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36
Citations
6122
World Ranking
9475
National Ranking
5018

Overview

Paul E. Gilbert is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive impairments. Gilbert's work addresses topics such as genetic neurodegenerative diseases, neurological disorders and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, mitochondrial function and pathology, cancer-related cognitive impairment studies, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and brain metastases and treatment.

The scientist has published extensively in the fields of medicine and neuroscience, contributing to subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, psychiatry and mental health, and cognitive neuroscience.

Recent publications by Gilbert and their collaborators demonstrate a range of interests related to memory, neurodegeneration, and immunology. These include:

  • APOE interacts with tau PET to influence memory independently of amyloid PET in older adults without dementia, 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Newborn Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 detected in cord blood after maternal vaccination, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Interaction of APOE, cerebral blood flow, and cortical thickness in the entorhinal cortex predicts memory decline, 2020, Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Identification of Subtle Verbal Memory Deficits in Premanifest Huntington Disease Using the California Verbal Learning Test, 2020, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
  • Misattributions of the source of health-related information in HIV disease, 2020, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Gilbert frequently collaborates with several coauthors whose work complements the main research interests. Notable frequent coauthors include Jody Corey-Bloom, Chase Snell, Andrew Hall, Brenton A. Wright, and Emma Churchill.

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in specific publication venues, showing a pattern of consistent contributions. These venues include Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, Neurology, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, and Alzheimer's & Dementia.

Best Publications

  • Dissociating hippocampal subregions: A double dissociation between dentate gyrus and CA1

    Paul E. Gilbert;Raymond P. Kesner;Inah Lee

  • A Behavioral Assessment of Hippocampal Function Based on a Subregional Analysis

    Raymond P Kesner;Inah Lee;Paul Gilbert

  • The role of the hippocampus in memory for the temporal order of a sequence of odors.

    Raymond P. Kesner;Paul E. Gilbert;Lindsay A. Barua

  • Visual object pattern separation deficits in nondemented older adults.

    Chelsea K. Toner;Eva Pirogovsky;C. Brock Kirwan;Paul E. Gilbert

  • Memory for Spatial Location: Role of the Hippocampus in Mediating Spatial Pattern Separation

    Paul E. Gilbert;Raymond P. Kesner;William E. DeCoteau

  • The Role of the CA3 Hippocampal Subregion in Spatial Memory: A Process Oriented Behavioral Assessment

    Paul E. Gilbert;Andrea M. Brushfield

  • Localization of function within the dorsal hippocampus: the role of the CA3 subregion in paired-associate learning.

    Paul E. Gilbert;Raymond P. Kesner

  • The role of the dorsal CA3 hippocampal subregion in spatial working memory and pattern separation.

    Paul E. Gilbert;Raymond P. Kesner

  • Role of rodent hippocampus in paired-associate learning involving associations between a stimulus and a spatial location.

    Paul E. Gilbert;Raymond P. Kesner

  • Testing neural network models of memory with behavioral experiments.

    Raymond P Kesner;Paul E Gilbert;Gene V Wallenstein

  • The role of CA1 in the acquisition of an object-trace-odor paired associate task.

    Raymond P. Kesner;Michael R. Hunsaker;Paul E. Gilbert

  • Selective Lesions of the Dentate Gyrus Produce Disruptions in Place Learning for Adjacent Spatial Locations

    Andrea M. Morris;John C. Churchwell;Raymond P. Kesner;Paul E. Gilbert;Paul E. Gilbert

  • Spatial Pattern Separation in Cognitively Normal Young and Older Adults

    Heather M. Holden;Calhuei Hoebel;Kelly Loftis;Paul E. Gilbert;Paul E. Gilbert

  • Prospective memory deficits are associated with poorer everyday functioning in Parkinson's disease

    Eva Pirogovsky;Steven Paul Woods;J. Vincent Filoteo;Paul E. Gilbert

  • The Effect of the ApoE ε4 Allele on Recognition Memory for Olfactory and Visual Stimuli in Patients with Pathologically Confirmed Alzheimer’s Disease, Probable Alzheimer’s Disease, and Healthy Elderly Controls

    Paul E Gilbert;Claire Murphy

  • Less efficient pattern separation may contribute to age-related spatial memory deficits.

    Heather M. Holden;Paul E. Gilbert

  • Recognition Memory for Complex Visual Discriminations Is Influenced by Stimulus Interference in Rodents With Perirhinal Cortex Damage

    Paul E. Gilbert;Raymond P. Kesner

  • Memory for objects and their locations: The role of the hippocampus in retention of object–place associations

    Paul E Gilbert;Raymond P Kesner

  • Is tau in the absence of amyloid on the Alzheimer's continuum?: A study of discordant PET positivity.

    Alexandra J Weigand;Katherine J Bangen;Katherine J Bangen;Kelsey R Thomas;Kelsey R Thomas;Lisa Delano-Wood;Lisa Delano-Wood

  • Visual object pattern separation varies in older adults

    Heather M. Holden;Chelsea Toner;Eva Pirogovsky;Eva Pirogovsky;C. Brock Kirwan

  • The Role of the Agranular Insular Cortex in Anticipation of Reward Contrast

    Raymond P. Kesner;Paul E. Gilbert;Paul E. Gilbert

  • A comparison of discrimination and reversal learning for olfactory and visual stimuli in aged rats.

    Andrea M. Brushfield;Trinh T. Luu;Bryan D. Callahan;Paul E. Gilbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark W. Bondi
Mark W. Bondi University of California, San Diego
Lisa Delano-Wood
Lisa Delano-Wood University of California, San Diego
Raymond P. Kesner
Raymond P. Kesner University of Utah
Steven Paul Woods
Steven Paul Woods University of Houston
J. Vincent Filoteo
J. Vincent Filoteo University of California, San Diego
Dean C. Delis
Dean C. Delis University of California, San Diego
David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego
Christina E. Wierenga
Christina E. Wierenga University of California, San Diego
Erin E. Morgan
Erin E. Morgan University of California, San Diego
Paul J. Massman
Paul J. Massman University of Houston

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