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Overview

Petra E. Vértes is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has an extensive research portfolio primarily situated within the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The recent scholarly output from Vértes includes publications in well-regarded scientific venues. Notable papers include:

  • "Transcriptomic and cellular decoding of regional brain vulnerability to neurogenetic disorders" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Conservative and disruptive modes of adolescent change in human brain functional connectivity" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The neuropeptidergic connectome of C. elegans" (2023) published in Neuron
  • "Molecular and network-level mechanisms explaining individual differences in autism spectrum disorder" (2023) published in Nature Neuroscience
  • "System-wide mapping of peptide-GPCR interactions in C. elegans" (2023) published in Cell Reports

Vértes's research concentrates on a number of key topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

They have collaborated frequently with a select group of researchers, including Edward T. Bullmore, Raymond J. Dolan, Rafael Romero-García, Peter Fonagy, and Peter B. Jones, with collaboration counts ranging from 23 to 55 co-authored works.

Vértes has published numerous papers in recurring scientific forums, mainly:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • eLife

The thematic emphases of Vértes's body of work reflect their focus on understanding brain function, neural connectivity, and psychiatric as well as neurodevelopmental disorders, employing diverse methodologies crossing molecular, cognitive, and imaging sciences.

Best Publications

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • Adolescence is associated with genomically patterned consolidation of the hubs of the human brain connectome

    Kirstie J. Whitaker;Petra E. Vértes;Rafael Romero-Garcia;František Váša

  • Cognitive relevance of the community structure of the human brain functional coactivation network

    Nicolas A. Crossley;Andrea Mechelli;Petra E. Vértes;Toby T. Winton-Brown

  • Morphometric Similarity Networks Detect Microscale Cortical Organization and Predict Inter-Individual Cognitive Variation

    Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;František Váša;Maxwell Shinn;Rafael Romero-Garcia

  • Integrated strategy for improving functional connectivity mapping using multiecho fMRI

    Prantik Kundu;Noah D. Brenowitz;Valerie Voon;Yulia Worbe

  • Simple models of human brain functional networks

    Petra E. Vértes;Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch;Nitin Gogtay;Jay N. Giedd

  • A wavelet method for modeling and despiking motion artifacts from resting-state fMRI time series

    Ameera X. Patel;Prantik Kundu;Mikail Rubinov;P. Simon Jones

  • Cortical patterning of abnormal morphometric similarity in psychosis is associated with brain expression of schizophrenia-related genes.

    Sarah E. Morgan;Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;Kirstie J. Whitaker;Kirstie J. Whitaker;Rafael Romero-Garcia

  • Network control principles predict neuron function in the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome

    Gang Yan;Petra E. Vértes;Emma K. Towlson;Yee Lian Chew

  • The Rich Club of the C. elegans Neuronal Connectome

    Emma K. Towlson;Petra E. Vértes;Sebastian E. Ahnert;William R. Schafer

  • Adolescent Tuning of Association Cortex in Human Structural Brain Networks.

    František Váša;Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;Rafael Romero-Garcia;Kirstie J Whitaker;Kirstie J Whitaker

  • Hubs of brain functional networks are radically reorganized in comatose patients

    Sophie Achard;Chantal Delon-Martin;Petra E. Vértes;Félix Renard

  • The Anatomical Distance of Functional Connections Predicts Brain Network Topology in Health and Schizophrenia

    Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch;Petra E. Vértes;Reva Stidd;François Lalonde

  • Generative models of the human connectome

    Richard F. Betzel;Andrea Avena-Koenigsberger;Joaquín Goñi;Ye He

  • Transcriptomic and cellular decoding of regional brain vulnerability to neurogenetic disorders.

    Jakob Seidlitz;Jakob Seidlitz;Ajay Nadig;Siyuan Liu;Richard A. I. Bethlehem

  • Specific Frontostriatal Circuits for Impaired Cognitive Flexibility and Goal-Directed Planning in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Evidence From Resting-State Functional Connectivity

    Matilde M. Vaghi;Petra E. Vértes;Manfred G. Kitzbichler;Annemieke M. Apergis-Schoute

  • The Multilayer Connectome of Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Barry Bentley;Robyn Branicky;Christopher L. Barnes;Yee Lian Chew

  • Gene transcription profiles associated with inter-modular hubs and connection distance in human functional magnetic resonance imaging networks.

    Petra E. Vértes;Timothy Rittman;Kirstie J. Whitaker;Rafael Romero-Garcia

  • Annual Research Review: Growth connectomics – the organization and reorganization of brain networks during normal and abnormal development

    Petra E. Vértes;Petra E. Vértes;Edward T. Bullmore;Edward T. Bullmore;Edward T. Bullmore

  • CSF1R inhibitor JNJ-40346527 attenuates microglial proliferation and neurodegeneration in P301S mice

    Renzo Mancuso;Gemma Fryatt;Madeleine Cleal;Juliane Obst

  • Correction for Cognitive relevance of the community structure of the human brain functional coactivation network

    Nicolas A. Crossley;Andrea Mechelli;Petra E. Vertes;Toby T. Winton-Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Jakob Seidlitz
Jakob Seidlitz University of Pennsylvania
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Aaron Alexander-Bloch
Aaron Alexander-Bloch University of Pennsylvania
Armin Raznahan
Armin Raznahan National Institutes of Health
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Boris C. Bernhardt
Boris C. Bernhardt Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Casey Paquola
Casey Paquola Forschungszentrum Jülich

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