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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Susan M. Resnick is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans the field of Medicine with a focus on several subfields, including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their work addresses multiple main topics such as 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, Cognitive Aging, and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

Some of the recent publications authored or co-authored by Susan M. Resnick 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

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Susan M. Resnick include:

  • Luigi Ferrucci
  • Murat Bilgel
  • Yang An
  • Bennett A. Landman
  • Christos Davatzikos

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The focus of Susan M. Resnick's research is reflected not only in the fields and topics but also in their consistent publication record across radiology, psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, and related domains. Their work involves leveraging advanced imaging and machine learning to study the brain across the lifespan, cognitive decline, and diseases such as Alzheimer's and late-life depression.

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

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

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

  • A prospective study of estrogen replacement therapy and the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

    Claudia Kawas;S. Resnick;A. Morrison;R. Brookmeyer

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

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

  • One-year Age Changes in MRI Brain Volumes in Older Adults

    Susan M. Resnick;Alberto F. Goldszal;Christos Davatzikos;Stephanie Golski

  • 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

  • Gender differences in age effect on brain atrophy measured by magnetic resonance imaging

    R C Gur;P D Mozley;S M Resnick;G L Gottlieb

  • Longitudinal Assessment of Serum Free Testosterone Concentration Predicts Memory Performance and Cognitive Status in Elderly Men

    Scott D. Moffat;Alan B. Zonderman;E. Jeffrey Metter;Marc R. Blackman

  • A multicentre validation study of the diagnostic value of plasma neurofilament light.

    Nicholas J. Ashton;Shorena Janelidze;Ahmad Al Khleifat;Antoine Leuzy

  • Sex differences in regional cerebral glucose metabolism during a resting state

    RC Gur;LH Mozley;PD Mozley;SM Resnick

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

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

  • Early hormonal influences on cognitive functioning in congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

    Susan M. Resnick;Sheri A. Berenbaum;Irving I. Gottesman;Thomas J. Bouchard

  • Association of plasma clusterin concentration with severity, pathology, and progression in Alzheimer disease

    Madhav Thambisetty;Andrew Simmons;Latha Velayudhan;Abdul Hye

  • 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

  • Brain function in psychiatric disorders. III. Regional cerebral blood flow in unmedicated schizophrenics.

    Raquel E. Gur;Ruben C. Gur;Brett E. Skolnick;Stanley Caroff

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

    Zhiqiang Lao;Dinggang Shen;Zhong Xue;Bilge Karacali

Frequent Co-Authors

Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Lori L. Beason-Held
Lori L. Beason-Held National Institutes of Health
Michael A. Kraut
Michael A. Kraut Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David A. Wolk
David A. Wolk University of Pennsylvania
Eleanor M. Simonsick
Eleanor M. Simonsick National Institutes of Health
Victor W. Henderson
Victor W. Henderson Stanford University
Pauline M. Maki
Pauline M. Maki University of Illinois at Chicago
Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School

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