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Overview

Todd M. Preuss is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, genetics, social psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and molecular biology.

Preuss's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Notable recent publications authored by or involving Preuss include:

  • Evolution of prefrontal cortex, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Evolution of DNA methylation in the human brain, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Molecular features driving cellular complexity of human brain evolution, 2023, Nature
  • Studies of aging nonhuman primates illuminate the etiology of early-stage Alzheimer's-like neuropathology: An evolutionary perspective, 2021, American Journal of Primatology
  • Scaling Principles of White Matter Connectivity in the Human and Nonhuman Primate Brain, 2021, Cerebral Cortex

Frequent coauthors associated with their work include:

  • James K. Rilling
  • Geneviève Konopka
  • Hyeonsoo Jeong
  • Isabel Mendizabal
  • Stefano Berto

Preuss has been published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • Brain Structure and Function
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature

Their contributions to neuroscience integrate approaches from molecular biology, genetics, and imaging to investigate brain evolution, neural connectivity, and the molecular underpinnings of neurological conditions, including Alzheimer's disease. Many studies examine primate models to better understand cognitive functions and their biological basis in evolutionary context.

Best Publications

  • The evolution of the arcuate fasciculus revealed with comparative DTI.

    James K Rilling;Matthew F Glasser;Todd M Preuss;Todd M Preuss;Xiangyang Ma

  • Do rats have prefrontal cortex? the rose-woolsey-akert program reconsidered

    Todd M. Preuss

  • Elevated gene expression levels distinguish human from non-human primate brains

    Mario Cáceres;Joel Lachuer;Matthew A. Zapala;John C. Redmond

  • Architectonic identification of the core region in auditory cortex of macaques, chimpanzees, and humans.

    Troy A. Hackett;Todd M. Preuss;Jon H. Kaas

  • Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2

    Genevieve Konopka;Jamee M. Bomar;Kellen D. Winden;Giovanni Coppola

  • Trends and properties of human cerebral cortex: Correlations with cortical myelin content

    Matthew F. Glasser;Manu S. Goyal;Todd M. Preuss;Todd M. Preuss;Marcus E. Raichle

  • Architectonics, somatotopic organization, and ipsilateral cortical connections of the primary motor area (M1) of owl monkeys.

    Iwona Stepniewska;Todd M. Preuss;Jon H. Kaas

  • Myelo‐ and cytoarchitecture of the granular frontal cortex and surrounding regions in the strepsirhine primate Galago and the anthropoid primate Macaca

    Todd M. Preuss;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Theory of mind: evolutionary history of a cognitive specialization

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Todd M. Preuss

  • Movement representation in the dorsal and ventral premotor areas of owl monkeys: a microstimulation study.

    Todd M. Preuss;Iwona Stepniewska;Jon H. Kaas

  • Quantitative assessment of prefrontal cortex in humans relative to nonhuman primates.

    Chad J Donahue;Matthew F Glasser;Matthew F Glasser;Todd M Preuss;James K Rilling

  • Human-Specific Transcriptional Networks in the Brain

    Genevieve Konopka;Tara Friedrich;Jeremy Davis-Turak;Kellen Winden

  • Connections of the ventral granular frontal cortex of macaques with perisylvian premotor and somatosensory areas: anatomical evidence for somatic representation in primate frontal association cortex.

    Todd M. Preuss;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Human brain evolution: insights from microarrays

    Todd M. Preuss;Todd M. Preuss;Mario Cáceres;Mario Cáceres;Michael C. Oldham;Daniel H. Geschwind

  • Evolution of the cerebellar cortex: the selective expansion of prefrontal-projecting cerebellar lobules.

    Joshua H. Balsters;Emma Cussans;Jörn Diedrichsen;Kimberley A. Phillips

  • A comparison of resting-state brain activity in humans and chimpanzees

    James K. Rilling;Sarah K. Barks;Lisa A. Parr;Todd M. Preuss

  • Continuity, divergence, and the evolution of brain language pathways.

    James K. Rilling;Matthew F. Glasser;Saad Jbabdi;Jesper Andersson

  • Architectonics of the parietal and temporal association cortex in the strepsirhine primate Galago compared to the anthropoid primate Macaca

    Todd M. Preuss;Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic

  • Evolution of prefrontal cortex.

    Todd M Preuss;Steven P Wise

  • Global analysis of alternative splicing differences between humans and chimpanzees

    John A. Calarco;Yi Xing;Mario Cáceres;Joseph P. Calarco

  • Divergent whole-genome methylation maps of human and chimpanzee brains reveal epigenetic basis of human regulatory evolution.

    Jia Zeng;Genevieve Konopka;Genevieve Konopka;Brendan G. Hunt;Todd M. Preuss;Todd M. Preuss

Frequent Co-Authors

James K. Rilling
James K. Rilling Emory University
Jon H. Kaas
Jon H. Kaas Vanderbilt University
Xiaoping Hu
Xiaoping Hu University of California, Riverside
Martijn P. van den Heuvel
Martijn P. van den Heuvel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Iwona Stepniewska
Iwona Stepniewska Vanderbilt University
Daniel H. Geschwind
Daniel H. Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles
Carol A. Tamminga
Carol A. Tamminga The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Patrick R. Hof
Patrick R. Hof Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Lisa A. Parr
Lisa A. Parr Emory University

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