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Rasmus M. Birn is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their main research focuses include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

The scientist has published multiple papers in several frequent venues such as Biological Psychiatry, NeuroImage Clinical, The Lancet Neurology, Brain Communications, and Behavioural Brain Research. Their recent important publications include:

  • Network, clinical and sociodemographic features of cognitive phenotypes in temporal lobe epilepsy, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • Comparison of amyloid burden in individuals with Down syndrome versus autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study, 2022, The Lancet Neurology
  • Brain aging in temporal lobe epilepsy: Chronological, structural, and functional, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • Comparison of tau spread in people with Down syndrome versus autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional study, 2024, The Lancet Neurology
  • Cerebrovascular disease is associated with Alzheimer's plasma biomarker concentrations in adults with Down syndrome, 2024, Brain Communications

Rasmus M. Birn frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Benjamin L. Handen
  • Sigan L. Hartley
  • Patrick J. Lao
  • Charles M. Laymon
  • Julie C. Price

Best Publications

  • The impact of global signal regression on resting state correlations: are anti-correlated networks introduced?

    Kevin Murphy;Rasmus M. Birn;Daniel A. Handwerker;Tyler B. Jones

  • Separating respiratory-variation-related fluctuations from neuronal-activity-related fluctuations in fMRI.

    Rasmus M. Birn;Jason B. Diamond;Monica A. Smith;Peter A. Bandettini

  • The effect of scan length on the reliability of resting-state fMRI connectivity estimates.

    Rasmus M. Birn;Erin K. Molloy;Rémi Patriat;Taurean Parker

  • Resting-state fMRI confounds and cleanup

    Kevin Murphy;Rasmus M. Birn;Peter A. Bandettini

  • The respiration response function: The temporal dynamics of fMRI signal fluctuations related to changes in respiration

    Rasmus M. Birn;Monica A. Smith;Tyler B. Jones;Peter A. Bandettini

  • Disrupted Modularity and Local Connectivity of Brain Functional Networks in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia

    Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch;Nitin Gogtay;David Meunier;Rasmus Birn

  • The role of physiological noise in resting-state functional connectivity

    Rasmus M. Birn

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

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

  • Developmental pathways to amygdala-prefrontal function and internalizing symptoms in adolescence

    Cory A Burghy;Diane E Stodola;Paula L Ruttle;Erin K Molloy

  • Neural systems supporting lexical search guided by letter and semantic category cues: A self-paced overt response fMRI study of verbal fluency

    Rasmus M. Birn;Lauren Kenworthy;Laura K. Case;Rachel Caravella

  • Childhood maltreatment is associated with altered fear circuitry and increased internalizing symptoms by late adolescence.

    Ryan J. Herringa;Rasmus M. Birn;Paula L. Ruttle;Cory A. Burghy

  • The effect of resting condition on resting-state fMRI reliability and consistency: a comparison between resting with eyes open, closed, and fixated.

    Rémi Patriat;Erin K. Molloy;Timothy B. Meier;Gregory R. Kirk

  • The effect of respiration variations on independent component analysis results of resting state functional connectivity.

    Rasmus M. Birn;Kevin Murphy;Peter A. Bandettini

  • Event‐related fMRI of tasks involving brief motion

    Rasmus M. Birn;Peter A. Bandettini;Robert W. Cox;Reza Shaker

  • Functional MRI of brain activation induced by scanner acoustic noise.

    P A Bandettini;A Jesmanowicz;J Van Kylen;R M Birn

  • Spatial heterogeneity of the nonlinear dynamics in the FMRI BOLD response.

    Rasmus M. Birn;Ziad S. Saad;Peter A. Bandettini

  • Detection versus estimation in event-related fMRI: choosing the optimal stimulus timing.

    Rasmus M. Birn;Robert W. Cox;Peter A. Bandettini

  • Age-related reorganizational changes in modularity and functional connectivity of human brain networks.

    Jie Song;Rasmus M. Birn;Mélanie Boly;Timothy B. Meier

  • Experimental designs and processing strategies for fMRI studies involving overt verbal responses

    Rasmus M. Birn;Robert W. Cox;Peter A. Bandettini

  • Magnetic field changes in the human brain due to swallowing or speaking

    Rasmus M. Birn;Peter A. Bandettini;Robert W. Cox;Andrzej Jesmanowicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Vivek Prabhakaran
Vivek Prabhakaran University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter A. Bandettini
Peter A. Bandettini National Institutes of Health
Andrew L. Alexander
Andrew L. Alexander University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bruce P. Hermann
Bruce P. Hermann University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert W. Cox
Robert W. Cox National Institutes of Health
Jeffrey R. Binder
Jeffrey R. Binder Medical College of Wisconsin
Lisa L. Conant
Lisa L. Conant Medical College of Wisconsin
Andrew S. Fox
Andrew S. Fox University of California, Davis
Bharat B. Biswal
Bharat B. Biswal New Jersey Institute of Technology

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