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  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Ruben C. Gur is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience.

The scientist's work encompasses several subfields, including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Some of Ruben C. Gur's frequent co-authors are:

  • Raquel E. Gur
  • Theodore D. Satterthwaite
  • Tyler M. Moore
  • David R. Roalf
  • Daniel H. Wolf

Common publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Research

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Ruben C. Gur include:

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan (2022) in Nature
  • Resilience, COVID-19-related stress, anxiety and depression during the pandemic in a large population enriched for healthcare providers (2020) in Translational Psychiatry
  • MRI signatures of brain age and disease over the lifespan based on a deep brain network and 14,468 individuals worldwide (2020) in Brain
  • QSIPrep: an integrative platform for preprocessing and reconstructing diffusion MRI data (2021) in Nature Methods
  • Individual Variation in Functional Topography of Association Networks in Youth (2020) in Neuron

Awards received by Ruben C. Gur include:

  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 1988
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016

Best Publications

  • An Improved Framework for Confound Regression and Filtering for Control of Motion Artifact in the Preprocessing of Resting-State Functional Connectivity Data

    Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Mark A. Elliott;Raphael T. Gerraty;Kosha Ruparel

  • Neuropsychological Function in Schizophrenia: Selective Impairment in Memory and Learning

    Andrew J. Saykin;Ruben C. Gur;Raquel E. Gur;P. David Mozley

  • The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics

    Diane F. Halpern;Camilla P. Benbow;David C. Geary;Ruben C. Gur

  • Neuropsychological Deficits in Neuroleptic Naive Patients With First-Episode Schizophrenia

    Andrew J. Saykin;Andrew J. Saykin;Derri L. Shtasel;Raquel E. Gur;D. Brian Kester

  • Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain.

    Madhura Ingalhalikar;Alex Smith;Drew Parker;Theodore D. Satterthwaite

  • Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: An NIMH Workshop on Definitions, Assessment, and Research Opportunities

    Michael F. Green;David L. Penn;Richard Bentall;William T. Carpenter;William T. Carpenter

  • Impact of in-scanner head motion on multiple measures of functional connectivity: relevance for studies of neurodevelopment in youth.

    Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Daniel H. Wolf;James Loughead;Kosha Ruparel

  • Sex Differences in Brain Gray and White Matter in Healthy Young Adults: Correlations with Cognitive Performance

    Ruben C. Gur;Bruce I. Turetsky;Mie Matsui;Michelle Yan

  • Harmonization of multi-site diffusion tensor imaging data.

    Jean-Philippe Fortin;Drew Parker;Birkan Tunç;Takanori Watanabe

  • The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight.

    Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Manjula Darshi;Stefan J. Green;Ruben C. Gur

  • Benchmarking of participant-level confound regression strategies for the control of motion artifact in studies of functional connectivity.

    Rastko Ciric;Daniel H. Wolf;Jonathan D. Power;David R. Roalf

  • Facial Emotion Recognition in Schizophrenia: Intensity Effects and Error Pattern

    Christian G. Kohler;Travis H. Turner;Warren B. Bilker;Colleen M. Brensinger

  • Association between decline in brain dopamine activity with age and cognitive and motor impairment in healthy individuals

    Nora D. Volkow;Ruben C. Gur;Gene Jack Wang;Joanna S. Fowler

  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in the Expression of Positive and Negative Emotions: Neurologic Evidence

    Harold A. Sackeim;Mark S. Greenberg;Andrew L. Weiman;Ruben C. Gur

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • A method for obtaining 3-dimensional facial expressions and its standardization for use in neurocognitive studies

    Ruben C. Gur;Radim Sara;Radim Sara;Michiel Hagendoorn;Oren Marom

  • CREMA-D: Crowd-Sourced Emotional Multimodal Actors Dataset

    Houwei Cao;David G. Cooper;Michael K. Keutmann;Ruben C. Gur

  • An fMRI Study of Facial Emotion Processing in Patients With Schizophrenia

    Raquel E. Gur;Claire McGrath;Robin M. Chan;Lee Schroeder

  • Emotions are expressed more intensely on the left side of the face

    Harold A. Sackeim;Ruben C. Gur;Marcel C. Saucy

  • Facial emotion discrimination: II. Behavioral findings in depression.

    Ruben C. Gur;Roland J. Erwin;Raquel E. Gur;Alexander S. Zwil;Alexander S. Zwil

  • A follow-up magnetic resonance imaging study of schizophrenia : Relationship of neuroanatomical changes to clinical and neurobehavioral measures

    Raquel E. Gur;Patricia Cowell;Bruce I. Turetsky;Fiona Gallacher

Frequent Co-Authors

Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Theodore D. Satterthwaite
Theodore D. Satterthwaite University of Pennsylvania
Tyler M. Moore
Tyler M. Moore University of Pennsylvania
Monica E. Calkins
Monica E. Calkins University of Pennsylvania
Kosha Ruparel
Kosha Ruparel University of Pennsylvania
David R. Roalf
David R. Roalf University of Pennsylvania
Daniel H. Wolf
Daniel H. Wolf University of Pennsylvania
Bruce I. Turetsky
Bruce I. Turetsky University of Pennsylvania
Warren B. Bilker
Warren B. Bilker University of Pennsylvania
Mark A. Elliott
Mark A. Elliott University of Pennsylvania

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