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• Ly, M., Murray, L., Yassa, M.A. Perceptual versus conceptual interference and pattern separation of verbal stimuli in young and older adults. Hippocampus (in press).
• Leal, S., Yassa, M.A. (2013) Perturbations of Neural Circuitry in Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Ageing Research Reviews DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2013.01.006
• Kim, J.,Yassa, M.A. (2013) Assessing recollection and familiarity of similar lures in a behavioral pattern separation task. Hippocampus DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22087
• Stark, S.M., Yassa, M.A., Lacy, J.W., Stark, C.E. (2013) Atask to assess behavioral pattern separation (BPS) in humans: data from healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment. Neuropsychologia DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.014
  Yassa, M.A., Hazlett, R.L., Stark, C.E., Hoehn-Saric, R. (2012) Functional MRI of the amygdala and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis during conditions of uncertainty in generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.04.013.
• Bakker, A., Krauss, G., Albert, M.A., Speck, C.L., Jones, L.R., Stark, C.E., Yassa, M.A., Bassett, S.S., Shelton, A.L., Gallagher, M. (2012) Reduction of hippocampal hyperactivity improves cognition in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Neuron 74, 467-474.
• Segal, S., Stark, S.M., Kattan, D., Stark, C.E., Yassa, M.A. (2012) Norepineprhine-mediated emotional arousal facilitates subsequent pattern separation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.03.010.
• Yassa, M.A. (2011) Searching for novel biomarkers using high-resolution diffusion tensor imaging. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 26(3): 297-305.
• Yassa, M.A. (2011) Searching for novel biomarkers using high-resolution diffusion tensor imaging. In J.W. Ashford, A. Rosen, M. Adamson, O. Sabri, S. Black, G. Frisoni, C. Jack, M. Weiner (Eds.) Handbooks of Alzheimer’s disease: Volume 2. Imaging the Alzheimer Brain. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp 547-555.
• Yassa, M.A., Stark, C.E. (2011) Pattern separation in the hippocampus. Trends in Neuroscience 34(10): 515-525.
• Yassa, M.A., Mattfeld, A.T., Stark, S.M., Stark, C.E.L. (2011) Age-related memory deficits linked to circuit-specific disruptions in the hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108(21): 8873-8.
• Lacy, J.W., Yassa, M.A., Stark, S.M., Stark, C.E.L. (2011) Distinct pattern separation related transfer functions in human CA3/dentate and CA1 revealed using high-resolution fMRI and variable mnemonic similarity. Learning and Memory 18: 15-18.
• Yassa, M.A., Muftuler, L.T., Stark, C.E.L. (2010) Ultrahigh-resolution microstructural diffusion tensor imaging (msDTI) elucidates perforant path degradation in aged humans in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A 107(28): 12687-91.
• Stark, S.M. Yassa, M.A., Stark, C.E.L. (2010) Individual differences in spatial pattern separation performance associated with healthy aging in humans. Learning and Memory 17(6):284-8.
• Yassa, M.A., Wu, J., Stark, S.M., Albert, M.S., Gallagher, M., Stark, C.E.L. (2010-11) Pattern separation deficits associated with increased hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus activity in nondemented older adults. Hippocampus 21:968-979.
• Yassa, M.A., Stark, S.M., Bakker, A., Albert, M.S., Gallagher, M., Stark, C.E.L. (2010) High-resolution functional MRI of hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. NeuroImage 51(3): 1242-1252.
• Gallagher M., Bakker A., Yassa M.A., Stark C.E.L. (2010) Bridging neurocognitive aging and disease modification: targeting functional mechanisms of impairment. Current Alzheimer’s Research 7(3):197-9.
• Bonekamp, D., Yassa, M.A., Munro, C. Geckle, R., Yousem, D., Barker, P.B., Schretlen, D.J., Brandt, J., Horska, (2009) A. Gray Matter in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: Voxel-based Morphometry. NeuroReport 21(4):259-63.
• Yousem, D.M., Yassa, M.A., Cristinzio, C., Kusevic, I., Mohamed, M., Caffo, B.S., Bassett, S.S. (2009) Intelligence and medial temporal lobe function in older adults: A Functional MR Imaging-based investigation. American Journal of Neuroradiology 30(8):1477-81.
• Cuzzocreo, J., Yassa, M.A., Verduzco, G., Honeycutt, N., Scott, D., Bassett, S. (2009) Effect of handedness on a verbal auditory memory fMRI task. Human Brain Mapping 30(4):1271-8.
• Yassa, M.A., Stark, C.E.L. (2009). A quantitative evaluation of cross-participant alignment techniques for MRI studies of the medial temporal lobe. Neuroimage 44(2) 319-327.
• Yassa, M.A., Stark, C.E.L (2008). Multiple Recognition-related signals in the medial temporal lobe. Hippocampus 18(9): 945-54.
• Yassa, M.A., Verduzco, G., Cristinzio C., Bassett, S. (2008) Altered fMRI activation during mental rotation in those at genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Neurology 70:1898-1904.
• Bazin, P.L., Cuzzocreo, J.L., Yassa, M.A., Gandler, W., McAuliffe, M.J., Bassett, S.S., Pham, D.L. (2007) Volumetric neuroimage analysis extensions for the MIPAV software package. J Neurosci Methods 165(1):111-21.
• Bassett, S., Yousem, D., Cristinzio, C., Kusevic, I., Yassa, M.A., Caffo, B., Zeger, S. (2006) Familial risk for Alzheimer’s disease alters fMRI activation patterns. Brain 129: 1229-1239.
• Reading, S., Yassa, M.A., Dziorny, A., Gourley, L., Yallapragada, V., Rosenblatt, A., Margolis, R., Aylward, E., Brandt, J., Mori, S., van Zijl, P., Bassett, S., Ross, C. (2005) Regional white matter change in pre-symptomatic Huntington’s disease: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 140(1): 55-62.
• Bassett, S., Kusevic, I., Cristinzio, C., Yassa, M.A., Avramopoulos, D., Yousem, D., Fallin, M. (2005) Brain activation in offspring of AD cases corresponds to 10q linkage. Annals of Neurology 58: 142-146.
• Assaf, M., Rivkin, P., Kuzu, C., Calhoun, V., Kraut, M., Groth, K., Yassa, M.A., Hart, J., Pearlson, G. (2005) Abnormal object-recall and anterior cingulate over-activation correlate with formal thought disorder in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 59: 452-459.

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