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  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease

Overview

Randy L. Buckner is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has made significant contributions to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research covers multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, genetics, experimental and cognitive psychology, and neurology.

The main topics of their work focus on functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, advanced MRI techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, genetic associations and epidemiology, mental health research topics, and vestibular and auditory disorders.

They have published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia (2022, Nature)
  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Situating the left-lateralized language network in the broader organization of multiple specialized large-scale distributed networks (2020, Journal of Neurophysiology)
  • Parallel distributed networks dissociate episodic and social functions within the individual (2020, Journal of Neurophysiology)
  • A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts (2021, Biological Psychiatry)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Buckner include Mark C. Eldaief, Lauren M. DiNicola, Ingrid Agartz, Jingnan Du, and Noam Saadon-Grosman.

Buckner's work has appeared predominantly in these publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Biological Psychiatry

Throughout their career, Buckner has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012 and the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease in 2010.

Best Publications

  • An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest.

    Rahul S. Desikan;Florent Ségonne;Bruce Fischl;Bruce Fischl;Brian T. Quinn

  • The Brain's Default Network Anatomy, Function, and Relevance to Disease

    Randy L. Buckner;Jessica R. Andrews‐Hanna;Daniel L. Schacter

  • The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

    B. T. Thomas Yeo;Fenna M. Krienen;Jorge Sepulcre;Jorge Sepulcre;Mert R. Sabuncu;Mert R. Sabuncu

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Self-projection and the brain

    Randy L. Buckner;Daniel C. Carroll

  • Toward discovery science of human brain function

    Bharat B. Biswal;Maarten Mennes;Xi Nian Zuo;Suril Gohel

  • Cortical Hubs Revealed by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity: Mapping, Assessment of Stability, and Relation to Alzheimer's Disease

    Randy L. Buckner;Jorge Sepulcre;Tanveer Talukdar;Fenna M. Krienen

  • Functional-Anatomic Fractionation of the Brain's Default Network

    Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna;Jay S. Reidler;Jorge Sepulcre;Jorge Sepulcre;Renee Poulin

  • Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain

    Daniel L. Schacter;Donna Rose Addis;Randy L. Buckner;Randy L. Buckner

  • The influence of head motion on intrinsic functional connectivity MRI.

    Koene R.A. Van Dijk;Mert R. Sabuncu;Mert R. Sabuncu;Randy L. Buckner

  • Molecular, Structural, and Functional Characterization of Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence for a Relationship between Default Activity, Amyloid, and Memory

    Randy L. Buckner;Abraham Z. Snyder;Benjamin J. Shannon;Gina LaRossa

  • Common blood flow changes across visual tasks: I. increases in subcortical structures and cerebellum but not in nonvisual cortex

    Gordon L. Shulman;Maurizio Corbetta;Randy L. Buckner;Julie A. Fiez

  • Response and Habituation of the Human Amygdala during Visual Processing of Facial Expression

    Hans C Breiter;Nancy L Etcoff;Paul J Whalen;William A Kennedy

  • Thinning of the cerebral cortex in aging

    David H. Salat;Randy L. Buckner;Randy L. Buckner;Abraham Z. Snyder;Douglas N. Greve

  • Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS): Cross-sectional MRI Data in Young, Middle Aged, Nondemented, and Demented Older Adults

    Daniel S. Marcus;Tracy H. Wang;Jamie Parker;John G. Csernansky

  • Building Memories: Remembering and Forgetting of Verbal Experiences as Predicted by Brain Activity

    Anthony D. Wagner;Daniel L. Schacter;Michael Rotte;Wilma Koutstaal

  • Evidence for a Frontoparietal Control System Revealed by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity

    Justin L. Vincent;Itamar Kahn;Abraham Z. Snyder;Marcus E. Raichle

  • Dynamic Statistical Parametric Mapping: Combining fMRI and MEG for High-Resolution Imaging of Cortical Activity

    Anders M. Dale;Arthur K. Liu;Bruce R. Fischl;Randy L. Buckner

  • Intrinsic Functional Connectivity As a Tool For Human Connectomics: Theory, Properties, and Optimization

    Koene R. A. Van Dijk;Trey Hedden;Archana Venkataraman;Karleyton C. Evans

  • Memory and Executive Function in Aging and AD: Multiple Factors that Cause Decline and Reserve Factors that Compensate

    Randy L. Buckner

  • Common blood flow changes across visual tasks: Ii. decreases in cerebral cortex

    Gordon L. Shulman;Julie A. Fiez;Maurizio Corbetta;Randy L. Buckner

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordan W. Smoller
Jordan W. Smoller Harvard University
Avram J. Holmes
Avram J. Holmes Yale University
Bruce Fischl
Bruce Fischl Harvard University
Joshua L. Roffman
Joshua L. Roffman Harvard University
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Ingrid Agartz
Ingrid Agartz University of Oslo
Erik G. Jönsson
Erik G. Jönsson University of Oslo
Reisa A. Sperling
Reisa A. Sperling Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel

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