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Kristina Simonyan

Kristina Simonyan

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Neuroscience

D-Index
44
Citations
5271
World Ranking
7265
National Ranking
3128

Kristina Simonyan publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristina Simonyan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 94 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Kristina Simonyan D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristina Simonyan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kristina Simonyan is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in several subfields including Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their scholarly work spans key topics such as neurological disorders and treatments, botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders, voice and speech disorders, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, functional brain connectivity studies, and advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications.

Simonyan has published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues including Movement Disorders, Neurology, Annals of Neurology, The Laryngoscope, and Human Brain Mapping. These venues reflect a strong focus on neurological and clinical research.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Simonyan are:

  • Laryngeal Dystonia, 2021, Neurology
  • A microstructural neural network biomarker for dystonia diagnosis identified by a DystoniaNet deep learning platform, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The large-scale structural connectome of task-specific focal dystonia, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Defining research priorities in dystonia, 2020, Neurology
  • Failure to breathe persists without air hunger or alarm following amygdala seizures, 2023, JCI Insight

Simonyan has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Lena C. O'Flynn, Laurie J. Ozelius, Nutan Sharma, Davide Valeriani, and Giovanni Battistella. These collaborations illustrate a network of coauthors actively engaged in neurological and clinical research domains.

Best Publications

  • Laryngeal Motor Cortex and Control of Speech in Humans

    Kristina Simonyan;Barry Horwitz

  • Neuroanatomical Changes due to Hearing Loss and Chronic Tinnitus: A Combined VBM and DTI Study

    Fatima T. Husain;Roberto E. Medina;Caroline W. Davis;Yvonne Szymko-Bennett

  • The laryngeal motor cortex: its organization and connectivity.

    Kristina Simonyan

  • Human brain activation during phonation and exhalation: common volitional control for two upper airway functions.

    Torrey M. J. Loucks;Christopher J. Poletto;Kristina Simonyan;Catherine L. Reynolds

  • Sensory stimulation activates both motor and sensory components of the swallowing system.

    Soren Y. Lowell;Christopher J. Poletto;Bethany R. Knorr-Chung;Richard C. Reynolds

  • Whispering dysphonia (DYT4 dystonia) is caused by a mutation in the TUBB4 gene

    Katja Lohmann;Robert A. Wilcox;Susen Winkler;Alfredo Ramirez;Alfredo Ramirez

  • Abnormal Activation of the Primary Somatosensory Cortex in Spasmodic Dysphonia: An fMRI Study

    Kristina Simonyan;Christy L. Ludlow

  • Focal white matter changes in spasmodic dysphonia: a combined diffusion tensor imaging and neuropathological study

    Kristina Simonyan;Fernanda Tovar-Moll;John Ostuni;Mark Hallett

  • Efferent subcortical projections of the laryngeal motorcortex in the rhesus monkey

    Kristina Simonyan;Uwe Jürgens

  • Functional But Not Structural Networks of the Human Laryngeal Motor Cortex Show Left Hemispheric Lateralization during Syllable But Not Breathing Production

    Kristina Simonyan;John Ostuni;Christy L. Ludlow;Barry Horwitz

  • Isolated Focal Dystonia as a Disorder of Large-Scale Functional Networks

    Giovanni Battistella;Pichet Termsarasab;Ritesh A. Ramdhani;Stefan Fuertinger

  • Dopamine regulation of human speech and bird song: a critical review.

    Kristina Simonyan;Barry Horwitz;Erich D. Jarvis

  • Functional neuroanatomy of human voluntary cough and sniff production

    Kristina Simonyan;Ziad S. Saad;Torrey M.J. Loucks;Christopher J. Poletto

  • Cortico-cortical projections of the motorcortical larynx area in the rhesus monkey.

    Kristina Simonyan;Uwe Jürgens

  • The Functional Connectome of Speech Control.

    Stefan Fuertinger;Barry Horwitz;Kristina Simonyan

  • Abnormal striatal dopaminergic neurotransmission during rest and task production in spasmodic dysphonia.

    Kristina Simonyan;Brian D. Berman;Brian D. Berman;Peter Herscovitch;Mark Hallett

  • Structural Organization of the Laryngeal Motor Cortical Network and Its Implication for Evolution of Speech Production.

    Veena Kumar;Paula L. Croxson;Kristina Simonyan

  • The direct basal ganglia pathway is hyperfunctional in focal dystonia

    Kristina Simonyan;Kristina Simonyan;Hyun Cho;Azadeh Hamzehei Sichani;Estee Rubien-Thomas

  • Abnormal Structure–Function Relationship in Spasmodic Dysphonia

    Kristina Simonyan;Christy L. Ludlow;Christy L. Ludlow

  • Afferent cortical connections of the motor cortical larynx area in the rhesus monkey.

    K. Simonyan;U. Jürgens

  • What’s special about task in dystonia? A voxel-based morphometry and diffusion weighted imaging study

    Ritesh A. Ramdhani;Veena Kumar;Miodrag Velickovic;Steven J. Frucht

  • Phenomenology, genetics, and CNS network abnormalities in laryngeal dystonia: A 30‐year experience

    Andrew Blitzer;Mitchell F. Brin;Kristina Simonyan;Laurie J. Ozelius

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurie J. Ozelius
Laurie J. Ozelius Harvard University
Christy L. Ludlow
Christy L. Ludlow James Madison University
Steven J. Frucht
Steven J. Frucht New York University
Barry Horwitz
Barry Horwitz National Institutes of Health
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Uwe Jürgens
Uwe Jürgens German Primate Center
Brian Berman
Brian Berman Virginia Commonwealth University
Richard B. Reilly
Richard B. Reilly Trinity College Dublin
Peter Herscovitch
Peter Herscovitch National Institutes of Health
Christine Klein
Christine Klein University of Lübeck

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