Publications

Du J, Billot A, Sun W, Hickok G, Eldaief MC, Buckner RL. Multiple nested distributed language networks in the human brain. bioRxiv, 2026.

Libowitz MR, Sun W, Rabinovich R, Du J, Campbell JM, Cowan RL, Shahdoust N, Price TA, Davis TS, Buckner RL, Rahimpour S, Mickey BJ, Smith EH, Shofty B. Increased aperiodic exponents track depressive symptom severity in refractory epilepsy. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2026.

Elliott ML, Du J, Nielsen JA, Hanford LC, Kivisäkk P, Arnold SE, Dickerson BC, Mair RW, Eldaief MC, Buckner RL. Precision estimates of longitudinal brain aging capture unexpected individual differences in one year. Nature Communications, 2026.

Zhi D, Du J, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Diedrichsen J, Ge T. Precision functional parcellation of the human cortex via rest-task fMRI fusion. bioRxiv, 2026.

Hanford LC, Eshghi M, Du J, Buckner RL, Mair RW, Ge T, Juttukonda MR, Salat DH. Age-associated structural decline is linked to arterial flow territories in the brain: Insights from lifespan human connectome project in aging. medRxiv, 2026.

Lynch CJ, Chang M, Elbau I, Gordon EM, Laumann TO, Du J, et al. Objective quality assessment for precision functional MRI data. Neuron, 2026.

Du J, Tripathi V, Elliott ML, Ladopoulou J, Sun W, Eldaief MC, Buckner RL. Within-individual precision mapping of brain networks exclusively using task data. Neuron, 113:1–15, 2025. — Precision Network Mapping Code · N = 11 dataset · BALSA Study: Organization of the Human Cerebral Cortex Estimated Within Individuals

Sun W, Billot A, Du J, Wei X, Lemley RA, Daneshzand M, Nummenmaa A, Buckner RL, Eldaief MC. Precision network modeling of TMS across individuals suggests therapeutic targets and potential for improvement. Human Brain Mapping, 46:e70266, 2025.

Kosakowski HL, Du J, Tripathi V, Eldaief MC, Buckner RL. Ventral striatum is preferentially correlated with the salience network including regions in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 134:193–215, 2025.

Saadon-Grosman N, Du J, Kosakowski HL, Angeli PA, DiNicola LM, Eldaief MC, Buckner RL. Within-individual organization of the human cognitive cerebellum: Evidence for closely juxtaposed, functionally specialized regions. Science Advances, 10:eadq4037, 2024.

Du J, DiNicola LM, Angeli PA, Saadon-Grosman N, Sun W, Kaiser S, Ladopoulou J, Xue A, Yeo BTT, Eldaief MC, Buckner RL. Organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated within individuals: Networks, global topography, and function. Journal of Neurophysiology, 131:1014–82, 2024. — DU15NET atlases · BALSA Study: Organization of the Human Cerebral Cortex Estimated Within Individuals · Task protocols & code · Supplement [I]), [II]

Kosakowski HL, Saadon-Grosman N, Du J, Eldaief MC, Buckner RL. Human striatal association megaclusters. Journal of Neurophysiology, 131:1083–100, 2024.

Gong W, Fu Y, Wu B-S, Du J, Yang L, Zhang YR, Chen SD, Kang J, Mao Y, Dong Q, Tan L, Feng J, Cheng W, Yu J-T. Whole-exome sequencing identifies protein-coding variants associated with brain iron in 29,828 individuals. Nature Communications, 15:5540, 2024. (co-first author)

Du J, Rolls ET, Gong W, Cao M, Vatansever D, Zhang J, Kang J, Cheng W, Feng J. Association between parental age, brain structure, and behavioral and cognitive problems in children. Molecular Psychiatry, 27:967–75, 2022.

Yang A, Rolls ET, Dong G, Du J, Li Y, Feng J, Cheng W, Zhao XM. Longer screen time utilization is associated with the polygenic risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with mediation by brain white matter microstructure. EBioMedicine, 80:104039, 2022.

Du J, Buckner RL. Precision estimates of macroscale network organization in the human and their relation to anatomical connectivity in the marmoset monkey. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 40:144–52, 2021.

Du J, Liu Z, Hanford LC, Anderson KM, Feng J, Ge T, Buckner RL. Exploration of Alzheimer's disease MRI biomarkers using APOE4 carrier status in the UK Biobank. medRxiv, 2021.

Gong W, Rolls ET, Du J, Cheng W, Li Y, Gong W, Qiu J, Feng J. Brain structure is linked to the association between family environment and behavioral problems in children in the ABCD study. Nature Communications, 12:3769, 2021. *(co-first author)*

Du J, Palaniyappan L, Liu Z, Cheng W, Gong W, Zhu M, Wang J, Zhang J, Feng J. The genetic determinants of language network dysconnectivity in drug-naïve early stage schizophrenia. npj Schizophrenia, 7:18, 2021.

Wang L, Zhou C, Cheng W, Rolls ET, Huang P, Ma N, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Guan X, Guo T, et al. Dopamine depletion and subcortical dysfunction disrupt cortical synchronization and metastability affecting cognitive function in Parkinson's disease. Human Brain Mapping, 43:1598–610, 2021.

Du J, Rolls ET, Cheng W, Li Y, Gong W, Qiu J, Feng J. Functional connectivity of the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and inferior frontal gyrus in humans. Cortex, 123:185–99, 2020.

Rolls ET, Cheng W, Du J, Wei D, Qiu J, Dai D, Zhou Q, Xie P, Feng J. Functional connectivity of the right inferior frontal gyrus and orbitofrontal cortex in depression. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15:75–86, 2020. *(co-first author)*

Cheng W, Rolls ET, Gong W, Du J, Zhang J, Zhang XY, Li F, Feng J. Sleep duration, brain structure, and psychiatric and cognitive problems in children. Molecular Psychiatry, 26:3992–4003, 2020.

Wang H, Rolls ET, Du X, Du J, Yang D, Li J, Li F, Cheng W, Feng J. Severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy: psychiatric and cognitive problems and brain structure in children. BMC Medicine, 18:228, 2020.

Wang L, Cheng W, Rolls ET, Dai F, Gong W, Du J, Zhang W, Wang S, Liu F, Wang J, Brown P, et al. Association of specific biotypes in patients with Parkinson disease and disease progression. Neurology, 95:e1445–60, 2020.

Shen C, Luo Q, Chamberlain S, Morgan S, Romero R, Du J, Zhao X, Touchette É, Montplaisir J, Vitaro F, Boivin M, et al. What is the link between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sleep disturbance? A multimodal examination of longitudinal relationships and brain structure using large-scale population-based cohorts. Biological Psychiatry, 88:459–69, 2020.

Cheng W, Rolls ET, Robbins TW, Gong W, Liu Z, Lv W, Du J, Wen H, Ma L, Quinlan EB, Garavan H, Artiges E, et al. Decreased brain connectivity in smoking contrasts with increased connectivity in drinking. eLife, 8:e40765, 2019.

Liu Z, Rolls ET, Liu Z, Zhang K, Yang M, Du J, Gong W, Cheng W, Dai F, Wang H, Ugurbil K, Zhang J, Feng J. Brain annotation toolbox: Exploring the functional and genetic associations of neuroimaging results. Bioinformatics, 35:3771–8, 2019.