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Patrick L. Purdon

Patrick L. Purdon

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
14371
World Ranking
3815
National Ranking
1743

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Patrick L. Purdon is a researcher affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their work spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Developmental Neuroscience, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.

Their research topics cover areas such as Anesthesia and Sedative Agents, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neural dynamics and brain function, Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research, Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes.

Recent research publications by Patrick L. Purdon include:

  • Association of Intraoperative Opioid Administration With Postoperative Pain and Opioid Use (2023, JAMA Surgery)
  • Low Frontal Alpha Power Is Associated With the Propensity for Burst Suppression: An Electroencephalogram Phenotype for a "Vulnerable Brain" (2020, Anesthesia & Analgesia)
  • Characterizing brain dynamics during ketamine-induced dissociation and subsequent interactions with propofol using human intracranial neurophysiology (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Developmental trajectories of EEG aperiodic and periodic components in children 2-44 months of age (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Propofol disrupts alpha dynamics in functionally distinct thalamocortical networks during loss of consciousness (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Patrick L. Purdon include:

  • Emery N. Brown
  • Rodrigo Gutiérrez
  • Gustavo Balanza
  • Laura A. Santa Cruz Mercado
  • Proloy Das

Patrick L. Purdon has published extensively in several scientific venues, with significant contributions in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 11 publications
  • Anesthesia & Analgesia - 7 publications
  • Anesthesiology - 3 publications
  • PLoS ONE - 3 publications
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia - 3 publications

In 2015, Patrick L. Purdon was recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

Best Publications

  • Clinical Electroencephalography for Anesthesiologists: Part I: Background and Basic Signatures.

    Patrick L. Purdon;Aaron Sampson;Kara J. Pavone;Emery N. Brown

  • Electroencephalogram signatures of loss and recovery of consciousness from propofol

    Patrick L. Purdon;Eric T. Pierce;Eran A. Mukamel;Eran A. Mukamel;Michael J. Prerau

  • Fractal dynamics of human gait: stability of long-range correlations in stride interval fluctuations

    J. M. Hausdorff;P. L. Purdon;C. K. Peng;Z. Ladin

  • General Anesthesia and Altered States of Arousal: A Systems Neuroscience Analysis

    Emery N. Brown;Patrick L. Purdon;Christa J. Van Dort

  • Rapid fragmentation of neuronal networks at the onset of propofol-induced unconsciousness

    Laura D. Lewis;Veronica S. Weiner;Eran A. Mukamel;Eran A. Mukamel;Jacob A. Donoghue;Jacob A. Donoghue

  • Thalamocortical model for a propofol-induced α-rhythm associated with loss of consciousness

    Shinung Ching;Aylin Cimenser;Patrick Lee Purdon;Emery N. Brown

  • A study of problems encountered in Granger causality analysis from a neuroscience perspective

    Patrick A. Stokes;Patrick A. Stokes;Patrick L. Purdon

  • Effect of temporal autocorrelation due to physiological noise and stimulus paradigm on voxel-level false-positive rates in fMRI

    Patrick L. Purdon;Robert M. Weisskoff

  • The Ageing Brain: Age-dependent changes in the electroencephalogram during propofol and sevoflurane general anaesthesia

    P.L. Purdon;K.J. Pavone;O. Akeju;A.C. Smith

  • Sleep Neurophysiological Dynamics Through the Lens of Multitaper Spectral Analysis.

    Michael J. Prerau;Ritchie E. Brown;Matt T. Bianchi;Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen

  • A neurophysiological–metabolic model for burst suppression

    ShiNung Ching;Patrick Lee Purdon;Sujith Vijayan;Nancy J. Kopell

  • Effects of sevoflurane and propofol on frontal electroencephalogram power and coherence.

    Oluwaseun Akeju;M. Brandon Westover;M. Brandon Westover;Kara J. Pavone;Aaron L. Sampson

  • Motion and ballistocardiogram artifact removal for interleaved recording of EEG and EPs during MRI.

    Giorgio Bonmassar;Patrick L. Purdon;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Keith Chiappa

  • Tracking brain states under general anesthesia by using global coherence analysis

    Aylin Cimenser;Patrick L. Purdon;Eric T. Pierce;John L. Walsh

  • SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED BRAIN MONITORING DURING GENERAL ANESTHESIA AND SEDATION

    Patrick L Purdon;Emery N Brown;Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju

  • System and method for tracking brain states during administration of anesthesia

    Emery N Brown;Patrick L Purdon;Eran A Mukamel;Aylin Cimenser

  • System and method for estimating high time-frequency resolution eeg spectrograms to monitor patient state

    Emery N. Brown;Patrick L. Purdon;Demba Ba;Behtash Babadi

  • Systems and methods for monitoring brain metabolism and activity using electroencephalogram and optical imaging

    Patrick L. Purdon;Emery N. Brown;ShiNung Ching;David A. Boas

  • System and method for monitoring level of dexmedatomidine-induced sedation

    Patrick L. Purdon;Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju;Emery N. Brown;Michael J. Prerau

  • System and method for monitoring and controlling a state of a patient during and after administration of anesthetic compound

    Emery N. Brown;Patrick L. Purdon

  • In reply to Faes et al. and Barnett et al. regarding "A study of problems encountered in Granger causality analysis from a neuroscience perspective"

    Patrick A. Stokes;Patrick L. Purdon

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Brandon Westover
M. Brandon Westover Harvard University
Matti Hämäläinen
Matti Hämäläinen Harvard Medical School
Giorgio Bonmassar
Giorgio Bonmassar Massachusetts General Hospital
Zhe Chen
Zhe Chen Aalborg University
Sydney S. Cash
Sydney S. Cash Harvard University
Nancy Kopell
Nancy Kopell Boston University
Emad N. Eskandar
Emad N. Eskandar Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Robert M. Weisskoff
Robert M. Weisskoff Harvard University
Vitaly Napadow
Vitaly Napadow Harvard University

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