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W. Yau — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 24
Works: 65
Citations: 2,304

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Impulsiveness and Insula activation during reward anticipation are associated with genetic variants in GABRA2 in a family sample enriched for alcoholism
Sandra M. Villafuerte, M. Heitzeg, S. Foley, W. Yau +4 more
2011Molecular Psychiatry185 citations Open access
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Identification of Racial Inequities in Access to Specialized Inpatient Heart Failure Care at an Academic Medical Center
L. Eberly, Aaron Richterman, Anne G. Beckett, Bram Wispelwey +223 more
2019Circulation: Heart Failure152 citations Open access
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Associations of Physical Activity and β-Amyloid With Longitudinal Cognition and Neurodegeneration in Clinically Normal Older Adults.
Jennifer S. Rabin, H. Klein, D. Kirn, A. Schultz +16 more
2019JAMA Neurology140 citations Open access
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Behavioral/systems/cognitive Nucleus Accumbens Response to Incentive Stimuli Anticipation in Children of Alcoholics: Relationships with Precursive Behavioral Risk and Lifetime Alcohol Use
W. Yau, J. Zubieta, B. Weiland, Preeti G. Samudra +2 more
135 citations
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Association of Age at Menopause and Hormone Therapy Use With Tau and β-Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography.
G. Coughlan, T. Betthauser, R. Boyle, R. Koscik +17 more
2023JAMA Neurology125 citations Open access
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Belief or Need? Accounting for individual variations in the neurochemistry of the placebo effect.
J. Zubieta, W. Yau, D. Scott, C. Stohler
2006Brain, behavior, and immunity125 citations
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Affective circuitry and risk for alcoholism in late adolescence: differences in frontostriatal responses between vulnerable and resilient children of alcoholic parents.
M. Heitzeg, J. Nigg, W. Yau, J. Zubieta +1 more
2008Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research112 citations Open access
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Striatal dysfunction marks preexisting risk and medial prefrontal dysfunction is related to problem drinking in children of alcoholics
M. Heitzeg, J. Nigg, W. Yau, R. Zucker +1 more
2010Biological Psychiatry109 citations Open access
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Longitudinal change of neuroimaging and clinical markers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease: a prospective cohort study
W. Yau, D. Tudorascu, Eric M. McDade, S. Ikonomovic +12 more
2015Lancet Neurology105 citations Open access
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Accumbens functional connectivity during reward mediates sensation-seeking and alcohol use in high-risk youth
B. Weiland, R. Welsh, W. Yau, R. Zucker +2 more
2012Drug and Alcohol Dependence103 citations Open access
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Vascular risk and β-amyloid are synergistically associated with cortical tau
Jennifer S. Rabin, Hyun-Sik Yang, A. Schultz, B. Hanseeuw +14 more
2019Annals of Neurology97 citations Open access
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Altered brain response to reward and punishment in adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa
A. Bischoff-Grethe, D. McCurdy, Emily Grenesko-Stevens, Laura E. (Zoe) Irvine +7 more
2013Psychiatry Research95 citations Open access
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Rapid delivery of nicotine promotes behavioral sensitization and alters its neurobiological impact.
A. Samaha, W. Yau, Pengwei Yang, T. Robinson
2005Biological Psychiatry90 citations
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Plasma IL-12/IFN-γ axis predicts cognitive trajectories in cognitively unimpaired older adults
Hyun-Sik Yang, C. Zhang, B. Carlyle, Sherri Y. Zhen +12 more
2021Alzheimer's & Dementia88 citations Open access
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Etiology of White Matter Hyperintensities in Autosomal Dominant and Sporadic Alzheimer Disease.
Z. Shirzadi, Stephanie A. Schultz, W. Yau, N. Joseph-Mathurin +42 more
2023JAMA Neurology82 citations Open access
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Altered BOLD Response during Inhibitory and Error Processing in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa
C. Wierenga, A. Bischoff-Grethe, A. Melrose, Emily Grenesko-Stevens +7 more
2014PLoS ONE66 citations Open access
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Risk of Severe Toxicity According to Site of Recurrence in Patients Treated With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer.
D. Ling, J. Vargo, R. Ferris, J. Ohr +8 more
2016International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics63 citations Open access
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Sex Differences in Longitudinal Tau-PET in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease: A Meta-Analysis.
G. Coughlan, H. Klinger, R. Boyle, T. Betthauser +25 more
2025JAMA Neurology62 citations
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Alterations in white matter microstructure in women recovered from anorexia nervosa
W. Yau, A. Bischoff-Grethe, R. Theilmann, Laura Torres +3 more
2013International Journal of Eating Disorders52 citations Open access
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Resiliency in adolescents at high-risk for substance abuse: flexible adaptation via subthalamic nucleus and linkage to drinking and drug use in early adulthood
B. Weiland, J. Nigg, R. Welsh, W. Yau +3 more
2012Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research51 citations Open access
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Physical activity as a modifiable risk factor in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease
W. Yau, D. Kirn, Jennifer S. Rabin, M. Properzi +12 more
2025Nature Medicine50 citations Open access
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Tau Mediates Synergistic Influence of Vascular Risk and Aβ on Cognitive Decline
W. Yau, Zahra Shirzadi, Hyun-Sik Yang, Akpevwe P. Ikoba +8 more
2022Annals of Neurology41 citations Open access
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Plasma VEGFA and PGF impact longitudinal tau and cognition in preclinical Alzheimer's disease.
Hyun-Sik Yang, W. Yau, B. Carlyle, Bianca A. Trombetta +15 more
2024Brain : a journal of neurology35 citations
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White matter disease in midlife is heritable, related to hypertension, and shares some genetic influence with systolic blood pressure
C. Fennema-Notestine, L. McEvoy, R. Notestine, M. Panizzon +8 more
2016NeuroImage: Clinical32 citations Open access
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Noncontinuous use of antidepressant in adults with major depressive disorders – a retrospective cohort study
W. Yau, M. Chan, Yun K. Wing, H. Lam +3 more
2014Brain and Behavior24 citations Open access
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Progressive White Matter Injury in Preclinical Dutch Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Zahra Shirzadi, W. Yau, Stephanie A. Schultz, A. Schultz +17 more
2022Annals of Neurology17 citations Open access
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Vascular contributions to cognitive decline: Beyond amyloid and tau in the Harvard Aging Brain Study
Z. Shirzadi, R. Boyle, W. Yau, G. Coughlan +14 more
2024Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism14 citations Open access
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Greater White Matter Hyperintensity Volume Is Associated with the Number of Microhemorrhages in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease
Z. Shirzadi, A. Schultz, M. Properzi, R. Yaari +12 more
2024The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease12 citations Open access
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Plasma phosphorylated tau 217 and longitudinal trajectories of Aβ, tau, and cognition in cognitively unimpaired older adults
Hyun-Sik Yang, Juliana A. U. Anzai, W. Yau, Brian C. Healy +20 more
2026Nature Communications9 citations Open access
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Identifying longitudinal cognitive resilience from cross-sectional amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration
R. Boyle, D. Townsend, H. Klinger, C. Scanlon +24 more
2024Alzheimer's Research & Therapy7 citations Open access
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Sex-Specific Vulnerabilities to Subclinical Vascular Brain Injury in Early Late-Life: The Framingham Heart Study
W. Yau, Matthew R. Scott, R. Petrea, Rachel F Buckley +9 more
2024Annals of Neurology7 citations
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Independent effects of white matter lesion volume and APOE ɛ4 on ARIA‐H in A4 Study
Z. Shirzadi, A. Schultz, Nazila Loghmani, Hyun-Sik Yang +13 more
2025Alzheimer's & Dementia6 citations Open access
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Prognostic Value of Blood-Based P-Tau217 Levels for Progression to Cognitive Impairment
R. Buckley, D. Townsend, C. Birkenbihl, M. Cuppels +34 more
2026Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)4 citations Open access
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Effect of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Control on Markers of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease by Age.
J. Pruzin, W. Yau, A. Bress, Hediyeh Bardaran +10 more
2025HYPERTENSION3 citations
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Corrigendum to “Accumbens functional connectivity during reward mediates sensation-seeking and alcohol use in high-risk youth” [Drug Alcohol Depend. 128 (1–2) (2013) 130–139]
B. Weiland, R. Welsh, W. Yau, R. Zucker +2 more
20153 citations Open access
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The prognostic value of blood-based p-tau217 levels on progression to clinical impairment
R. Buckley, D. Townsend, C. Birkenbihl, M. Cuppels +33 more
2026medRxiv2 citations Open access
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Real-World Characterization of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA) in Lecanemab Treatment at an Academic Health System
N. Rezaii, J. Dickson, J. Ford, Y. He +41 more
2026medRxiv1 citations Open access
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Late-life body mass index and amyloid interaction on cognitive decline in unimpaired older adults
W. Yau, R. Raman, J. Chhatwal, J. Pruzin +11 more
2026The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease1 citations Open access
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REM Sleep is Associated with Cognition and Biomarkers Longitudinally in Older Adults Across the Alzheimer Disease Continuum
Valentina Pinilla Manriquez, Era Laho, S. Marvin, Yazmeen Usman +15 more
2026medRxiv1 citations Open access
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Estimating the preclinical Alzheimer's disease course with multimodal data
D. Townsend, M. Properzi, T. Betthauser, H. Klinger +17 more
2025Alzheimer's & Dementia1 citations Open access
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Accelerated Temporal Cortex Tau Accumulation Mediates the Effects of Low Physical Activity on Faster Cognitive Decline in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
W. Yau, D. Kirn, Jennifer S. Rabin, M. Properzi +5 more
2024Alzheimer's & Dementia1 citations Open access
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Activity‐based Fluorescent Imaging of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Activity in Living Cells
W. Yau, Samuel Kin Man Lai, Pilar Blasco, Xuechen Li +3 more
2023Analysis & Sensing1 citations Open access
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O3‐09‐01: PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON LONGITUDINAL COGNITIVE DECLINE AND NEURODEGENERATION IN CLINICALLY NORMAL OLDER ADULTS WITH ELEVATED β‐AMYLOID BURDEN
Jennifer S. Rabin, H. Klein, D. Kirn, A. Schultz +16 more
2019Alzheimer's & Dementia1 citations Open access
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Risk of Severe Toxicity Based on Site of Recurrence in Patients Treated With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer
D. Ling, J. Vargo, R. Ferris, J. Ohr +8 more
20161 citations Open access
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Effect of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control According to APOE Îµ4 Genotype: A Secondary Analysis of SPRINT
Yi-Zhe Xu, J. Pruzin, Tom H. Greene, Jeff D. Williamson +9 more
2026medRxiv0 citations Open access
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Plasma levels of an N‐terminal tau fragment predict Alzheimer's and neurodegenerative disease biomarkers in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease
Stephanie A. Schultz, Yiwen Rao, Lei Liu, B. Ostaszewski +22 more
2026Alzheimer's & Dementia0 citations Open access
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Developing Topics.
Paola A. Matos, Kailee A. Palmgren, Akpevwe P. Ikoba, T. Robinson +11 more
2025Alzheimer's & Dementia0 citations Open access
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Developing Topics.
Valentina Pinilla, Kailee A. Palmgren, Yiwen Rao, Yazmeen Usman +10 more
2025Alzheimer's & Dementia0 citations Open access
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Developing Topics.
Yiwen Rao, Valentina Pinilla, Kailee A. Palmgren, Peng Li +14 more
2025Alzheimer's & Dementia0 citations Open access
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AP-cyan – A potential ascorbate probe for algal cultures
S. Kuntam, Tímea Tóth, W. Yau, P. Horvath +2 more
2024Algal Research0 citations Open access
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