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Shashwath A. Meda

Shashwath A. Meda

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Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
5504
World Ranking
8362
National Ranking
3572

Overview

Shashwath A. Meda is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with extensive work within subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, biological psychiatry, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including functional brain connectivity studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health research topics, tryptophan and brain disorders, health, environment, and cognitive aging, climate change and health impacts, and neuroscience and music perception.

Shashwath A. Meda has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuropsychopharmacology, Brain Behavior and Immunity, and NeuroImage Clinical.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Biotyping in psychosis: using multiple computational approaches with one data set (2020, Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • Peripheral inflammatory subgroup differences in anterior Default Mode network and multiplex functional network topology are associated with cognition in psychosis (2023, Brain Behavior and Immunity)
  • Resting state auditory-language cortex connectivity is associated with hallucinations in clinical and biological subtypes of psychotic disorders (2020, NeuroImage Clinical)
  • Effects of weather and season on human brain volume (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, pilot study of cannabis-related driving impairment assessed by driving simulator and self-report (2025, Journal of Psychopharmacology)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Godfrey D. Pearlson, Brett A. Clementz, Carol A. Tamminga, Elena I. Ivleva, and Matcheri S. Keshavan.

Best Publications

  • Short-term Effects of Antipsychotic Treatment on Cerebral Function in Drug-Naive First-Episode Schizophrenia Revealed by “Resting State” Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Su Lui;Tao Li;Tao Li;Wei Deng;Lijun Jiang

  • Differences in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging functional network connectivity between schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar probands and their unaffected first-degree relatives.

    Shashwath A. Meda;Adrienne Gill;Michael C. Stevens;Michael C. Stevens;Raymond P. Lorenzoni

  • Global White Matter Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Images Is Predictive of Injury Severity in Traumatic Brain Injury

    Randall R. Benson;Shashwath A. Meda;Sriram Vasudevan;Zhifeng Kou

  • Multivariate analysis reveals genetic associations of the resting default mode network in psychotic bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

    Shashwath A. Meda;Gualberto Ruaño;Andreas Windemuth;Kasey O’Neil

  • Investigating the behavioral and self-report constructs of impulsivity domains using principal component analysis.

    Shashwath A. Meda;Michael C. Stevens;Marc N. Potenza;Brian Pittman

  • Is aberrant functional connectivity a psychosis endophenotype? A resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Sabin Khadka;Shashwath A. Meda;Michael C. Stevens;David C. Glahn;David C. Glahn

  • Individuals Family History Positive for Alcoholism Show Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Differences in Reward Sensitivity That Are Related to Impulsivity Factors

    Melissa M. Andrews;Shashwath A. Meda;Andre D. Thomas;Marc N. Potenza

  • Gray Matter Volume as an Intermediate Phenotype for Psychosis: Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP)

    Elena I. Ivleva;Anup S. Bidesi;Matcheri S. Keshavan;Godfrey D. Pearlson

  • Abnormal prefrontal activity subserving attentional control of emotion in remitted depressed patients during a working memory task with emotional distracters.

    Rebecca Kerestes;Cecile D Ladouceur;Shashwath A Meda;Pradeep Jonathan Nathan

  • Brain Structure Biomarkers in the Psychosis Biotypes: Findings From the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network for Intermediate Phenotypes

    Elena I. Ivleva;Brett A. Clementz;Anthony M. Dutcher;Sara J.M. Arnold

  • Diffusion tensor imaging in schizophrenia: relationship to symptoms.

    Laurie R. Skelly;Vince Calhoun;Shashwath A. Meda;Jinsuh Kim

  • Frequency-Specific Neural Signatures of Spontaneous Low-Frequency Resting State Fluctuations in Psychosis: Evidence From Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) Consortium

    Shashwath A. Meda;Zheng Wang;Elena I. Ivleva;Gaurav Poudyal

  • A large scale multivariate parallel ICA method reveals novel imaging-genetic relationships for Alzheimer's disease in the ADNI cohort.

    Shashwath A. Meda;Balaji Narayanan;Jingyu Liu;Jingyu Liu;Nora I. Perrone-Bizzozero;Nora I. Perrone-Bizzozero

  • A large scale (N = 400) investigation of gray matter differences in schizophrenia using optimized voxel-based morphometry

    Shashwath A. Meda;Nicole R. Giuliani;Vince D. Calhoun;Kanchana Jagannathan

  • Influence of alcohol use on neural response to Go/No-Go task in college drinkers.

    Aral Ahmadi;Godfrey D Pearlson;Godfrey D Pearlson;Shashwath A Meda;Alecia Dager;Alecia Dager

  • Longitudinal influence of alcohol and marijuana use on academic performance in college students.

    Shashwath A Meda;Ralitza V Gueorguieva;Brian Pittman;Rivkah R Rosen

  • Evidence for Anomalous Network Connectivity during Working Memory Encoding in Schizophrenia: An ICA Based Analysis

    Shashwath A. Meda;Michael C. Stevens;Bradley S. Folley;Bradley S. Folley;Vince D. Calhoun

  • Alcohol dose effects on brain circuits during simulated driving: an fMRI study.

    Shashwath A Meda;Vince D Calhoun;Robert S Astur;Robert S Astur;Beth M Turner

  • Functional imaging of cognitive control during acute alcohol intoxication.

    Beth M. Anderson;Michael C. Stevens;Shashwath A. Meda;Kathryn Jordan

  • Neural correlates of impulsivity in healthy males and females with family histories of alcoholism.

    Elise E DeVito;Shashwath A Meda;Rachel Jiantonio;Marc N Potenza

Frequent Co-Authors

Godfrey D. Pearlson
Godfrey D. Pearlson Yale University
Michael C. Stevens
Michael C. Stevens Yale University
Vince D. Calhoun
Vince D. Calhoun Georgia State University
John A. Sweeney
John A. Sweeney University of Cincinnati
Carol A. Tamminga
Carol A. Tamminga The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Brett A. Clementz
Brett A. Clementz University of Georgia
David C. Glahn
David C. Glahn Boston Children's Hospital
Marc N. Potenza
Marc N. Potenza Yale University
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University
Robert S. Astur
Robert S. Astur University of Connecticut

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