Manzar Ashtari

Summary

Affiliation: Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Lack of normal association between cerebellar volume and neuropsychological functions in first-episode schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, NY 11004, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 160:1884-7. 2003
  2. ncbi Smaller anterior hippocampal formation volume in antipsychotic-naive patients with first-episode schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, 75 59 263rd St, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 160:2190-7. 2003
  3. ncbi Left middle temporal gyrus activation during a phonemic discrimination task
    Manzar Ashtari
    Department of Radiology, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, NY 11004, USA
    Neuroreport 15:389-93. 2004
  4. ncbi Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a preliminary diffusion tensor imaging study
    Manzar Ashtari
    Departments of Radiology, North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 57:448-55. 2005
  5. ncbi White matter abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study
    Philip R Szeszko
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Department of Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd St, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 162:602-5. 2005
  6. ncbi Clinical and neuropsychological correlates of white matter abnormalities in recent onset schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 33:976-84. 2008
  7. ncbi White matter abnormalities in early-onset schizophrenia: a voxel-based diffusion tensor imaging study
    Sanjiv Kumra
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:934-41. 2005
  8. ncbi Anterior cingulate grey-matter deficits and cannabis use in first-episode schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Zucker Hillside Hospital, Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Br J Psychiatry 190:230-6. 2007
  9. ncbi White matter development during late adolescence in healthy males: a cross-sectional diffusion tensor imaging study
    Manzar Ashtari
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Department of Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Neuroimage 35:501-10. 2007
  10. ncbi White matter abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:782-90. 2005

Research Grants

  1. ADHD: A Controlled Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study
    Manzar Ashtari; Fiscal Year: 2006

Detail Information

Publications24

  1. ncbi Lack of normal association between cerebellar volume and neuropsychological functions in first-episode schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, NY 11004, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 160:1884-7. 2003
    ..Few studies, however, have examined the relationship between cerebellar size and neuropsychological functioning in schizophrenia. The authors' goal was to examine this relationship in patients and healthy comparison subjects...
  2. ncbi Smaller anterior hippocampal formation volume in antipsychotic-naive patients with first-episode schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, 75 59 263rd St, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 160:2190-7. 2003
    ..The authors investigated volumetric alterations of the anterior hippocampal formation in patients experiencing a first episode of schizophrenia relative to healthy comparison subjects...
  3. ncbi Left middle temporal gyrus activation during a phonemic discrimination task
    Manzar Ashtari
    Department of Radiology, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, NY 11004, USA
    Neuroreport 15:389-93. 2004
    ..This study also demonstrates the advantage of tone discrimination control blocks as opposed to conventional rest periods to isolate the pure language component of phonemic discrimination...
  4. ncbi Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a preliminary diffusion tensor imaging study
    Manzar Ashtari
    Departments of Radiology, North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 57:448-55. 2005
    ..Based upon the literature, we predicted decreased fractional anisotropy (FA) findings in the frontal and cerebellar regions...
  5. ncbi White matter abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study
    Philip R Szeszko
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Department of Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd St, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 162:602-5. 2005
    ..The goal of this study was to investigate brain white matter abnormalities by using diffusion tensor imaging in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder close to illness onset...
  6. ncbi Clinical and neuropsychological correlates of white matter abnormalities in recent onset schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 33:976-84. 2008
    ..These abnormalities have clinical and neuropsychological correlates, which may be useful in further characterizing structure-function relations in schizophrenia and constraining neurobiological models of the disorder...
  7. ncbi White matter abnormalities in early-onset schizophrenia: a voxel-based diffusion tensor imaging study
    Sanjiv Kumra
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:934-41. 2005
    ..To investigate abnormalities in the structural integrity of brain white matter as suggested by diffusion tensor imaging in adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia (onset of psychosis by age 18)...
  8. ncbi Anterior cingulate grey-matter deficits and cannabis use in first-episode schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Zucker Hillside Hospital, Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Br J Psychiatry 190:230-6. 2007
    ..Despite the high prevalence of cannabis use in schizophrenia, few studies have examined the potential relationship between cannabis exposure and brain structural abnormalities in schizophrenia...
  9. ncbi White matter development during late adolescence in healthy males: a cross-sectional diffusion tensor imaging study
    Manzar Ashtari
    The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Department of Psychiatry Research, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Neuroimage 35:501-10. 2007
    ..The authors investigated WM development in healthy adolescent males through age-associated changes in fractional anisotropy (FA), radial (lambda( perpendicular)) and axial (lambda(||)) diffusivity...
  10. ncbi White matter abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:782-90. 2005
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  11. ncbi Increased stress and smaller anterior hippocampal volume
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
    Neuroreport 17:1825-8. 2006
    ..Our results may also have implications for neuropsychiatric disorders that have implicated stress and hippocampal abnormalities in their pathogenesis...
  12. ncbi Medial temporal structures and memory functions in adolescents with heavy cannabis use
    Manzar Ashtari
    Department of Radiology, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
    J Psychiatr Res 45:1055-66. 2011
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  13. ncbi Sex differences in frontal lobe white matter microstructure: a DTI study
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Neuroreport 14:2469-73. 2003
    ..Our findings may be indicative of increased directional coherence and/or density of left hemisphere white matter fibers and a leftward asymmetry of this structural integrity among women compared to men...
  14. ncbi Mapping the functional anatomy of sentence comprehension and application to presurgical evaluation of patients with brain tumor
    Manzar Ashtari
    Department of Radiology and Neurology, Long Island Jewish Division of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, New York, NY 11040, USA
    AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 26:1461-8. 2005
    ..Data from two cases are summarized to exemplify the input of this task for neurosurgery...
  15. ncbi Basal ganglia volumes in first-episode schizophrenia and healthy comparison subjects
    Handan Gunduz
    Department of Psychiatry Research, Hillside Hospital of the North Shore, Long Island Jewish Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 51:801-8. 2002
    ..The lack of a negative correlation between age and striatal volume among patients may implicate illness-associated factors that alter normal age-related changes in basal ganglia size...
  16. ncbi Neuropsychological correlates of hippocampal volumes in patients experiencing a first episode of schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, Hillside Hospital, a division of North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 159:217-26. 2002
    ..This study investigated the neuropsychological correlates of hippocampal volume in 43 men and 32 women experiencing a first episode of schizophrenia...
  17. ncbi Reduced frontal white matter integrity in early-onset schizophrenia: a preliminary study
    Sanjiv Kumra
    Department of Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 55:1138-45. 2004
    ..Abnormalities found in this study were similar to those reported in adults with chronic schizophrenia. Additional studies are needed to assess whether there is progression of WM abnormalities in schizophrenia...
  18. ncbi Neuroimaging studies of children with serious emotional disturbances: a selective review
    Jane Avery Serene
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Can J Psychiatry 52:135-45. 2007
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  19. ncbi Reversed cerebellar asymmetry in men with first-episode schizophrenia
    Philip R Szeszko
    Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 53:450-9. 2003
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  20. ncbi Disruption of white matter integrity in the inferior longitudinal fasciculus in adolescents with schizophrenia as revealed by fiber tractography
    Manzar Ashtari
    Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, New York, USA
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:1270-80. 2007
    ..There is increasing evidence that schizophrenia is characterized by abnormalities in white matter...
  21. ncbi Brain morphometry using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging: application to schizophrenia
    Babak A Ardekani
    Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York, USA
    Neuroreport 16:1455-9. 2005
    ..Affected areas included the bilateral insular cortex, hippocampus, temporal lobe, and occipital areas. These results largely concur with previous findings of cortical volume deficits in schizophrenia...
  22. ncbi Frontal signal hyperintensities in mania in old age
    Jose M de Asis
    Department of Psychiatry, NY Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Westchester Division, White Plains, NY 10605, USA
    Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:598-604. 2006
    ..The authors assessed frontal and subcortical SH in elderly bipolar manic patients and the comparison group, and hypothesized that SH scores would be greater in the patient group...
  23. ncbi CSF sub-compartments in relation to plasma osmolality in healthy controls and in patients with first episode schizophrenia
    Handan Gunduz-Bruce
    Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Psychiatry Res 155:57-66. 2007
    ..These results suggest that plasma osmolality is related to ventricle size in healthy volunteers and that this physiological link is impaired in patients with first episode schizophrenia...
  24. ncbi Cortisol levels in relation to hippocampal sub-regions in subjects with first episode schizophrenia
    Handan Gunduz-Bruce
    Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Schizophr Res 94:281-7. 2007
    ..Larger scale studies are needed to conclude a link between the two measures, yet it is possible that the negative association that was previously shown in other disorders may not apply to schizophrenia...

Research Grants1

  1. ADHD: A Controlled Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study
    Manzar Ashtari; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ....