The D'Esposito Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurology Lab develops and improves methods for designing experiments using functional MRI (fMRI) and transcranial stimulation (TMS), as well as methods for the acquisition and analysis of fMRI and TMS data.
Below is a full listing of this published scholarly work.
METHODOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS
Zarahn E, Aguirre GK, D’Esposito M. Empirical analyses of BOLD fMRI statistics. I. Spatially unsmoothed data collected under null-hypothesis conditions, NeuroImage, 5:179-197, 1997.
Aguirre GK, Zarahn E, D’Esposito M. Empirical analyses of BOLD fMRI statistics. II. Spatially smoothed data collected under null-hypothesis and experimental conditions, NeuroImage, 5:199-212, 1997.
Zarahn E, Aguirre G, D’Esposito M. A trial-based experimental design for functional MRI, NeuroImage, 6:122-138, 1997.
D’Esposito M, Zarahn E, Aguirre GK, Shin RK, Auerbach P, Alsop DC, Detre JA. The effect of pacing of experimental stimuli on observed functional MRI activity, NeuroImage, 6:113-121, 1997.
Aguirre GK, Zarahn E, D’Esposito M. A critique of the use of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) for the analysis of BOLD fMRI data, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 39:500-505, 1998
Aguirre G, Zarahn E, D’Esposito M. The inferential impact of global signal covariates in functional neuroimaging analyses, NeuroImage, 8:302-306, 1998.
Aguirre G, Zarahn E, D’Esposito M. The variability of human BOLD hemodynamic responses, NeuroImage, 8:360-369, 1998.
D’Esposito M, Zarahn E, Aguirre G. Event-related fMRI: implications for cognitive psychology, Psychological Bulletin, 125:155-64, 1999.
D’Esposito M, Zarahn E, Aguirre GK, Rypma B. The effect of normal aging on the coupling of neural activity to the BOLD hemodynamic response, NeuroImage, 10:6-14, 1999.
Aguirre GK, D’Esposito M. Experimental Design for Brain fMRI. In CTW. Moonen & PA Bandettini (Eds.), Functional MRI (pp. 369-380). Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1999.
Postle BR, Zarahn E, D’Esposito M. Using event-related fMRI to assess delay-period activity during performance of spatial and nonspatial working memory tasks, Brain Research Protocols, 5:57-66, 2000.
D’Esposito M, Deouell L, Gazzaley A. Alterations in the BOLD fMRI signal with ageing and disease: A challenge for neuroimaging. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4:863-72, 2003.
Sun FT, Miller LM, D’Esposito M. Measuring Inter-Regional Functional Connectivity Using Coherence and Partial Coherence Analyses of fMRI Data, NeuroImage, 21:647-58, 2004.
Handwerker DA, Ollinger JM, D’Esposito M. Variation of BOLD hemodynamic responses across brain regions and subjects and their effects on statistical analyses, NeuroImage, 21:1639-51, 2004.
Rissman J, Gazzaley A, D’Esposito M. Measuring functional connectivity during distinct stages of cognitive task, NeuroImage, 23:752-63, 2004.
Sun FT, Miller LM, D’Esposito M. Measuring temporal dynamics of functional networks using phase spectrum of fMRI data. NeuroImage, 28:227-37, 2005.
Fuhrmann-Alpert G, Sun FT, Handwerker D, D’Esposito M, Knight, RT. Spatio-temporal information analysis of event-related BOLD responses, NeuroImage, 34:1545-1561, 2007.
Kayser AS, Sun FT, D’Esposito M, A comparison of Granger causality with other multivariate techniques in fMRI analysis of the motor system, Human Brain Mapping, 30:3475-94, 2009.
Voytek B, D’Esposito M, Crone N, Knight RT. A method for event-related phase/amplitude coupling, Neuroimage, 64C:4-16-424, 2012.
Kayser AS, D’Esposito M. Neurotechnologies. In: V.S. Ramachandran, Editor. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, 2012.
Wittmann B, D’Esposito M. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: H. Cooper, Editor, APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2012.
Blumenfeld RS, Bliss DP, Perez P, D’Esposito M. CoCoTools: Open-source software for building connectomes using the CoCoMac anatomical database, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26:722-45, 2014.
Vytlacil J, Kayser AK, Miyakawa A, D’Esposito M. Identification of brainstem dopaminergic pathways using resting state functional MRI, PLoS ONE, 9:e87109, 2014.
Gratton C, Lee TG, D’Esposito M. Perfusion MRI indexes variability in the functional brain effects of theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation, PLoSOne, Jul 3;9(7):e101430, 2014.
D’Esposito M, Sreenivasan K, Kayser A. Functional MRI: Cognitive Neuroscience Applications. In: K. Ugurbil, K. Uludag, L.J. Berliner, Editors. FMRI: From Nuclear Spins to Brain Function, Springer, New York, 2015.
Kayser AS, D’Esposito M. Neurotechnologies. In: Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, 2017.
Toker D, Sommer FT, D’Esposito M. A simple method for detecting chaos in nature, Nature Communications Biology, 3:11, 2020.
Cook P, Hoard V, Sudipto Dolui S, Frederick B, Redfern R, Dennison S, Halaska B, Bloom J, Kruse-Elliott K, Whitmer E, Trumbull E, Berns G, Detre J, D’Esposito M, Gulland F, Reichmuth C, Johnson S, Field C, Inglis B. An MRI protocol for anatomical and functional evaluation of the California sea lion brain, J Neuroscience Methods, 353:109097, 2021.
Pappas I, Hector H, Haws K, Curran B, Kayser AS, D’Esposito M. Improved normalization of lesioned brains via cohort-specific templates, Human Brain Mapping, 42:4187-4204, 2021.
Kayser A, Chen A, D’Esposito M. Functional MRI: Cognitive Neuroscience Applications. In: SH Faro, FB Mohamed, M (Eds.) Functional Neuroradiology: Principles and Clinical Applications (2nd Edition). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, in press.
Helfrich RF, Knight RT, D’Esposito M. Methods to Study Human Memory. In: M.J. Kahana, A.D. Wagner (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory, Oxford University Press, New York, in press.
Farahani FV, Karwowski W, D’Esposito M, Betzel RF, Douglas PK, Sobczak AM, Bohaterewicz B, Marek T, Fafrowicz M,. Diurnal variations of resting-state fMRI data: a graph-based analysis, NeuroImage, in press.
Cookson SL, D’Esposito M. Evaluating the reliability, validity, and utility of overlapping networks: Implications for cognitive control, Human Brain Mapping, in press.
Riddle J, Scimeca J, Pagnotta MF, Inglis B, Sheltraw D, Muse-Fisher, C, D’Esposito M. A guide for concurrent TMS-fMRI to investigate functional brain networks, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, in press.