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Qiang (Johnson) Zhang, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology

Introduction

Dr. Qiang (Johnson) Zhang is a neurologist and neuroscientist who specializes in treating and diagnosing patients with movement disorders, including those with Lewy Body dementia/Parkinson's disease dementia. Dr. Zhang was trained with Nobel Laureate Dr. Stanley Prusiner, and his current research focuses on cholinergic circuitry in neurodegenerative diseases, and glycolysis in Alzheimer’s disease and its related dementias (ADRD).

Current Positions

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology

Education

  • Residency: Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program in Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
  • Fellowship: Movement Disorder Fellowship, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa

Center, Program and Institute Affiliations

Research Interests

  • Movement Disorders, Lewy Body dementia/Parkinson's disease dementia, cholinergic circuitry in neurodegenerative diseases and glycolysis in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
  • Synucleinopathy
  • Prions

Licenses & Certifications

  • Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Iowa
  • State Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine

Selected Publications

  • Zhang Q*, Schultz J, Aldridge G, Simmering J, Kim Y, Ogilvie A, Narayanan NS*. 2021. COVID-19 case fatality and Alzheimer’s disease. In press. J. Alzheimer’s disease. 2021 Oct 20. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.3233/JAD-215161. PMID: 34690147. *Corresponding author
  • Zhang, Q., Abdelmotilib, H., Larson, T., Keomanivong, C., Conlon, M., Aldridge, G. M. & Narayanan, N. S. (null). Cortical alpha-synuclein preformed fibrils do not affect interval timing in mice. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.10.443485.
  • Zhang, Q, Aldridge, G.M., Narayanan, N.S. et al. 2020. Approach to Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease. Neurotherapeutics. 17:1495-1510. doi: 10.1007/s13311-020-00963-x. PMID: 33205381. PMCID: PMC7851260.
  • Zhang, Q., Schultz, J. L., Aldridge, G. M., Simmering, J. E. & Narayanan, N. S. (2020). Coronavirus Disease 201
    9 Case Fatality and Parkinson's Disease.     Movement Disorders 35 (11) 1914-1915. DOI: 10.1002/mds.28325.
  • Zhang Q, Jung D, Larson T, Kim YC, Narayanan NS. 2019. Scopolamine and medial frontal stimulus-processing during interval timing.  Neuroscience. 414:219-227. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.07.004. PMID: 31299344. PMCID: PMC7040457.
  • Zhang, Q., Descamps, O., Hart, M. J., Poksay, K. S., Spilman, P., Kane, D. J., Gorostiza, O., John, V. & Bredesen, D. E. (2014). Paradoxical effect of TrkA inhibition in Alzheimer's disease models. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 40 (3) 605-617. DOI: 10.3233/JAD-130017. PMID: 24531152. PMCID: PMC4091737.
  • Swistowski, A., Zhang, Q., Orcholski, M. E., Crippen, D., Vitelli, C., Kurakin, A. & Bredesen, D. E. (2009). Novel mediators of amyloid precursor protein signaling. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 29 (50) 15703-12. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4351-09.2009. PMID: 20016085. PMCID: PMC2823633.
  • Colby, D. W., Zhang, Q., Wang, S., Groth, D., Legname, G., Riesner, D. & Prusiner, S. B. (2007). Prion detection by an amyloid seeding assay. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (52) 20914-9. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710152105. PMID: 18096717. PMCID: PMC2409241.
  • Anderson, D., Zhang, Q. & Thomsen, T. (2020). Graber and Wilbur's family medicine examination and broad review : Chapter 18 Neurology.
  • Zhang, Q. & Thomsen, T. (2020). Deep Brain Stimulation Targeting the Ventral Intermediate Nucleus of the Thalamus for Parkinsonian Tremor and Later Adding the Globus Pallidus Interna for Parkinson Disease Features.