Yang Wang, MD, PhD

Publications

• Combined Cerebral Blood Flow and Cerebrovascular Reactivity MRI for Multivariate Classification of Clinically Defined Mild Cognitive Impairment.

  (Cohen AD, Umfleet LG, Obarski S, Berres H, Ristow K, Franczak M, Kirby JR, Wang Y.) J Magn Reson Imaging. 2026 Aug 27 PMID: 42661401 08/28/2026

• Calibration-Free Estimation of Cerebrovascular Reactivity From Resting-State BOLD fMRI Using Reconstructed Respiratory Fluctuations.

  (Addeh A, Church E, Mahajna M, Ardila K, Charatpangoon P, Cohen AD, Wang Y, Williams RJ, Pike GB, MacDonald ME.) Magn Reson Med. 2026 Aug 06 PMID: 42557915 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105046735318 08/06/2026

• Estimating Task-Evoked Neurovascular Coupling Using Mutual Information Between BOLD and Perfusion-Weighted fMRI Signals.

  (Cohen AD, Wang Y.) Hum Brain Mapp. 2026 Aug;47(11):e70610 PMID: 42515826 PMCID: PMC13408011 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105046119143 07/28/2026

• Disrupted Large-Scale Brain Network Connectivity in Prolonged Grief Disorder: Relationship With Grief-Related Avoidance, Yearning, and Intrusive Thoughts.

  (Blair NP, Hwang G, Ward BD, Claesges SA, Webber AR, Hainsworth KR, Wang Y, Reynolds CF 3rd, Stein EA, Goveas JS.) Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2026 Aug;11(8):923-931 PMID: 40769298 PMCID: PMC12346161 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105020753594 08/07/2025

• Acute inflammation and fronto-striatal connectivity in the transition from acute to persistent fatigue after mild COVID-19: A longitudinal fMRI study.

  (Zhu Q, Lu T, Yuan H, Zhu Y, Du P, Liu H, Wang B, Liu T, Wang B, Chen Y, Ma H, Liu J, Wang Y, Zhang M, Niu X.) Brain Behav Immun Health. 2026 May;53:101196 PMID: 41737723 PMCID: PMC12926603 02/25/2026

• Metabolism fluctuation coupling can track the progression of dementia and describe MST1 gene-related pathology.

  (Sheng J, Yang Z, Wang Y, Zhang Q, Xin Y, Song Y, Wang L.) Commun Med (Lond). 2026 Jan 12;6(1):24 PMID: 41526711 PMCID: PMC12796309 01/13/2026

• Emotion regulation in prolonged grief disorder in later life: Protocol and rationale for a longitudinal neuroimaging study.

  (Hwang G, Blair NP, Arpinar VE, Ward BD, McAuliffe TL, Claesges SA, Nencka AS, Wang Y, Reynolds CF, Stein EA, Goveas JS.) Imaging Neurosci (Camb). 2026;4 PMID: 42318033 PMCID: PMC13274567 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105041940655 06/19/2026

• Fatigue-related brain dysfunctional connectivity during acute phase correlates with post-traumatic stress symptoms in individuals with COVID-19 at the 3-month follow-up.

  (Luo Z, Li H, Bao W, Zhu X, Zhu Q, Quan X, Li C, Li G, Chen X, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Liu J, Mu J, Niu X, Zhang Y.) Neuroscience. 2025 Oct 01;584:65-75 PMID: 40744337 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105013476671 08/01/2025

• Longitudinal relationships between changes in post-COVID mental fatigue and neuropsychiatric symptoms across distinct recovery trajectories.

  (Bao W, Chen S, Hong N, Ye G, Li C, Xie J, Li P, Li H, Wang Y, Liu J, Niu X, Zhang Y.) Inflammopharmacology. 2025 Sep;33(9):5471-5481 PMID: 40789995 PMCID: PMC12443899 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105012845327 08/12/2025

• Gut Microbiota and Neurovascular Patterns in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment.

  (Kazen AB, Umfleet LG, Aboulalazm FA, Cohen AD, Terhune S, Mason L, Obarski S, Franczak M, Kindel TL, Wang Y, Kirby JR.) Brain Sci. 2025 May 22;15(6) PMID: 40563710 PMCID: PMC12190368 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105009035769 06/26/2025

• Deep linear matrix approximate reconstruction with integrated BOLD signal denoising reveals reproducible hierarchical brain connectivity networks from multiband multi-echo fMRI.

  (Zhang W, Cohen A, McCrea M, Mukherjee P, Wang Y.) Front Neurosci. 2025;19:1577029 PMID: 40309655 PMCID: PMC12040835 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105003812562 05/01/2025

• Changes in cerebrovascular reactivity within functional networks in older adults with long-COVID.

  (Pommy JM, Cohen A, Mahil A, Glass Umfleet L, Swanson SJ, Franczak M, Obarski S, Ristow K, Wang Y.) Front Neurol. 2025;16:1504573 PMID: 40206293 PMCID: PMC11981175 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105002236750 04/10/2025