Jacob Ziontz, PhD

Jacob Ziontz, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
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Fields of Interest: 
Imaging

Jacob completed his doctoral work in Neuroscience in the Jagust lab at UC Berkeley, where he investigated the effects of network connectivity on Alzheimer’s pathology spread and cognitive aging. His research utilizes fMRI and PET imaging to study the biological substrates of changes in cognition.

As a postdoctoral fellow with Drs. Renaud La Joie and Gil Rabinovici at UCSF, Jacob works to unify measures of brain connectivity to uncover the biological features driving pathology spread in clinically heterogenous populations of neurodegenerative disease.

Publications: 

Behaviorally meaningful functional networks mediate the effect of Alzheimer's pathology on cognition.

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

Ziontz J, Harrison TM, Chen X, Giorgio J, Adams JN, Wang Z, Jagust W, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Global brain activity and its coupling with cerebrospinal fluid flow is related to tau pathology.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Han F, Lee J, Chen X, Ziontz J, Ward T, Landau SM, Baker SL, Harrison TM, Jagust WJ

Hippocampal Connectivity with Retrosplenial Cortex is Linked to Neocortical Tau Accumulation and Memory Function.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Ziontz J, Adams JN, Harrison TM, Baker SL, Jagust WJ

Tau pathology in cognitively normal older adults.

Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Ziontz J, Bilgel M, Shafer AT, Moghekar A, Elkins W, Helphrey J, Gomez G, June D, McDonald MA, Dannals RF, Azad BB, Ferrucci L, Wong DF, Resnick SM