Thoughts turned into high-level commands: Proof-of-concept study of a vision-guided robot arm driven by functional MRI (fMRI) signalsLudovico Minati
Scientific Department, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
Med Eng Phys 34:650-8. 2012
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- Decision-making under risk: a graph-based network analysis using functional MRI
Ludovico Minati
Scientific Department Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy
Neuroimage 60:2191-205. 2012
..This study also has more general paradigmatic implications for neuroeconomics, demonstrating the value of explicit modeling of inter-regional interactions for understanding the neural substrates of decisional processes...
Baroreceptor activation attenuates attentional effects on pain-evoked potentialsMarcus A Gray
Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RR, UK
Pain 151:853-61. 2010
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- Variability comparison of simultaneous brain near-infrared spectroscopy and functional magnetic resonance imaging during visual stimulation
Ludovico Minati
Department of Psychiatry, Brighton and Sussex Medical School BSMS, Falmer, UK
J Med Eng Technol 35:370-6. 2011
..The discrepancy between inter- and intra-subject CVs is likely related to variability in head anatomy and tissue properties, which may be better accounted for by emerging NIRS technology...
- Choice-option evaluation is preserved in early Huntington and Parkinson's disease
Ludovico Minati
Scientific Department, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy
Neuroreport 22:753-7. 2011
..This negative finding suggests that striatal activity may not be essential for decision-making in situations where all information is provided and learning from outcomes is unnecessary...
- Neural signatures of economic parameters during decision-making: a functional MRI (FMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and autonomic monitoring study
Ludovico Minati
Scientific Department, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, MI, Italy
Brain Topogr 25:73-96. 2012
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- Intra- and extra-cranial effects of transient blood pressure changes on brain near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements
Ludovico Minati
Department of Psychiatry, Brighton and Sussex Medical School BSMS, Falmer, UK
J Neurosci Methods 197:283-8. 2011
..We highlight the necessity for continuous blood pressure monitoring alongside brain NIRS, and for further research on methods to correct for physiological confounds...
- Spatial correspondence between functional MRI (fMRI) activations and cortical current density maps of event-related potentials (ERP): a study with four tasks
Ludovico Minati
Science Direction Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, 20133, Milano, MI, Italy
Brain Topogr 21:112-27. 2008
..The present study corroborates existing literature in this field, and may be of particular relevance to those interested in combining fMRI with ERPs acquired with the standard 10-20 system...
- Under pressure: response urgency modulates striatal and insula activity during decision-making under risk
Catherine L Jones
Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 6:e20942. 2011
..Our findings bridge current psychophysiological and neurobiological models of value representation and action-programming, identifying the striatum and insular cortex as the key substrates of decision-making under risk and urgency...
- Emotional modulation of visual cortex activity: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
Ludovico Minati
Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK
Neuroreport 20:1344-50. 2009
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- Emotional appraisal is influenced by cardiac afferent information
Marcus A Gray
Brighton and Sussex Medical School BSMS, University of Sussex, Centre for Consciousness Science, Brighton, UK
Emotion 12:180-91. 2012
..Together these findings highlight the close coupling of visceral and emotional processes and identify neural regions mediating bodily state influences on affective judgment...
- Acute tryptophan depletion attenuates conscious appraisal of social emotional signals in healthy female volunteers
Felix D C C Beacher
Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School BSMS, Brighton and Hove, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 213:603-13. 2011
..Acute tryptophan depletion (ATD) decreases levels of central serotonin. ATD thus enables the cognitive effects of serotonin to be studied, with implications for the understanding of psychiatric conditions, including depression...
- Connectivity of the amygdala, piriform, and orbitofrontal cortex during olfactory stimulation: a functional MRI study
Anna Nigri
Neuroradiology Unit, Besta Neurological Institute, Milan, Italy
Neuroreport 24:171-5. 2013
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- Brain structure and joint hypermobility: relevance to the expression of psychiatric symptoms
Jessica A Eccles
Department of Psychiatry, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK
Br J Psychiatry 200:508-9. 2012
..Our observations endorse hypermobility as a multisystem phenotype and suggest potential mechanisms mediating clinical vulnerability to neuropsychiatric symptoms...
- Functional MRI/event-related potential study of sensory consonance and dissonance in musicians and nonmusicians
Ludovico Minati
Science Direction Unit, Department of Neuroradiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Neurologico Carlo Besta via Celoria 11, Milano, Italy
Neuroreport 20:87-92. 2009
..Using event-related potentials, the degree of sensory consonance was found to modulate the amplitude of the P1 in both groups and of the N2 in musicians only...
- Detecting conscious awareness from involuntary autonomic responses
Ryan B Scott
School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK
Conscious Cogn 20:936-42. 2011
..accordance, with the rule. Our results establish theoretically significant dissociations between conscious and unconscious processing and furnish new opportunities for clinical assessment of residual consciousness in patient populations...
- Detecting scale violations in absence of mismatch requires music-syntactic analysis: a further look at the early right anterior negativity (ERAN)
Tiina Kalda
School of Psychology, University of Sussex, BN1 9QH, Falmer, Brighton, UK
Brain Topogr 25:285-92. 2012
..Additional melodic context information appears necessary to support the representation of scale deviants in non-musicians, but not in musically-trained individuals, likely as a consequence of stronger pre-existing representations...
- Effect of diffusion-sensitizing gradient timings on the exponential, biexponential and diffusional kurtosis model parameters: in-vivo measurements in the rat thalamus
Ludovico Minati
Scientific Department, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, Milan, Italy
MAGMA 23:115-21. 2010
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- Direct skin-to-skin versus indirect touch modulates neural responses to stroking versus tapping
Inge U Kress
Psychiatry, Clinical Imaging Science Centre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, UK
Neuroreport 22:646-51. 2011
..This empirical observation indicates that, to ensure ecological validity, studies of affective touch processing should be performed with stimuli delivered with direct interpersonal contact rather than inanimate objects...
- Quantitation of normal metabolite concentrations in six brain regions by in-vivoH-MR spectroscopy
Ludovico Minati
Scientific Department Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy
J Med Phys 35:154-63. 2010
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- Rapid generation of biexponential and diffusional kurtosis maps using multi-layer perceptrons: a preliminary experience
Ludovico Minati
Fondazione Istituto Nazionale Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, Milano, Italy
MAGMA 21:299-305. 2008
..To investigate whether multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) could be used to determine biexponential and diffusional kurtosis model parameters directly from diffusion-weighted images...
- Resting-state brain networks: literature review and clinical applications
Cristina Rosazza
Scientific Department, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy
Neurol Sci 32:773-85. 2011
..We also discuss some examples of existing clinical applications, such as in Alzheimer's disease, and emerging possibilities such as in pre-operative mapping and disorders of consciousness...
- Current concepts in Alzheimer's disease: a multidisciplinary review
Ludovico Minati
Science Direction Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 24:95-121. 2009
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Biexponential and diffusional kurtosis imaging, and generalised diffusion-tensor imaging (GDTI) with rank-4 tensors: a study in a group of healthy subjectsLudovico Minati
Scientific Direction Unit, Fondazione Istituto Nazionale Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, Milan, Italy
MAGMA 20:241-53. 2007
..The former can be removed using the biexponential and diffusional kurtosis models, the latter using generalised diffusion-tensor imaging. This study provides normative data for these three models...
