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Vijay Dhawan is affiliated with the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neurological disorders, with a significant emphasis on Parkinson's Disease mechanisms and treatments.

Their scholarly output includes research spanning medicine and neuroscience, particularly in the fields of neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and radiology with nuclear medicine and imaging. Additional subfields addressed in their work include cellular and molecular neuroscience and physiology.

Main topics covered in Dhawan's research encompass:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Dhawan has contributed to various scientific journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Movement Disorders
  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • Bioelectronic Medicine
  • Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Dynamic 18F-FPCIT PET: Quantification of Parkinson Disease Metabolic Networks and Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Dysfunction in a Single Imaging Session," 2021, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • "Adaptive and pathological connectivity responses in Parkinson's disease brain networks," 2022, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Neuroimaging evaluation of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of representative neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders," 2021, Bioelectronic Medicine
  • "Neuropathological correlation supports automated image-based differential diagnosis in parkinsonism," 2021, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • "Stereotyped Relationship Between Motor and Cognitive Metabolic Networks in Parkinson's Disease," 2022, Movement Disorders

Frequent collaborators include David Eidelberg, Chris C. Tang, Shichun Peng, Yilong Ma, and Katharina A. Schindlbeck. These collaborations have fostered research efforts primarily related to the neuroimaging and pathophysiological aspects of Parkinson's Disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.

Best Publications

  • Randomized controlled trial of intraputamenal glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor infusion in Parkinson disease.

    Anthony E. Lang;Steven Gill;Nik K. Patel;Andres Lozano

  • The metabolic topography of parkinsonism.

    D. Eidelberg;J. R. Moeller;V. Dhawan;P. Spetsieris

  • FDG PET in the differential diagnosis of parkinsonian disorders

    Thomas Eckert;Anna Barnes;Vijay Dhawan;Vijay Dhawan;Vijay Dhawan;Steve Frucht

  • Changes in network activity with the progression of Parkinson's disease.

    Chaorui Huang;Chengke Tang;Andrew Feigin;Martin Lesser

  • Patterns of regional brain activation associated with different forms of motor learning.

    Maria Felice Ghilardi;Claude Ghez;Vijay Dhawan;James Moeller

  • Differential diagnosis of parkinsonism: a metabolic imaging study using pattern analysis

    Chris C Tang;Kathleen L Poston;Kathleen L Poston;Kathleen L Poston;Thomas Eckert;Thomas Eckert;Andrew Feigin

  • Network modulation in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

    Kotaro Asanuma;Kotaro Asanuma;Chengke Tang;Chengke Tang;Yilong Ma;Yilong Ma;Vijay Dhawan;Vijay Dhawan

  • The role of radiotracer imaging in Parkinson disease

    B. Ravina;D. Eidelberg;J. E. Ahlskog;R. L. Albin

  • Functional brain networks in DYT1 dystonia

    David Eidelberg;James R. Moeller;Angelo Antonini;Angelo Antonini;Ken Kazumata;Ken Kazumata

  • Abnormal metabolic network activity in Parkinson's disease: test-retest reproducibility.

    Yilong Ma;Yilong Ma;Chengke Tang;Chengke Tang;Phoebe G Spetsieris;Phoebe G Spetsieris;Vijay Dhawan;Vijay Dhawan

  • Rostral and orbital prefrontal cortex dysfunction in the manic state of bipolar disorder.

    Hilary P. Blumberg;Emily Stern;Sally Ricketts;Diana Martinez

  • Cerebellothalamocortical connectivity regulates penetrance in dystonia.

    Miklos Argyelan;Maren Carbon;Martin Niethammer;Aziz M. Uluğ

  • The metabolic pathology of the AIDS dementia complex.

    D. A. Rottenberg;D. A. Rottenberg;J. R. Moeller;S. C. Strother;J. J. Sidtis

  • Metabolic abnormalities associated with mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease

    C. Huang;P. Mattis;K. Perrine;N. Brown

  • Dyskinesia after fetal cell transplantation for parkinsonism: a PET study.

    Yilong Ma;Yilong Ma;Andrew Feigin;Andrew Feigin;Vijay Dhawan;Vijay Dhawan;Masafumi Fukuda

  • Parkinson’s Disease Tremor-Related Metabolic Network: Characterization, Progression, and Treatment Effects

    Hideo Mure;Shigeki Hirano;Chris C. Tang;Chris C. Tang;Ioannis U. Isaias

  • The metabolic topography of normal aging.

    J. R. Moeller;T. Ishikawa;V. Dhawan;P. Spetsieris

  • Modulation of metabolic brain networks after subthalamic gene therapy for Parkinson's disease

    Andrew Feigin;Michael G. Kaplitt;Chengke Tang;Tanya Lin

  • Noninvasive quantitative fluorodeoxyglucose PET studies with an estimated input function derived from a population-based arterial blood curve.

    S Takikawa;V Dhawan;P Spetsieris;W Robeson

  • Differences in cerebral blood flow and glucose utilization in vegetative versus locked-in patients.

    David E. Levy;John J. Sidtis;David A. Rottenberg;Jens O. Jarden

Frequent Co-Authors

David Eidelberg
David Eidelberg Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Yilong Ma
Yilong Ma Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Maren Carbon
Maren Carbon Zucker Hillside Hospital
Angelo Antonini
Angelo Antonini University of Padua
Stanley Fahn
Stanley Fahn Columbia University
Maria Felice Ghilardi
Maria Felice Ghilardi City University of New York
Marc J. Mentis
Marc J. Mentis New York University
Stephen C. Strother
Stephen C. Strother University of Toronto
Susan B. Bressman
Susan B. Bressman Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Mark Guttman
Mark Guttman University of Toronto

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