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Athena Demertzi

Athena Demertzi

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Neuroscience

D-Index
49
Citations
9800
World Ranking
5942
National Ranking
75

Overview

Athena Demertzi is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within neuroscience and medicine, focusing particularly on cognitive and clinical aspects of brain function.

The primary areas of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Their subfields of interest further specify the focus as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Neurology

The main themes in Demertzi's body of work cover:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

Their publication record includes frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Brain Sciences
  • Science Advances
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Athena Demertzi include:

  • "Perturbations in dynamical models of whole-brain activity dissociate between the level and stability of consciousness," 2021, published in PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Covert Cognition in Disorders of Consciousness: A Meta-Analysis," 2020, published in Brain Sciences
  • "In vivo mapping of pharmacologically induced functional reorganization onto the human brain's neurotransmitter landscape," 2023, published in Science Advances
  • "Mind blanking is a distinct mental state linked to a recurrent brain profile of globally positive connectivity during ongoing mentation," 2022, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Low-dimensional organization of global brain states of reduced consciousness," 2023, published in Cell Reports

Athena Demertzi frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Steven Laureys
  • Paradeisios Alexandros Boulakis
  • Vincent Bonhomme
  • Naji Alnagger
  • Sepehr Mortaheb

Best Publications

  • Diagnostic precision of PET imaging and functional MRI in disorders of consciousness: a clinical validation study

    Johan Stender;Johan Stender;Olivia Gosseries;Marie Aurélie Bruno;Vanessa Charland-Verville

  • Two distinct neuronal networks mediate the awareness of environment and of self

    Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse;Athena Demertzi;Manuel Schabus;Quentin Noirhomme

  • Human consciousness is supported by dynamic complex patterns of brain signal coordination

    Athena Demertzi;Athena Demertzi;Enzo Tagliazucchi;Stanislas Dehaene;Stanislas Dehaene;Gustavo Deco

  • Intrinsic functional connectivity differentiates minimally conscious from unresponsive patients

    Athena Demertzi;Georgios Antonopoulos;Lizette Heine;Henning U. Voss

  • tDCS in patients with disorders of consciousness Sham-controlled randomized double-blind study

    Aurore Thibaut;Marie-Aurélie Bruno;Didier Ledoux;Athena Demertzi

  • Resting State Networks and Consciousness: Alterations of Multiple Resting State Network Connectivity in Physiological, Pharmacological, and Pathological Consciousness States

    Lizette Heine;Andrea Soddu;Francisco Gómez;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse

  • Functional neuroanatomy underlying the clinical subcategorization of minimally conscious state patients.

    Marie-Aurélie Bruno;Steve Majerus;Mélanie Boly;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse

  • Neural correlates of consciousness in patients who have emerged from a minimally conscious state: a cross-sectional multimodal imaging study

    Carol Di Perri;Mohamed Ali Bahri;Enrico Amico;Aurore Thibaut

  • A human brain network derived from coma-causing brainstem lesions

    David Fischer;A.D Boes;Athina Demertzi;H.C Evrard

  • A survey on self-assessed well-being in a cohort of chronic locked-in syndrome patients: happy majority, miserable minority

    Marie-Aurélie Bruno;Jan L Bernheim;Didier Ledoux;Frédéric Pellas

  • Life can be worth living in locked-in syndrome.

    D Lulé;C Zickler;S Häcker;M A Bruno

  • The Nociception Coma Scale: a new tool to assess nociception in disorders of consciousness.

    Caroline Schnakers;Camille Chatelle;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse;Steve Majerus

  • Multiple fMRI system-level baseline connectivity is disrupted in patients with consciousness alterations

    Athena Demertzi;Francisco Gómez;Julia Sophia Crone;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse

  • Auditory Resting-State Network Connectivity in Tinnitus: A Functional MRI Study

    Audrey Maudoux;Philippe Lefebvre;Jean-Evrard Cabay;Athena Demertzi

  • Consciousness supporting networks.

    Athena Demertzi;Andrea Soddu;Steven Laureys

  • Probing command following in patients with disorders of consciousness using a brain-computer interface.

    Dorothée Lulé;Quentin Noirhomme;Sonja C. Kleih;Sonja C. Kleih;Camille Chatelle

  • Automated EEG entropy measurements in coma, vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state.

    Olivia Gosseries;Caroline Schnakers;Didier Ledoux;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse

  • Resting-state Network-specific Breakdown of Functional Connectivity during Ketamine Alteration of Consciousness in Volunteers.

    Vincent Bonhomme;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse;Athena Demertzi;Marie-Aurélie Bruno

  • The effect of spaceflight and microgravity on the human brain

    Angelique Van Ombergen;Athena Demertzi;Elena Tomilovskaya;Ben Jeurissen

  • Metabolic activity in external and internal awareness networks in severely brain-damaged patients.

    Aurore Thibaut;Marie-Aurélie Bruno;Camille Chatelle;Olivia Gosseries

  • Hypnotic modulation of resting state fMRI default mode and extrinsic network connectivity

    A. Demertzi;A. Soddu;M.-E. Faymonville;M.A. Bahri

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Laureys
Steven Laureys University of Liège
Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse
Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse University of Liège
Andrea Soddu
Andrea Soddu University of Western Ontario
Marie-Aurélie Bruno
Marie-Aurélie Bruno University of Liège
Olivia Gosseries
Olivia Gosseries University of Liège
Mélanie Boly
Mélanie Boly University of Wisconsin–Madison
Quentin Noirhomme
Quentin Noirhomme University of Liège
Camille Chatelle
Camille Chatelle Harvard Medical School
Aurore Thibaut
Aurore Thibaut University of Liège
Lionel Naccache
Lionel Naccache Sorbonne University

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