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Susan M. Resnick is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research career focuses primarily on medicine, with significant contributions in radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging, as well as psychiatry and mental health, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's research topics include dementia and cognitive impairment research, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced MRI techniques and applications, health, environment, and cognitive aging, and air quality and health impacts.

Recent notable publications include:

  • A multicentre validation study of the diagnostic value of plasma neurofilament light, 2021, Nature Communications
  • MRI signatures of brain age and disease over the lifespan based on a deep brain network and 14,468 individuals worldwide, 2020, Brain
  • Discovery of several thousand highly diverse circular DNA viruses, 2020, eLife
  • The Brain Chart of Aging: Machine-learning analytics reveals links between brain aging, white matter disease, amyloid burden, and cognition in the iSTAGING consortium of 10,216 harmonized MR scans, 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Characterizing Heterogeneity in Neuroimaging, Cognition, Clinical Symptoms, and Genetics Among Patients With Late-Life Depression, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry

Susan M. Resnick has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Luigi Ferrucci, Murat Bilgel, Yang An, Bennett A. Landman, and Christos Davatzikos.

Common venues for their publications include Alzheimer's & Dementia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Innovation in Aging, The Journals of Gerontology Series A, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Best Publications

  • Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Older Adults: A Shrinking Brain

    Susan M. Resnick;Dzung L. Pham;Michael A. Kraut;Alan B. Zonderman

  • Hearing Loss and Incident Dementia

    Frank R. Lin;E. Jeffrey Metter;Susan M. Resnick;Alan B. Zonderman

  • Effects of Testosterone Treatment in Older Men

    P. J. Snyder;S. Bhasin;G. R. Cunningham;A. M. Matsumoto

  • Hearing loss and cognition in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

    Frank R. Lin;Luigi Ferrucci;E. Jeffrey Metter;Yang An

  • Longitudinal pattern of regional brain volume change differentiates normal aging from MCI

    I. Driscoll;C. Davatzikos;Y. An;X. Wu

  • Self-reported Sleep and β-Amyloid Deposition in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    Adam P. Spira;Alyssa A. Gamaldo;Yang An;Mark N. Wu

  • Association of hearing impairment with brain volume changes in older adults

    F. R. Lin;Luigi Ferrucci;Yang An;Joshua Oon Soo Goh

  • Memory impairment, executive dysfunction, and intellectual decline in preclinical Alzheimer's disease.

    Ellen Grober;Charles B. Hall;Richard B. Lipton;Alan B. Zonderman

  • Voxel-based morphometry using the RAVENS maps: methods and validation using simulated longitudinal atrophy.

    Christos Davatzikos;Ahmet Genc;Dongrong Xu;Susan M. Resnick

  • Detection of prodromal Alzheimer's disease via pattern classification of magnetic resonance imaging

    Christos Davatzikos;Yong Fan;Xiaoying Wu;Dinggang Shen

  • Sex differences in cognitive trajectories in clinically normal older adults.

    Anna C. McCarrey;Yang An;Melissa H. Kitner-Triolo;Luigi Ferrucci

  • Free testosterone and risk for Alzheimer disease in older men.

    S. D. Moffat;A. B. Zonderman;E. J. Metter;C. Kawas

  • Age differences in spatial memory in a virtual environment navigation task

    Scott D Moffat;Alan B Zonderman;Susan M Resnick

  • Particulate air pollutants, APOE alleles and their contributions to cognitive impairment in older women and to amyloidogenesis in experimental models.

    M Cacciottolo;X Wang;I Driscoll;N Woodward

  • A computerized approach for morphological analysis of the corpus callosum.

    Christos Davatzikos;Marc Vaillant;Susan M. Resnick;Jerry L. Prince

  • Morphological classification of brains via high-dimensional shape transformations and machine learning methods.

    Zhiqiang Lao;Dinggang Shen;Zhong Xue;Bilge Karacali

  • Longitudinal changes in cortical thickness associated with normal aging.

    Madhav Thambisetty;Jing Wan;Aaron Carass;Yang An

  • Effects of Combination Estrogen Plus Progestin Hormone Treatment on Cognition and Affect

    Susan M. Resnick;Pauline M. Maki;Stephen R. Rapp;Mark A. Espeland

  • Longitudinal effects of estrogen replacement therapy on PET cerebral blood flow and cognition

    Pauline M Maki;Susan M Resnick

  • Analysis of brain and cerebrospinal fluid volumes with MR imaging. Part I. Methods, reliability, and validation.

    M I Kohn;N K Tanna;G T Herman;S M Resnick

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Ferrucci
Luigi Ferrucci National Institutes of Health
Christos Davatzikos
Christos Davatzikos University of Pennsylvania
Bennett A. Landman
Bennett A. Landman Vanderbilt University
Lori L. Beason-Held
Lori L. Beason-Held National Institutes of Health
Mark A. Espeland
Mark A. Espeland Wake Forest University
Alan B. Zonderman
Alan B. Zonderman National Institutes of Health
Dean F. Wong
Dean F. Wong Washington University in St. Louis
Juan C. Troncoso
Juan C. Troncoso Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael A. Kraut
Michael A. Kraut Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School

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