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Kelvin O. Lim is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research spans various subfields including cognitive neuroscience, neurology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics, with primary focus areas including functional brain connectivity studies, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, mental health research topics, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, advanced MRI techniques and applications, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Significant recent publications by Kelvin O. Lim include:

  • A randomized, double-blind, active placebo-controlled study of efficacy, safety, and durability of repeated vs single subanesthetic ketamine for treatment-resistant depression (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Emerging ethical issues raised by highly portable MRI research in remote and resource-limited international settings (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Identifying response and predictive biomarkers for Transcranial magnetic stimulation outcomes: protocol and rationale for a mechanistic study of functional neuroimaging and behavioral biomarkers in veterans with Pharmacoresistant depression (2021, BMC Psychiatry)
  • Validation of ketamine as a pharmacological model of thalamic dysconnectivity across the illness course of schizophrenia (2022, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) elicits stimulus-specific enhancement of cortical plasticity (2020, NeuroImage)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Kelvin O. Lim include Bryon A. Mueller, Vince D. Calhoun, Daniel H. Mathalon, Adrian Preda, and Jazmin Camchong.

Lim has published in several notable venues with the highest number of publications appearing in Biological Psychiatry, followed by bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain Stimulation, UNC Libraries, and NeuroImage.

Best Publications

  • A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study of changes in brain morphology from infancy to late adulthood.

    Adolf Pfefferbaum;Daniel H. Mathalon;Edith V. Sullivan;Jody M. Rawles

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

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

  • Age-related decline in brain white matter anisotropy measured with spatially corrected echo-planar diffusion tensor imaging.

    Adolf Pfefferbaum;Edith V. Sullivan;Maj Hedehus;Kelvin O. Lim

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Brain Gray and White Matter Volume Loss Accelerates with Aging in Chronic Alcoholics: A Quantitative MRI Study

    Adolf Pfefferbaum;Kelvin O. Lim;Kelvin O. Lim;Robert B. Zipursky;Robert B. Zipursky;Daniel H. Mathalon;Daniel H. Mathalon

  • Frontal Lobe Volume Loss Observed with Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Older Chronic Alcoholics

    Adolf Pfefferbaum;Edith V. Sullivan;Edith V. Sullivan;Daniel H. Mathalon;Kelvin O. Lim;Kelvin O. Lim

  • Compromised white matter tract integrity in schizophrenia inferred from diffusion tensor imaging.

    Kelvin O. Lim;Kelvin O. Lim;Maj Hedehus;Michael Moseley;Alexander de Crespigny

  • Widespread cerebral gray matter volume deficits in schizophrenia.

    Robert B. Zipursky;Kelvin O. Lim;Kelvin O. Lim;Edith V. Sullivan;Edith V. Sullivan;Byron W. Brown

  • Longitudinal Changes in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain Volumes in Abstinent and Relapsed Alcoholics

    A. Pfefferbaum;E. V. Sullivan;E. V. Sullivan;D. H. Mathalon;P. K. Shear

  • Combined event-related fMRI and EEG evidence for temporal-parietal cortex activation during target detection

    V Menon;J M Ford;K O Lim;G H Glover

  • Altered Resting State Complexity in Schizophrenia

    Danielle S. Bassett;Brent G. Nelson;Bryon A. Mueller;Jazmin Camchong

  • Early-stage visual processing and cortical amplification deficits in schizophrenia.

    Pamela D. Butler;Pamela D. Butler;Vance Zemon;Isaac Schechter;Alice M. Saperstein

  • Functional Connectivity in the Cognitive Control Network and the Default Mode Network in Late-life Depression

    George S. Alexopoulos;Matthew J. Hoptman;Matthew J. Hoptman;Dora Kanellopoulos;Christopher F. Murphy

  • Equivalent disruption of regional white matter microstructure in ageing healthy men and women.

    Edith V. Sullivan;Elfar Adalsteinsson;Maj Hedehus;Catherine Ju

  • Segmentation of MR brain images into cerebrospinal fluid spaces, white and gray matter.

    Kelvin O. Lim;Adolf Pfefferbaum;Adolf Pfefferbaum

  • Altered Functional and Anatomical Connectivity in Schizophrenia

    Jazmin Camchong;Angus W. MacDonald;Christopher Bell;Bryon A. Mueller

  • Anterior hippocampal volume deficits in nonamnesic, aging chronic alcoholics.

    Edith V. Sullivan;Laura Marsh;Laura Marsh;Daniel H. Mathalon;Daniel H. Mathalon;Kelvin O. Lim;Kelvin O. Lim

  • Visual inspection of independent components: Defining a procedure for artifact removal from fMRI data

    Robert E. Kelly;George S. Alexopoulos;Zhishun Wang;Faith M. Gunning

  • In vivo spectroscopic quantification of the N-acetyl moiety, creatine, and choline from large volumes of brain gray and white matter: effects of normal aging.

    Adolf Pfefferbaum;Adolf Pfefferbaum;Elfar Adalsteinsson;Daniel Spielman;Edith V. Sullivan

  • Frontal white matter microstructure and treatment response of late-life depression: a preliminary study.

    George S. Alexopoulos;Dimitris N. Kiosses;Steven J. Choi;Christopher F. Murphy

Frequent Co-Authors

Adolf Pfefferbaum
Adolf Pfefferbaum Stanford University
Bryon A. Mueller
Bryon A. Mueller University of Minnesota
Edith V. Sullivan
Edith V. Sullivan Stanford University
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco
Vince D. Calhoun
Vince D. Calhoun Georgia State University
Matthew J. Hoptman
Matthew J. Hoptman Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Jessica A. Turner
Jessica A. Turner The Ohio State University
Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
Bonnie Klimes-Dougan University of Minnesota
Aysenil Belger
Aysenil Belger University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ryan L. Muetzel
Ryan L. Muetzel Erasmus University Rotterdam

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