Amber M. Leaver

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Amber M. Leaver is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amber M. Leaver has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in Neurology and 17 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Amber M. Leaver's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (23 papers), Treatment of Major Depression (17 papers) and Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies (15 papers). Amber M. Leaver is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (23 papers), Treatment of Major Depression (17 papers) and Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies (15 papers). Amber M. Leaver collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Amber M. Leaver's co-authors include Josef P. Rauschecker, Katherine L. Narr, Mark Mühlau, Randall Espinoza, Roger P. Woods, Susan E. Morgan, Hung J. Kim, Shantanu H. Joshi, Anna Seydell‐Greenwald and Megha Vasavada and has published in prestigious journals such as Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Amber M. Leaver

57 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Tuning Out the Noise: Limbic-Auditory Interactions in Tinnitus

2010 559 citations Josef P. Rauschecker, Amber M. Leaver et al. Neuron profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amber M. Leaver United States	32	2.3k	1.3k	1.3k	721	698	57	3.5k
Nash N. Boutros United States	34	3.1k 1.3×	588 0.5×	218 0.2×	1.1k 1.5×	529 0.8×	118	4.2k
Nashaat N. Boutros United States	36	2.5k 1.1×	565 0.4×	185 0.1×	1.1k 1.5×	405 0.6×	96	4.1k
Keith S. Garcia United States	17	901 0.4×	852 0.7×	399 0.3×	485 0.7×	180 0.3×	20	2.0k
Chris Andrew United Kingdom	29	3.8k 1.6×	293 0.2×	286 0.2×	1.3k 1.8×	1.4k 2.0×	57	5.4k
Philipp A. Thomann Germany	38	1.6k 0.7×	508 0.4×	178 0.1×	1.6k 2.2×	289 0.4×	110	3.8k
Heather C. Abercrombie United States	26	2.1k 0.9×	244 0.2×	124 0.1×	460 0.6×	826 1.2×	48	3.6k
H. Brent Solvason United States	20	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.4×	71 0.1×	987 1.4×	753 1.1×	29	4.4k
P. J. Moberg United States	23	1.3k 0.6×	160 0.1×	544 0.4×	1.1k 1.5×	448 0.6×	38	3.3k
Jason R. Tregellas United States	39	2.5k 1.1×	237 0.2×	194 0.2×	743 1.0×	526 0.8×	107	4.6k
Daniel Keeser Germany	28	1.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	124 0.1×	677 0.9×	207 0.3×	127	3.0k

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Loureiro, Joana, Ashish Sahib, Artemis Zavaliangos‐Petropulu, et al.. (2024). Modulation of habenular and nucleus accumbens functional connectivity by ketamine in major depression. Brain and Behavior. 14(6). e3511–e3511. 1 indexed citations

Leaver, Amber M., Yufen Chen, & Todd B. Parrish. (2023). Focal tDCS of auditory cortex in chronic tinnitus: A randomized controlled mechanistic trial. Clinical Neurophysiology. 158. 79–91. 5 indexed citations

Jog, Mayank, Cole Anderson, Antoni Kubicki, et al.. (2023). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in depression induces structural plasticity. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 2841–2841. 32 indexed citations

Zavaliangos‐Petropulu, Artemis, Noor Al‐Sharif, Amber M. Leaver, et al.. (2022). Neuroimaging-Derived Biomarkers of the Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 8(4). 361–386. 19 indexed citations

Leaver, Amber M., Randall Espinoza, Benjamin Wade, & Katherine L. Narr. (2021). Parsing the Network Mechanisms of Electroconvulsive Therapy. Biological Psychiatry. 92(3). 193–203. 32 indexed citations

Gonzalez, Sara, Megha Vasavada, Stephanie Njau, et al.. (2020). Acute changes in cerebral blood flow after single-infusion ketamine in major depression: A pilot study. Neurology Psychiatry and Brain Research. 38. 5–11. 8 indexed citations

Leaver, Amber M., Hongyu Yang, Prabha Siddarth, et al.. (2018). Resilience and amygdala function in older healthy and depressed adults. Journal of Affective Disorders. 237. 27–34. 27 indexed citations

Njau, Stephanie, Shantanu H. Joshi, Randall Espinoza, et al.. (2016). Neurochemical correlates of rapid treatment response to electroconvulsive therapy in patients with major depression. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 42(1). 6–16. 79 indexed citations

Eyre, Harris A., Bianca P. Acevedo, Hongyu Yang, et al.. (2016). Changes in Neural Connectivity and Memory Following a Yoga Intervention for Older Adults: A Pilot Study. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 52(2). 673–684. 93 indexed citations

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Pirnia, Tara, S. K. Joshi, Amber M. Leaver, et al.. (2016). Electroconvulsive therapy and structural neuroplasticity in neocortical, limbic and paralimbic cortex. Translational Psychiatry. 6(6). e832–e832. 81 indexed citations

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Vasavada, Megha, Amber M. Leaver, Randall Espinoza, et al.. (2015). Structural connectivity and response to ketamine therapy in major depression: A preliminary study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 190. 836–841. 49 indexed citations

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Leaver, Amber M., Randall Espinoza, Tara Pirnia, et al.. (2015). Modulation of Intrinsic Brain Activity by Electroconvulsive Therapy in Major Depression. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 1(1). 77–86. 55 indexed citations

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Leaver, Amber M., Anna Seydell‐Greenwald, & Josef P. Rauschecker. (2015). Auditory–limbic interactions in chronic tinnitus: Challenges for neuroimaging research. Hearing Research. 334. 49–57. 89 indexed citations

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Leaver, Amber M., Randall Espinoza, Shantanu H. Joshi, et al.. (2015). Desynchronization and Plasticity of Striato-frontal Connectivity in Major Depressive Disorder. Cerebral Cortex. 26(11). 4337–4346. 41 indexed citations

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Wade, Benjamin, Shantanu H. Joshi, Tara Pirnia, et al.. (2015). Random forest classification of depression status based on subcortical brain morphometry following electroconvulsive therapy. PubMed. 2015. 92–96. 16 indexed citations

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Espinoza, Randall, Tara Pirnia, Kimberly Clark, et al.. (2014). Electroconvulsive therapy mediates neuroplasticity of white matter microstructure in major depression. Translational Psychiatry. 4(4). e380–e380. 109 indexed citations

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Leaver, Amber M., Anna Seydell‐Greenwald, Ted K. Turesky, et al.. (2012). Cortico-limbic morphology separates tinnitus from tinnitus distress. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 6. 21–21. 132 indexed citations

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Seydell‐Greenwald, Anna, Amber M. Leaver, Ted K. Turesky, et al.. (2012). Functional MRI evidence for a role of ventral prefrontal cortex in tinnitus. Brain Research. 1485. 22–39. 71 indexed citations

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Leaver, Amber M. & Josef P. Rauschecker. (2010). Cortical Representation of Natural Complex Sounds: Effects of Acoustic Features and Auditory Object Category. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(22). 7604–7612. 259 indexed citations

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Rauschecker, Josef P., Amber M. Leaver, & Mark Mühlau. (2010). Tuning Out the Noise: Limbic-Auditory Interactions in Tinnitus. Neuron. 66(6). 819–826. 559 indexed citations breakdown →

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