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Overview

Pierre Bellec is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and medicine, with specific focus on cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging techniques. The scientist's work covers advanced MRI applications, functional brain connectivity, statistical methods, and dementia research.

The scientist has contributed extensively to fields related to:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these domains, their subfields of study encompass:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

The main topics in their work include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function

Key recent publications by Pierre Bellec showcase diverse contributions to neuroimaging and neurological research:

  • Association of Elevated Amyloid and Tau Positron Emission Tomography Signal With Near-Term Development of Alzheimer Disease Symptoms in Older Adults Without Cognitive Impairment (2022, JAMA Neurology)
  • Open Science Datasets from PREVENT-AD, a Longitudinal Cohort of Pre-Symptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (2021, NeuroImage Clinical)
  • Functional Annotation of Human Cognitive States Using Deep Graph Convolution (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Mutations Associated with Neuropsychiatric Conditions Delineate Functional Brain Connectivity Dimensions Contributing to Autism and Schizophrenia (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Brainhack: Developing a Culture of Open, Inclusive, Community-Driven Neuroscience (2021, Neuron)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Alan C. Evans
  • Pierre Orban
  • Sebastian Urchs
  • Sylvia Villeneuve
  • Alexa Pichet Binette

The scientist has published regularly in a range of venues, with the most frequent outlets being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Biological Psychiatry

Pierre Bellec's research integrates approaches from advanced imaging to data-driven analyses, contributing to a breadth of studies on brain connectivity and cognitive health, especially in aging and neurodegenerative contexts. This interdisciplinary work reflects a blend of experimental and computational methods within the neurosciences and medical imaging communities.

Best Publications

  • Contributions of the basal ganglia and functionally related brain structures to motor learning.

    Julien Doyon;Pierre Bellec;Rhonda Amsel;Virginia Penhune

  • An open science resource for establishing reliability and reproducibility in functional connectomics

    Xi Nian Zuo;Jeffrey S. Anderson;Pierre Bellec;Rasmus M. Birn

  • Resting-state network dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    AmanPreet Badhwar;Angela Tam;Angela Tam;Christian Dansereau;Pierre Orban;Pierre Orban

  • A convergent functional architecture of the insula emerges across imaging modalities

    Clare Kelly;Roberto Toro;Roberto Toro;Adriana Di Martino;Christine L. Cox

  • Multi-level bootstrap analysis of stable clusters in resting-state fMRI.

    Pierre Bellec;Pedro Rosa-Neto;Oliver C. Lyttelton;Habib Benali

  • The Neuro Bureau ADHD-200 Preprocessed repository.

    Pierre Bellec;Carlton Chu;François Chouinard-Decorte;Yassine Benhajali

  • Brain plasticity related to the consolidation of motor sequence learning and motor adaptation

    Karen Debas;Julie Carrier;Pierre Orban;Marc Barakat

  • BIDS apps: Improving ease of use, accessibility, and reproducibility of neuroimaging data analysis methods

    Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski;Fidel Alfaro-Almagro;Tibor Auer;Pierre Bellec

  • CORSICA: correction of structured noise in fMRI by automatic identification of ICA components

    Vincent Perlbarg;Pierre Bellec;Jean-Luc Anton;Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac

  • Identification of large-scale networks in the brain using fMRI.

    Pierre Bellec;Vincent Perlbarg;Saâd Jbabdi;Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac

  • Accurate anisotropic fast marching for diffusion-based geodesic tractography

    S. Jbabdi;P. Bellec;R. Toro;J. Daunizeau

  • A multiomics approach to heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s disease: focused review and roadmap

    AmanPreet Badhwar;G Peggy McFall;Shraddha Sapkota;Sandra E Black;Sandra E Black

  • Resting state FDG-PET functional connectivity as an early biomarker of Alzheimer's disease using conjoint univariate and independent component analyses.

    Paule-Joanne Toussaint;Vincent Perlbarg;Pierre Bellec;Serge Desarnaud

  • Global and system-specific resting-state fMRI fluctuations are uncorrelated: principal component analysis reveals anti-correlated networks.

    Felix Carbonell;Pierre Bellec;Amir Shmuel

  • The Canadian Dementia Imaging Protocol: Harmonizing National Cohorts

    Simon Duchesne;Isabelle Chouinard;Olivier Potvin;Vladimir S. Fonov

  • Sleep Spindles Predict Neural and Behavioral Changes in Motor Sequence Consolidation

    Marc Barakat;Julie Carrier;Karen Debas;Ovidiu Lungu

  • Age dependence of hemodynamic response characteristics in human functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Claudine J. Gauthier;Cécile Madjar;Laurence Desjardins-Crépeau;Pierre Bellec

  • Functional connectivity in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

    Friederike Moeller;Mona Maneshi;Francesca Pittau;Taha Gholipour

  • Age-Related Differences in Test-Retest Reliability in Resting-State Brain Functional Connectivity

    Jie Song;Alok S. Desphande;Timothy B. Meier;Dana L. Tudorascu

  • The pipeline system for Octave and Matlab (PSOM): a lightweight scripting framework and execution engine for scientific workflows

    Pierre Bellec;Pierre Bellec;Sébastien Lavoie-Courchesne;Sébastien Lavoie-Courchesne;Phil Dickinson;Phil Dickinson;Jason P. Lerch

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Pedro Rosa-Neto
Pedro Rosa-Neto McGill University
Julien Doyon
Julien Doyon Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Habib Benali
Habib Benali Concordia University
R. Cameron Craddock
R. Cameron Craddock Facebook (United States)
Michael P. Milham
Michael P. Milham Child Mind Institute
M. Mallar Chakravarty
M. Mallar Chakravarty McGill University
Amir Shmuel
Amir Shmuel Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Richard D. Hoge
Richard D. Hoge University of Montreal
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles

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