Publications

Glaubitz E, Wang XHugh, Xi K, Feiz F, Pahlajani S, Maloney T, Tanzi E, Hojjati H, Zhou L, Glodzik L et al..  2026.  PET-measured tau deposition in emotion-related brain regions is differentially associated with depressive symptoms in individuals with versus without Alzheimer's disease pathology.. Behav Brain Res. 498:115889.

Khalafi M, Hojjati SHani, Wang XHugh, Zhou L, Nordvig AStarikovsk, Li Y, Butler TA, Razlighi QR, Tanzi EB, Pahlajani S et al..  2025.  Concordance between Centiloid Quantification and Visual Interpretation of Amyloid PET Scans across the Alzheimer Disease Continuum.. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 46(9):1884-1892.

Khalafi M, Dartora WJ, McIntire LBeth J, Butler TA, Wartchow KM, Hojjati SHani, Razlighi QR, Shirbandi K, Zhou L, Chen K et al..  2025.  Diagnostic accuracy of phosphorylated tau217 in detecting Alzheimer's disease pathology among cognitively impaired and unimpaired: A systematic review and meta-analysis.. Alzheimers Dement. 21(2):e14458.

Neumann D, Razlighi QR, Stern Y, Devanand DP, Jamison KW, Kuceyeski A, Tozlu C.  2025.  Disrupted Energetic and Entropic Landscape in Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment: Insights From Network Control Theory.. Hum Brain Mapp. 46(18):e70427.

Ozsahin I, Wang X, Zhou L, Xi K, Hojjati SHani, Tanzi E, Maloney T, Fung EK, Dyke JP, Chen K et al..  2025.  Divergent neurodegeneration associations with choroid plexus volume and degree of calcification in cognitively normal APOE ε4 carriers and non-carriers.. Sci Rep. 15(1):12818.

Hojjati SHani, Chiang GC, Butler TA, Chen K, Khalafi M, Yazdi BGhaderi, Foldi N, Nayak S, de Leon M, Li Y et al..  2025.  Heterogeneous tau deposition patterns in the preclinical stage link to domain-specific cognitive deficits.. Alzheimers Dement. 21(5):e70153.

He H, Razlighi QR, Gazes Y, Habeck C, Stern Y.  2025.  Integrating individualized connectome with amyloid pathology improves predictive modeling of future cognitive decline.. Commun Med (Lond). 5(1):515.

Hojjati SHani, Butler TA, de Leon M, Gupta A, Nayak S, Luchsinger JA, Razlighi QR, Chiang GC.  2025.  Inter-network functional connectivity increases by beta-amyloid and may facilitate the early stage of tau accumulation.. Neurobiol Aging. 148:16-26.

Yazdi BGhaderi, Razlighi QR.  2025.  Translation of task-evoked negative BOLD response into aging and Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of the current literature.. J Transl Med. 23(1):850.

Hojjati SHani, Chen K, Chiang GC, Kuceyeski A, Wang XH, Razlighi QR, Pahlajani S, Glodzik L, Tanzi EB, Reinhardt M et al..  2025.  Utilizing structural MRI and unsupervised clustering to differentiate schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease in late-onset psychosis.. Behav Brain Res. 480:115386.

Devanand DP, Wisniewski T, Razlighi Q, Qian M, Wei R, Andrews HF, Acosta EP, Bell KL, Pelton GH, Deliyannides D et al..  2025.  Valacyclovir Treatment of Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease: The VALAD Randomized Clinical Trial.. JAMA.

Simon SSanz, Varangis E, Lee S, Gu Y, Gazes Y, Razlighi QR, Habeck C, Stern Y.  2024.  In vivo tau is associated with change in memory and processing speed, but not reasoning, in cognitively unimpaired older adults.. Neurobiol Aging. 133:28-38.

Hojjati SHani, Butler TA, Luchsinger JA, Benitez R, de Leon M, Nayak S, Razlighi QR, Chiang GC.  2024.  Increased between-network connectivity: A risk factor for tau elevation and disease progression.. Neurosci Lett. 840:137943.

Voss HU, Razlighi QR.  2024.  Pulsatility analysis of the circle of Willis.. Aging Brain. 5:100111.

Butler T, Wang X, Chiang G, Xi K, Niogi S, Glodzik L, Li Y, Razlighi QRay, Zhou L, Hojjati SHani et al..  2024.  Reduction in Constitutively Activated Auditory Brainstem Microglia in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.. J Alzheimers Dis.

Tahmi M, Rippon B, Palta P, Sherwood G, Hernandez G, Soto L, Cespedes S, Pardo M, Laing K, Igwe K et al..  2024.  Relationship Between Alzheimer Disease Imaging Biomarkers and Performance on the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery in Late-middle Age Hispanics.. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 38(4):311-318.

Hojjati SHani, Chiang GC, Butler TA, de Leon M, Gupta A, Li Y, Sabuncu MR, Feiz F, Nayak S, Shteingart J et al..  2024.  Remote Associations Between Tau and Cortical Amyloid-β Are Stage-Dependent.. J Alzheimers Dis. 98(4):1467-1482.

Butler T, Wang XH, Chiang GC, Li Y, Zhou L, Xi K, Wickramasuriya N, Tanzi E, Spector E, Ozsahin I et al..  2023.  Choroid Plexus Calcification Correlates with Cortical Microglial Activation in Humans: A Multimodal PET, CT, MRI Study.. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 44(7):776-782.

Javitt DC, Martinez A, Sehatpour P, Beloborodova A, Habeck C, Gazes Y, Bermudez D, Razlighi QR, Devanand DP, Stern Y.  2023.  Disruption of early visual processing in amyloid-positive healthy individuals and mild cognitive impairment.. Alzheimers Res Ther. 15(1):42.

Hojjati SHani, Butler TA, Chiang GC, Habeck C, RoyChoudhury A, Feiz F, Shteingart J, Nayak S, Ozoria S, Fernández A et al..  2023.  Distinct and joint effects of low and high levels of Aβ and tau deposition on cortical thickness.. Neuroimage Clin. 38:103409.

He H, Ettehadi N, Shmuel A, Razlighi QR.  2022.  Evidence suggesting common mechanisms underlie contralateral and ipsilateral negative BOLD responses in the human visual cortex.. Neuroimage. 262:119440.

He H, Razlighi QR.  2022.  Landmark-guided region-based spatial normalization for functional magnetic resonance imaging.. Hum Brain Mapp. 43(11):3524-3544.

Rippon B, Palta P, Tahmi M, Sherwood G, Soto L, Cespedes S, Mesen Y, He H, Laing K, Moreno H et al..  2022.  Plasma Amyloid and in vivo Brain Amyloid in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics.. J Alzheimers Dis. 87(3):1229-1238.

Butler T, Glodzik L, Wang XHugh, Xi K, Li Y, Pan H, Zhou L, Chiang GChia-Yi, Morim S, Wickramasuriya N et al..  2022.  Positron Emission Tomography reveals age-associated hypothalamic microglial activation in women.. Sci Rep. 12(1):13351.

Butler T, Chiang GC, Niogi SNarayan, Wang XHugh, Skudin C, Tanzi E, Wickramasuriya N, Spiegel J, Maloney T, Pahlajani S et al..  2022.  Tau PET following acute TBI: Off-target binding to blood products, tauopathy, or both? Front Neuroimaging. 1