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Thomas C. Neylan is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily encompasses the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Epidemiology, and Neurology. The scientist's work focuses on areas including Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Sleep and related disorders, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Migration, Health and Trauma, Stress Responses and Cortisol, and Child Abuse and Trauma.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Thomas C. Neylan include:

  • "Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) responses are modulated by total sleep time and wake after sleep onset in healthy older adults," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "Association of Sleep and β-Amyloid Pathology Among Older Cognitively Unimpaired Adults," 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • "Tau-driven degeneration of sleep- and wake-regulating neurons in Alzheimer's disease," 2021, Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • "Brain-Based Biotypes of Psychiatric Vulnerability in the Acute Aftermath of Trauma," 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Prognostic neuroimaging biomarkers of trauma-related psychopathology: resting-state fMRI shortly after trauma predicts future PTSD and depression symptoms in the AURORA study," 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology

Collaborative work features frequent coauthors such as:

  • Samuel A. McLean
  • Sarah D. Linnstaedt
  • Francesca L. Beaudoin
  • Gari D. Clifford
  • Jennifer S. Stevens

Thomas C. Neylan has published extensively in several key venues related to their areas of study. These publication venues include:

  • SLEEP
  • UNC Libraries
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Early role of vascular dysregulation on late-onset Alzheimer’s disease based on multifactorial data-driven analysis

    Y. Iturria-Medina;R. C. Sotero;P. J. Toussaint;J. M. Mateos-Pérez

  • Rescuers at risk: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis of the worldwide current prevalence and correlates of PTSD in rescue workers

    William Berger;William Berger;Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho;Ivan Figueira;Carla Marques-Portella

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  • The Peritraumatic Distress Inventory: A Proposed Measure of PTSD Criterion A2

    Alain Brunet;Daniel S. Weiss;Thomas J. Metzler;Suzanne R. Best

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk of dementia among US veterans.

    Kristine C. Yaffe;Eric Vittinghoff;Karla Lindquist;Deborah Barnes

  • Association of Mental Health Disorders With Prescription Opioids and High-Risk Opioid Use in US Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan

    Karen H. Seal;Ying Shi;Gregory Cohen;Beth E. Cohen;Beth E. Cohen

  • Sleep disturbances in the Vietnam generation: findings from a nationally representative sample of male Vietnam veterans.

    Thomas C. Neylan;Charles R. Marmar;Thomas J. Metzler;Daniel S. Weiss

  • Predictors of posttraumatic stress in police and other first responders.

    Charles R. Marmar;Charles R. Marmar;Shannon E. McCASLIN;Shannon E. McCASLIN;Thomas J. Metzler;Thomas J. Metzler;Suzanne Best

  • A meta-analysis of cortisol response to challenge in human aging: importance of gender.

    Christian Otte;Stacey Hart;Stacey Hart;Thomas C. Neylan;Thomas C. Neylan;Charles R. Marmar;Charles R. Marmar

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Hippocampal Subfields in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Zhen Wang;Thomas C. Neylan;Susanne G. Mueller;Maryann Lenoci

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

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

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled trial.

    Lisa S Talbot;Shira Maguen;Thomas J Metzler;Martha Schmitz

  • Decreased hippocampal N-acetylaspartate in the absence of atrophy in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Norbert Schuff;Thomas C. Neylan;Maryanne A. Lenoci;An-Tao Du

  • Childhood Trauma Associated with Short Leukocyte Telomere Length in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Aoife O'Donovan;Elissa Epel;Jue Lin;Owen Wolkowitz

  • Elevated risk for autoimmune disorders in iraq and afghanistan veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Aoife O’Donovan;Aoife O’Donovan;Beth E. Cohen;Beth E. Cohen;Karen H. Seal;Karen H. Seal;Dan Bertenthal

  • Routine work environment stress and PTSD symptoms in police officers.

    Shira Maguen;Thomas J. Metzler;Shannon E. McCaslin;Sabra S. Inslicht

  • Treating insomnia improves mood state, sleep, and functioning in bipolar disorder: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

    Allison G. Harvey;Adriane M. Soehner;Kate A. Kaplan;Kerrie Hein

  • It Is Time to Address the Crisis in the Pharmacotherapy of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Consensus Statement of the PTSD Psychopharmacology Working Group.

    John H. Krystal;Lori L. Davis;Thomas C. Neylan;Murray A. Raskind

  • Critical incident exposure and sleep quality in police officers.

    Thomas C. Neylan;Thomas J. Metzler;Suzanne R. Best;Daniel S. Weiss

  • A prospective study of predictors of depression symptoms in police.

    Zhen Wang;Sabra S. Inslicht;Sabra S. Inslicht;Thomas J. Metzler;Thomas J. Metzler;Clare Henn-Haase;Clare Henn-Haase

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder and risk of dementia among U.S. veterans

    Kristine Yaffe;Eric Vittinghoff;Karla Lindquist;Deborah E. Barnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Metzler
Thomas J. Metzler Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Charles R. Marmar
Charles R. Marmar New York University
Shira Maguen
Shira Maguen University of California, San Francisco
Aoife O'Donovan
Aoife O'Donovan University of California, San Francisco
Anne Richards
Anne Richards Birkbeck, University of London
Christian Otte
Christian Otte Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Linda L. Chao
Linda L. Chao University of California, San Francisco
Michael W. Weiner
Michael W. Weiner University of California, San Francisco
Kristine Yaffe
Kristine Yaffe University of California, San Francisco

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