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Overview

Nouchine Hadjikhani is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields, including psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, clinical psychology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The primary topics of their work include:

  • Migraine and Headache Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Vestibular and Auditory Disorders
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors

Hadjikhani has published in a variety of research venues, with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Pain
  • Annals of Neurology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Migraine: disease characterisation, biomarkers, and precision medicine" (2021) in The Lancet
  • "Extra-Axial Inflammatory Signal in Parameninges in Migraine with Visual Aura" (2020) in Annals of Neurology
  • "[11C]PBR28 MR-PET imaging reveals lower regional brain expression of translocator protein (TSPO) in young adult males with autism spectrum disorder" (2020) in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "The trigeminal pathways" (2022) in Journal of Neurology
  • "Development of a parent-reported screening tool for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID): Initial validation and prevalence in 4-7-year-old Japanese children" (2021) in Appetite

Hadjikhani has authored many papers in collaboration with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Jakob Åsberg Johnels
  • Marco L. Loggia
  • Martyna A. Galazka
  • Christopher Gillberg
  • Vitaly Napadow

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of migraine aura revealed by functional MRI in human visual cortex

    Nouchine Hadjikhani;Margarita Sanchez del Rio;Ona Wu;Denis Schwartz

  • Functional Analysis of V3A and Related Areas in Human Visual Cortex

    Roger B. H. Tootell;Janine D. Mendola;Nouchine K. Hadjikhani;Patrick J. Ledden

  • The retinotopy of visual spatial attention.

    Roger B.H Tootell;Nouchine Hadjikhani;E.Kevin Hall;Sean Marrett

  • Anatomical Differences in the Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognition Network in Autism

    Nouchine Hadjikhani;Robert M. Joseph;Josh Snyder;Helen Tager-Flusberg

  • Retinotopy and color sensitivity in human visual cortical area V8.

    Nouchine Hadjikhani;Arthur K. Liu;Anders M. Dale;Patrick Cavanagh

  • Fear fosters flight: A mechanism for fear contagion when perceiving emotion expressed by a whole body

    Beatrice de Gelder;Josh Snyder;Doug Greve;George Gerard

  • A new highly penetrant form of obesity due to deletions on chromosome 16p11.2

    R. G. Walters;S. Jacquemont;A. Valsesia;A. Valsesia;A. Valsesia;A. J. de Smith

  • Epigenetic Modification of the FMR1 Gene in Fragile X Syndrome Is Associated with Differential Response to the mGluR5 Antagonist AFQ056

    Sébastien Jacquemont;Aurore Curie;Vincent des Portes;Maria Giulia Torrioli

  • Functional analysis of primary visual cortex (V1) in humans

    Roger B. H. Tootell;Nouchine K. Hadjikhani;Wim Vanduffel;Arthur K. Liu

  • Visual social attention in autism spectrum disorder: Insights from eye tracking studies.

    Quentin Guillon;Nouchine Hadjikhani;Nouchine Hadjikhani;Sophie Baduel;Bernadette Rogé

  • Mapping visual cortex in monkeys and humans using surface-based atlases

    David C Van Essen;James W Lewis;Heather A Drury;Nouchine Hadjikhani

  • Activation of the fusiform gyrus when individuals with autism spectrum disorder view faces

    Nouchine Hadjikhani;Robert M. Joseph;Josh Snyder;Christopher F. Chabris

  • Altered functional magnetic resonance imaging resting-state connectivity in periaqueductal gray networks in migraine

    Caterina Mainero;Jasmine Boshyan;Nouchine Hadjikhani;Nouchine Hadjikhani

  • Response monitoring, repetitive behaviour and anterior cingulate abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders (ASD)

    Katharine N. Thakkar;Frida E. Polli;Robert Michael Joseph;David S. Tuch

  • Abnormal activation of the social brain during face perception in autism.

    Nouchine Hadjikhani;Robert M. Joseph;Josh Snyder;Helen Tager-Flusberg

  • Seeing Fearful Body Expressions Activates the Fusiform Cortex and Amygdala

    Nouchine Hadjikhani;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

  • A randomised controlled trial of bumetanide in the treatment of autism in children

    Éric Lemonnier;Céline Degrez;Morgane Phelep;Roman Tyzio

  • Migraine: disease characterisation, biomarkers, and precision medicine

    Messoud Ashina;Gisela M. Terwindt;Mohammad Al Mahdi Al-Karagholi;Irene de Boer

  • Where is ‘Dorsal V4’ in Human Visual Cortex? Retinotopic, Topographic and Functional Evidence

    Roger B.H. Tootell;Nouchine Hadjikhani

  • The representation of the ipsilateral visual field in human cerebral cortex

    Roger B. H. Tootell;Janine D. Mendola;Nouchine K. Hadjikhani;Arthur K. Liu

  • Cross-Modal Transfer of Information between the Tactile and the Visual Representations in the Human Brain: A Positron Emission Tomographic Study

    Nouchine Hadjikhani;Per E. Roland

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger B. H. Tootell
Roger B. H. Tootell Harvard University
Beatrice de Gelder
Beatrice de Gelder Maastricht University
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Jacques S. Beckmann
Jacques S. Beckmann University of Lausanne
Vitaly Napadow
Vitaly Napadow Harvard University
Randy L. Gollub
Randy L. Gollub Harvard Medical School
Eva Billstedt
Eva Billstedt University of Gothenburg
Sebastian Lundström
Sebastian Lundström University of Gothenburg
Reginald B. Adams
Reginald B. Adams Pennsylvania State University
Bogdan Draganski
Bogdan Draganski University Hospital of Bern

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