
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
Anatomical and behavioural correlates of auditory perception in developmental dyslexia.
Brain : a journal of neurology
Non-right-handedness, male sex, and regional, network-specific, ventral occipito-temporal anomalous lateralization in adults with a history of reading disability.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
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
Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Speech Markers: Insights from English, Chinese, and Italian Speakers.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Digital language markers distinguish frontal from right anterior temporal lobe atrophy in frontotemporal dementia.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Perceptual and semantic deficits in face recognition in semantic dementia.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Clinical dimensions along the non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia spectrum.
Brain : a journal of neurology
Discriminating nonfluent/agrammatic and logopenic PPA variants with automatically extracted morphosyntactic measures from connected speech.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Speech and language markers of neurodegeneration: a call for global equity.
Brain : a journal of neurology
Assessing processing speed and its neural correlates in the three variants of primary progressive aphasia with a non-verbal tablet-based task.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
The development of the Cognitive Assessment for Tagalog Speakers (CATS): A culturally and linguistically tailored test battery for Filipino Americans.
Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)
Network anatomy in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia.
Human brain mapping
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
Network anatomy in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Examining the relation between bilingualism and age of symptom onset in frontotemporal dementia.
Bilingualism (Cambridge, England)
Visual and social differences in dyslexia: deep phenotyping of four cases with spared phonology.
Neurocase
Frontotemporal dementia: A unique window on the functional role of the temporal lobes.
Handbook of clinical neurology
Children with developmental dyslexia show elevated parasympathetic nervous system activity at rest and greater cardiac deceleration during an empathy task.
Biological psychology
Functional and morphological correlates of developmental dyslexia: A multimodal investigation of the ventral occipitotemporal cortex.
Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging
Dissociating nouns and verbs in temporal and perisylvian networks: Evidence from neurodegenerative diseases.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Enhanced visceromotor emotional reactivity in dyslexia and its relation to salience network connectivity.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Effects of bilingualism on age at onset in two clinical Alzheimer's disease variants.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Task-Free Functional Language Networks: Reproducibility and Clinical Application.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Differential intrinsic functional connectivity changes in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia.
NeuroImage. Clinical
Altered topology of the functional speech production network in non-fluent/agrammatic variant of PPA.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Frontotemporal dementia.
Handbook of clinical neurology
Defects of mutant DNMT1 are linked to a spectrum of neurological disorders.
Brain : a journal of neurology
Elicitation of specific syntactic structures in primary progressive aphasia.
Brain and language
Neural regions essential for distinct cognitive processes underlying picture naming.
Brain : a journal of neurology