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Olaf B. Paulson is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and works primarily in the field of Medicine, with research contributions spanning radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, psychiatry, mental health, neurology, pathology, forensic medicine, and pharmacology.

The scientist's research emphasizes advanced MRI techniques and applications, as well as medical imaging techniques more broadly. Their work also includes electroconvulsive therapy studies, migraine and headache studies, treatment of major depression, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Recent publications by Olaf B. Paulson include:

  • "Regional Myo-Inositol, Creatine, and Choline Levels Are Higher at Older Age and Scale Negatively with Visuospatial Working Memory: A Cross-Sectional Proton MR Spectroscopy Study at 7 Tesla on Normal Cognitive Ageing" (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Glutamate levels and perfusion in pons during migraine attacks: A 3T MRI study using proton spectroscopy and arterial spin labeling" (2020, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism)
  • "Do glia provide the link between low-grade systemic inflammation and normal cognitive ageing? A 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy study at 7 tesla" (2021, Journal of Neurochemistry)
  • "Feasibility of Glutamate and GABA Detection in Pons and Thalamus at 3T and 7T by Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy" (2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience)
  • "Intradural artery dilation during experimentally induced migraine attacks" (2020, Pain)

Frequent co-authors in their work include Henrik Larsson, Martin Prener, Messoud Ashina, Leif Oltedal, and Ute Keßler.

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • Research Square
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Epilepsia Open
  • Diagnostics

Best Publications

  • Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Man Determined by the Initial Slope of the Clearance of Intra-arterially Injected l33Xe

    Jes Olesen;Olaf B. Paulson;Niels A. Lassen

  • Diffusion tensor imaging during recovery from severe traumatic brain injury and relation to clinical outcome: a longitudinal study.

    Annette Sidaros;Aase W. Engberg;Karam Sidaros;Matthew G. Liptrot

  • Does the release of potassium from astrocyte endfeet regulate cerebral blood flow

    Olaf B. Paulson;Eric A. Newman

  • Quantitation of blood-brain barrier defect by magnetic resonance imaging and gadolinium-DTPA in patients with multiple sclerosis and brain tumors

    H. B. W. Larsson;M. Stubgaard;J. L. Frederiksen;M. Jensen

  • MR-based automatic delineation of volumes of interest in human brain PET images using probability maps

    Claus Svarer;Karine Madsen;Steen G. Hasselbalch;Lars H. Pinborg

  • The Retention of [99mTc]-d,l-HM-PAO in the Human Brain after Intracarotid Bolus Injection: A Kinetic Analysis

    Niels A. Lassen;Allan R. Andersen;Lars Friberg;Olaf B. Paulson

  • Changes in regional cerebral blood flow during the course of classic migraine attacks.

    Martin Lauritzen;Tom Skyhøj Olsen;Niels A. Lassen;Olaf B. Paulson

  • Transcranial Doppler is valid for determination of the lower limit of cerebral blood flow autoregulation.

    F S Larsen;K S Olsen;B A Hansen;O B Paulson

  • Effect of Acetazolamide on Cerebral Blood Flow and Cerebral Metabolic Rate for Oxygen

    Sissel Vorstrup;Leif Henriksen;Olaf B. Paulson

  • Determination of relative CMRO2 from CBF and BOLD changes: significant increase of oxygen consumption rate during visual stimulation.

    Seong-Gi Kim;Egill Rostrup;Henrik B.W. Larsson;Seiji Ogawa

  • Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Acute Apoplexy: The Luxury Perfusion Syndrome of Brain Tissue

    K. Høedt-Rasmussen;E. Skinhoj;O. Paulson;J. Ewald

  • Persistent Resetting of the Cerebral Oxygen/Glucose Uptake Ratio by Brain Activation: Evidence Obtained with the Kety—Schmidt Technique

    Peter Lund Madsen;Steen G. Hasselbalch;Lars P. Hagemann;Karsten Skovgaard Olsen

  • Cerebral blood flow response to functional activation

    Olaf B Paulson;Steen G Hasselbalch;Steen G Hasselbalch;Egill Rostrup;Egill Rostrup;Gitte Moos Knudsen;Gitte Moos Knudsen

  • Cerebral activation during micturition in normal men.

    Sam Nour;Claus Svarer;Jørgen K. I. Kristensen;Olaf B. Paulson

  • Validation of in vitro probabilistic tractography.

    Tim B. Dyrby;Lise V. Søgaard;Geoffrey J. M. Parker;Daniel C. Alexander

  • Regional differences in the CBF and BOLD responses to hypercapnia: a combined PET and fMRI study.

    E. Rostrup;I. Law;M. Blinkenberg;H.B.W. Larsson

  • Brain activation during dichotic presentations of consonant-vowel and musical instrument stimuli: a 15O-PET study

    K Hugdahl;K Brønnick;S Kyllingsbaek;I Law

  • Regional cerebral blood flow in apoplexy due to occlusion of the middle cerebral artery.

    O. B. Paulson

  • Restoration of autoregulation of cerebral blood flow by hypocapnia.

    O. B. Paulson;J. Olesen;M. S. Christensen

  • Motion or activity: their role in intra- and inter-subject variation in fMRI.

    Torben Ellegaard Lund;Minna D. Nørgaard;Egill Rostrup;James B. Rowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Law
Ian Law Copenhagen University Hospital
Claus Svarer
Claus Svarer Copenhagen University Hospital
Niels A. Lassen
Niels A. Lassen Bispebjerg Hospital
Gunhild Waldemar
Gunhild Waldemar Copenhagen University Hospital
Søren Holm
Søren Holm University of Manchester
Per Soelberg Sørensen
Per Soelberg Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego
Lars H. Pinborg
Lars H. Pinborg Copenhagen University Hospital
William F.C. Baaré
William F.C. Baaré Copenhagen University Hospital
Henrik Larsson
Henrik Larsson Karolinska Institute

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