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Josiah K. Leong

Alice L. Walton School of MedicineORCID 0000-0002-2760-7289Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 4 Research Focus:spatial domain detection· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 2 Assay:imaging· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintOct 6, 2026

Mapping Mesolimbic Dopamine Projections to Subcortical Circuits Underlying Adaptive Behavior: A Human 7T Diffusion Tractography Atlas

Blake L. Elliott, Ranesh Mopuru, Linda J. Hoffman…·Vishnu P. Murty

The paper maps human mesolimbic dopamine pathways using 7T diffusion tractography, revealing distinct circuits and their associations with adaptive behaviors.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.22.753583

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintSep 29, 2023

An in vivo Dissection, and Analysis of Socio-Affective Symptoms related to Cerebellum-Midbrain Reward Circuitry in Humans

Linda J. Hoffman, Julia M. Foley, Josiah K. Leong…·Ingrid R. Olson

The paper maps cerebello-VTA white-matter connectivity in humans and links structural differences to socio-affective traits.

DOI 10.1101/2023.09.29.560239

humanbulk RNA-seq

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NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewedNov 29, 2022

Radiogenomics of C9orf72 expansion carriers reveals global transposable element de-repression and enables prediction of thalamic atrophy and clinical impairment

Luke W. Bonham, Ethan G. Geier, Daniel W. Sirkis…·Jennifer S. Yokoyama

The paper investigates C9orf72 expansion carriers using radiogenomics to link peripheral blood transcriptomics with thalamic atrophy and clinical impairment, finding global transposable element de-repression and associations between C9orf72 expression and disease severity.

14 citations

humanbulk RNA-seq

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintApr 15, 2018

Wanting to like: Motivation influences behavioral and neural responses to social feedback

Brent Hughes, Josiah K. Leong, Baba Shiv, Jamil Zaki

The paper examines how motivation influences neural and behavioral responses to social feedback, finding that reward responses to positive feedback depend on the likability of the source.

9 citations

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