David A. Merrill

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

David A. Merrill is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Physiology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Merrill has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 17 papers in Physiology and 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in David A. Merrill's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (28 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (11 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury Research (8 papers). David A. Merrill is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (28 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (11 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury Research (8 papers). David A. Merrill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. David A. Merrill's co-authors include Mark H. Tuszynski, Gary W. Small, Andrea A. Chiba, Prabha Siddarth, J. M. Conner, Jorge R. Barrio, Linda M. Ercoli, Armin Blesch, Eliezer Masliah and Albert Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

David A. Merrill

64 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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Neuroprotective effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in rodent and primate models of Alzheimer's disease

2009 837 citations David A. Merrill, Armin Blesch et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Merrill United States	22	853	746	510	436	394	69	2.7k
Ioannis Sotiropoulos Portugal	28	1.1k 1.3×	864 1.2×	667 1.3×	229 0.5×	380 1.0×	98	3.0k
Thomas Leyhe Germany	33	1.7k 2.0×	884 1.2×	642 1.3×	446 1.0×	683 1.7×	95	4.0k
Xiang Yang Zhang China	37	473 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	785 1.5×	341 0.8×	430 1.1×	111	4.5k
Caroline Ménard Canada	28	604 0.7×	804 1.1×	892 1.7×	156 0.4×	763 1.9×	69	3.9k
Sylvia E. Perez United States	32	1.6k 1.9×	929 1.2×	986 1.9×	181 0.4×	685 1.7×	79	3.4k
Luisella Bocchio‐Chiavetto Italy	31	448 0.5×	723 1.0×	814 1.6×	383 0.9×	518 1.3×	64	3.1k
Hiroaki Hori Japan	38	613 0.7×	573 0.8×	667 1.3×	188 0.4×	352 0.9×	157	5.0k
Thomas Hillemacher Germany	40	613 0.7×	708 0.9×	999 2.0×	107 0.2×	178 0.5×	201	4.8k

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Meysami, Somayeh, Saurabh K. Garg†, Ahmed Gouda, et al.. (2025). Smoking predicts brain atrophy in 10,134 healthy individuals and is potentially influenced by body mass index. PubMed. 1(1). 17–17.

Monane, Mark, Demetrius M. Maraganore, Kim G. Johnson, et al.. (2025). Clinical Utility of an Alzheimer’s Disease Blood Test Among Cognitively Impaired Patients: Results from the Quality Improvement PrecivityAD2 (QUIP II) Clinician Survey Study. Diagnostics. 15(2). 167–167. 2 indexed citations

Mattke, Soeren, et al.. (2025). Estimation of the value-based price of a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease pathology in primary and specialty care in the U.S.. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease. 12(7). 100219–100219.

Raji, Cyrus A., Somayeh Meysami, Verna R. Porter, David A. Merrill, & Mario F. Mendez. (2024). Diagnostic utility of brain MRI volumetry in comparing traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer disease and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. BMC Neurology. 24(1). 337–337.

Giesser, Barbara S., et al.. (2024). Lifestyle intervention improves cognition and quality of life in persons with early Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 91. 105897–105897. 2 indexed citations

Raji, Cyrus A., Somayeh Meysami, Saurabh Garg, et al.. (2023). Visceral and Subcutaneous Abdominal Fat Predict Brain Volume Loss at Midlife in 10,001 Individuals. Aging and Disease. 15(4). 1831–1842. 11 indexed citations

O’Keefe, James H., Peilin Lu, James E. Galvin, et al.. (2019). Alzheimer's “Prevention” vs. “Risk Reduction”: Transcending Semantics for Clinical Practice. Frontiers in Neurology. 9. 1179–1179. 26 indexed citations

Chang, Donald D., Harris A. Eyre, Ryan Abbott, et al.. (2018). Pharmacogenetic Guidelines and Decision Support Tools for Depression Treatment: Application to Late-Life. Pharmacogenomics. 19(16). 1269–1284. 12 indexed citations

Siddarth, Prabha, Alison C. Burggren, David A. Merrill, et al.. (2018). Longer TOMM40 poly-T variants associated with higher FDDNP-PET medial temporal tau and amyloid binding. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0208358–e0208358. 6 indexed citations

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Siddarth, Prabha, Berna Rahi, Natacha D. Emerson, et al.. (2017). Physical Activity and Hippocampal Sub-Region Structure in Older Adults with Memory Complaints. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 61(3). 1089–1096. 19 indexed citations

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Merrill, David A., Prabha Siddarth, Cyrus A. Raji, et al.. (2016). Modifiable Risk Factors and Brain Positron Emission Tomography Measures of Amyloid and Tau in Nondemented Adults with Memory Complaints. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 24(9). 729–737. 48 indexed citations

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Raji, Cyrus A., David A. Merrill, Harris A. Eyre, et al.. (2016). Longitudinal Relationships between Caloric Expenditure and Gray Matter in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 52(2). 719–729. 20 indexed citations

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Barrio, Jorge R., Gary W. Small, K.P. Wong, et al.. (2015). In vivo characterization of chronic traumatic encephalopathy using [F-18]FDDNP PET brain imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(16). E2039–47. 147 indexed citations

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Chen, Stephen T., Prabha Siddarth, Linda M. Ercoli, et al.. (2013). Psychological Well-Being and Regional Brain Amyloid and Tau in Mild Cognitive Impairment. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 22(4). 362–369. 9 indexed citations

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Merrill, David A. & Gary W. Small. (2010). Prevention in Psychiatry: Effects of Healthy Lifestyle on Cognition. Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 34(1). 249–261. 16 indexed citations

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Conner, J. M., Kevin M. Franks, Andrea K. Titterness, et al.. (2009). NGF Is Essential for Hippocampal Plasticity and Learning. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(35). 10883–10889. 163 indexed citations

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Merrill, David A., et al.. (2003). Hippocampal cell genesis does not correlate with spatial learning ability in aged rats. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 459(2). 201–207. 114 indexed citations

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Merrill, David A., Armin Blesch, & Mark H. Tuszynski. (2002). Therapeutic potential of nervous system growth factors for neurodegenerative disease. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. 2(1). 89–96. 8 indexed citations

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Merrill, David A., Andrea A. Chiba, & Mark H. Tuszynski. (2001). Conservation of neuronal number and size in the entorhinal cortex of behaviorally characterized aged rats. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 438(4). 445–456. 94 indexed citations

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Merrill, David A., Jeffrey A. Roberts, & Mark H. Tuszynski. (2000). Conservation of neuron number and size in entorhinal cortex layers II, III, and V/VI of aged primates. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 422(3). 396–401. 82 indexed citations

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