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Overview

Paul J. Eslinger is primarily affiliated with Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, with significant contributions to neurology and cognitive neuroscience. The scope of their work includes advanced neuroimaging techniques, neurological disorders, and treatments focused on Parkinson's disease, sensory function, and neurobiology.

Eslinger's research is documented across numerous publications, including papers such as:

  • The neuroscience of social feelings: mechanisms of adaptive social functioning, 2021, published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Decoupling of Global Brain Activity and Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow in Parkinson's Disease Cognitive Decline, 2021, published in Movement Disorders (authored by Feng Han, co-published with Eslinger's research context)
  • The Human Affectome, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • The D1/D5 Dopamine Partial Agonist PF-06412562 in Advanced-Stage Parkinson's Disease: A Feasibility Study, 2020, Journal of Parkinson's Disease
  • Frontostriatal and limbic contributions to cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease, 2022, Journal of Neuroimaging

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Mechelle M. Lewis
  • Xuemei Huang
  • Prasanna Karunanayaka
  • Lan Kong
  • Biyar Ahmed

Eslinger has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Their main fields of study consist of medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on subfields including neurology, cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, sensory systems, and psychiatry and mental health.

Key research topics covered in their work include:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Best Publications

  • Severe disturbance of higher cognition after bilateral frontal lobe ablation: Patient EVR

    PJ Eslinger;AR Damasio

  • The neural correlates of moral sensitivity: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of basic and moral emotions.

    Jorge Moll;Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza;Paul J. Eslinger;Ivanei E. Bramati

  • Neurological and neuropsychological bases of empathy.

    Paul J. Eslinger

  • Frontal lobe and frontal-striatal substrates for different forms of human cognitive flexibility

    Paul J. Eslinger;Lynn M. Grattan

  • Amnesia Following Basal Forebrain Lesions

    Antonio R. Damasio;Neill R. Graff-Radford;Paul J. Eslinger;Hanna Damasio

  • The Moral Affiliations of Disgust: A Functional MRI Study

    Jorge Moll;Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza;Fernanda Tovar Moll;Fátima Azevedo Ignácio

  • Morals and the human brain: A working model.

    Jorge Moll;CA Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza;Paul J. Eslinger

  • Preserved motor learning in Alzheimer's disease: implications for anatomy and behavior

    PJ Eslinger;AR Damasio

  • Multimodal Amnesic Syndrome Following Bilateral Temporal and Basal Forebrain Damage

    A R Damasio;P J Eslinger;H Damasio;G W Van Hoesen

  • Frontopolar and anterior temporal cortex activation in a moral judgment task: preliminary functional MRI results in normal subjects

    Jorge Moll;Paul J. Eslinger;Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza

  • Normative observations on neuropsychological test performances in old age

    Arthur L. Benton;Paul J. Eslinger;Antonio R. Damasio

  • Developmental Consequences of Childhood Frontal Lobe Damage

    Paul J. Eslinger;Lynn M. Grattan;Hanna Damasio;Antonio R. Damasio

  • Nonhaemorrhagic thalamic infarction. Clinical, neuropsychological and electrophysiological findings in four anatomical groups defined by computerized tomography.

    N. R. Graff-Radford;H. Damasio;T. Yamada;P. J. Eslinger

  • Neuropsychologic detection of abnormal mental decline in older persons.

    Paul J. Eslinger;Antonio R. Damasio;Arthur L. Benton;Maurice Van Allen

  • Developmental Outcomes after Early Prefrontal Cortex Damage.

    Paul J. Eslinger;Claire V. Flaherty-Craig;Arthur L. Benton

  • Taste perception in patients with insular cortex lesions.

    Thomas C. Pritchard;David A. Macaluso;Paul J. Eslinger

  • Nonhemorrhagic infarction of the thalamus: behavioral, anatomic, and physiologic correlates.

    Neill R. Graff-Radford;Paul J. Eslinger;Antonio R. Damasio;Thorn Yamada

  • The dissociation of anterograde and retrograde amnesia in a patient with herpes encephalitis

    Margaret O'connor;Nelson Butters;Patti Miliotis;Paul Eslinger

  • Olfactory deficit detected by fMRI in early Alzheimer's disease

    Jianli Wang;Paul J. Eslinger;Richard L. Doty;Erin K. Zimmerman

  • Social cognition, executive functioning, and neuroimaging correlates of empathic deficits in frontotemporal dementia.

    Paul J. Eslinger;Peachie Moore;Chivon Anderson;Murray Grossman

  • The Amygdala: Neurobiological Aspects of Emotion, Memory, and Mental Dysfunction: edited by J.P. Aggleton, Wiley-Liss, 1992. $125.00 (xii + 615 pages) ISBN 0 4715 6129 0

    Paul J. Eslinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio R. Damasio
Antonio R. Damasio University of Southern California
Xuemei Huang
Xuemei Huang Pennsylvania State University
Mechelle M. Lewis
Mechelle M. Lewis Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hanna Damasio
Hanna Damasio University of Southern California
Murray Grossman
Murray Grossman University of Pennsylvania
Anna M. Barrett
Anna M. Barrett UMass Memorial Health Care
Irene Litvan
Irene Litvan University of California, San Diego
Richard B. Mailman
Richard B. Mailman Pennsylvania State University
Peachie Moore
Peachie Moore University of Pennsylvania
Arthur L. Benton
Arthur L. Benton University of Iowa

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