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Here is my list of scientific and technical publications as of 17th July 2020 in reverse Chronological order.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Kajal DS, Fioravanti C, Elshahabi A, Ruiz S, Sitaram R, Braun C. Involvement of top-down networks in the perception of facial emotions: a magnetoencephalographic investigation. Neuroimage. 2020 Jun 22:117075. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117075. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32585348.
  2. Dalboni da Rocha JL, Bramati I, Coutinho G, Tovar Moll F, Sitaram R. Fractional Anisotropy changes in Parahippocampal Cingulum due to Alzheimer’s Disease. Sci Rep. 2020 Feb 14;10(1):2660. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-59327-2. PMID: 32060334; PMCID: PMC7021702.
  3. Rana M, Ruiz S, Corzo AS, Muehleck A, Eck S, Salinas C, Zamorano F, Silva C, Rea M, Batra A, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Use of Real-Time Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Neurofeedback to Downregulate Insular Cortex in Nicotine-Addicted Smokers. J Vis Exp. 2020 Jun 10;(160). doi: 10.3791/59441.
  4. Ros T, Enriquez-Geppert S, Zotev V, Young KD, Wood G, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Wan F, Vuilleumier P, Vialatte F, Van De Ville D, Todder D, Surmeli T, Sulzer JS, Strehl U, Sterman MB, Steiner NJ, Sorger B, Soekadar SR, Sitaram R, Sherlin LH, Schönenberg M, Scharnowski F, Schabus M, Rubia K, Rosa A, Reiner M, Pineda JA, Paret C, Ossadtchi A, Nicholson AA, Nan W, Minguez J, Micoulaud-Franchi JA, Mehler DMA, Lührs M, Lubar J, Lotte F, Linden DEJ, Lewis-Peacock JA, Lebedev MA, Lanius RA, Kübler A, Kranczioch C, Koush Y, Konicar L, Kohl SH, Kober SE, Klados MA, Jeunet C, Janssen TWP, Huster RJ, Hoedlmoser K, Hirshberg LM, Heunis S, Hendler T, Hampson M, Guggisberg AG, Guggenberger R, Gruzelier JH, Göbel RW, Gninenko N, Gharabaghi A, Frewen P, Fovet T, Fernández T, Escolano C, Ehlis AC, Drechsler R, Christopher deCharms R, Debener S, De Ridder D, Davelaar EJ, Congedo M, Cavazza M, Breteler MHM, Brandeis D, Bodurka J, Birbaumer N, Bazanova OM, Barth B, Bamidis PD, Auer T, Arns M, Thibault RT. Consensus on the reporting and experimental design of clinical and cognitive-behavioural neurofeedback studies (CRED-nf checklist). Brain. 2020 Jun 1;143(6):1674-1685. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa009. PMID: 32176800; PMCID: PMC7296848.
  5. Pereira JA, Sepulveda P, Rana M, Montalba C, Tejos C, Torres R, Sitaram R, Ruiz S. Self-Regulation of the Fusiform Face Area in Autism Spectrum: A Feasibility Study With Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback. Front Hum Neurosci. 2019 Dec 20;13:446. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00446.
  6. Caria A, da Rocha JLD, Gallitto G, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R, Murguialday AR. Brain-Machine Interface Induced Morpho-Functional Remodeling of the Neural Motor System in Severe Chronic Stroke. Neurotherapeutics. 2019 Dec 4. doi: 10.1007/s13311-019-00816-2.
  7. Sreedharan S, Chandran A, Yanamala VR, Sylaja PN, Kesavadas C, Sitaram R. Self-regulation of language areas using real-time functional MRI in stroke patients with expressive aphasia. Brain Imaging Behav. 2019 May 14. doi: 10.1007/s11682-019-00106-7.
  8. Sitaram R, Yu T, Halsband U, Vogel D, Müller F, Lang S, Birbaumer N, Kotchoubey B. Spatial characteristics of spontaneous and stimulus-induced individual functional connectivity networks in severe disorders of consciousness. Brain Cogn. 2018 Nov 27. pii: S0278-2626(18)30241-0. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2018.11.007.
  9. Dalboni da Rocha JL, Coutinho G, Bramati I, Moll FT, Sitaram R. Multilevel diffusion tensor imaging classification technique for characterizing neurobehavioral disorders. Brain Imaging Behav. 2018 Dec 5. doi: 10.1007/s11682-018-0002-2.
  10. Brain–Computer Interfaces and Neurofeedback for Enhancing Human Performance R SITARAM, AS CORZO, M ZURITA, C LEVICAN, D HUEPE-ARTIGAS, J A MUCARQUER, M RAMÍREZ. Human Performance Optimization: The Science and Ethics of Enhancing Human Capabilities. Oxford Press, USA. 2018.
  11. Zurita M, Montalba C, Labbé T, Cruz JP, da Rocha JD, Tejos C, Ciampi E, Cárcamo C, Sitaram R, Uribe S. Characterization of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients using support vector machine classifications of functional and diffusion MRI data. NeuroImage: Clinical, September 2018.
  12. Kajal DS, Braun C, Mellinger J, Sacchet MD, Ruiz S, Fetz E, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Learned control of inter-hemispheric connectivity: Effects on bimanual motor performance. Hum Brain Mapp. 2017 Jun 5. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23663.
  13. Kajal DS, Fioravanti C, Elshahabi A, Ruiz S, Sitaram, E, Braun C. Functional dynamics underlying near-threshold perception of facial emotions: magnetoencephalography investigation. bioRxiv, 383315.
  14. Zaidi AD, Birbaumer N, Fetz E, Logothetis N, Sitaram The hemodynamic initial-dip consists of both volumetric and oxymetric changes correlated to localized spiking activity. bioRxiv 2018.
  15. Zaidi AD, Birbaumer N, Fetz E, Logothetis N, Sitaram The timing of hemodynamic changes reliably reflects spiking activity.bioRxiv 2018.
  16. Pammi VSC, Ruiz S, Lee S, Noussair CN, Sitaram R. The Effect of Wealth Shocks on Loss Aversion: Behavior and Neural Correlates. Front Neurosci. 2017 Apr 27;11:237. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00237.
  17. Ebadi A, Dalboni da Rocha JL, Nagaraju DB, Tovar-Moll F, Bramati I, Coutinho G, Sitaram R, Rashidi P. Ensemble Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on Complex Graph Measures from Diffusion Tensor Images. Front Neurosci. 2017 Feb 28;11:56. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00056.
  18. Sitaram R, Ros T, Stoeckel L, Haller S, Scharnowski F, Lewis-Peacock J, Weiskopf N, Blefari ML, Rana M, Oblak E, Birbaumer N, Sulzer J. Closed-loop brain training: the science of neurofeedback. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2017 Feb;18(2):86-100. doi: 10.1038/nrn.2016.164.
  19. Rana M, Varan AQ, Davoudi A, Cohen RA, Sitaram R, Ebner NC. Real-Time fMRI in Neuroscience Research and Its Use in Studying the Aging Brain. Front Aging Neurosci. 2016 Oct 18;8:239. eCollection 2016. Review. PubMed PMID: 27803662.
  20. Sepulveda P, Sitaram R, Rana M, Montalba C, Tejos C, Ruiz S. How feedback, motor imagery, and reward influence brain self-regulation using real-time fMRI. Hum Brain Mapp. 2016 Sep;37(9):3153-71. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23228.
  21. Robinson N, Zaidi AD, Rana M, Prasad VA, Guan C, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Real-Time Subject-Independent Pattern Classification of Overt and Covert Movements from fNIRS Signals. PLoS One. 2016 Jul 28;11(7):e0159959. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159959.
  22. Ruiz S, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Editorial: Learned Brain Self-Regulation for Emotional Processing and Attentional Modulation: From Theory to Clinical Applications. Front Behav Neurosci. 2016 Mar 31;10:62. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00062.
  23. Liew SL, Rana M, Cornelsen S, Fortunato de Barros Filho M, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R, Cohen LG, Soekadar SR. Improving Motor Corticothalamic Communication After Stroke Using Real-Time fMRI Connectivity-Based Neurofeedback. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2015 Dec 14. pii: 1545968315619699.
  24. Zaidi AD, Munk MH, Schmidt A, Risueno-Segovia C, Bernard R, Fetz E, Logothetis N, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Simultaneous epidural functional near-infrared spectroscopy and cortical electrophysiology as a tool for studying local neurovascular coupling in primates. Neuroimage. 2015 Oct 15;120:394-9. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.019.
  25. Ray AM, Sitaram R, Rana M, Pasqualotto E, Buyukturkoglu K, Guan C, Ang KK, Tejos C, Zamorano F, Aboitiz F, Birbaumer N, Ruiz S. A subject-independent pattern-based Brain-Computer Interface. Front Behav Neurosci. 2015 Oct 20;9:269. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00269.
  26. Buyukturkoglu K, Roettgers H, Sommer J, Rana M, Dietzsch L, Arikan EB, Veit R, Malekshahi R, Kircher T, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R, Ruiz S. Self-Regulation of Anterior Insula with Real-Time fMRI and Its Behavioral Effects in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Feasibility Study. PLoS One. 2015 Aug 24;10(8):e0135872. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135872.
  27. Chandrasekhar Pammi VS, Pillai Geethabhavan Rajesh P, Kesavadas C, Rappai Mary P, Seema S, Radhakrishnan A, Sitaram R. Neural loss aversion differences between depression patients and healthy individuals: A functional MRI investigation. Neuroradiol J. 2015 Apr;28(2):97-105. doi: 10.1177/1971400915576670.
  28. Sitaram R, Caria A, Veit R, Gaber T, Ruiz S, Birbaumer N. Volitional control of the anterior insula in criminal psychopaths using real-time fMRI neurofeedback: A pilot study Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 8, 344, October 2014.
  29. van der Heiden L, Liberati G, Sitaram R, Kim S, Jaśkowski P, Raffone A, Olivetti Belardinelli M, Birbaumer N, Veit R. Insula and inferior frontal triangularis activations distinguish between conditioned brain responses using emotional sounds for basic BCI communication. Front Behav Neurosci. 2014 Jul 21;8:247. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00247.
  30. Kotchoubey B, Bütof S, Sitaram R. Flagrant Misconduct of Reviewers and Editor: A Case Study. Sci Eng Ethics. 2014 Aug 26. PubMed PMID: 25156788.
  31. Ruiz S, Buyukturkoglu K, Rana M, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Real-time fMRI brain computer interfaces: self-regulation of single brain regions to networks. Biol Psychol. 2014 Jan;95:4-20. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.04.010.
  32. Rea M, Rana M, Lugato N, Terekhin P, Gizzi L, Broetz D, Fallgatter A, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R, Caria A. Lower Limb Movement Preparation in Chronic Stroke: A Pilot Study Toward an fNIRS-BCI for Gait Rehabilitation. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2014 Jan 30. PubMed PMID: 24482298.
  33. Lawrence EJ, Su L, Barker GJ, Medford N, Dalton J, Williams SC, Birbaumer N, Veit R, Sitaram R, Bodurka J, Brammer M, Giampietro V, David AS. Self-regulation of the anterior insula: Reinforcement learning using real-time fMRI neurofeedback. Neuroimage. 2013 Nov 11;88C:113-124. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.069.
  34. Sulzer J, Haller S, Scharnowski F, Weiskopf N, Birbaumer N, Blefari ML, Bruehl AB, Cohen LG, Decharms RC, Gassert R, Goebel R, Herwig U, Laconte S, Linden D, Luft A, Seifritz E, Sitaram R. Real-time fMRI neurofeedback: Progress and challenges. Neuroimage. 2013 Aug 1;76:386-99. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.03.033
  35. Rana, M., Gupta, N., Lee, S., Birbaumer, N., Sitaram, R. A tool box for real-time subject-independent and subject-dependent classification of brain states from fMRI signals. Neurosci., 17 October 2013 | doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00170.
  36. Birbaumer N, Ruiz S, Sitaram R. Learned regulation of brain metabolism. Trends Cogn Sci. 2013 May 7. doi:pii: S1364-6613(13)00082-X. 10.1016/j.tics.2013.04.009.
  37. Halder S, Varkuti B, Bogdan M, Kuebler A, Rosenstiel W, Sitaram R, Birbaumer N. Prediction of brain-computer interface aptitude from individual brain structure. Front Hum Neurosci. 2013;7:105. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00105. PubMed PMID: 23565083.
  38. Ruiz S, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Abnormal Neural Connectivity in Schizophrenia and fMRI-Brain-Computer Interface as a Potential Therapeutic Approach. Front Psychiatry. 2013;4:17. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00017.
  39. Ruiz S, Buyukturkoglu K, Rana M, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Real-time fMRI brain computer interfaces: Self-regulation of single brain regions to networks. Biol Psychol. 2013 May 1. doi:pii: S0301-0511(13)00113-0. 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.04.010.
  40. Sreedharan S, Sitaram R, Paul JS, Kesavadas C. Brain-computer interfaces for neurorehabilitation. Crit Rev Biomed Eng. 2013;41(3):269-79. Review.
  41. Sulzer J, Sitaram R, Blefari ML, Kollias S, Birbaumer N, Stephan KE, Luft A, Gassert R. Neurofeedback-mediated self-regulation of the dopaminergic midbrain. Neuroimage. 2013 Mar 1;75C:176-184. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.041.
  42. Liberati G, Dalboni da Rocha JL, van der Heiden L, Raffone A, Birbaumer N, Olivetti Belardinelli M, Sitaram R. Toward a Brain-Computer Interface for Alzheimer’sDisease Patients by Combining Classical Conditioning and Brain State Classification.J Alzheimers Dis. 2012 Mar 26.
  43. Varkuti, B., Yaozhang, P., Kok Soon, Phua., Veit, R., Guan, C., Sitaram, R. Predicting individual Fugl-Meyer Score Gains over a 12-week Period from Functional Connectivity Changes based on repeated rs-fMRI Measurements in a subcortical Stroke Sample receiving Motor-Imagery based robot- assisted EEG-BCI Training. Journal of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (2012).
  44. Caria A, Sitaram R, Birbaumer N. Real-Time fMRI: A Tool for Local Brain Regulation. Neuroscientist. 2012 Oct;18(5):487-501. Epub 2011 Jun 7.
  45. Várkuti B, Cavusoglu M, Kullik A, Schiffler B, Veit R, Yilmaz Ö, Rosenstiel W, Braun C, Uludag K, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Quantifying the link between anatomical connectivity, gray matter volume and regional cerebral blood flow: an integrative MRI study. PLoS One. 2011 Apr 15;6(4):e14801. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014801.
  46. Matthew D. Sacchet, Jürgen Mellinger, Ranganatha Sitaram, Christoph Braun, Niels Birbaumer and Eberhard Fetz. Volitional control of neuromagnetic coherence. Front. Neurosci., 26 December 2012 | doi: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00189.
  47. Caria, A., Sitaram, R., Veit, R., Begliomini, C., Birbaumer, N. Volitional control of anterior insula activity modulates the response to aversive stimuli. A real-time fMRI study. Biological Psychiatry. Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Sep 1;68(5):425-32.
  48. Sitaram, R., Veit, R., Stevens, B., Caria, A., Birbaumer, N., Hummel, F. Acquired control of ventral premotor cortex: An exploratory real-time fMRI and TMS study. Journal of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 2012 Mar-Apr;26(3):256-65.
  49. Ruiz, S., Lee, S., Soekader, S., Caria, A., Veit, R., Kircher, T., Birbaumer, N., Sitaram, R. Learned self-regulation of anterior insula in schizophrenia: effects on emotion recognition and neural connectivity. Hum Brain Mapp. 2011 Oct 22. doi: 10.1002/hbm.21427.
  50. Veit R, Singh V, Sitaram R, Caria A, Rauss K, Birbaumer N. Using real-time fMRI to learn voluntary regulation of the anterior insula in the presence of threat-related stimuli. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2011 Oct 7.
  51. Halder, S., Furdea, A., Varkuti, B., Sitaram, R., Bogdan, M., Rosenstiel, W., Birbaumer, N., Kubler, A. Auditory standard oddball and visual P300 brain-computer interface performance. International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism Vol. 13, 2011.
  52. Rota G, Handjaras G, Sitaram R, Birbaumer N, Dogil G. Reorganisation of functional and effective connectivity during fMRI-BCI modulation of prosody processing. Brain Lang. 2010 Sep 30.
  53. Sitaram R, Lee S, Ruiz S, Rana M, Veit R, Birbaumer N. Real-time support vector classification and feedback of multiple emotional brain states. Neuroimage. 2010 Aug 6. 2011 May 15;56(2):753-65.
  54. Lee, S., Halder, S., Kübler, A., Birbaumer, N., Sitaram, R. Effective functional mapping of fMRI data with support-vector machines. Hum Brain Mapp. 2010(a) Jan 28.
  55. Lee, S., Ruiz, S., Caria, A., Birbaumer, N., Sitaram, R. Cerebral reorganization induced by real-time fMRI feedback training of the insular cortex: a multivariate investigation. Neuroreh and Neural Rep (2010).
  56. Sitaram, R., Caria, A., Birbaumer, N., 2009. Hemodynamic brain-computer interfaces for communication and rehabilitation. Neural Netw. 22(9):1320-8. Epub 2009 May 24.
  57. Rota, G., Sitaram, R., Veit, R., Erb, M., Weiskopf, N., Dogil, G., Birbaumer, N., 2008. Self-regulation of regional cortical activity using real-time fMRI: The right inferior frontal gyrus and linguistic processing. Hum Brain Mapp. 30(5):1605-14.
  58. Sitaram, R., Weiskopf, N., Caria, A., Veit, R., Erb, M., Birbaumer, N., 2008. fMRI brain-computer interfaces: A tutorial on methods and applications. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on BCI. (2008).
  59. Caria, A., Veit, R., Sitaram, R., Lotze, M., Weiskopf, N., Grodd, W., Birbaumer, N.,2007. Regulation of anterior insular cortex activity using real-time fMRI. Neuroimage 35, 1238-1246.
  60. Sitaram, R., Caria, A., Veit, R., Gaber, T., Giuseppina, R., Kubler, A., Birbaumer, N., 2007. fMRI Brain-Computer Interface: A Tool for Neuroscientific Research and Treatment. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2007, Article ID 25487, 10 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/25487.
  61. Weiskopf, N., Sitaram, R., Josephs, O., Veit, R., Scharnowski, F., Goebel, R., Birbaumer, N., Deichmann, R., Mathiak, K., 2007. Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging: methods and applications. Magn Reson Imaging.
  62. Sitaram, R., Zhang, H., Guan, C., Thulasidas, M., Hoshi, Y., Ishikawa, A., Shimizu, K., Birbaumer, N., 2007. Temporal classification of multichannel near-infrared spectroscopy signals of motor imagery for developing a brain-computer interface. Neuroimage 34, 1416-1427.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

  1. Schurholz M, Rana M, Robinson N, Ramos-Murguialday A, Cho W, Rohm M, Rupp R, Birbaumer N, Sitaram R. Differences in hemodynamic activations between motor imagery and upper limb FES with NIRS. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012 Aug;2012:4728-31.
  2. Korhan Buyukturkoglu, Mohit Rana, Sergio Ruiz, Steven A. Hackley, Surjo R. Soekadar, Niels Birbaumer, Ranganatha Sitaram. Volitional Regulation of the Supplementary Motor Area with fMRI-BCI neurofeedback in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study. 6th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, San Diego, California, USA; 11/2013.
  3. Sitaram, R., Guan, C., Thulasidas, M., Jian Kang, W. Comparison of artifact removal methods on their effect on motor task and imagery classification in a brain-computer interface. Paper published in the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Medical Signal and Information Processing (MEDSIP), September 2004, Malta.
  4. Xu Wenjie, Guan Cuntai, Chng Eng Siong, Sitaram R., Manoj Thulasidas, Wu Jiankang. High Accuracy Classification of EEG Signal. Paper published in the proceedings of the International Conference of Pattern Recognition (ICPR), August, 2004.
  5.  Thulasidas, M., Guan, C., Sitaram R., Jian Kang, W., Zhu, X., Xu, W. Effect of Ocular Artifact Removal in Brain Computer Interface Accuracy. Published in the proceedings of the 26th Annual Inter Conf IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Sept, 2004.
  6. Guan Cuntai, Zhu Xiaoyuan, Ranganatha Sitaram, Manoj Thulasidas, Wu Jiankang, “Dynamic Feature for robust classification of EEG Signal”, submitted to 2nd International Conference on Advances in Medical Signal and Information Processing (MEDSIP), 5-8, September 2004, Malta.

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