Changiz Geula

15.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
173 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

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Changiz Geula is a scholar working on Physiology, Pharmacology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Changiz Geula has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Physiology, 50 papers in Pharmacology and 50 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Changiz Geula's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (90 papers), Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (50 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (44 papers). Changiz Geula is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (90 papers), Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (50 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (44 papers). Changiz Geula collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Changiz Geula's co-authors include Marsel Mesulam, Sultan Darvesh, M.‐Marsel Mesulam, David A. Hopkins, M‐Marsel Mesulam, Robert J. Morecraft, Sandra Weıntraub, Eileen H. Bigio, M.‐Marsel Mesulam and Joseph El Khoury and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Changiz Geula

165 papers receiving 11.2k 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.

Ccr2 deficiency impairs microglial accumulation and accelerates progression of Alzheimer-like disease

2007 740 citations Joseph El Khoury, Changiz Geula et al. profile →
Neurobiology of butyrylcholinesterase

2003 720 citations Changiz Geula et al. profile →
Mitochondrial DNA deletions are abundant and cause functional impairment in aged human substantia nigra neurons

2006 712 citations Changiz Geula et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Changiz Geula United States	55	3.8k	3.4k	3.2k	3.1k	2.9k	173	11.5k
Roger M. Nitsch Switzerland	70	10.1k 2.6×	6.4k 1.9×	4.0k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	274	17.7k
John R. Cirrito United States	54	9.6k 2.5×	4.0k 1.2×	4.0k 1.2×	1.8k 0.6×	2.6k 0.9×	103	16.1k
Jorge J. Palop United States	31	6.9k 1.8×	2.9k 0.9×	5.6k 1.7×	1.6k 0.5×	2.6k 0.9×	48	11.2k
Raymond T. Bartus United States	64	2.6k 0.7×	6.6k 1.9×	7.8k 2.4×	4.1k 1.3×	4.8k 1.6×	186	18.6k
Heikki Tanila Finland	61	4.3k 1.1×	3.1k 0.9×	5.4k 1.7×	1.1k 0.4×	4.0k 1.4×	240	12.7k
Erik D. Roberson United States	42	5.0k 1.3×	3.1k 0.9×	3.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	95	9.3k
Richard DeTeresa United States	34	6.9k 1.8×	3.0k 0.9×	3.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	46	11.8k
Ottavio Arancio United States	73	8.1k 2.1×	8.6k 2.5×	7.7k 2.4×	3.3k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	212	20.7k
Gary W. Arendash United States	58	4.6k 1.2×	2.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	914 0.3×	117	9.7k
Vahram Haroutunian United States	79	7.0k 1.8×	9.7k 2.8×	6.3k 1.9×	2.1k 0.7×	2.9k 1.0×	334	21.9k

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Jamshidi, Pouya, et al.. (2025). Dendritic location of dystrophic neurites in FTLD ‐ TDP type C with annexinopathy. Brain Pathology. 36(1). e70032–e70032.

Barbieri, Elena, et al.. (2025). Atrophy progression in frontotemporal lobar degeneration-TDP-C with primary progressive aphasia. Brain.

Pan, Yuting, et al.. (2024). Loss and microglia phagocytosis of synaptic proteins in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 proteinopathy. Neurochemistry International. 175. 105719–105719. 5 indexed citations

Arseni, Diana, Takashi Nonaka, Max Jacobsen, et al.. (2024). Heteromeric amyloid filaments of ANXA11 and TDP-43 in FTLD-TDP type C. Nature. 634(8034). 662–668. 38 indexed citations

Bartom, Elizabeth T., John A. Kessler, Joseph R. Mazzulli, et al.. (2024). Death Induced by Survival gene Elimination (DISE) correlates with neurotoxicity in Alzheimer’s disease and aging. Nature Communications. 15(1). 264–264. 5 indexed citations

Mao, Qinwen, Margaret E. Flanagan, Hui Zhang, et al.. (2023). Distinct Patterns of Hippocampal Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease with Transactive Response DNA‐binding Protein 43. Annals of Neurology. 94(6). 1036–1047. 8 indexed citations

Mesulam, Marsel, Tamar Gefen, Margaret E. Flanagan, et al.. (2023). Frontotemporal Degeneration with Transactive Response DNA‐Binding Protein Type C at the Anterior Temporal Lobe. Annals of Neurology. 94(1). 1–12. 11 indexed citations

Bigio, Eileen H., et al.. (2023). Shades of gray in human white matter. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 531(18). 2109–2120. 2 indexed citations

Parnell, Euan, et al.. (2023). Tunneling nanotubes at the microglia‐neuron interface in neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S13).

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Geula, Changiz, et al.. (2023). Dendritic spinule-mediated structural synaptic plasticity: Implications for development, aging, and psychiatric disease. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 16. 1059730–1059730. 14 indexed citations

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Coventry, Christina, Emily Rogalskı, Sandra Weıntraub, et al.. (2023). Distinct and shared neuropsychiatric phenotypes in FTLD-tauopathies. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 15. 1164581–1164581. 3 indexed citations

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Mesulam, Marsel, Christina Coventry, Eileen H. Bigio, et al.. (2021). Neuropathological fingerprints of survival, atrophy and language in primary progressive aphasia. Brain. 145(6). 2133–2148. 27 indexed citations

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Kukreja, Lokesh, Ryan K. Shahidehpour, Garam Kım, et al.. (2018). Differential Neurotoxicity Related to Tetracycline Transactivator and TDP-43 Expression in Conditional TDP-43 Mouse Model of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(27). 6045–6062. 8 indexed citations

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Gefen, Tamar, Alfred Rademaker, Sandra Weıntraub, et al.. (2012). Clinically concordant variations of Alzheimer pathology in aphasic versus amnestic dementia. Brain. 135(5). 1554–1565. 109 indexed citations

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Baker‐Nigh, Alaina, et al.. (2010). P2‐246: Age‐related calcium dysregulation may explain selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease: The basal forebrain cholinergic model. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 6(4S_Part_13). 2 indexed citations

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Leung, Elaine, et al.. (2009). Microglia activation mediates fibrillar amyloid-β toxicity in the aged primate cortex. Neurobiology of Aging. 32(3). 387–397. 38 indexed citations

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Zhong, Nan, Patrizia Rizzu, Changiz Geula, et al.. (2006). DJ-1 Transcriptionally Up-regulates the Human Tyrosine Hydroxylase by Inhibiting the Sumoylation of Pyrimidine Tract-binding Protein-associated Splicing Factor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(30). 20940–20948. 155 indexed citations

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Friedman, Mark, Changiz Geula, Gregory L. Holmes, & Andrew G. Herzog. (2002). GnRH-immunoreactive fiber changes with unilateral amygdala-kindled seizures. Epilepsy Research. 52(2). 73–77. 25 indexed citations

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Geula, Changiz, Jing Bu, Nicholas Nagykery, et al.. (2002). Loss of calbindin‐D_28k from aging human cholinergic basal forebrain: Relation to neuronal loss. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 455(2). 249–259. 78 indexed citations

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Geula, Changiz, et al.. (1991). Differential distribution of a neurofilament protein epitope in acetylcholinesterase-rich neurons of human cerebral neocortex. Brain Research. 544(1). 169–173. 26 indexed citations

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