Wael F Asaad

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Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Achieving behavioral control with millisecond resolution in a high-level programming environment
    Wael F Asaad
    Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 173:235-40. 2008
  2. ncbi A flexible software tool for temporally-precise behavioral control in Matlab
    Wael F Asaad
    Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 174:245-58. 2008
  3. ncbi Encoding of both positive and negative reward prediction errors by neurons of the primate lateral prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus
    Wael F Asaad
    Rhodan Center for Nervous System Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    J Neurosci 31:17772-87. 2011
  4. ncbi Human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex neurons mediate ongoing behavioural adaptation
    Sameer A Sheth
    Nayef Al Rodhan Laboratories, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Nature 488:218-21. 2012
  5. ncbi Risk factors for hemorrhage during microelectrode-guided deep brain stimulation and the introduction of an improved microelectrode design
    Sharona Ben-Haim
    Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Neurosurgery 64:754-62; discussion 762-3. 2009

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Publications5

  1. ncbi Achieving behavioral control with millisecond resolution in a high-level programming environment
    Wael F Asaad
    Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 173:235-40. 2008
    ..However, we demonstrate here that, when proper measures are taken to handle the various sources of temporal error, accuracy can be achieved at the 1 ms time-scale that is relevant for the alignment of behavioral and neural events...
  2. ncbi A flexible software tool for temporally-precise behavioral control in Matlab
    Wael F Asaad
    Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 174:245-58. 2008
    ..In this report, we describe the design of our system, benchmark its performance in a real-world setting, and describe some key features...
  3. ncbi Encoding of both positive and negative reward prediction errors by neurons of the primate lateral prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus
    Wael F Asaad
    Rhodan Center for Nervous System Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    J Neurosci 31:17772-87. 2011
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  4. ncbi Human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex neurons mediate ongoing behavioural adaptation
    Sameer A Sheth
    Nayef Al Rodhan Laboratories, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Nature 488:218-21. 2012
    ..In situations with stable cognitive demands, this signal promotes efficiency by hastening responses, but in situations with changing demands it engenders accuracy by delaying responses...
  5. ncbi Risk factors for hemorrhage during microelectrode-guided deep brain stimulation and the introduction of an improved microelectrode design
    Sharona Ben-Haim
    Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Neurosurgery 64:754-62; discussion 762-3. 2009
    ..We examined the factors associated with hemorrhage after DBS surgery and evaluated a modified microelectrode design that may improve the safety of this procedure...