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Chris Rorden is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and neuroscience, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, epidemiology, neurology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their work covers a range of topics including neurobiology of language and bilingualism, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, acute ischemic stroke management, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, and dementia and cognitive impairment research.

Rorden has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, most notably Julius Fridriksson, Leonardo Bonilha, Roger Newman-Norlund, Janina Wilmskoetter, and Natalie Busby.

The scientist has published extensively in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain Communications, Nature Methods, Cortex, and NeuroImage Clinical.

Selected recent papers from Chris Rorden include:

  • Machine learning-based multimodal prediction of language outcomes in chronic aphasia, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Individualized response to semantic versus phonological aphasia therapies in stroke, 2021, Brain Communications
  • brainlife.io: a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research, 2024, Nature Methods
  • Neurodesk: an accessible, flexible and portable data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging, 2024, Nature Methods
  • Predictors beyond the lesion: Health and demographic factors associated with aphasia severity, 2022, Cortex

Best Publications

  • Stereotaxic Display of Brain Lesions

    Chris Rorden;Matthew Brett

  • Image processing and Quality Control for the first 10,000 brain imaging datasets from UK Biobank.

    Fidel Alfaro-Almagro;Mark Jenkinson;Neal K. Bangerter;Jesper L. R. Andersson

  • Improving Lesion-Symptom Mapping

    Chris Rorden;Hans-Otto Karnath;Leonardo Bonilha

  • Spatial normalization of brain images with focal lesions using cost function masking.

    Matthew Brett;Alexander P. Leff;Chris Rorden;John Ashburner

  • The first step for neuroimaging data analysis: DICOM to NIfTI conversion

    Xiangrui Li;Paul S. Morgan;John Ashburner;Jolinda Smith

  • The anatomy of visual neglect

    D.J Mort;P Malhotra;S.K Mannan;C Rorden

  • Using human brain lesions to infer function: a relic from a past era in the fMRI age?

    Chris Rorden;Hans-Otto Karnath

  • Age-specific CT and MRI templates for spatial normalization.

    Christopher Rorden;Leonardo Bonilha;Julius Fridriksson;Benjamin Bender

  • Lead-DBS v2: Towards a comprehensive pipeline for deep brain stimulation imaging.

    Andreas Horn;Ningfei Li;Till Anselm Dembek;Ari Kappel

  • The Anatomy of Spatial Neglect based on Voxelwise Statistical Analysis: A Study of 140 Patients

    Hans Otto Karnath;Monika Fruhmann Berger;Wilhelm Küker;Chris Rorden

  • Non-spatially lateralized mechanisms in hemispatial neglect.

    Masud Husain;Masud Husain;Chris Rorden

  • Using Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation to Treat Stroke Patients With Aphasia

    Julie M. Baker;Chris Rorden;Julius Fridriksson

  • Phasic alerting of neglect patients overcomes their spatial deficit in visual awareness

    Ian H. Robertson;Jason B. Mattingley;Chris Rorden;Chris Rorden;Jon Driver

  • The subcortical anatomy of human spatial neglect: putamen, caudate nucleus and pulvinar.

    Hans Otto Karnath;Marc Himmelbach;Chris Rorden

  • The anatomy of spatial neglect

    Hans-Otto Karnath;Christopher Rorden

  • Motor role of human inferior parietal lobe revealed in unilateral neglect patients.

    Jason B. Mattingley;Masud Husain;Chris Rorden;Christopher Kennard

  • Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Naming Reaction Time in Fluent Aphasia A Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Study

    Julius Fridriksson;Jessica D. Richardson;Julie M. Baker;Chris Rorden

  • Anatomy of aphasia revisited.

    Julius Fridriksson;Dirk Bart Den Ouden;Argye E. Hillis;Argye E. Hillis;Gregory Hickok

  • Mapping anterior temporal lobe language areas with fMRI: a multicenter normative study.

    Jeffrey R. Binder;William L. Gross;Jane B. Allendorfer;Leonardo Bonilha

  • The anatomy underlying acute versus chronic spatial neglect: a longitudinal study

    Hans-Otto Karnath;Hans-Otto Karnath;Johannes Rennig;Leif Johannsen;Leif Johannsen;Chris Rorden

  • Letters to Nature: Phasic alerting of neglect patients overcomes their spatial deficit in visual awareness

    I.H. Robertson;J.B. Mattingley;C. Rorden;J. Driver

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo Bonilha
Leonardo Bonilha Medical University of South Carolina
Julius Fridriksson
Julius Fridriksson University of South Carolina
Hans-Otto Karnath
Hans-Otto Karnath University of Tübingen
Argye E. Hillis
Argye E. Hillis Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Gregory Hickok
Gregory Hickok University of California, Irvine
Jason B. Mattingley
Jason B. Mattingley University of Queensland
Masud Husain
Masud Husain University of Oxford
Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht
Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht Medical University of South Carolina
Fernando Cendes
Fernando Cendes State University of Campinas
Gordon C. Baylis
Gordon C. Baylis Western Kentucky University

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