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Overview

Paul J. Laurienti is affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant number of publications in cognitive neuroscience and related subfields.

The main fields of study for Laurienti include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these fields, the following subfields of study are prominently represented in their work:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

The recurring main topics in Laurienti's research are detailed as follows:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity

Laurienti has contributed to several recent research papers, including:

  • COVID-19 Pandemic among Latinx Farmworker and Nonfarmworker Families in North Carolina: Knowledge, Risk Perceptions, and Preventive Behaviors, 2020, published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Among Immigrant Latinx Farmworker and Non-farmworker Families: A Rural-Urban Comparison of Economic, Educational, Healthcare, and Immigration Concerns, 2021, published in NEW SOLUTIONS A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
  • Pesticide exposure among Latinx children: Comparison of children in rural, farmworker and urban, non-farmworker communities, 2020, published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Learning Common Harmonic Waves on Stiefel Manifold - A New Mathematical Approach for Brain Network Analyses, 2020, published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • Improvisational Movement to Improve Quality of Life in Older Adults With Early-Stage Dementia: A Pilot Study, 2022, published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

Laurienti frequently collaborates with a group of researchers, including:

  • Robert G. Lyday
  • Sean L. Simpson
  • Jonathan H. Burdette
  • Stephen B. Kritchevsky
  • Christina E. Hugenschmidt

Their work is often published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Brain Sciences
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Network Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • An automated method for neuroanatomic and cytoarchitectonic atlas-based interrogation of fMRI data sets

    Joseph A. Maldjian;Paul J. Laurienti;Robert A. Kraft;Jonathan H. Burdette

  • Precentral gyrus discrepancy in electronic versions of the Talairach atlas.

    Joseph A Maldjian;Paul J Laurienti;Jonathan H Burdette

  • The subjective experience of pain: Where expectations become reality

    Tetsuo Koyama;John G. McHaffie;Paul J. Laurienti;Robert C. Coghill

  • The ubiquity of small-world networks.

    Qawi K. Telesford;Karen E. Joyce;Satoru Hayasaka;Jonathan H. Burdette

  • Enhanced multisensory integration in older adults

    Paul J. Laurienti;Jonathan H. Burdette;Joseph A. Maldjian;Mark T. Wallace

  • Deactivation of Sensory-Specific Cortex by Cross-Modal Stimuli

    Paul J. Laurienti;Jonathan H. Burdette;Mark T. Wallace;Yi-Fen Yen

  • Comparison of Characteristics between Region- and Voxel-Based Network Analyses in Resting-State fMRI Data

    Satoru Hayasaka;Paul J. Laurienti

  • Using network science to evaluate exercise-associated brain changes in older adults

    Jonathan H Burdette;Paul J Laurienti;Mark A Espeland;Ashley R Morgan

  • Semantic congruence is a critical factor in multisensory behavioral performance

    Paul J. Laurienti;Robert A. Kraft;Joseph A. Maldjian;Jonathan H. Burdette

  • A New Measure of Centrality for Brain Networks

    Karen E. Joyce;Paul J. Laurienti;Jonathan H. Burdette;Satoru Hayasaka

  • Biological parametric mapping: A statistical toolbox for multimodality brain image analysis

    Ramon Casanova;Ryali Srikanth;Aaron H. Baer;Paul J. Laurienti

  • The brain as a complex system: using network science as a tool for understanding the brain.

    Qawi K. Telesford;Sean L. Simpson;Jonathan H. Burdette;Satoru Hayasaka

  • Long-term heavy marijuana users make costly decisions on a gambling task

    Christopher T. Whitlow;Anthony Liguori;L. Brooke Livengood;Stephanie L. Hart

  • Acute effect of a high nitrate diet on brain perfusion in older adults

    Tennille D. Presley;Ashley R. Morgan;Erika Bechtold;William Clodfelter

  • Age-related multisensory enhancement in a simple audiovisual detection task

    Ann M. Peiffer;Jennifer L. Mozolic;Christina E. Hugenschmidt;Paul J. Laurienti

  • Defining nodes in complex brain networks.

    Matthew Lawrence Stanley;Malaak Nasser Moussa;Brielle Paolini;Robert Gray Lyday

  • The Effect of Daily Caffeine Use on Cerebral Blood Flow: How Much Caffeine Can We Tolerate?

    Merideth A. Addicott;Lucie L. Yang;Ann M. Peiffer;Luke R. Burnett

  • On the use of superadditivity as a metric for characterizing multisensory integration in functional neuroimaging studies.

    Paul J. Laurienti;Thomas J. Perrault;Terrence R. Stanford;Mark T. Wallace

  • Relating Imaging Indices of White Matter Integrity and Volume in Healthy Older Adults

    Christina E. Hugenschmidt;Ann M. Peiffer;Robert A. Kraft;Ramon Casanova

  • Consistency of Network Modules in Resting-State fMRI Connectome Data

    Malaak N. Moussa;Matthew R. Steen;Paul J. Laurienti;Satoru Hayasaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph A. Maldjian
Joseph A. Maldjian The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Mark T. Wallace
Mark T. Wallace Vanderbilt University
Barry E. Stein
Barry E. Stein Wake Forest University
Kirk I. Erickson
Kirk I. Erickson University of Pittsburgh
Linda J. Porrino
Linda J. Porrino Wake Forest University
Terrence R. Stanford
Terrence R. Stanford Wake Forest University
Donald A. Williamson
Donald A. Williamson Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Dana B. Barr
Dana B. Barr Emory University
Laura D. Baker
Laura D. Baker Wake Forest University
Rena R. Wing
Rena R. Wing Brown University

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