Jessica de Leon, MD

Assistant Adjunct Professor
M_Neurology

Jessica de Leon, MD, is an assistant professor and behavioral neurologist who specializes in language disorders across the lifespan. She received her undergraduate degrees in neuroscience and Spanish at the Johns Hopkins University and an MD with thesis degree at UCSF. She then completed her medicine internship, neurology residency, and behavioral neurology fellowship at UCSF.

Publications

Gaps in biomedical research in frontotemporal dementia: A call for diversity and disparities focused research.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Nuytemans K, Franzen S, Broce IJ, Caramelli P, Ellajosyula R, Finger E, Gupta V, Gupta V, Illán-Gala I, Loi SM, Morhardt D, Pijnenburg Y, Rascovsky K, Williams MM, Yokoyama JS, Acosta-Uribe J, Akinyemi R, Alladi S, Ayele BA, Ayhan Y, Bourdage R, Castro-Suarez S, de Souza LC, Dacks P, de Boer SCM, de Leon J, Dodge S, Grasso S, Ghoshal N, Kamath V, Kumfor F, Matias-Guiu JA, Narme P, Nielsen TR, Okhuevbie D, Piña-Escudero S, Ruiz-Garcia R, Ryan B, Scarioni M, Slachevsky A, Suarez-Gonzalez A, Tee BL, Tsoy E, Ulugut H, Onyike CU, Babulal GM, ISTAART Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders PIA, ISTAART Diversity and Disparities PIA

Gaps in clinical research in frontotemporal dementia: A call for diversity and disparities-focused research.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Franzen S, Nuytemans K, Bourdage R, Caramelli P, Ellajosyula R, Finger E, Illán-Gala I, Loi SM, Morhardt D, Pijnenburg Y, Rascovsky K, Williams MM, Yokoyama JS, Alladi S, Ayhan Y, Broce I, Castro-Suarez S, Coleman K, de Souza LC, Dacks PA, de Boer SCM, de Leon J, Dodge S, Grasso S, Gupta V, Gupta V, Ghoshal N, Kamath V, Kumfor F, Matias-Guiu JA, Narme P, Nielsen TR, Okhuevbie D, Piña-Escudero SD, Garcia RR, Scarioni M, Slachevsky A, Suarez-Gonzalez A, Tee BL, Tsoy E, Ulugut H, Babulal GM, Onyike CU, ISTAART FTD PIA and ISTAART Diversity and Disparities PIA

Network anatomy in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Mandelli ML, Lorca-Puls DL, Lukic S, Montembeault M, Gajardo-Vidal A, Licata A, Scheffler A, Battistella G, Grasso SM, Bogley R, Ratnasiri BM, La Joie R, Mundada NS, Europa E, Rabinovici G, Miller BL, De Leon J, Henry ML, Miller Z, Gorno-Tempini ML

Defects of mutant DNMT1 are linked to a spectrum of neurological disorders.

Brain : a journal of neurology

Baets J, Duan X, Wu Y, Smith G, Seeley WW, Mademan I, McGrath NM, Beadell NC, Khoury J, Botuyan MV, Mer G, Worrell GA, Hojo K, DeLeon J, Laura M, Liu YT, Senderek J, Weis J, Van den Bergh P, Merrill SL, Reilly MM, Houlden H, Grossman M, Scherer SS, De Jonghe P, Dyck PJ, Klein CJ