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Overview

Paul C. Fletcher is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their scholarly output includes studies on schizophrenia research and treatment, functional brain connectivity, mental health research topics, behavioral health and interventions, obesity, physical activity, diet, as well as eating disorders and behaviors.

Frequent publication venues for Paul C. Fletcher include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • http://isrctn.com/
  • Nature

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Paul C. Fletcher are:

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan, 2022, Nature
  • BigBrain 3D atlas of cortical layers: Cortical and laminar thickness gradients diverge in sensory and motor cortices, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • A Population-Based Cohort Study Examining the Incidence and Impact of Psychotic Experiences From Childhood to Adulthood, and Prediction of Psychotic Disorder, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Forms of prediction in the nervous system, 2020, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • Dopamine, Prediction Error and Beyond, 2020, The Neuroscientist

Paul C. Fletcher has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Hisham Ziauddeen (12 collaborations)
  • Kelly Diederen (10 collaborations)
  • Richard A.I. Bethlehem (9 collaborations)
  • Peter B. Jones (9 collaborations)
  • Christoph Teufel (9 collaborations)

The researcher has contributed to book publications with Cambridge University Press, notably the book titled Vision, published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Event-Related fMRI: Characterizing Differential Responses

    Karl J. Friston;P. Fletcher;Oliver Josephs;A. Holmes

  • Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humans.

    Adam R Aron;Paul C Fletcher;Ed T Bullmore;Barbara J Sahakian

  • Other minds in the brain: a functional imaging study of "theory of mind" in story comprehension.

    P. C. Fletcher;F. Happe;U. Frith;S. C. Baker

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • Reading the mind in cartoons and stories: an fMRI study of 'theory of mind' in verbal and nonverbal tasks.

    H. L. Gallagher;F. Happé;Nicola Brunswick;P. C. Fletcher

  • Frontal lobes and human memory: Insights from functional neuroimaging

    P. C. Fletcher;R. N. A. Henson

  • Perceiving is believing: a Bayesian approach to explaining the positive symptoms of schizophrenia

    Paul C. Fletcher;Chris D. Frith;Chris D. Frith

  • Brain regions associated with acquisition and retrieval of verbal episodic memory

    T. Shallice;P. Fletcher;P. Fletcher;C. D. Frith;C. D. Frith;P. Grasby;P. Grasby

  • 'Theory of mind' in the brain. Evidence from a PET scan study of Asperger syndrome.

    Francesca Happé;Stephan Ehlers;Paul Fletcher;Uta Frith

  • Changing human behavior to prevent disease: The importance of targeting automatic processes.

    Theresa M. Marteau;Gareth J. Hollands;Paul C. Fletcher

  • The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis

    Philipp Sterzer;Rick A. Adams;Paul Fletcher;Chris Frith

  • The mind's eye--precuneus activation in memory-related imagery.

    P. C. Fletcher;C. D. Frith;S. C. Baker;T. Shallice

  • Praxic and nonverbal cognitive deficits in a large family with a genetically transmitted speech and language disorder

    Faraneh Vargha-Khadem;Kate Watkins;Katie Alcock;Paul Fletcher

  • Leptin Regulates Striatal Regions and Human Eating Behavior

    I. Sadaf Farooqi;Edward Bullmore;Julia Keogh;Jonathan Gillard

  • The trouble with cognitive subtraction.

    K. J. Friston;C. J. Price;P. Fletcher;C. Moore

  • Brain systems for encoding and retrieval of auditory—verbal memory. An in vivo study in humans

    P. C. Fletcher;C. D. Frith;P. M. Grasby;T. Shallice

  • Substantia nigra/ventral tegmental reward prediction error disruption in psychosis

    G K Murray;P R Corlett;L Clark;M Pessiglione

  • Guidelines for reporting an fMRI study

    Russell A. Poldrack;Paul C. Fletcher;Richard N. Henson;Keith J. Worsley

  • Regional brain activity in chronic schizophrenic patients during the performance of a verbal fluency task.

    C. D. Frith;K. J. Friston;S. Herold;D. Silbersweig

  • Dissociating prefrontal and hippocampal function in episodic memory encoding

    Raymond J. Dolan;P. C. Fletcher

  • The functional roles of prefrontal cortex in episodic memory

    P. C. Fletcher;T. Shallice;R. J. Dolan;Paul Fletcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Graham K. Murray
Graham K. Murray University of Cambridge
Philip R. Corlett
Philip R. Corlett Yale University
Garry D. Honey
Garry D. Honey Roche (Switzerland)
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Pradeep J. Nathan
Pradeep J. Nathan University of Cambridge
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Theresa M. Marteau
Theresa M. Marteau University of Cambridge

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