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2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
68
Citations
18596
World Ranking
2733
National Ranking
10

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  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Sang Won Seo is affiliated with the Samsung Medical Center in South Korea and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main research topics covered in their work include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Diet and metabolism studies

Frequent publication venues where Sang Won Seo's work appears are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Among key recent papers are:

  • "Intracerebroventricular injection of human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells in patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia: a phase I clinical trial" (2021, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy)
  • "Association between exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and brain cortical thinning: The Environmental Pollution-Induced Neurological EFfects (EPINEF) study" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Long-Term Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Brain Imaging Markers in Korean Adults: The Environmental Pollution-Induced Neurological EFfects (EPINEF) Study" (2020, Environmental Health Perspectives)
  • "Small vessel disease more than Alzheimer's disease determines diffusion MRI alterations in memory clinic patients" (2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia)
  • "Frontal-executive dysfunction affects dementia conversion in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment" (2020, Scientific Reports)

Sang Won Seo has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Duk L. Na
  • Hyemin Jang
  • Hee Jin Kim
  • Jun Pyo Kim
  • Soo Hyun Cho

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of cerebral amyloid pathology in persons without dementia: a meta-analysis.

    Willemijn J. Jansen;Rik Ossenkoppele;Dirk L. Knol;Betty M. Tijms

  • Prevalence of amyloid PET positivity in dementia syndromes: a meta-analysis.

    Rik Ossenkoppele;Willemijn J Jansen;Gil D Rabinovici;Dirk L Knol

  • Seoul Neuropsychological Screening Battery-Dementia Version (SNSB-D): A Useful Tool for Assessing and Monitoring Cognitive Impairments in Dementia Patients

    Hyun Jung Ahn;Juhee Chin;Aram Park;Byung Hwa Lee

  • Defining functional SMA and pre-SMA subregions in human MFC using resting state fMRI: functional connectivity-based parcellation method.

    Jae-Hun Kim;Jong-Min Lee;Hang Joon Jo;Sook Hui Kim

  • MRI-visible perivascular space location is associated with Alzheimer's disease independently of amyloid burden.

    Gargi Banerjee;Hee Jin Kim;Zoe Fox;H Rolf Jäger

  • Clinical Significance of Microbleeds in Subcortical Vascular Dementia

    Sang Won Seo;Byung Hwa Lee;Eun-Joo Kim;Juhee Chin

  • Identification of pure subcortical vascular dementia using 11C-Pittsburgh compound B

    J.H. Lee;S.H. Kim;G.H. Kim;S.W. Seo

  • Functional connectivity associated with tau levels in ageing, Alzheimer’s, and small vessel disease

    Nicolai Franzmeier;Anna Rubinski;Julia Neitzel;Yeshin Kim;Yeshin Kim

  • Anatomical heterogeneity of Alzheimer disease Based on cortical thickness on MRIs

    Young Noh;Seun Jeon;Jong Min Lee;Sang Won Seo

  • Sulcal morphology changes and their relationship with cortical thickness and gyral white matter volume in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

    Kiho Im;Jong-Min Lee;Sang Won Seo;Sun Hyung Kim

  • Soluble intracellular adhesion molecule-1 secreted by human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cell reduces amyloid-β plaques

    Kim Jy;Kim Dh;Kim Jh;Lee D

  • Prevalence of amyloid-β pathology in distinct variants of primary progressive aphasia

    David Bergeron;David Bergeron;Maria L. Gorno-Tempini;Gil D. Rabinovici;Miguel A. Santos-Santos

  • Stereotactic brain injection of human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells in patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia: A phase 1 clinical trial.

    Hee Jin Kim;Sang Won Seo;Sang Won Seo;Jong Wook Chang;Jung Il Lee

  • Cortical thickness in single- versus multiple-domain amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

    Sang Won Seo;Kiho Im;Jong-Min Lee;Yun-Hee Kim

  • Pathogenesis of cerebral microbleeds: In vivo imaging of amyloid and subcortical ischemic small vessel disease in 226 individuals with cognitive impairment

    Jae Hyun Park;Sang Won Seo;Changsoo Kim;Geon Ha Kim

  • SORL1 is genetically associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease in Japanese, Koreans and Caucasians

    Akinori Miyashita;Asako Koike;Gyungah Jun;Li-San Wang

  • Cortical thinning in vascular mild cognitive impairment and vascular dementia of subcortical type.

    Sang Won Seo;Jaewon Ahn;Uicheul Yoon;Uicheul Yoon;Kiho Im

  • Association of Cerebral Amyloid-β Aggregation With Cognitive Functioning in Persons Without Dementia.

    Willemijn J Jansen;Rik Ossenkoppele;Betty M Tijms;Anne M Fagan

  • Intracerebroventricular injection of human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells in patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia: a phase I clinical trial.

    Hee Jin Kim;Kyung Rae Cho;Hyemin Jang;Na Kyung Lee;Na Kyung Lee

  • O-GlcNAcylation ameliorates the pathological manifestations of Alzheimer's disease by inhibiting necroptosis.

    Jinsu Park;Hee-Jin Ha;Eun Seon Chung;Seung Hyun Baek

  • Gender differences in risk factors for transition from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease: A CREDOS study.

    Sangha Kim;Min Ji Kim;Seonwoo Kim;Hyo Shin Kang

  • Clinicopathological correlations in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

    David C. Perry;Jesse A. Brown;Katherine L. Possin;Samir Datta

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth M. Heilman
Kenneth M. Heilman University of Florida
Michael W. Weiner
Michael W. Weiner University of California, San Francisco
William J. Jagust
William J. Jagust University of California, Berkeley
Michael Ewers
Michael Ewers Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rik Ossenkoppele
Rik Ossenkoppele Lund University
Byung In Lee
Byung In Lee Inje University
Charles DeCarli
Charles DeCarli University of California, Davis

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