R A Yeo

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Affiliation: University of New Mexico
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The impact of copy number deletions on general cognitive ability and ventricle size in patients with schizophrenia and healthy control subjects
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, New Mexico Electronic address
    Biol Psychiatry 73:540-5. 2013
  2. ncbi Neurometabolite concentration and clinical features of chronic alcohol use: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
    Psychiatry Res 211:141-7. 2013
  3. ncbi Rare copy number deletions predict individual variation in human brain metabolite concentrations in individuals with alcohol use disorders
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 70:537-44. 2011
  4. ncbi Rare copy number deletions predict individual variation in intelligence
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e16339. 2011
  5. ncbi Alzheimer's disease and intelligence
    R A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, Mexico
    Curr Alzheimer Res 8:345-53. 2011
  6. ncbi Magnetic resonance spectroscopy detects brain injury and predicts cognitive functioning in children with brain injuries
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
    J Neurotrauma 23:1427-35. 2006
  7. ncbi NAA and higher cognitive function in humans
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Neurology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    Adv Exp Med Biol 576:215-26; discussion 361-3. 2006
  8. ncbi Brain abnormalities in schizophrenia-spectrum children: implications for a neurodevelopmental perspective
    R A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131 1161, USA
    Psychiatry Res 76:1-13. 1997
  9. ncbi Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy investigation of the right frontal lobe in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
    Ronald A Yeo
    University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:303-10. 2003
  10. ncbi The evolutionary genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia: the developmental instability model
    R A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
    Schizophr Res 39:197-206. 1999

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Publications31

  1. ncbi The impact of copy number deletions on general cognitive ability and ventricle size in patients with schizophrenia and healthy control subjects
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, New Mexico Electronic address
    Biol Psychiatry 73:540-5. 2013
    ..Individual variation in a specific type of mutation, uncommon genetic deletions, has recently been linked with both general cognitive ability and risk for schizophrenia...
  2. ncbi Neurometabolite concentration and clinical features of chronic alcohol use: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
    Psychiatry Res 211:141-7. 2013
    ..These results suggest that the nature of neurometabolite abnormalities in chronic heavy drinkers may vary as a function of duration of abuse...
  3. ncbi Rare copy number deletions predict individual variation in human brain metabolite concentrations in individuals with alcohol use disorders
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 70:537-44. 2011
    ..The current study investigated the importance of a specific type of genetic mutation, copy number variation (CNV), for neurometabolite concentrations in a bilateral anterior cingulate voxel...
  4. ncbi Rare copy number deletions predict individual variation in intelligence
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e16339. 2011
    ..Significant limitations of this research, including issues of generalizability and CNV measurement, are discussed...
  5. ncbi Alzheimer's disease and intelligence
    R A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, Mexico
    Curr Alzheimer Res 8:345-53. 2011
    ..The cognitive reserve hypothesis, the most widely accepted account of the intelligence-AD association, is reviewed in the context of this larger literature...
  6. ncbi Magnetic resonance spectroscopy detects brain injury and predicts cognitive functioning in children with brain injuries
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
    J Neurotrauma 23:1427-35. 2006
    ..Anterior NAA/Cre increased and anterior Cho/Cre decreased from 3 to 21 weeks post-injury, suggesting neurometabolic recovery...
  7. ncbi NAA and higher cognitive function in humans
    Ronald A Yeo
    Department of Neurology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    Adv Exp Med Biol 576:215-26; discussion 361-3. 2006
  8. ncbi Brain abnormalities in schizophrenia-spectrum children: implications for a neurodevelopmental perspective
    R A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131 1161, USA
    Psychiatry Res 76:1-13. 1997
    ..In conjunction with recent primate studies, the current results draw attention to the role of the amygdala as one relevant factor in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia...
  9. ncbi Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy investigation of the right frontal lobe in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
    Ronald A Yeo
    University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:303-10. 2003
    ..To investigate neurometabolite concentrations in right prefrontal white matter in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and relations of neurometabolites with attention skill and frontal anatomy...
  10. ncbi The evolutionary genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia: the developmental instability model
    R A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
    Schizophr Res 39:197-206. 1999
    ..We suggest that the developmental instability model has stronger empirical support and is better grounded in contemporary evolutionary genetics...
  11. ncbi Developmental instability and working memory ability in children: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy investigation
    R A Yeo
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 17:143-59. 2000
    ..Working memory skills thus seem related to frontal lobe energy metabolism, which in turn is related to DI...
  12. ncbi Metabolic and cognitive response to human traumatic brain injury: a quantitative proton magnetic resonance study
    W M Brooks
    Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
    J Neurotrauma 17:629-40. 2000
    ..002). 1H-MRS offers a noninvasive approach to assessing neuronal injury and inflammation following TBI, and may provide unique data for patient management and assessment of therapeutic efficacy...
  13. ncbi Gerstmann syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus: neuropsychological, neuroimaging and spectroscopic findings
    R E Jung
    Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
    Neurocase 7:515-21. 2001
    ..Thus, GS in this first case in SLE would appear to comprise a focal neurological tetrad of disorders within a more general pattern of cognitive decline and metabolic derangement...
  14. ncbi Myths of neuropsychology: intelligence, neurometabolism, and cognitive ability
    R E Jung
    Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 14:535-45. 2000
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  15. ncbi The aging hippocampus: cognitive, biochemical and structural findings
    Ira Driscoll
    Department of Psychology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
    Cereb Cortex 13:1344-51. 2003
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  16. ncbi A prospective diffusion tensor imaging study in mild traumatic brain injury
    A R Mayer
    The MIND Research Network, Pete and Nancy Domenici Hall, 1101 Yale Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
    Neurology 74:643-50. 2010
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  17. ncbi Sex differences in N-acetylaspartate correlates of general intelligence: an 1H-MRS study of normal human brain
    Rex E Jung
    Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87151, USA
    Neuroimage 26:965-72. 2005
    ..84, P < .001; adjusted r2 = .82]. Our results highlight a biochemical substrate of normal intellectual performance, mediated by sex, within white matter association fibers linking posterior to frontal brain regions...
  18. ncbi Developmental instability and the neural dynamics of the speed-intelligence relationship
    Robert J Thoma
    Center for Neuropsychological Services, Department of Psychiatry, 915 Vassar NE, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 0001, USA
    Neuroimage 32:1456-64. 2006
    ..These observations suggest that fluid intelligence is primarily related to speed during processing associated with decision time, while fluctuating asymmetry predicted slower processing across all stages of information processing...
  19. ncbi Magnetic resonance imaging correlates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children
    Dina E Hill
    Center for Neuropsychological Services, Department of Psychiatry, Albuquerque 87131, USA
    Neuropsychology 17:496-506. 2003
    ..In the ADHD group but not in the control group, greater right superior prefrontal volume predicted poorer performance on a test of sustained attention. Patterns of brain abnormality did not differ in male and female children with ADHD...
  20. ncbi A specific test of hippocampal deficit in schizophrenia
    Faith M Hanlon
    Department of Psychiatry, New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    Behav Neurosci 119:863-75. 2005
    ..Patients' abnormal hippocampal lateralization may play a role in the hippocampal-dependent behavioral deficit...
  21. ncbi Developmental instability predicts individual variation in verbal memory skill after caffeine ingestion
    R E Jung
    Department of Psychology, and Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Research Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
    Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol Behav Neurol 13:195-8. 2000
    ..To determine the mediating effects of developmental instability on individual differences in response to caffeine...
  22. ncbi Biochemical support for the "threshold" theory of creativity: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy study
    Rex E Jung
    The MIND Research Network, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
    J Neurosci 29:5319-25. 2009
    ..To our knowledge, this is the first report assessing the relationship between brain chemistry and creative cognition, as measured with divergent thinking, in a cohort comprised exclusively of normal, healthy participants...
  23. ncbi The impact of developmental instability on Voxel-Based Morphometry analyses of neuroanatomical abnormalities in schizophrenia
    Matthew Euler
    Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
    Schizophr Res 115:1-7. 2009
    ..These results support the DI approach and suggest that the unique etiologic factors associated with schizophrenia lead to widespread gray matter volume reductions...
  24. ncbi Biochemical markers of mood: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of normal human brain
    Rex E Jung
    Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Research Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mexico
    Biol Psychiatry 51:224-9. 2002
    ..Further efforts will be necessary to determine if high Cho is associated with increased incidence of mood disorders throughout life...
  25. ncbi Auditory orienting and inhibition of return in mild traumatic brain injury: a FMRI study
    Andrew R Mayer
    The MIND Research Network, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA
    Hum Brain Mapp 30:4152-66. 2009
    ..These objective neurological findings represent a potential biomarker for the behavioral deficits in spatial attention that characterize the initial recovery phase of mTBI...
  26. ncbi Impairment on the hippocampal-dependent virtual Morris water task in schizophrenia
    Faith M Hanlon
    The Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery MIND Institute, 1101 Yale Blvd NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA
    Schizophr Res 87:67-80. 2006
    ..There was no deficit in the visible-platform condition. These findings identify a behavioral impairment on a hippocampal-dependent task in schizophrenia and support using the MWT in testing animal models of schizophrenia...
  27. ncbi Virtual navigation in humans: the impact of age, sex, and hormones on place learning
    Ira Driscoll
    Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, The University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1H 6P4
    Horm Behav 47:326-35. 2005
    ..Our findings indicate that the persistence of male spatial advantage may be related to circulating testosterone, but not cortisol levels, and independent of generalized age-related cognitive decline...
  28. ncbi Selective cognitive impairments associated with NMDA receptor blockade in humans
    Laura M Rowland
    Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 30:633-9. 2005
    ..Impaired cognition is a core feature of schizophrenia. A better understanding of NMDA antagonism, its physiological and cognitive consequences, may provide improved models of psychosis and cognitive therapeutics...
  29. ncbi Structural brain variation, age, and response time
    Richard J Haier
    University of California, Irvine 92697, USA
    Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:246-51. 2005
    ..The results suggest that individual differences in specific brain structure volumes should be considered as potential moderating factors in cognitive brain imaging studies...
  30. ncbi Structural brain variation and general intelligence
    Richard J Haier
    Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 5000, USA
    Neuroimage 23:425-33. 2004
    ..These results underscore the distributed neural basis of intelligence and suggest a developmental course for volume--IQ relationships in adulthood...
  31. ncbi The neuroanatomy of general intelligence: sex matters
    Richard J Haier
    Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Med Sci I, B140, Irvine, CA 92697 5000, USA
    Neuroimage 25:320-7. 2005
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