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1758

Overview

Warren D. Taylor is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. Their work focuses primarily on medicine and neuroscience, with a significant concentration on cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry, mental health, and biological psychiatry.

Their main research themes include functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, tryptophan and brain disorders, advanced MRI techniques and applications, treatment of major depression, and stress responses and cortisol.

Warren D. Taylor has frequently published in these venues:

  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • International Psychogeriatrics

They have collaborated extensively with the following co-authors:

  • Brian D. Boyd
  • Bennett A. Landman
  • Sarah M. Szymkowicz
  • Olusola Ajilore
  • Carmen Andreescu

Recent publications by Warren D. Taylor include:

  • "Influences of dopaminergic system dysfunction on late-life depression," 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Biological factors influencing depression in later life: role of aging processes and treatment implications," 2023, Translational Psychiatry
  • "PreQual: An automated pipeline for integrated preprocessing and quality assurance of diffusion weighted MRI images," 2021, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • "Association of 24-Hour Activity Pattern Phenotypes With Depression Symptoms and Cognitive Performance in Aging," 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Accelerated brain aging predicts impaired cognitive performance and greater disability in geriatric but not midlife adult depression," 2020, Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Harmonization of cortical thickness measurements across scanners and sites.

    Jean-Philippe Fortin;Nicholas C. Cullen;Yvette I. Sheline;Warren D. Taylor

  • The vascular depression hypothesis: mechanisms linking vascular disease with depression.

    Warren D. Taylor;Howard J. Aizenstein;George S. Alexopoulos

  • Depression in the Elderly

    Warren D. Taylor

  • Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Anterior Cingulate Cortex White Matter Alterations in Late-Life Depression

    Jae Nam Bae;James R. MacFall;K. Ranga R. Krishnan;Martha E. Payne

  • Effects of early life stress on depression, cognitive performance and brain morphology.

    Ayman Saleh;Guy G. Potter;Douglas R. McQuoid;Brian Boyd

  • Clinical characteristics of magnetic resonance imaging-defined subcortical ischemic depression.

    K.Ranga Rama Krishnan;Warren D Taylor;Douglas R McQuoid;James R MacFall

  • Support for the vascular depression hypothesis in late-life depression: results of a 2-site, prospective, antidepressant treatment trial.

    Yvette I. Sheline;Carl F. Pieper;M Deanna;Kathleen Welsh-Boehmer

  • Late-life depression and microstructural abnormalities in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex white matter.

    Warren D. Taylor;James R. MacFall;Martha E. Payne;Douglas R. McQuoid

  • White Matter Hyperintensity Progression and Late-Life Depression Outcomes

    Warren D. Taylor;David C. Steffens;James R. MacFall;Douglas R. McQuoid

  • Diffusion tensor imaging: background, potential, and utility in psychiatric research.

    Warren D. Taylor;Edward Hsu;K.Ranga Rama Krishnan;James R. MacFall

  • Vascular depression consensus report - a critical update.

    Howard J. Aizenstein;Andrius Baskys;Maura Boldrini;Meryl A. Butters

  • Influence of serotonin transporter promoter region polymorphisms on hippocampal volumes in late-life depression.

    Warren D. Taylor;David C. Steffens;Martha E. Payne;James R. MacFall

  • Cortical White Matter Microstructural Abnormalities in Bipolar Disorder

    John L Beyer;Warren D Taylor;James R MacFall;Maragatha Kuchibhatla

  • Evidence of white matter tract disruption in MRI hyperintensities

    Warren D Taylor;Martha E Payne;K.Ranga Rama Krishnan;H.Ryan Wagner

  • Greater MRI lesion volumes in elderly depressed subjects than in control subjects.

    Warren D. Taylor;James R. MacFall;Martha E. Payne;Douglas R. McQuoid

  • Association of five-factor model personality domains and facets with presence, onset, and treatment outcomes of major depression in older adults.

    R. David Hayward;Warren D. Taylor;Moria J. Smoski;David C. Steffens

  • Hippocampus Atrophy and the Longitudinal Course of Late-life Depression

    Warren D. Taylor;Douglas R. McQuoid;Martha E. Payne;Anthony S. Zannas

  • Serial MR imaging of volumes of hyperintense white matter lesions in elderly patients: correlation with vascular risk factors.

    Warren D Taylor;James R MacFall;James M Provenzale;Martha E Payne

  • Frontal White Matter Anisotropy and Antidepressant Remission in Late-Life Depression

    Warren D. Taylor;Maragatha Kuchibhatla;Martha E. Payne;James R. MacFall

  • Reduction of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex gray matter in late-life depression

    Cheng-Chen Chang;Shun-Chieh Yu;Douglas R. McQuoid;Denise F. Messer

  • Localization of age-associated white matter hyperintensities in late-life depression.

    Warren D. Taylor;James R. MacFall;David C. Steffens;Martha E. Payne

  • Orbitofrontal cortex volume in late life depression: influence of hyperintense lesions and genetic polymorphisms.

    Warren D. Taylor;James R. MacFALL;Martha E. Payne;Douglas R. McQUOID

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy G. Potter
Guy G. Potter Duke University
Susan M. Resnick
Susan M. Resnick National Institutes of Health
Yvette I. Sheline
Yvette I. Sheline University of Pennsylvania
Neil D. Woodward
Neil D. Woodward Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Baxter P. Rogers
Baxter P. Rogers Vanderbilt University
Howard J. Aizenstein
Howard J. Aizenstein University of Pittsburgh
Lori L. Beason-Held
Lori L. Beason-Held National Institutes of Health
Manus J. Donahue
Manus J. Donahue Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Lihong Wang
Lihong Wang University of Connecticut Health Center
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis

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