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Overview

Amir Shmuel is affiliated with the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital in Canada.

The primary fields of study engaged by Amir Shmuel include Medicine and Neuroscience. Within these fields, their work particularly spans the subfields of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

The research topics covered in their publications focus on:

  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders

Frequent publication venues for Amir Shmuel's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • NeuroImage
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Neuron

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Amir Shmuel are:

  • Aocai Yang
  • Bing Liu
  • Jixin Luan
  • Guolin Ma
  • Kuan Lv

Recent papers featuring Amir Shmuel include:

  • "Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging," 2020, Neuron
  • "Toward next-generation primate neuroscience: A collaboration-based strategic plan for integrative neuroimaging," 2021, Neuron
  • "Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and their underlying neural mechanisms evaluated with magnetic resonance imaging-based brain connectivity network analyses," 2023, European Journal of Radiology Open
  • "Evaluation of whole-brain oxygen metabolism in Alzheimer's disease using QSM and quantitative BOLD," 2023, NeuroImage
  • "Immune-related lncRNAs signature and radiomics signature predict the prognosis and immune microenvironment of glioblastoma multiforme," 2024, Journal of Translational Medicine

Best Publications

  • Negative functional MRI response correlates with decreases in neuronal activity in monkey visual area V1.

    Amir Shmuel;Mark Augath;Axel Oeltermann;Nikos K Logothetis

  • Sustained Negative BOLD, Blood Flow and Oxygen Consumption Response and Its Coupling to the Positive Response in the Human Brain

    Amir Shmuel;Essa Yacoub;Josef Pfeuffer;Pierre Francois Van de Moortele

  • Neuronal correlates of spontaneous fluctuations in fMRI signals in monkey visual cortex: Implications for functional connectivity at rest

    Amir Shmuel;David A. Leopold

  • Imaging brain function in humans at 7 Tesla

    Essa Yacoub;Amir Shmuel;Josef Pfeuffer;Pierre Francois Van De Moortele

  • Robust detection of ocular dominance columns in humans using Hahn Spin Echo BOLD functional MRI at 7 Tesla.

    Essa Yacoub;Amir Shmuel;Amir Shmuel;Nikos K. Logothetis;Kamil Ugurbil;Kamil Ugurbil

  • Spatio-temporal point-spread function of fMRI signal in human gray matter at 7 Tesla.

    Amir Shmuel;Essa Yacoub;Denis Chaimow;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Functional Organization for Direction of Motion and Its Relationship to Orientation Maps in Cat Area 18

    Amir Shmuel;Amiram Grinvald

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging

    Michael P. Milham;Michael P. Milham;Lei Ai;Bonhwang Koo;Ting Xu

  • Signal and noise characteristics of Hahn SE and GE BOLD fMRI at 7 T in humans

    Essa Yacoub;Pierre-Francois Van De Moortele;Amir Shmuel;Kâmil Uğurbil

  • Mapping the Organization of Axis of Motion Selective Features in Human Area MT Using High-Field fMRI

    Jan Zimmermann;Rainer Goebel;Rainer Goebel;Federico De Martino;Federico De Martino;Pierre-Francois van de Moortele

  • Pyramidal neurons are "neurogenic hubs" in the neurovascular coupling response to whisker stimulation.

    Clotilde Lecrux;Xavier Toussay;Ara Kocharyan;Priscilla Fernandes

  • Zoomed Functional Imaging in the Human Brain at 7 Tesla with Simultaneous High Spatial and High Temporal Resolution

    Josef Pfeuffer;Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele;Essa Yacoub;Amir Shmuel

  • Investigation of the initial dip in fMRI at 7 Tesla.

    Essa Yacoub;Amir Shmuel;Josef Pfeuffer;Pierre‐Francois Van De Moortele

  • Global and system-specific resting-state fMRI fluctuations are uncorrelated: principal component analysis reveals anti-correlated networks.

    Felix Carbonell;Pierre Bellec;Amir Shmuel

  • Perfusion‐based high‐resolution functional imaging in the human brain at 7 Tesla

    Josef Pfeuffer;Josef Pfeuffer;Gregor Adriany;Amir Shmuel;Essa Yacoub

  • Retinotopic axis specificity and selective clustering of feedback projections from V2 to V1 in the owl monkey.

    Amir Shmuel;Maria Korman;Anna Sterkin;Michal Harel

  • Mechanisms underlying decoding at 7 T: ocular dominance columns, broad structures, and macroscopic blood vessels in V1 convey information on the stimulated eye.

    Amir Shmuel;Denis Chaimow;Guenter Raddatz;Kamil Ugurbil;Kamil Ugurbil

  • Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging

    Michael Milham;Christopher I. Petkov;Daniel S. Margulies;Charles E. Schroeder

  • Variability of the coupling of blood flow and oxygen metabolism responses in the brain: a problem for interpreting BOLD studies but potentially a new window on the underlying neural activity

    Richard B. Buxton;Valerie E. M. Griffeth;Aaron B. Simon;Farshad Moradi

  • Performance of machine learning methods applied to structural MRI and ADAS cognitive scores in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease

    Salim Lahmiri;Amir Shmuel;Amir Shmuel

  • Neuronal correlates of spontaneous fluctuations in fMRI signals in monkey visual cortex: implications for functional connectivity at rest

    D Leopold

Frequent Co-Authors

Kamil Ugurbil
Kamil Ugurbil University of Minnesota
Essa Yacoub
Essa Yacoub University of Minnesota
Nikos K. Logothetis
Nikos K. Logothetis Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pedro Rosa-Neto
Pedro Rosa-Neto McGill University
Alain Dagher
Alain Dagher Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Pierre Bellec
Pierre Bellec University of Montreal
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele University of Minnesota
Xiaoping Hu
Xiaoping Hu University of California, Riverside
Amiram Grinvald
Amiram Grinvald Weizmann Institute of Science
Oury Monchi
Oury Monchi University of Montreal

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