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Rajendra A. Morey

Rajendra A. Morey

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Psychology

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52
Citations
11612
World Ranking
4971
National Ranking
2728

Overview

Rajendra A. Morey is a researcher affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Epidemiology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's research topics focus on areas including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, and Mental Health Research Topics.

Rajendra A. Morey's publication record includes papers in prominent scientific journals. Recent notable publications are:

  • Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of PTSD across 10 military and civilian cohorts identifies methylation changes in AHRR (2020), Nature Communications
  • The neurobiology of human fear generalization: meta-analysis and working neural model (2021), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • FreeSurfer-based segmentation of hippocampal subfields: A review of methods and applications, with a novel quality control procedure for ENIGMA studies and other collaborative efforts (2020), Human Brain Mapping
  • Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis (2020), Molecular Psychiatry
  • ENIGMA HALFpipe: Interactive, reproducible, and efficient analysis for resting-state and task-based fMRI data (2022), Human Brain Mapping

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Paul M. Thompson
  • Courtney C. Haswell
  • Seth G. Disner
  • Neda Jahanshad
  • Emily L. Dennis

Rajendra A. Morey's works are often published in the following venues:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • A comparison of automated segmentation and manual tracing for quantifying hippocampal and amygdala volumes

    Rajendra A. Morey;Christopher M. Petty;Christopher M. Petty;Yuan Xu;Jasmeet Pannu Hayes;Jasmeet Pannu Hayes

  • Smaller Hippocampal Volume in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Multisite ENIGMA-PGC Study: Subcortical Volumetry Results From Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Consortia

    Mark W. Logue;Sanne J.H. van Rooij;Emily L. Dennis;Sarah L. Davis

  • Largest GWAS of PTSD (N=20 070) yields genetic overlap with schizophrenia and sex differences in heritability

    L. E. Duncan;A. Ratanatharathorn;A. E. Aiello;L. M. Almli

  • ENIGMA and Global Neuroscience: A Decade of Large-Scale Studies of the Brain in Health and Disease Across More Than 40 Countries

    Paul Thompson

  • Staying Cool when Things Get Hot: Emotion Regulation Modulates Neural Mechanisms of Memory Encoding

    Jasmeet Pannu Hayes;Rajendra A. Morey;Rajendra A. Morey;Christopher M. Petty;Srishti Seth

  • Amygdala Volume Changes in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Large Case-Controlled Veterans Group

    Rajendra A. Morey;Andrea L. Gold;Kevin S. LaBar;Shannon K. Beall

  • Differential developmental trajectories of magnetic susceptibility in human brain gray and white matter over the lifespan

    Wei Li;Bing Wu;Bing Wu;Anastasia Batrachenko;Vivian Bancroft-Wu

  • Altered Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Basolateral and Centromedial Amygdala Complexes in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Vanessa M Brown;Kevin S LaBar;Courtney C Haswell;Andrea L Gold

  • Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex Volumes Differ in Maltreated Youth with and without Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Rajendra A Morey;Rajendra A Morey;Courtney C Haswell;Courtney C Haswell;Stephen R Hooper;Michael D De Bellis

  • Imaging Frontostriatal Function in Ultra-High-Risk, Early, and Chronic Schizophrenia During Executive Processing

    Rajendra A. Morey;Seniha Inan;Seniha Inan;Teresa V. Mitchell;Diana O. Perkins

  • The role of trauma-related distractors on neural systems for working memory and emotion processing in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Rajendra A. Morey;Rajendra A. Morey;Florin Dolcos;Christopher M. Petty;Debra A. Cooper

  • Reduced hippocampal and amygdala activity predicts memory distortions for trauma reminders in combat-related PTSD

    Jasmeet Pannu Hayes;Kevin S. LaBar;Gregory McCarthy;Gregory McCarthy;Gregory McCarthy;Elizabeth Selgrade;Elizabeth Selgrade

  • Scan-rescan reliability of subcortical brain volumes derived from automated segmentation.

    Rajendra A. Morey;Elizabeth S. Selgrade;Elizabeth S. Selgrade;Henry Ryan Wagner;Henry Ryan Wagner;Scott A. Huettel

  • Fear learning circuitry is biased toward generalization of fear associations in posttraumatic stress disorder

    RA Morey;JE Dunsmoor;CC Haswell;VM Brown

  • Amygdala-prefrontal cortex functional connectivity during threat-induced anxiety and goal distraction.

    Andrea L. Gold;Rajendra A. Morey;Gregory McCarthy;Gregory McCarthy

  • Association of trauma exposure with psychiatric morbidity in military veterans who have served since September 11, 2001

    Eric A. Dedert;Kimberly T. Green;Patrick S. Calhoun;Ruth Yoash-Gantz;Ruth Yoash-Gantz

  • ENIGMA and the individual: Predicting factors that affect the brain in 35 countries worldwide.

    Paul M. Thompson;Ole A. Andreassen;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez;Carrie E. Bearden

  • Neural systems for executive and emotional processing are modulated by symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in Iraq War veterans

    Rajendra A. Morey;Rajendra A. Morey;Christopher M. Petty;Christopher M. Petty;Debra A. Cooper;Debra A. Cooper;Kevin S. LaBar

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin S. LaBar
Kevin S. LaBar Duke University
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Jean C. Beckham
Jean C. Beckham Duke University
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Michael A. Hauser
Michael A. Hauser Duke University
Tanja Jovanovic
Tanja Jovanovic Wayne State University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Nathan A. Kimbrel
Nathan A. Kimbrel Duke University
Katie A. McLaughlin
Katie A. McLaughlin University of Oregon

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