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Overview

Ali Mazaheri is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with an emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics covered in Mazaheri's work include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Mazaheri has published extensively, with frequent publication venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • NeuroImage
  • Brain Communications

Selected recent papers illustrate the focus areas of the research:

  • Sensorimotor Peak Alpha Frequency Is a Reliable Biomarker of Prolonged Pain Sensitivity, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • Understanding bilingual brain function and structure changes? U bet! A unified bilingual experience trajectory model, 2020, Journal of Neurolinguistics
  • Predicting postoperative pain in lung cancer patients using preoperative peak alpha frequency, 2022, British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • The oscillatory mechanisms associated with syntactic binding in healthy ageing, 2020, Neuropsychologia
  • Peak alpha frequency as a candidate biomarker of pain sensitivity: the importance of distinguishing slow from slowing, 2022, NeuroImage

Frequent co-authors associated with Mazaheri's work include:

  • Katrien Segaert
  • Andrew J. Furman
  • David A. Seminowicz
  • Roksana Markiewicz
  • Andrea Krott

Best Publications

  • Shaping functional architecture by oscillatory alpha activity : gating by inhibition

    Ole Jensen;Ali Mazaheri

  • Deep brain stimulation restores frontostriatal network activity in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Martijn Figee;Judy Luigjes;Ruud Smolders;Carlos-Eduardo Valencia-Alfonso

  • Prestimulus alpha and mu activity predicts failure to inhibit motor responses.

    Ali Mazaheri;Ingrid L.C. Nieuwenhuis;Hanneke van Dijk;Ole Jensen

  • The functional role of alpha-band activity in attentional processing: the current zeitgeist and future outlook.

    Rosanne M. Van Diepen;John J Foxe;Ali Mazaheri

  • Region-specific modulations in oscillatory alpha activity serve to facilitate processing in the visual and auditory modalities

    Ali Mazaheri;Martine R. van Schouwenburg;Martine R. van Schouwenburg;Andrew Dimitrijevic;Damiaan Denys;Damiaan Denys

  • Asymmetric amplitude modulations of brain oscillations generate slow evoked responses

    Ali Mazaheri;Ole Jensen

  • Deep brain stimulation in addiction: a review of potential brain targets

    J. Luigjes;W. Van den Brink;M.G.P. Feenstra;P. Van den Munckhof

  • Rhythmic Pulsing: Linking Ongoing Brain Activity with Evoked Responses

    Ali Mazaheri;Ole Jensen

  • Posterior α activity is not phase-reset by visual stimuli

    Ali Mazaheri;Ole Jensen

  • Functional Disconnection of Frontal Cortex and Visual Cortex in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Ali Mazaheri;Sharon Coffey-Corina;George R. Mangun;Evelijne M. Bekker

  • Modulations in oscillatory activity with amplitude asymmetry can produce cognitively relevant event-related responses

    Hanneke van Dijk;Jurrian van der Werf;Ali Mazaheri;W. Pieter Medendorp

  • EEG spectral dynamics during discrimination of auditory and visual targets

    Ali Mazaheri;Terence W. Picton

  • Modulation of Visually Evoked Cortical fMRI Responses by Phase of Ongoing Occipital Alpha Oscillations

    Rene Scheeringa;Ali Mazaheri;Ingo Bojak;David G. Norris Norris

  • Cerebral peak alpha frequency predicts individual differences in pain sensitivity

    Andrew J. Furman;Timothy J. Meeker;Jeremy C. Rietschel;Sooyoung Yoo

  • Facilitation and inhibition in attention: Functional dissociation of pre-stimulus alpha activity, P1, and N1 components

    Heleen A. Slagter;S. Prinssen;L. C. Reteig;Ali Mazaheri

  • Effective deep brain stimulation in heroin addiction: a case report with complementary intracranial electroencephalogram.

    Carlos-Eduardo Valencia-Alfonso;Judy Luigjes;Ruud Smolders;Michael X. Cohen

  • Beyond ERPs: Oscillatory neuronal dynamics

    Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen;Ali Mazaheri;Ole Jensen

  • Attention and temporal expectations modulate power, not phase, of ongoing alpha oscillations

    Rosanne M. van Diepen;Michael X. Cohen;Damiaan Denys;Ali Mazaheri

  • The Caveats of observing Inter-Trial Phase-Coherence in Cognitive Neuroscience.

    Rosanne Maria van Diepen;Ali Mazaheri

  • Differential Oscillatory Electroencephalogram Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Subtypes and Typically Developing Adolescents

    Ali Mazaheri;Catherine Fassbender;Sharon Coffey-Corina;Tadeus A. Hartanto

Frequent Co-Authors

Damiaan Denys
Damiaan Denys University of Amsterdam
Ole Jensen
Ole Jensen University of Oxford
Martijn Figee
Martijn Figee Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Jane E. Raymond
Jane E. Raymond University of Birmingham
David A. Seminowicz
David A. Seminowicz University of Maryland, Baltimore
Heleen A. Slagter
Heleen A. Slagter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
George R. Mangun
George R. Mangun University of California, Davis
Jos A. Bosch
Jos A. Bosch University of Amsterdam
Suzanne Higgs
Suzanne Higgs University of Birmingham

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