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Dr. Masdeu trained in Psychiatry at the University of Valencia in Spain and in Neurology at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago. He then served as a Fellow in Neuropathology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York, and has served as a Professor and Chair of Neurology at New York Medical College. Dr. Masdeu became a Professor and Chair of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Navarre Medical School in Pamplona, Spain. From 2008-2014, Dr. Masdeu was a senior staff physician and scientist in the Section of Integrative Neuroimaging of the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch at the National Institutes of Health. He is chairman of the Neuroimaging Research Group of the World Federation of Neurology. He has been a director of the American Academy of Neurology and president of the American Society of Neuroimaging. Since 2007, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuroimaging. He is the author of 144 peer-reviewed papers, 62 book chapters, and seven books, including Localization in Clinical Neurology, a standard in the field, now in its 6th edition. Dr. Masdeu joined the Houston Methodist Research Institute in 2014.
Research interests
Dr. Masdeu’s main areas of research have been the following:
-Clarifying the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
-Using spontaneous lesion models and/or imaging to map the localization of function in the human brain
-Developing novel neuroimaging signs and implementing neuroimaging as a biomarker of neurological disease
Education/Academic qualification
Neuropathology, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Neuroscience, PhD, Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona
Research Area Keywords
- Neurosciences
Free-text keywords
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Brain lesions
- Neuroimaging
- Psychoses
- Beta-amyloid
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Selective PET imaging of astrocytes and microglia in Alzheimer?s disease
Fujita, M., Masdeu, J. C. & Pascual, B.
1/19/23 → …
Project: Clinical Trial
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Imaging for Precision Medicine in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
Masdeu, J. C., Faridar, A., Fujita, M., Karmonik, C., Nakawah, M. O., Pascual, B. & Roman, G. C.
5/25/22 → …
Project: Clinical Trial
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Optimizing quantification of MK6240 tau PET in unimpaired older adults
U.S. POINTER Study Group, Jan 2023, In: NeuroImage. 265, 119761.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Polymorphism in the ZNF804A Gene and Variation in D1 and D2/D3 Dopamine Receptor Availability in the Healthy Human Brain: A Dual Positron Emission Tomography Study
Hegarty, C. E., Ianni, A. M., Kohn, P. D., Kolachana, B., Gregory, M., Masdeu, J. C., Eisenberg, D. P. & Berman, K. F., Jan 2023, In: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 8, 1, p. 121-128 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Alterations in brain synaptic proteins and mRNAs in mood disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of postmortem brain studies
Leung, E., Lau, E. W., Liang, A., de Dios, C., Suchting, R., Östlundh, L., Masdeu, J. C., Fujita, M., Sanches, M., Soares, J. C. & Selvaraj, S., Mar 2022, In: Molecular Psychiatry. 27, 3, p. 1362-1372 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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ASLPrep: a platform for processing of arterial spin labeled MRI and quantification of regional brain perfusion
the ALLFTD consortium, Jun 2022, In: Nature Methods. 19, 6, p. 683-686 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comprehensive cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of plasma neurofilament light across FTD spectrum disorders
Gendron, T. F., Heckman, M. G., White, L. J., Veire, A. M., Pedraza, O., Burch, A. R., Bozoki, A. C., Dickerson, B. C., Domoto-Reilly, K., Foroud, T., Forsberg, L. K., Galasko, D. R., Ghoshal, N., Graff-Radford, N. R., Grossman, M., Heuer, H. W., Huey, E. D., Hsiung, G. Y. R., Irwin, D. J., Kaufer, D. I., & 15 others , Apr 19 2022, In: Cell Reports Medicine. 3, 4, 100607.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Scopus citations