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Heidi W. Thermenos is affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the United States and specializes in neuroscience, particularly cognitive neuroscience. Their research encompasses several interconnected subfields including psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, cancer research, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their research focuses primarily on functional brain connectivity studies, which appear prominently across their work. They also contribute extensively to schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health research topics, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, and neuroscience and music perception.

Recent publications by Thermenos include:

  • Functional connectivity associated with improvement in emotion management after cognitive enhancement therapy in early-course schizophrenia, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Hyperactivation of Posterior Default Mode Network During Self-Referential Processing in Children at Familial High-Risk for Psychosis, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Cross-paradigm connectivity: reliability, stability, and utility, 2020, Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Altered working memory-related brain activity in children at familial high risk for psychosis: A preliminary study, 2022, Schizophrenia Research
  • Default Mode Network Hyperactivation During Self-Referential Processing in Children at Familial High-Risk for Psychosis, 2021, Biological Psychiatry

Thermenos frequently publishes in venues such as UNC Libraries, Psychological Medicine, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Brain Imaging and Behavior, and Schizophrenia Research.

The scientist has collaborated with several coauthors repeatedly, including Larry J. Seidman, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Carrie E. Bearden, Jean Addington, and Kristin S. Cadenhead, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Hyperactivity and hyperconnectivity of the default network in schizophrenia and in first-degree relatives of persons with schizophrenia

    S. Whitfield-Gabrieli;Heidi Wencel Thermenos;Snezana M. Milanovic;Ming T. Tsuang

  • Genetic and environmental influences on the size of specific brain regions in midlife: the VETSA MRI study.

    William S. Kremen;Elizabeth Prom-Wormley;Matthew S. Panizzon;Lisa T. Eyler;Lisa T. Eyler

  • Cerebello-thalamo-cortical hyperconnectivity as a state-independent functional neural signature for psychosis prediction and characterization.

    Hengyi Cao;Oliver Y. Chén;Yoonho Chung;Jennifer K. Forsyth

  • Multisite reliability of MR-based functional connectivity.

    Stephanie Noble;Dustin Scheinost;Emily S. Finn;Xilin Shen

  • Altered brain activation in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in adolescents and young adults at genetic risk for schizophrenia: An fMRI study of working memory

    Larry J. Seidman;Heidi W. Thermenos;Heidi W. Thermenos;Heidi W. Thermenos;Russell A. Poldrack;Nicole K. Peace

  • Imaging Genetic Liability to Schizophrenia: Systematic Review of fMRI Studies of Patients’ Nonpsychotic Relatives

    Angus W. MacDonald;Heidi W. Thermenos;Heidi W. Thermenos;M Deanna;Larry J. Seidman;Larry J. Seidman

  • Cortical Thickness Is Influenced by Regionally Specific Genetic Factors

    Lars M. Rimol;Lars M. Rimol;Matthew S. Panizzon;Christine Fennema-Notestine;Lisa T. Eyler;Lisa T. Eyler

  • Gray Matter Alterations in Schizophrenia High-Risk Youth and Early-Onset Schizophrenia: A Review of Structural MRI Findings

    Benjamin K. Brent;Heidi W. Thermenos;Matcheri S. Keshavan;Matcheri S. Keshavan;Matcheri S. Keshavan;Larry J. Seidman

  • White Matter Microstructure in Individuals at Clinical High Risk of Psychosis: A Whole-Brain Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

    Christian Clemm von Hohenberg;Ofer Pasternak;Marek Kubicki;Thomas Ballinger

  • A review of neuroimaging studies of young relatives of individuals with schizophrenia: a developmental perspective from schizotaxia to schizophrenia.

    H.W. Thermenos;M.S. Keshavan;M.S. Keshavan;M.S. Keshavan;R.J. Juelich;E. Molokotos

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging during auditory verbal working memory in nonpsychotic relatives of persons with schizophrenia: a pilot study

    Heidi W. Thermenos;Larry J. Seidman;Hans Breiter;Hans Breiter;Jill M. Goldstein;Jill M. Goldstein

  • The effect of working memory performance on functional MRI in schizophrenia.

    Heidi W. Thermenos;Heidi W. Thermenos;Heidi W. Thermenos;Jill M. Goldstein;Stephen L. Buka;Stephen L. Buka;Russell A. Poldrack

  • Salivary cortisol and prefrontal cortical thickness in middle-aged men: A twin study

    William S. Kremen;William S. Kremen;Robert C. O'Brien;Matthew S. Panizzon;Elizabeth Prom-Wormley

  • An fMRI study of working memory in persons with bipolar disorder or at genetic risk for bipolar disorder.

    Heidi W. Thermenos;Jill M. Goldstein;Jill M. Goldstein;Snezana M. Milanovic;Snezana M. Milanovic;Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

  • Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Regional Cortical Surface Area in Humans: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Twin Study

    Lisa T. Eyler;Lisa T. Eyler;Elizabeth Prom-Wormley;Matthew S. Panizzon;Allison R. Kaup

  • Self-disturbances as a possible premorbid indicator of schizophrenia risk: A neurodevelopmental perspective

    Benjamin K. Brent;Larry J. Seidman;Heidi W. Thermenos;Daphne J. Holt

  • Reliability of an fMRI paradigm for emotional processing in a multisite longitudinal study

    Dylan G. Gee;Sarah C. McEwen;Jennifer K. Forsyth;Kristen M. Haut

  • Reliability of neuroanatomical measurements in a multisite longitudinal study of youth at risk for psychosis.

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Frank Sun;Sarah Jacobson McEwen;Xenophon Papademetris

  • Regional prefrontal cortex gray matter volumes in youth at familial risk for schizophrenia from the Harvard Adolescent High Risk Study.

    Isabelle M. Rosso;Isabelle M. Rosso;Nikos Makris;Heidi W. Thermenos;Heidi W. Thermenos;Heidi W. Thermenos;Steven M. Hodge

  • Genetic patterns of correlation among subcortical volumes in humans: results from a magnetic resonance imaging twin study.

    Lisa T. Eyler;Lisa T. Eyler;Elizabeth Prom-Wormley;Christine Fennema-Notestine;Matthew S. Panizzon

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli Northeastern University
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Marek Kubicki
Marek Kubicki Brigham and Women's Hospital
Nikos Makris
Nikos Makris Brigham and Women's Hospital
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles
William S. Kremen
William S. Kremen University of California, San Diego
Elaine F. Walker
Elaine F. Walker Emory University
Scott W. Woods
Scott W. Woods Yale University
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco
Lynn E. DeLisi
Lynn E. DeLisi Harvard Medical School

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