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Overview

Roy H. Hamilton is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with specific focus in areas such as cognitive neuroscience, neurology, public health, environmental and occupational health, gender studies, and anesthesiology and pain medicine.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Pain Management and Treatment
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Hamilton has published extensively in notable venues. Frequent publication sites include:

  • Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Recent papers by Hamilton, highlighting the focus of their scientific contributions, include:

  • "Non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroenhancement," 2022, Clinical Neurophysiology Practice
  • "Academic careers and the COVID-19 pandemic: Reversing the tide," 2021, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Efficacy of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (tDCS or TMS) Paired with Language Therapy in the Treatment of Primary Progressive Aphasia: An Exploratory Meta-Analysis," 2020, Brain Sciences
  • "Antiamyloid Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for Alzheimer Disease," 2023, Neurology
  • "The impact of gamma transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) on cognitive and memory processes in patients with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease: A literature review," 2023, Brain Stimulation

Frequent collaborators in their research career include:

  • Denise Y. Harvey
  • Olufunsho Faseyitan
  • John D. Medaglia
  • Daniela Sacchetti
  • Shreya Parchure

Roy H. Hamilton's work broadly covers neurostimulation techniques and their applications, neurological disorder treatments, language and cognitive therapies, as well as addressing diversity and career challenges in medical fields. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates clinical neuroscience methods with public health concerns.

Best Publications

  • Safety of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Evidence Based Update 2016.

    Marom Bikson;Pnina Grossman;Chris Thomas;Adantchede Louis Zannou

  • Low intensity transcranial electric stimulation: Safety, ethical, legal regulatory and application guidelines

    A. Antal;Ivan Alekseichuk;M. Bikson;J. Brockmöller

  • The metamodal organization of the brain.

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Roy Hamilton

  • Diversity and disparity in dementia: the impact of ethnoracial differences in Alzheimer disease.

    Alexander L. Chin;Selamawit Negash;Roy Hamilton

  • Mechanisms of aphasia recovery after stroke and the role of noninvasive brain stimulation.

    Roy H. Hamilton;Evangelia G. Chrysikou;Branch Coslett

  • Rapid and reversible recruitment of early visual cortex for touch.

    Lotfi B. Merabet;Roy H. Hamilton;Gottfried Schlaug;Jascha D. Swisher

  • Are networks for residual language function and recovery consistent across aphasic patients

    Peter E. Turkeltaub;Samuel Messing;Catherine Norise;Roy H. Hamilton

  • Does transcranial direct current stimulation improve healthy working memory?: A meta-analytic review

    Lauren E. Mancuso;Irena P. Ilieva;Roy H. Hamilton;Martha J. Farah

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation and neuroplasticity

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Francisco Tarazona;Julian Keenan;Jose M Tormos

  • Cortical plasticity associated with Braille learning

    Roy H Hamilton;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Differences in the experience of active and sham transcranial direct current stimulation.

    Sudha Kilaru Kessler;Peter E. Turkeltaub;Jennifer G. Benson;Roy H. Hamilton

  • It's the Thought That Counts: Examining the Task-dependent Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Executive Function

    Jay Gill;Priyanka P. Shah-Basak;Roy Hamilton

  • Non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroenhancement

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  • Mechanisms and Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.

    James Giordano;Marom Bikson;Emily S. Kappenman;Vincent P. Clark

  • Noninvasive transcranial direct current stimulation over the left prefrontal cortex facilitates cognitive flexibility in tool use

    Evangelia G. Chrysikou;Roy H. Hamilton;H. Branch Coslett;Abhishek Datta

  • Absolute pitch in blind musicians.

    Roy H. Hamilton;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Gottfried Schlaug

  • Alexia for Braille following bilateral occipital stroke in an early blind woman.

    Roy Hamilton;Julian Paul Keenan;Maria Catala;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • The right hemisphere is not unitary in its role in aphasia recovery

    Peter E. Turkeltaub;H. Branch Coslett;Amy L. Thomas;Olufunsho Faseyitan

  • Lack of shunt response in suspected idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus with Alzheimer disease pathology.

    Roy Hamilton;Sunil Patel;Edward B. Lee;Eric M. Jackson

  • Rethinking the thinking cap Ethics of neural enhancement using noninvasive brain stimulation

    Roy Hamilton;Samuel Messing;Anjan Chatterjee

  • Association between in vivo fluorine 18-labeled flutemetamol amyloid positron emission tomography imaging and in vivo cerebral cortical histopathology.

    David A. Wolk;Igor D. Grachev;Chris Buckley;Hala Kazi

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Branch Coslett
H. Branch Coslett University of Pennsylvania
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University
Peter E. Turkeltaub
Peter E. Turkeltaub Georgetown University
Marom Bikson
Marom Bikson City College of New York
Murray Grossman
Murray Grossman University of Pennsylvania
Adam J. Woods
Adam J. Woods University of Florida
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill University of Pennsylvania
Margaret A. Naeser
Margaret A. Naeser Boston University
Anjan Chatterjee
Anjan Chatterjee University of Pennsylvania
John Q. Trojanowski
John Q. Trojanowski University of Pennsylvania

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