2022
Mental imagery content is associated with disease severity and specific brain functional connectivity changes in patients with Parkinson’s disease
Cherry J, Kamel S, Elfil M, Aravala S, Bayoumi A, Patel A, Sinha R, Tinaz S. Mental imagery content is associated with disease severity and specific brain functional connectivity changes in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Brain Imaging And Behavior 2022, 17: 161-171. PMID: 36434490, PMCID: PMC10050121, DOI: 10.1007/s11682-022-00749-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsImagery trainingFunctional connectivity changesMild Parkinson's diseaseVisual imagery trainingMental imagery trainingComplex cognitive processesConnectivity changesMotor imagery trainingBrain functional connectivity changesFunctional connectivity characteristicsExecutive processesMental imageryCognitive processesPerceptual experienceNeural correlatesBrain mechanismsImagery practiceImagery contentSensorimotor processesNeuropsychiatric patient populationsMotor functionMotor actsMotor enhancementBrain areasParkinson's disease
2019
How Spirituality May Mitigate Against Stress and Related Mental Disorders: a Review and Preliminary Neurobiological Evidence
McClintock C, Worhunsky P, Balodis I, Sinha R, Miller L, Potenza M. How Spirituality May Mitigate Against Stress and Related Mental Disorders: a Review and Preliminary Neurobiological Evidence. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports 2019, 6: 253-262. DOI: 10.1007/s40473-019-00195-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBrain mechanismsStress processingSelf-referential processingFunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) dataPotential brain mechanismsSpecific brain mechanismsImportant resilience factorMental disordersPreliminary fMRI dataStress-related psychopathologyMechanisms of psychopathologyDefault mode networkStress-related mental disordersCognitive processingNeurobiological evidenceNeural mechanismsNeural responsesNeuroscientific researchResilience factorsMagnetic resonance imaging dataNeural circuitryFMRI dataStress responsivityBrain regionsAcute stress