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Taylor W. Schmitz is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant concentration in cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, physiology, and molecular biology.

Their work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Frequent coauthors in Taylor W. Schmitz's research include R. Nathan Spreng, Kate M. Onuska, Ali R. Khan, Marco A. M. Prado, and Hayley R. C. Shanks.

Common venues for their publications are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Alzheimer's & Dementia, Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Brain.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Taylor W. Schmitz are:

  • Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Basal forebrain volume reliably predicts the cortical spread of Alzheimer's degeneration, 2020, Brain
  • Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Dynamic targeting enables domain-general inhibitory control over action and thought by the prefrontal cortex, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Longitudinal Basal Forebrain Degeneration Interacts with TREM2/C3 Biomarkers of Inflammation in Presymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Metacognitive evaluation, self-relevance, and the right prefrontal cortex.

    Taylor W Schmitz;Tisha N Kawahara-Baccus;Tisha N Kawahara-Baccus;Sterling C Johnson;Sterling C Johnson

  • Opposing Influences of Affective State Valence on Visual Cortical Encoding

    Taylor W. Schmitz;Eve De Rosa;Adam K. Anderson

  • Basal forebrain degeneration precedes and predicts the cortical spread of Alzheimer's pathology.

    Taylor W. Schmitz;R. Nathan Spreng;Michael W. Weiner;Paul Aisen

  • Relevance to self: A brief review and framework of neural systems underlying appraisal.

    Taylor W. Schmitz;Sterling C. Johnson

  • Activation of brain regions vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease: The effect of mild cognitive impairment

    S.C. Johnson;T.W. Schmitz;C.H. Moritz;M.E. Meyerand

  • Unique semantic space in the brain of each beholder predicts perceived similarity.

    Ian Charest;Rogier A. Kievit;Taylor W. Schmitz;Diana Deca

  • Reduced hippocampal activation during episodic encoding in middle-aged individuals at genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study.

    Mehul A Trivedi;Mehul A Trivedi;Taylor W Schmitz;Taylor W Schmitz;Michele L Ries;Michele L Ries;Britta M Torgerson;Britta M Torgerson

  • Hippocampal GABA enables inhibitory control over unwanted thoughts

    Taylor W Schmitz;Taylor W Schmitz;Marta Morgado Correia;Marta Morgado Correia;Catarina S Ferreira;Andrew P Prescot

  • The Influence of Alzheimer Disease Family History and Apolipoprotein E ε4 on Mesial Temporal Lobe Activation

    Sterling C Johnson;Taylor W Schmitz;Mehul A Trivedi;Michele L Ries

  • Psychophysical and Neural Evidence for Emotion-Enhanced Perceptual Vividness

    Rebecca M. Todd;Deborah Talmi;Taylor W. Schmitz;Josh Susskind

  • Neural correlates of self-evaluative accuracy after traumatic brain injury.

    Taylor W. Schmitz;Howard A. Rowley;Tisha N. Kawahara;Tisha N. Kawahara;Sterling C. Johnson;Sterling C. Johnson

  • Self-appraisal decisions evoke dissociated dorsal-ventral aMPFC networks.

    Taylor W. Schmitz;Sterling C. Johnson

  • Anosognosia in mild cognitive impairment: Relationship to activation of cortical midline structures involved in self-appraisal.

    Michele L. Ries;Britta M. Jabbar;Taylor W. Schmitz;Mehul A. Trivedi

  • The Cerebral Response during Subjective Choice with and without Self-reference

    Sterling C. Johnson;Taylor W. Schmitz;Tisha N. Kawahara-baccus;Howard A. Rowley

  • Task-dependent posterior cingulate activation in mild cognitive impairment.

    Michele L. Ries;Taylor W. Schmitz;Taylor W. Schmitz;Tisha N. Kawahara;Tisha N. Kawahara;Britta M. Torgerson;Britta M. Torgerson

  • Failing to Ignore: Paradoxical Neural Effects of Perceptual Load on Early Attentional Selection in Normal Aging

    Taylor W. Schmitz;Frederick H. T. Cheng;Eve De Rosa

  • A supramodal role of the basal ganglia in memory and motor inhibition: Meta-analytic evidence

    Yuhua Guo;Yuhua Guo;Taylor W. Schmitz;Taylor W. Schmitz;Marieke Mur;Catarina S. Ferreira

  • Normalization and the Cholinergic Microcircuit: A Unified Basis for Attention

    Taylor W. Schmitz;John Duncan;John Duncan

  • Basal forebrain volume reliably predicts the cortical spread of Alzheimer’s degeneration

    Sara Fernández-Cabello;Martin Kronbichler;Martin Kronbichler;Koene R.A. van Dijk;James A. Goodman

  • FMRI activation during episodic encoding and metacognitive appraisal across the lifespan : Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease

    Mehul A. Trivedi;Taylor W. Schmitz;Michele L. Ries;Timothy M. Hess

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanjay Asthana
Sanjay Asthana University of Wisconsin–Madison
R. Nathan Spreng
R. Nathan Spreng McGill University
Mark A. Sager
Mark A. Sager University of Wisconsin–Madison
Martin Kronbichler
Martin Kronbichler University of Salzburg
Adam K. Anderson
Adam K. Anderson Cornell University
Michael C. Anderson
Michael C. Anderson University of Cambridge
Bruce P. Hermann
Bruce P. Hermann University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew L. Alexander
Andrew L. Alexander University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rebecca L. Koscik
Rebecca L. Koscik University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rebecca M. Todd
Rebecca M. Todd University of British Columbia

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