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Overview

Tarek K. Rajji is affiliated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada. Their research focuses heavily on neuroscience and medicine, particularly in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology.

The main topics of their work include functional brain connectivity studies, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, dementia and cognitive impairment research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments. Additional areas of study encompass neural and behavioral psychology and schizophrenia research and treatment.

Rajji has published extensively in prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Rajji's co-authors include Benoit H. Mulsant, Bruce G. Pollock, Sanjeev Kumar, Corinne E. Fischer, and Daniel M. Blumberger.

Among Rajji's recent papers are:

  • "Anticipating and Mitigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias" (2020), published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • "Mortality rates in Alzheimer's disease and non-Alzheimer's dementias: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (2021), published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • "Measures of resting state EEG rhythms for clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations of an expert panel" (2021), published in Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • "Cognitive effects and acceptability of non-invasive brain stimulation on Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a component network meta-analysis" (2020), published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • "Effectiveness of Standard Sequential Bilateral Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation vs Bilateral Theta Burst Stimulation in Older Adults With Depression" (2022), published in JAMA Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Brief cognitive screening instruments: an update

    Zahinoor Ismail;Tarek K. Rajji;Kenneth I. Shulman

  • Age at onset and cognition in schizophrenia: meta-analysis.

    T. K. Rajji;Z. Ismail;B. H. Mulsant

  • Anticipating and Mitigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

    Eric E. Brown;Sanjeev Kumar;Tarek K. Rajji;Bruce G. Pollock

  • Clinical utility and prospective of TMS–EEG

    Sara Tremblay;Sara Tremblay;Nigel C. Rogasch;Isabella Premoli;Daniel M. Blumberger

  • Age-related decline in white matter tract integrity and cognitive performance: A DTI tractography and structural equation modeling study

    Aristotle N. Voineskos;Tarek K. Rajji;Nancy J. Lobaugh;Dielle Miranda

  • Defining treatment-resistant schizophrenia and response to antipsychotics: A review and recommendation

    Takefumi Suzuki;Gary Remington;Gary Remington;Benoit H. Mulsant;Benoit H. Mulsant;Hiroyuki Uchida;Hiroyuki Uchida

  • Mortality rates in Alzheimer's disease and non-Alzheimer's dementias: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Chih-Sung Liang;Dian-Jeng Li;Dian-Jeng Li;Fu-Chi Yang;Ping-Tao Tseng;Ping-Tao Tseng

  • Extent of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Plasticity and Its Association With Working Memory in Patients With Alzheimer Disease.

    Sanjeev Kumar;Sanjeev Kumar;Reza Zomorrodi;Zaid Ghazala;Zaid Ghazala;Zaid Ghazala;Michelle S. Goodman;Michelle S. Goodman

  • Neuroimaging Evidence for the Deficit Subtype of Schizophrenia

    Aristotle N. Voineskos;George Foussias;Jason Lerch;Daniel Felsky

  • Cognition, function, and disability in patients with schizophrenia: a review of longitudinal studies.

    Tarek K Rajji;Dielle Miranda;Benoit H Mulsant

  • Measures of resting state EEG rhythms for clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations of an expert panel

    Claudio Babiloni;Xianghong Arakaki;Hamed Azami;Karim Bennys

  • Functional consequences of neurite orientation dispersion and density in humans across the adult lifespan.

    Arash Nazeri;M. Mallar Chakravarty;David J. Rotenberg;Tarek K. Rajji

  • Characterization of Glutamatergic and GABA A -Mediated Neurotransmission in Motor and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Using Paired-Pulse TMS–EEG

    Robin F H Cash;Yoshihiro Noda;Yoshihiro Noda;Reza Zomorrodi;Natasha Radhu;Natasha Radhu

  • Dopamine D2 Receptor Occupancy and Cognition in Schizophrenia: Analysis of the CATIE Data

    Hitoshi Sakurai;Robert R. Bies;Robert R. Bies;Scott T. Stroup;Richard S. E. Keefe

  • Theta-Gamma Coupling and Working Memory in Alzheimer's Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment.

    Michelle S. Goodman;Sanjeev Kumar;Reza Zomorrodi;Zaid Ghazala

  • Efficacy, tolerability, and cognitive effects of deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for late-life depression: a prospective randomized controlled trial.

    Tyler S. Kaster;Tyler S. Kaster;Zafiris J. Daskalakis;Zafiris J. Daskalakis;Yoshihiro Noda;Yuliya Knyahnytska;Yuliya Knyahnytska

  • Gray Matter Changes in Late Life Depression—a Structural MRI Analysis

    Carmen Andreescu;Meryl A Butters;Amy Begley;Tarek Rajji

  • Can Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia? Pilot Data from a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Mera S Barr;Faranak Farzan;Tarek K Rajji;Aristotle N Voineskos

  • Nature and course of cognitive function in late-life schizophrenia: A systematic review

    Tarek K. Rajji;Benoit H. Mulsant

  • Diffusion tensor tractography findings in schizophrenia across the adult lifespan

    Aristotle N. Voineskos;Nancy J. Lobaugh;Sylvain Bouix;Tarek K. Rajji

  • Brain structure, cognition, and brain age in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and healthy controls

    Saba Shahab;Benoit H Mulsant;Melissa L Levesque;Navona Calarco;Navona Calarco

  • The brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and prediction of neural risk for Alzheimer disease.

    Aristotle N. Voineskos;Jason P. Lerch;Daniel Felsky;Sajid Shaikh

  • A meta-analysis of the effects of aging on motor cortex neurophysiology assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Apoorva Bhandari;Natasha Radhu;Faranak Farzan;Benoit H. Mulsant;Benoit H. Mulsant

  • The genome-wide supported microRNA-137 variant predicts phenotypic heterogeneity within schizophrenia

    T A Lett;M M Chakravarty;M M Chakravarty;D Felsky;D Felsky;E J Brandl

  • Treatment resistant schizophrenia and response to antipsychotics: A review

    Takefumi Suzuki;Gary Remington;Gary Remington;Benoit H. Mulsant;Benoit H. Mulsant;Tarek K. Rajji

Frequent Co-Authors

Zafiris J. Daskalakis
Zafiris J. Daskalakis University of California - San Diego School of Medicine
Corinne E. Fischer
Corinne E. Fischer St. Michael's Hospital
Aristotle N. Voineskos
Aristotle N. Voineskos Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Daniel M. Blumberger
Daniel M. Blumberger Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Ariel Graff-Guerrero
Ariel Graff-Guerrero Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Mera S. Barr
Mera S. Barr University of Toronto
Christopher R. Bowie
Christopher R. Bowie Queen's University
Paul B. Fitzgerald
Paul B. Fitzgerald Australian National University
Alastair J. Flint
Alastair J. Flint University of Toronto
Faranak Farzan
Faranak Farzan Simon Fraser University

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