William W. Seeley

74.8k total citations · 11 hit papers
274 papers, 27.0k citations indexed

About

William W. Seeley is a scholar working on Physiology, Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, William W. Seeley has authored 274 papers receiving a total of 27.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Physiology, 106 papers in Neurology and 105 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in William W. Seeley's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (110 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (76 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (69 papers). William W. Seeley is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (110 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (76 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (69 papers). William W. Seeley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. William W. Seeley's co-authors include Bruce L. Miller, Michael D. Greicius, Juan Zhou, Allan L. Reiss, Vinod Menon, Jennifer Keller, Gary H. Glover, Alan F. Schatzberg, Heather A. Kenna and Joel H. Kramer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

William W. Seeley

260 papers receiving 26.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Dissociable Intrinsic Connectivity Networks for Salience Processing and Executive Control

2007 5.6k citations William W. Seeley et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Neurodegenerative Diseases Target Large-Scale Human Brain Networks

2009 1.7k citations William W. Seeley, Juan Zhou et al. profile →
Divergent network connectivity changes in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease

2010 771 citations Juan Zhou, Efstathios D. Gennatas et al. Brain profile →
Acetylation of Tau Inhibits Its Degradation and Contributes to Tauopathy

2010 732 citations Yungui Zhou, William W. Seeley et al. profile →
Distinct Tau Prion Strains Propagate in Cells and Mice and Define Different Tauopathies

2014 720 citations Lea T. Grinberg, William W. Seeley et al. profile →
Predicting Regional Neurodegeneration from the Healthy Brain Functional Connectome

2012 517 citations Juan Zhou, Efstathios D. Gennatas et al. profile →
Seizures and Epileptiform Activity in the Early Stages of Alzheimer Disease

2013 511 citations Gil D. Rabinovici, William W. Seeley et al. profile →
The Salience Network: A Neural System for Perceiving and Responding to Homeostatic Demands

2019 511 citations William W. Seeley Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Molecular characterization of selectively vulnerable neurons in Alzheimer’s disease

2021 271 citations William W. Seeley, Salvatore Spina et al. profile →
Microglial NF-κB drives tau spreading and toxicity in a mouse model of tauopathy

2022 186 citations Li Fan, Rabia R. Khawaja et al. Nature Communications profile →
Comorbid neuropathological diagnoses in early versus late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

2021 154 citations Salvatore Spina, Renaud La Joie et al. Brain profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William W. Seeley

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Combining plasma neurofilament light chain and frontotemporal atrophy improves differentiation of bvFTD from primary psychiatric disorders 2025 ·Alzheimer s & Dementia ·(unknown), Ashlin R. K. Roy, (unknown), (unknown), Argentina Lario Lago, Yann Cobigo, Julio C. Rojas, Salvatore Spina, Lea T. Grinberg, Katherine P. Rankin, Adam L. Boxer, Andrew D. Krystal, R. Scott Mackin, Joel H. Kramer, Bruce L. Miller, William W. Seeley, Howard J. Rosen, Lawren VandeVrede, David C. Perry	0
2	Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia with ANXA11 p.D40G 2025 ·Alzheimer s & Dementia ·Sun Min Lee, (unknown), Kyung Won Park, Ahro Kim, Hee Jin Kim, Na‐Yeon Jung, Hyemin Jang, William W. Seeley, (unknown), So Young Moon, Eun‐Joo Kim, (unknown)	3
3	KIBRA repairs synaptic plasticity and promotes resilience to tauopathy-related memory loss 2024 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Grant Kauwe, (unknown), Lei Yao, (unknown), Ivy Tsz-Lo Wong, Rowan Saloner, (unknown), Alissa L. Nana, Samah Shah, Yaqiao Li, David Le, Salvatore Spina, Lea T. Grinberg, William W. Seeley, Joel H. Kramer, Todd Charlton Sacktor, Birgit Schilling, Li Gan, Kaitlin B. Casaletto, Tara E. Tracy	12
4	Microglial ADGRG1/GPR56 regulates amyloid clearance in Alzheimer’s disease 2024 ·Alzheimer s & Dementia ·(unknown), Andi Wangzhou, Diankun Yu, Tao Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), William W. Seeley, Xianhua Piao	0
5	Loss of TDP-43 function contributes to genomic instability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2023 ·Frontiers in Neuroscience ·Minggang Fang, Sara K. Evans, Alissa L. Nana, Sarat C. Vatsavayai, Shahid Banday, You Zhou, Sandra Almeida, Alexandra Weiss, Robert H. Brown, William W. Seeley, Fen‐Biao Gao, Michael R. Green	8
6	Diminished baseline autonomic outflow in semantic dementia relates to left-lateralized insula atrophy 2023 ·NeuroImage Clinical ·Alice Y. Hua, Ashlin R. K. Roy, (unknown), (unknown), Tiffany E. Chow, Sladjana Lukic, Maxime Montembeault, Valentina Borghesani, Kyan Younes, Joel H. Kramer, William W. Seeley, David C. Perry, Zachary Miller, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, Katherine P. Rankin, Maria Luisa Gorno‐Tempini, Virginia E. Sturm	4
7	Astroglial toxicity promotes synaptic degeneration in the thalamocortical circuit in frontotemporal dementia with GRN mutations 2023 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Elise Marsan, Dmitry Velmeshev, Marina Ramsey, Ravi K. Patel, Jiasheng Zhang, Mark Koontz, Madeline G. Andrews, Martina de Majo, (unknown), Jessica Blumenfeld, (unknown), Salvatore Spina, Lea T. Grinberg, William W. Seeley, Bruce L. Miller, Erik M. Ullian, Matthew F. Krummel, Arnold R. Kriegstein, Eric J. Huang	25
8	Frontotemporal lobar degeneration 2023 ·Nature Reviews Disease Primers ·Murray Grossman, William W. Seeley, Adam L. Boxer, Argye E. Hillis, David S. Knopman, (unknown), Bruce L. Miller, Olivier Piguet, Rosa Rademakers, Jennifer L. Whitwell, Henrik Zetterberg, John C. van Swieten	70
9	Long non-coding RNA SNHG8 drives stress granule formation in tauopathies 2023 ·Molecular Psychiatry ·(unknown), (unknown), Arun Renganathan, (unknown), (unknown), Rita Martinez, Abdallah M. Eteleeb, Alissa L. Nana, Salvatore Spina, William W. Seeley, Lea T. Grinberg, Celeste M. Karch	10
10	Microglial NF-κB drives tau spreading and toxicity in a mouse model of tauopathy breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Li Fan, Rabia R. Khawaja, (unknown), Lihong Zhan, Lay Kodama, Marcus Y. Chin, Yaqiao Li, David Le, Yungui Zhou, Carlo Condello, Lea T. Grinberg, William W. Seeley, Bruce L. Miller, Sue‐Ann Mok, Jason E. Gestwicki, Ana María Cuervo, Wenjie Luo, Li Gan	186
11	Enhanced positive emotional reactivity in frontotemporal dementia reflects left-lateralized atrophy in the temporal and frontal lobes 2022 ·Cortex ·Suzanne M. Shdo, Ashlin R. K. Roy, Samir Datta, Isabel J. Sible, Sladjana Lukic, David C. Perry, Katherine P. Rankin, Joel H. Kramer, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, William W. Seeley, Sarah R. Holley, Maria Luisa Gorno‐Tempini, Virginia E. Sturm	5
12	The development and evolution of inhibitory neurons in primate cerebrum 2022 ·Nature ·Matthew T. Schmitz, Kadellyn Sandoval, (unknown), Mohammed A. Mostajo-Radji, William W. Seeley, Tomasz J. Nowakowski, Chun Ye, Mercedes F. Paredes, Alex A. Pollen	56
13	Aβ and tau prions feature in the neuropathogenesis of Down syndrome 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Carlo Condello, Alison M. Maxwell, Erika Castillo, Atsushi Aoyagi, Caroline Graff, Martin Ingelsson, Lars Lannfelt, Thomas D. Bird, C. Dirk Keene, William W. Seeley, Daniel P. Perl, Elizabeth Head, Stanley B. Prusiner	17
14	Deficiency of the frontotemporal dementia gene GRN results in gangliosidosis 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Sebastian Boland, Sharan Swarup, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alexander W. Fischer, Shubham Singh, Geetika Aggarwal, Salvatore Spina, Alissa L. Nana, Lea T. Grinberg, William W. Seeley, Michał A. Surma, Christian Klose, João A. Paulo, Andrew D. Nguyen, J. Wade Harper, Tobias C. Walther, Robert V. Farese	44
15	Comorbid neuropathological diagnoses in early versus late-onset Alzheimer’s disease breakdown → 2021 ·Brain ·Salvatore Spina, Renaud La Joie, Cathrine Petersen, Amber Nolan, (unknown), Celica Cosme, (unknown), Jihye Hwang, Zachary Miller, Eric J. Huang, Anna M. Karydas, Harli Grant, Adam L. Boxer, Maria Luisa Gorno‐Tempini, Howard J. Rosen, Joel H. Kramer, Bruce L. Miller, William W. Seeley, Gil D. Rabinovici, Lea T. Grinberg	154
16	The severity of neuropsychiatric symptoms is higher in early‐onset than late‐onset Alzheimer’s disease 2021 ·European Journal of Neurology ·Neus Falgàs, Isabel Elaine Allen, Salvatore Spina, Harli Grant, Stefanie Danielle Piña‐Escudero, Jennifer Merrilees, Rosalie Gearhart, Howard J. Rosen, Joel H. Kramer, William W. Seeley, Thomas C. Neylan, Bruce L. Miller, Gil D. Rabinovici, Lea T. Grinberg, Christine M. Walsh	21
17	Salience Network Atrophy Links Neuron Type-Specific Pathobiology to Loss of Empathy in Frontotemporal Dementia 2020 ·Cerebral Cortex ·Lorenzo Pasquini, Alissa L. Nana, Gianina Toller, Jesse A. Brown, Jersey Deng, Adam M. Staffaroni, Eun Joo Kim, Jihye Hwang, Libo Li, Yongsoon Park, Stephanie E. Gaus, Isabel Elaine Allen, Virginia E. Sturm, Salvatore Spina, Lea T. Grinberg, Katherine P. Rankin, Joel H. Kramer, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, William W. Seeley	34
18	Aβ and tau prion-like activities decline with longevity in the Alzheimer’s disease human brain 2019 ·Science Translational Medicine ·Atsushi Aoyagi, Carlo Condello, Jan Stöhr, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Amanda L. Woerman, Glenda M. Halliday, Sjoerd G. van Duinen, Martin Ingelsson, Lars Lannfelt, Caroline Graff, Thomas D. Bird, C. Dirk Keene, William W. Seeley, William F. DeGrado, Stanley B. Prusiner	95
19	Network Architecture Underlying Basal Autonomic Outflow: Evidence from Frontotemporal Dementia 2018 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Virginia E. Sturm, Jesse A. Brown, Alice Y. Hua, Sandy J. Lwi, Juan Zhou, Florian Kurth, Simon B. Eickhoff, Howard J. Rosen, Joel H. Kramer, Bruce L. Miller, Robert W. Levenson, William W. Seeley	65
20	Dominant hemisphere lateralization of cortical parasympathetic control as revealed by frontotemporal dementia 2016 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christine C. Guo, Virginia E. Sturm, Juan Zhou, Efstathios D. Gennatas, Andrew Trujillo, Alice Y. Hua, (unknown), Lara Stables, Joel H. Kramer, Katherine P. Rankin, Robert W. Levenson, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, William W. Seeley	93

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