2026 Aysenil Belger: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	67	2853	2609	1325	1191	240	19649

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award

Overview

Aysenil Belger is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans predominantly the field of neuroscience, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging methods.

The scientist's work covers multiple subfields including:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Behavioral Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Research topics extensively addressed by Belger include:

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Neuroscience and Music Perception
Stress Responses and Cortisol
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Schizophrenia Research and Treatment

Belger's recent scholarly output consists of papers such as:

"Multi-spatial-scale dynamic interactions between functional sources reveal sex-specific changes in schizophrenia" (2021), published in Network Neuroscience
"Identifying canonical and replicable multi-scale intrinsic connectivity networks in 100k+ resting-state fMRI datasets" (2023), published in Human Brain Mapping
"Aperiodic Neural Activity is a Better Predictor of Schizophrenia than Neural Oscillations" (2023), published in Clinical EEG and Neuroscience
"Reward Processing in Novelty Seekers: A Transdiagnostic Psychiatric Imaging Biomarker" (2021), published in Biological Psychiatry
"Mismatch Negativity in Response to Auditory Deviance and Risk for Future Psychosis in Youth at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis" (2022), published in JAMA Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Belger include:

Daniel H. Mathalon
Theo G.M. van Erp
Vince D. Calhoun
Adrian Preda
Bryon A. Mueller

The scientist has published notably in venues such as:

UNC Libraries
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Biological Psychiatry
Human Brain Mapping
Network Neuroscience

In 2007, Belger received the Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award, recognizing their contributions to their field.

Best Publications

Dynamic functional connectivity analysis reveals transient states of dysconnectivity in schizophrenia

E. Damaraju;E.A. Allen;E.A. Allen;A. Belger;J.M. Ford;J.M. Ford

1158
Citations
Cortical Brain Abnormalities in 4474 Individuals With Schizophrenia and 5098 Control Subjects via the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium

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1124
Citations
The early stages of schizophrenia: speculations on pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and therapeutic approaches

Jeffrey A. Lieberman;Diana Perkins;Aysenil Belger;Miranda Chakos

858
Citations
The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

838
Citations
Human Extrastriate Visual Cortex and the Perception of Faces, Words, Numbers, and Colors

Truett Allison;Gregory McCarthy;Anna Nobre;Aina Puce

720
Citations
NMDA receptor antagonist effects, cortical glutamatergic function, and schizophrenia: toward a paradigm shift in medication development.

John H. Krystal;D. Cyril D'Souza;Daniel Mathalon;Edward Perry

635
Citations
Electrophysiological Studies of Human Face Perception. II: Response Properties of Face-specific Potentials Generated in Occipitotemporal Cortex

Gregory McCarthy;Aina Puce;Aysenil Belger;Truett Allison

595
Citations
Interhemispheric interaction: how do the hemispheres divide and conquer a task?

Marie T. Banich;Aysenil Belger

428
Citations
Preliminary evidence of attenuation of the disruptive effects of the NMDA glutamate receptor antagonist, ketamine, on working memory by pretreatment with the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist, LY354740, in healthy human subjects

John H. Krystal;Walid Abi-Saab;Edward Perry;D. Cyril D’Souza

418
Citations
Association of Thalamic Dysconnectivity and Conversion to Psychosis in Youth and Young Adults at Elevated Clinical Risk

Alan Anticevic;Kristen Haut;John D. Murray;Grega Repovs

405
Citations
Comparative and Interactive Human Psychopharmacologic Effects of Ketamine and Amphetamine: Implications for Glutamatergic and Dopaminergic Model Psychoses and Cognitive Function

John H. Krystal;Edward B. Perry;Edward B. Perry;Ralitza Gueorguieva;Aysenil Belger

393
Citations
Working memory and DLPFC inefficiency in schizophrenia: The FBIRN study

S. G. Potkin;J. A. Turner;G. G. Brown;G. McCarthy

391
Citations
NMDA agonists and antagonists as probes of glutamatergic dysfunction and pharmacotherapies in neuropsychiatric disorders

John H. Krystal;D. Cyril D'Souza;Ismene L. Petrakis;Aysenil Belger

350
Citations
Transcranial magnetic stimulation of left temporoparietal cortex in three patients reporting hallucinated "voices".

Ralph E Hoffman;Nashaat N Boutros;Robert M Berman;Elizabeth Roessler

315
Citations
Midlatency evoked potentials attenuation and augmentation reflect different aspects of sensory gating.

Nashaat N Boutros;Aysenil Belger

292
Citations
Prefrontal activation evoked by infrequent target and novel stimuli in a visual target detection task: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

Eiji Kirino;Aysenil Belger;Patricia Goldman-Rakic;Gregory McCarthy

289
Citations
Dissociation of mnemonic and perceptual processes during spatial and nonspatial working memory using fMRI.

Aysenil Belger;Aina Puce;Aina Puce;John H. Krystal;John C. Gore

289
Citations
Neural Correlates of Impaired Cognitive-Behavioral Flexibility in Anorexia Nervosa

Arne Zastrow;Stefan Kaiser;Christoph Stippich;Stephan Walther

283
Citations
Test–retest and between-site reliability in a multicenter fMRI study

Lee Friedman;Hal Stern;Gregory G. Brown;Daniel H. Mathalon

278
Citations
Dysregulation of working memory and default‐mode networks in schizophrenia using independent component analysis, an fBIRN and MCIC study

Dae Il Kim;Dara S. Manoach;Daniel H. Mathalon;Jessica A. Turner

268
Citations
Comparison of four components of sensory gating in schizophrenia and normal subjects: a preliminary report.

Nashaat N Boutros;Aysenil Belger;Duane Campbell;Cyril D’Souza

257
Citations