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788

Overview

Randy L. Gollub is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, neurology, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The primary research topics covered by Randy L. Gollub include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Migraine and Headache Studies

Gollub has published frequently in notable venues such as:

  • Journal of Pain
  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Neuroinformatics

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • "Distinct thalamocortical network dynamics are associated with the pathophysiology of chronic low back pain," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Reduced tactile acuity in chronic low back pain is linked with structural neuroplasticity in primary somatosensory cortex and is modulated by acupuncture therapy," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Multi-channel attention-fusion neural network for brain age estimation: Accuracy, generality, and interpretation with 16,705 healthy MRIs across lifespan," 2021, Medical Image Analysis
  • "Acupuncture Treatment Modulates the Connectivity of Key Regions of the Descending Pain Modulation and Reward Systems in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain," 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • "Impaired mesocorticolimbic connectivity underlies increased pain sensitivity in chronic low back pain," 2020, NeuroImage

Frequent collaborators of Randy L. Gollub include:

  • Bruce R. Rosen
  • Vitaly Napadow
  • Jian Kong
  • Marco L. Loggia
  • Robert R. Edwards

Best Publications

  • Reproducibility of Quantitative Tractography Methods Applied to Cerebral White Matter

    Setsu Wakana;Arvind Caprihan;Martina M. Panzenboeck;James H. Fallon

  • Acute effects of cocaine on human brain activity and emotion

    Hans C Breiter;Randy L Gollub;Robert M Weisskoff;David N Kennedy

  • Reliability in multi-site structural MRI studies: Effects of gradient non-linearity correction on phantom and human data

    Jorge Jovicich;Silvester Czanner;Douglas N. Greve;Elizabeth Haley

  • Functional brain mapping of the relaxation response and meditation.

    Sara W. Lazar;CA George Bush;Randy L. Gollub;Gregory L. Fricchione

  • Acupuncture modulates the limbic system and subcortical gray structures of the human brain: Evidence from fMRI studies in normal subjects

    Kathleen K.S. Hui;Jing Liu;Nikos Makris;Randy L. Gollub

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • MRI-derived measurements of human subcortical, ventricular and intracranial brain volumes: Reliability effects of scan sessions, acquisition sequences, data analyses, scanner upgrade, scanner vendors and field strengths

    Jorge Jovicich;Silvester Czanner;Xiao Han;David H. Salat

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Automated probabilistic reconstruction of white-matter pathways in health and disease using an atlas of the underlying anatomy.

    Anastasia Yendiki;Patricia Panneck;Priti Srinivasan;Allison Stevens

  • Schizophrenic subjects show aberrant fMRI activation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia during working memory performance.

    Dara S Manoach;Randy L Gollub;Etienne S Benson;Meghan M Searl

  • Brain Activity Associated with Expectancy-Enhanced Placebo Analgesia as Measured by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Jian Kong;Randy L. Gollub;Ilana S. Rosman;J. Megan Webb

  • Acupuncture De Qi, from Qualitative History to Quantitative Measurement

    Jian Kong;Randy Gollub;Tao Huang;Ginger Polich

  • Working memory and DLPFC inefficiency in schizophrenia: The FBIRN study

    S. G. Potkin;J. A. Turner;G. G. Brown;G. McCarthy

  • Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses

    Karin B. Jensen;Karin B. Jensen;Karin B. Jensen;Ted J. Kaptchuk;Irving Kirsch;Irving Kirsch;Jacqueline Raicek

  • Default mode network connectivity encodes clinical pain: An arterial spin labeling study

    Marco Luciano Loggia;Marco Luciano Loggia;Marco Luciano Loggia;Jieun Kim;Randy Lyanne Gollub;Randy Lyanne Gollub;Mark G. Vangel

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

  • A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Neural Mechanisms of Hyperalgesic Nocebo Effect

    Jian Kong;Randy L. Gollub;Ginger Polich;Irving Kirsch

  • Using fMRI to dissociate sensory encoding from cognitive evaluation of heat pain intensity.

    Jian Kong;Nathan S. White;Kenneth K. Kwong;Mark G. Vangel

  • Patients With Fibromyalgia Display Less Functional Connectivity In The Brain's Pain Inhibitory Network

    Karin B Jensen;Rita Loitoile;Eva Kosek;Frank Petzke

Frequent Co-Authors

Jian Kong
Jian Kong Harvard University
Vince D. Calhoun
Vince D. Calhoun Georgia State University
Tonya White
Tonya White National Institutes of Health
Bruce R. Rosen
Bruce R. Rosen Harvard University
Vitaly Napadow
Vitaly Napadow Harvard University
Jessica A. Turner
Jessica A. Turner The Ohio State University
Beng-Choon Ho
Beng-Choon Ho University of Iowa
Marco L. Loggia
Marco L. Loggia Harvard University
Irving Kirsch
Irving Kirsch Harvard University
Dara S. Manoach
Dara S. Manoach Harvard University

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