderland;P. N. Tariot;C. L. Blumhardt

  • Nicotinic system involvement in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Implications for therapeutics.

    Paul A. Newhouse;Alexandra Potter;Edward D. Levin

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy increases prefrontal cortex gray matter in patients with chronic pain.

    David A. Seminowicz;Marina Shpaner;Michael L. Keaser;G. Michael Krauthamer

  • Nicotine treatment of mild cognitive impairment: A 6-month double-blind pilot clinical trial

    P. Newhouse;K. Kellar;P. Aisen;H. White

  • Estrogen, Stress, and Depression: Cognitive and Biological Interactions

    Kimberly M Albert;Paul A Newhouse;Paul A Newhouse

  • The cholinergic hypothesis of cognitive aging revisited again: cholinergic functional compensation.

    Julie A. Dumas;Paul A. Newhouse

  • The effects of nicotine on Parkinson's disease

    M C Kelton;H J Kahn;C L Conrath;P A Newhouse

  • L-deprenyl in Alzheimer's disease. Preliminary evidence for behavioral change with monoamine oxidase B inhibition.

    Pierre N. Tariot;Robert M. Cohen;Trey Sunderland;Paul A. Newhouse

  • Effects of acute nicotine administration on behavioral inhibition in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Alexandra S. Potter;Paul A. Newhouse

  • Estradiol levels modulate brain activity and negative responses to psychosocial stress across the menstrual cycle

    Kimberly Albert;Kimberly Albert;Jens Pruessner;Paul Newhouse

  • A new scale for the assessment of depressed mood in demented patients.

    T Sunderland;I S Alterman;D Yount;J L Hill

  • A Double-Blind Comparison of Sertraline and Fluoxetine in Depressed Elderly Outpatients

    P A Newhouse;K R Krishnan;P M Doraiswamy;E M Richter

  • The Role of Estrogen in Brain and Cognitive Aging

    Jason K Russell;Carrie K Jones;Paul A Newhouse

  • An 8-week multicenter, parallel-group, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of sertraline in elderly outpatients with major depression.

    Lon S. Schneider;J. Craig Nelson;Cathryn M. Clary;Paul Newhouse

  • Acute effects of the selective cholinergic channel activator (nicotinic agonist) ABT-418 in Alzheimer's disease.

    Alexandra Potter;June Corwin;Jason Lang;Melissa Piasecki

  • Acute nicotine improves cognitive deficits in young adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Alexandra S Potter;Paul A Newhouse

  • Acute nicotinic blockade produces cognitive impairment in normal humans

    Paul A. Newhouse;Alexandra Potter;June Corwin;Robert Lenox

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment: Diagnosis, Longitudinal Course, and Emerging Treatments

    Jennifer N. Vega;Paul A. Newhouse;Paul A. Newhouse

  • Nicotinic treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

    Paul A Newhouse;Alexandra Potter;Megan Kelton;Megan Kelton;June Corwin

  • Differential responsivity of mood, behavior and cognition to cholinergic agents in elderly neuropsychiatric populations

    Trey Sunderland;Pierre N. Tariot;Pierre N. Tariot;Paul A. Newhouse;Paul A. Newhouse

  • Age-related effects of the nicotinic antagonist mecamylamine on cognition and behavior

    Paul A. Newhouse;Alexandra Potter;June Corwin;Robert Lenox

Frequent Co-Authors

Warren D. Taylor
Warren D. Taylor Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Craig W. Lindsley
Craig W. Lindsley Vanderbilt University
Carrie K. Jones
Carrie K. Jones Vanderbilt University
Herbert Weingartner
Herbert Weingartner National Institutes of Health
Jennifer Urbano Blackford
Jennifer Urbano Blackford Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Robert H. Lenox
Robert H. Lenox University of New England
Gregory Belenky
Gregory Belenky Washington State University Spokane
Brenna C. McDonald
Brenna C. McDonald Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Robert S. Astur
Robert S. Astur University of Connecticut
John R. Hughes
John R. Hughes University of Vermont

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