2024
Multimodal measures of spontaneous brain activity reveal both common and divergent patterns of cortical functional organization
Vafaii H, Mandino F, Desrosiers-Grégoire G, O’Connor D, Markicevic M, Shen X, Ge X, Herman P, Hyder F, Papademetris X, Chakravarty M, Crair M, Constable R, Lake E, Pessoa L. Multimodal measures of spontaneous brain activity reveal both common and divergent patterns of cortical functional organization. Nature Communications 2024, 15: 229. PMID: 38172111, PMCID: PMC10764905, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44363-z.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Spatiotemporal features of neurovascular (un)coupling with stimulus-induced activity and hypercapnia challenge in cerebral cortex and olfactory bulb
James S, Sanggaard S, Akif A, Mishra S, Sanganahalli B, Blumenfeld H, Verhagen J, Hyder F, Herman P. Spatiotemporal features of neurovascular (un)coupling with stimulus-induced activity and hypercapnia challenge in cerebral cortex and olfactory bulb. Cerebrovascular And Brain Metabolism Reviews 2023, 43: 1891-1904. PMID: 37340791, PMCID: PMC10676132, DOI: 10.1177/0271678x231183887.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVasodilatory responseCerebral cortexNeurovascular couplingOlfactory bulbNeuronal activityBrief sensory stimuliRegional neurovascular couplingStimulus-induced activityHypercapnia challengeVascular toneNeuronal deactivationHemodynamic responseNeuronal excitabilityNeuronal responsesCalcium transientsBrain functionHemodynamic signalsSensory stimuliVasodilationHypercapniaCortexMiceCareful appraisalStimuliMetabolic waste
2022
Fluorescently-tagged magnetic protein nanoparticles for high-resolution optical and ultra-high field magnetic resonance dual-modal cerebral angiography
Mishra S, Herman P, Crair M, Constable R, Walsh J, Akif A, Verhagen J, Hyder F. Fluorescently-tagged magnetic protein nanoparticles for high-resolution optical and ultra-high field magnetic resonance dual-modal cerebral angiography. Nanoscale 2022, 14: 17770-17788. PMID: 36437785, PMCID: PMC9850399, DOI: 10.1039/d2nr04878g.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProtein nanoparticlesParamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticlesIron oxide nanoparticlesMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrastRelaxivity ratioOxide nanoparticlesRapid renal clearanceNanoparticlesMRI propertiesImaging contrastMRI contrastCitric acidNeuroscience applicationsFluorescent dyeBlood biochemical assaysUnambiguous detectionRelaxivityCerebral angiographyDyePlatformMajor blood vesselsBiochemical assaysTechnologyBrain capillariesFluorescence angiography