Yashar Zeighami

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Yashar Zeighami is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Yashar Zeighami has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Neurology and 25 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Yashar Zeighami's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (25 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (24 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (24 papers). Yashar Zeighami is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (25 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (24 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (24 papers). Yashar Zeighami collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Sweden. Yashar Zeighami's co-authors include Alain Dagher, Ronald B. Postuma, Seyed‐Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Mahsa Dadar, D. Louis Collins, Kevin Larcher, Bratislav Mišić, Yvonne Yau, Alan C. Evans and Andréanne Michaud and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Yashar Zeighami

64 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Clinical criteria for subtyping Parkinson’s disease: biomarkers and longitudinal progression

2017 386 citations Seyed‐Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Yashar Zeighami et al. Brain profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yashar Zeighami Canada	25	929	743	427	386	283	69	2.2k
Sebastian Heinzel Germany	23	1.1k 1.2×	771 1.0×	590 1.4×	245 0.6×	401 1.4×	52	2.5k
Francesca Assogna Italy	26	967 1.0×	485 0.7×	256 0.6×	171 0.4×	240 0.8×	55	1.8k
Roberta Biundo Italy	26	1.4k 1.6×	643 0.9×	229 0.5×	279 0.7×	320 1.1×	63	2.1k
Jonathan M. Koller United States	25	395 0.4×	691 0.9×	406 1.0×	187 0.5×	291 1.0×	50	1.8k
Igor D. Grachev United States	26	503 0.5×	636 0.9×	348 0.8×	507 1.3×	681 2.4×	71	2.1k
Diego Iacono United States	25	796 0.9×	640 0.9×	176 0.4×	589 1.5×	366 1.3×	64	2.2k
Timothy Rittman United Kingdom	28	1.0k 1.1×	915 1.2×	431 1.0×	685 1.8×	468 1.7×	85	2.7k
Michal Rolinski United Kingdom	21	1.5k 1.6×	665 0.9×	185 0.4×	364 0.9×	287 1.0×	37	2.1k
Joshua Kahan United Kingdom	18	876 0.9×	974 1.3×	394 0.9×	104 0.3×	463 1.6×	26	2.0k
Juho Joutsa Finland	32	1.3k 1.4×	1.0k 1.4×	385 0.9×	284 0.7×	746 2.6×	120	3.0k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zeighami, Yashar, et al.. (2025). Patient-centered brain transcriptomic and multimodal imaging determinants of clinical progression, physical activity, and treatment needs in Parkinson’s disease. npj Parkinson s Disease. 11(1). 29–29. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xiang, Qian Liu, Yashar Zeighami, et al.. (2025). Unveiling diverse clinical symptom patterns and neural activity profiles in major depressive disorder subtypes. EBioMedicine. 116. 105756–105756. 4 indexed citations

Dadar, Mahsa, Ilana R. Leppert, Josefina Maranzano, et al.. (2024). The Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank Post-mortem Brain Imaging Protocol. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 3 indexed citations

Dadar, Mahsa, et al.. (2024). Investigating the impact of motion in the scanner on brain age predictions. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 13 indexed citations

Maranzano, Josefina, et al.. (2024). Differential effects of prolonged post-fixation on immunohistochemical and histochemical staining for postmortem human brains. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 18. 1477973–1477973.

Zeighami, Yashar, et al.. (2024). Frontotemporal dementia subtyping using machine learning, multivariate statistics and neuroimaging. Brain Communications. 7(1). fcaf065–fcaf065. 5 indexed citations

Zeighami, Yashar, Martín Lepage, Jai Shah, et al.. (2024). Evaluating permutation-based inference for partial least squares analysis of neuroimaging data. Imaging Neuroscience. 3. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Qing, Nikhil Bhagwat, Yashar Zeighami, et al.. (2023). Reproducibility of cerebellar involvement as quantified by consensus structural MRI biomarkers in advanced essential tremor. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 581–581. 4 indexed citations

Fereshtehnejad, Seyed‐Mohammad, Yashar Zeighami, & Ronald B. Postuma. (2023). Cerebrospinal fluid, serum and imaging biomarkers predicting change in Parkinson's disease clinical subtypes with the progression of the disease. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 455. 121078–121078. 1 indexed citations

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Zeighami, Yashar, Trygve E. Bakken, Thomas Nickl‐Jockschat, et al.. (2023). A comparison of anatomic and cellular transcriptome structures across 40 human brain diseases. PLoS Biology. 21(4). e3002058–e3002058. 17 indexed citations

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Zeighami, Yashar, Mahsa Dadar, Mélissa Pelletier, et al.. (2022). Impact of weight loss on brain age: Improved brain health following bariatric surgery. NeuroImage. 259. 119415–119415. 20 indexed citations

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Zeighami, Yashar, et al.. (2021). White matter integrity differences in obesity: A meta-analysis of diffusion tensor imaging studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 129. 133–141. 37 indexed citations

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Yau, Yvonne, Mahsa Dadar, Yashar Zeighami, et al.. (2020). Neural Correlates of Evidence and Urgency During Human Perceptual Decision-Making in Dynamically Changing Conditions. Cerebral Cortex. 30(10). 5471–5483. 11 indexed citations

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Khundrakpam, Budhachandra, Uku Vainik, Jinnan Gong, et al.. (2020). Neural correlates of polygenic risk score for autism spectrum disorders in general population. Brain Communications. 2(2). fcaa092–fcaa092. 16 indexed citations

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Kirschner, Matthias, André Schmidt, Andrei Manoliu, et al.. (2020). Orbitofrontal-Striatal Structural Alterations Linked to Negative Symptoms at Different Stages of the Schizophrenia Spectrum. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 47(3). 849–863. 19 indexed citations

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Vainik, Uku, Travis E. Baker, Mahsa Dadar, et al.. (2018). Neurobehavioral correlates of obesity are largely heritable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(37). 9312–9317. 84 indexed citations

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Yau, Yvonne, et al.. (2018). Habitual action video game players display increased cortical thickness in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Neuroreport. 29(5). 393–396. 3 indexed citations

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Fereshtehnejad, Seyed‐Mohammad, Yashar Zeighami, Alain Dagher, & Ronald B. Postuma. (2017). Clinical criteria for subtyping Parkinson’s disease: biomarkers and longitudinal progression. Brain. 140(7). 1959–1976. 386 indexed citations breakdown →

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García‐García, Isabel, Yashar Zeighami, & Alain Dagher. (2017). Reward Prediction Errors in Drug Addiction and Parkinson’s Disease: from Neurophysiology to Neuroimaging. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 17(6). 46–46. 18 indexed citations

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Zeighami, Yashar, Miguel Ulla, Yasser Iturria‐Medina, et al.. (2015). Network structure of brain atrophy in de novo Parkinson's disease. eLife. 4. 165 indexed citations

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