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Yashar Zeighami

ResearcherMcGill University

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Yashar Zeighami

Researcher

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
42 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 8 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 NSERC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Machine Learning Multi-Omics Multimodal Neuroimaging Parkinson'S Disease Spatial Transcriptomics Substantia Nigra

Latest papers

Comparison of quantitative digital and semiquantitative assessments of tau pathology in relation to regional in vivo tau PET.
Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2026
Linking modifiable risk factors to vascular and neurodegenerative brain changes.
GeroScience · 2026
RAVEN: Robust, generalizable, multi-resolution structural MRI upsampling using autoencoders.
Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026

All 76 publications

Latest funding

Understanding the impact of socioeconomic inequities and social support on brain health and cognitive reserve in aging and Alzheimer's Disease
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$776,476
Characterization of human adult hippocampal neurogenesis in major depression
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$761,176
Effects of GLP1-agonist induced weight loss on brain, metabolic, and cerebrovascular health measures.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,346,400

All 11 grants and awards

76 publications.

Comparison of quantitative digital and semiquantitative assessments of tau pathology in relation to regional in vivo tau PET.

Tremblay C, Freiburghaus T, Pawlik D, Hauer KO, Serrano GE, Zeighami Y, Dadar M, Intorcia AJ, Ossenkoppele R, Pontecorvo MJ, Hansson O, Smith R, Beach TG

Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology2026

DOI: 10.1093/jnen/nlag093 PMID: 42658568

Linking modifiable risk factors to vascular and neurodegenerative brain changes.

Khudair T, Raeesi S, Zeighami Y, Kamal F, Dadar M, Morrison C

GeroScience2026

DOI: 10.1007/s11357-026-02473-8 PMID: 42645764

RAVEN: Robust, generalizable, multi-resolution structural MRI upsampling using autoencoders.

Adame-Gonzalez W, Moqadam R, Zeighami Y, Dadar M

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2026

DOI: 10.1162/imag.a.1326 PMID: 42559373

Aging and metabolism contribute separately to brain-body health.

Farahani A, Liu ZQ, Morys F, Moqadam R, Zeighami Y, Dadar M, Dagher A, Misic B

PLoS biology2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003856 PMID: 42296166

Effects of prolonged fixation on vascular biomarkers in postmortem human brains.

Frigon EM, Ma W, Tremblay C, Mirault D, Turecki G, Mechawar N, Boire D, Maranzano J, Dadar M, Zeighami Y

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/0271678x261461536 PMID: 42257420

Intracranial volume: To adjust or not to adjust? It is not a matter of if, but how.

Brzezinski-Rittner A, Moqadam R, Zeighami Y, Dadar M

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2026

DOI: 10.1162/imag.a.1235 PMID: 42206219

Education, Cognitive Reserve, and Brain Pathology in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence from Preclinical and Symptomatic Cohorts.

Raeesi S, Metz A, Chadwick K, Zeighami Y, PREVENT-AD Research Group, Consortium for the Early Identification of Alzheimer’s Disease - Quebec (CIMA-Q), Morrison C, Dadar M

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.07.26352659 PMID: 42180327

Sex differentiated and domain specific patterns of longitudinal cognitive decline across subjective cognitive decline and amyloid positivity groups.

Morrison C, Dadar M, Zeighami Y

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026Senior author

DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.06.26352563 PMID: 42145614

Clinical and Imaging Characteristics of Parkinson's Disease with Negative Alpha-Synuclein Seed Amplification Assay.

Brooker SM, Pasquini J, Choi SH, Lafontant DE, Fereshtehnejad SM, Zeighami Y, Grillo P, Riboldi GM, Azizi H, Moqadam R, Kang UJ, Nudelman KNH, Siderowf A, Tanner CM, Tropea TF, Foroud T, Chahine LM, Mollenhauer B, Merchant KM, Galasko D, Coffey CS, Dobkin RD, Brown EG, Alcalay RN, Weintraub D, Marek K, Simuni T, Gonzalez-Latapi P, Pavese N, Poston KL, Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative

Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2026

DOI: 10.1002/mds.70197 PMID: 41603617

Olfactory decline in aging: longitudinal trajectories and associations with cognitive decline and postmortem neuropathology.

Tremblay C, Choudhury P, Driver-Dunckley E, Alasmar Z, Serrano GE, Shill HA, Mehta S, Ho A, Fereshtehnejad SM, Shprecher D, Lorenzini I, Belden CM, Atri A, Adler CH, Beach TG, Dadar M, Zeighami Y

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026Senior author

DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.27.26351817 PMID: 42094133

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Yashar Zeighami

Research

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Comparison of quantitative digital and semiquantitative assessments of tau pathology in relation to regional in vivo tau PET.

Linking modifiable risk factors to vascular and neurodegenerative brain changes.

RAVEN: Robust, generalizable, multi-resolution structural MRI upsampling using autoencoders.

Aging and metabolism contribute separately to brain-body health.

Effects of prolonged fixation on vascular biomarkers in postmortem human brains.

Intracranial volume: To adjust or not to adjust? It is not a matter of if, but how.

Education, Cognitive Reserve, and Brain Pathology in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence from Preclinical and Symptomatic Cohorts.

Sex differentiated and domain specific patterns of longitudinal cognitive decline across subjective cognitive decline and amyloid positivity groups.

Clinical and Imaging Characteristics of Parkinson's Disease with Negative Alpha-Synuclein Seed Amplification Assay.

Olfactory decline in aging: longitudinal trajectories and associations with cognitive decline and postmortem neuropathology.

Developing multi-scale computational models of brain cortical morphology - combining ex-vivo and in-vivo brain imaging

Developing multi-scale computational models of brain cortical morphology - combining ex-vivo and in-vivo brain imaging

Frequent collaborators

Mahsa Dadar

Alain Dagher

Yasser Iturria Medina

Bratislav Misic

Denis Richard

Laurent Biertho

Stephanie Fulton

Alan Evans

Stephanie Fulton

Sylvain Iceta

Cassandra Morrison

Jean-Baptiste Poline

Sylvia Villeneuve

Xiangfei Meng

Mahsa Dadar

Martin Lepage

Simon Ducharme

Danilo Bzdok

Danilo Bzdok

Marco Leyton

Ridha Joober

Maxime Montembeault

Connie Marras

Simon Duchesne