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Overview

Vincent J. Schmithorst is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and psychology, with a focus on pediatric and neurodevelopmental conditions.

The scientist has contributed to studies published in various academic journals, including:

  • Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Critical Care Medicine

Key papers authored or co-authored by Vincent J. Schmithorst include:

  • Relationships Between Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Neurocognitive Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Congenital Heart Disease (2021) - Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Patterns of Infant Amygdala Connectivity Mediate the Impact of High Caregiver Affect on Reducing Infant Smiling: Discovery and Replication (2021) - Biological Psychiatry
  • Arterial Spin Labeling in Pediatric Neuroimaging (2020) - Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
  • Limbic white matter structural integrity at 3 months prospectively predicts negative emotionality in 9-month-old infants: a preliminary study (2020) - Journal of Affective Disorders
  • 729: Whole Brain Diffusion Tensor Imaging Analysis and Outcomes Following Pediatric Cardiac Arrest (2020) - Critical Care Medicine

Their frequent co-authors include Ashok Panigrahy, Layla Banihashemi, Megan Taylor, Alyssa Samolyk, and Gabrielle English, indicating collaboration across multiple research projects.

Vincent J. Schmithorst's main fields of study are medicine, with 16 publications, and psychology, with 5 publications. Subfields of particular focus include pediatrics, perinatology and child health; emergency medicine; epidemiology; cognitive neuroscience; and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

The primary research topics covered in their work encompass:

  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Cardiac arrest and resuscitation
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Congenital heart disease studies
  • Coronary artery anomalies

Best Publications

  • Correlation of White Matter Diffusivity and Anisotropy with Age during Childhood and Adolescence: A Cross-sectional Diffusion-Tensor MR Imaging Study

    Vincent J. Schmithorst;Marko Wilke;Bernard J. Dardzinski;Scott K. Holland

  • Normal fMRI brain activation patterns in children performing a verb generation task.

    Scott K. Holland;Elena Plante;Anna Weber Byars;Richard H. Strawsburg

  • Cognitive functions correlate with white matter architecture in a normal pediatric population: A diffusion tensor MRI study

    Vincent J. Schmithorst;Marko Wilke;Marko Wilke;Bernard J. Dardzinski;Scott K. Holland

  • fMRI study of language lateralization in children and adults.

    Jerzy P. Szaflarski;Scott K. Holland;Vincent J. Schmithorst;Anna W. Byars

  • Cerebral ischemia-hypoxia induces intravascular coagulation and autophagy.

    Faisal Adhami;Faisal Adhami;Guanghong Liao;Yury M. Morozov;Aryn Schloemer

  • Functional MRI of language lateralization during development in children

    Scott K. Holland;Scott K. Holland;Jennifer Vannest;Marc Mecoli;Lisa M. Jacola

  • A combined bootstrap/histogram analysis approach for computing a lateralization index from neuroimaging data

    Marko Wilke;Vincent J. Schmithorst;Vincent J. Schmithorst

  • Developmental Differences in White Matter Architecture Between Boys and Girls

    Vincent J. Schmithorst;Scott K. Holland;Bernard J. Dardzinski

  • White matter development during adolescence as shown by diffusion MRI.

    Vincent J. Schmithorst;Weihong Yuan

  • MR imaging and T2 mapping of femoral cartilage: in vivo determination of the magic angle effect.

    Timothy J. Mosher;Harvey Smith;Bernard J. Dardzinski;Vincent J. Schmithorst

  • Differences in white matter architecture between musicians and non-musicians: a diffusion tensor imaging study.

    Vincent J. Schmithorst;Marko Wilke

  • Assessment of spatial normalization of whole‐brain magnetic resonance images in children

    Marko Wilke;Vincent J. Schmithorst;Scott K. Holland

  • A longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging study of language development in children 5 to 11 years old.

    Jerzy P. Szaflarski;Vincent J. Schmithorst;Vincent J. Schmithorst;Mekibib Altaye;Anna W. Byars

  • Abnormal frontal white matter tracts in bipolar disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study.

    Caleb M Adler;Scott K Holland;Vince Schmithorst;Marko Wilke

  • Evidence of white matter pathology in bipolar disorder adolescents experiencing their first episode of mania: a diffusion tensor imaging study.

    Caleb M. Adler;John Adams;Melissa P. DelBello;Scott K. Holland

  • Simultaneous correction of ghost and geometric distortion artifacts in EPI using a multiecho reference scan

    V.J. Schmithorst;B.J. Dardzinski;S.K. Holland

  • Changes in neuronal activation in patients with bipolar disorder during performance of a working memory task.

    Caleb M Adler;Scott K Holland;Vince Schmithorst;Michael J Tuchfarber

  • Practical Aspects of Conducting Large-Scale Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies in Children

    Anna Weber Byars;Scott K. Holland;Richard H. Strawsburg;Wendy Bommer

  • Comparison of three methods for generating group statistical inferences from independent component analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data

    Vincent J. Schmithorst;Scott K. Holland

  • Normative pediatric brain data for spatial normalization and segmentation differs from standard adult data.

    M. Wilke;V.J. Schmithorst;S.K. Holland

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott K. Holland
Scott K. Holland Medpace (United States)
Elena Plante
Elena Plante University of Arizona
Jennifer Vannest
Jennifer Vannest Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jerzy P. Szaflarski
Jerzy P. Szaflarski University of Alabama at Birmingham
Marko Wilke
Marko Wilke University of Tübingen
Anna W. Byars
Anna W. Byars Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Alison E. Hipwell
Alison E. Hipwell University of Pittsburgh
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Jane W. Newburger
Jane W. Newburger Boston Children's Hospital
Barbara A. Lewis
Barbara A. Lewis Case Western Reserve University

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