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4473
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8637
National Ranking
505

Overview

Sam M. Doesburg is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada, contributing extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research focuses primarily on cognitive neuroscience, with additional work in genetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pediatrics, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

Key topics in Doesburg's research include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • High Altitude and Hypoxia
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

They have published extensively in various scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Brain Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cerebral Cortex

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Doesburg include:

  • "Atypical age-related changes in cortical thickness in autism spectrum disorder," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Alterations in Local Connectivity and Their Developmental Trajectories in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Does Being Female Matter?", 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Development and recovery time of mental fatigue and its impact on motor function," 2021, Biological Psychology
  • "Children with autism spectrum disorder show altered functional connectivity and abnormal maturation trajectories in response to inverted faces," 2021, Autism Research
  • "Associations between spontaneous electroencephalogram oscillations and oxygen saturation across normobaric and hypobaric hypoxia," 2023, Human Brain Mapping

Frequent co-authors in Doesburg's work include Vasily A. Vakorin, Urs Ribary, Adonay S. Nunes, Nataliia Kozhemiako, and Sylvain Moreno, reflecting collaborative contributions across related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Large-Scale Gamma-Band Phase Synchronization and Selective Attention

    Sam M. Doesburg;Alexa B. Roggeveen;Keiichi Kitajo;Keiichi Kitajo;Lawrence M. Ward

  • Neonatal pain-related stress, functional cortical activity and visual-perceptual abilities in school-age children born at extremely low gestational age

    Sam M. Doesburg;Cecil M. Chau;Teresa P.L. Cheung;Alexander Moiseev

  • Rhythms of consciousness: binocular rivalry reveals large-scale oscillatory network dynamics mediating visual perception.

    Sam M. Doesburg;Jessica J. Green;John J. McDonald;Lawrence M. Ward

  • From local inhibition to long-range integration: a functional dissociation of alpha-band synchronization across cortical scales in visuospatial attention.

    Sam M. Doesburg;Jessica J. Green;John J. McDonald;Lawrence M. Ward

  • Increased gamma-band synchrony precedes switching of conscious perceptual objects in binocular rivalry.

    Sam M. Doesburg;CA Keiichi Kitajo;Lawrence M. Ward

  • Idiosyncratic organization of cortical networks in autism spectrum disorder

    Adonay S. Nunes;Nicholas Peatfield;Vasily A. Vakorin;Sam M. Doesburg

  • Resilience of developing brain networks to interictal epileptiform discharges is associated with cognitive outcome

    George M. Ibrahim;Daniel Cassel;Benjamin R. Morgan;Mary Lou Smith

  • Low-frequency connectivity is associated with mild traumatic brain injury

    B.T. Dunkley;L. Da Costa;A. Bethune;R. Jetly

  • Top-down alpha oscillatory network interactions during visuospatial attention orienting.

    Sam M. Doesburg;Nicolas Bedo;Lawrence M. Ward

  • Resting-state hippocampal connectivity correlates with symptom severity in post-traumatic stress disorder

    B.T. Dunkley;S.M. Doesburg;P.A. Sedge;R.J. Grodecki

  • Neural synchrony in stochastic resonance, attention, and consciousness.

    Lawrence M. Ward;Sam M. Doesburg;Keiichi Kitajo;Shannon E. MacLean

  • Oscillations, networks, and their development: MEG connectivity changes with age.

    Carmen B. Schäfer;Benjamin R. Morgan;Annette X. Ye;Margot J. Taylor

  • Atypical resting synchrony in autism spectrum disorder.

    Annette X. Ye;Annette X. Ye;Rachel C. Leung;Rachel C. Leung;Carmen B. Schäfer;Margot J. Taylor

  • Dynamic modulation of epileptic high frequency oscillations by the phase of slower cortical rhythms.

    George M. Ibrahim;Simeon M. Wong;Ryan A. Anderson;Gabrielle Singh-Cadieux

  • Reduced Theta Connectivity during Set-Shifting in Children with Autism

    Sam McLeod Doesburg;Jule Vidal;Margot J Taylor

  • Noise-induced large-scale phase synchronization of human-brain activity associated with behavioural stochastic resonance

    K. Kitajo;K. Kitajo;K. Kitajo;S. M. Doesburg;K. Yamanaka;D. Nozaki

  • Asynchrony from synchrony: long-range gamma-band neural synchrony accompanies perception of audiovisual speech asynchrony

    Sam M. Doesburg;Lauren L. Emberson;Lauren L. Emberson;Alan Rahi;David Cameron

  • Impaired development of intrinsic connectivity networks in children with medically intractable localization-related epilepsy.

    George M. Ibrahim;Benjamin R. Morgan;Wayne Lee;Mary Lou Smith

  • Theta modulation of inter-regional gamma synchronization during auditory attention control.

    Sam M. Doesburg;Jessica J. Green;John J. McDonald;Lawrence M. Ward

  • Music Therapy in Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Systematic Review

    Amparo V. Marquez-Garcia;Justine Magnuson;James Morris;Grace Iarocci

  • Reduced beta connectivity during emotional face processing in adolescents with autism

    Rachel C Leung;Rachel C Leung;Annette X Ye;Annette X Ye;Simeon M Wong;Margot J Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Margot J. Taylor
Margot J. Taylor University of Toronto
Urs Ribary
Urs Ribary Simon Fraser University
O. Carter Snead
O. Carter Snead University of Toronto
Lawrence M. Ward
Lawrence M. Ward University of British Columbia
Ayako Ochi
Ayako Ochi University of Toronto
Hiroshi Otsubo
Hiroshi Otsubo University of Toronto
James T. Rutka
James T. Rutka University of Toronto
Elizabeth W. Pang
Elizabeth W. Pang Hospital for Sick Children
Mary Lou Smith
Mary Lou Smith University of Toronto
Elizabeth J. Donner
Elizabeth J. Donner University of Toronto

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