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Overview

Sara Lariviere is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

They have contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "BrainSpace: a toolbox for the analysis of macroscale gradients in neuroimaging and connectomics datasets" (2020), published in Communications Biology
  • "The ENIGMA Toolbox: multiscale neural contextualization of multisite neuroimaging datasets" (2021), published in Nature Methods
  • "Network-based atrophy modeling in the common epilepsies: A worldwide ENIGMA study" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Epilepsy and brain network hubs" (2022), published in Epilepsia
  • "Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across six neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders" (2022), published in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lariviere include:

  • Boris C. Bernhardt
  • Jessica Royer
  • Raúl Rodríguez-Cruces
  • Andrea Bernasconi
  • Neda Bernasconi

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Communications Biology
  • Epilepsia
  • Brain

The body of work spans 131 publications in neuroscience and 96 in medicine, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach. Their work includes extensive exploration of advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications related to brain connectivity and neural dynamics, with a particular interest in epilepsy and other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.

Best Publications

  • BrainSpace: a toolbox for the analysis of macroscale gradients in neuroimaging and connectomics datasets

    Reinder Vos de Wael;Oualid Benkarim;Casey Paquola;Sara Lariviere

  • Atypical functional connectome hierarchy in autism

    Seok Jun Hong;Seok Jun Hong;Reinder Vos de Wael;Richard A.I. Bethlehem;Sara Lariviere

  • Anatomical and microstructural determinants of hippocampal subfield functional connectome embedding.

    Reinder Vos de Wael;Sara Larivière;Benoît Caldairou;Seok-Jun Hong

  • The ENIGMA Toolbox: multiscale neural contextualization of multisite neuroimaging datasets

    Sara Larivière;Casey Paquola;Casey Paquola;Bo-yong Park;Bo-yong Park;Jessica Royer

  • Epilepsy and brain network hubs

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  • Network-based atrophy modeling in the common epilepsies: A worldwide ENIGMA study.

    Sara Larivière;Raúl Rodríguez-Cruces;Jessica Royer;Maria Eugenia Caligiuri

  • Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across six neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders

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  • Multiscale Structure-Function Gradients in the Neonatal Connectome.

    Sara Larivière;Reinder Vos de Wael;Seok-Jun Hong;Seok-Jun Hong;Casey Paquola

  • BrainStat: A toolbox for brain-wide statistics and multimodal feature associations

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  • An Open MRI Dataset For Multiscale Neuroscience

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  • Structural network alterations in focal and generalized epilepsy assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study follow axes of epilepsy risk gene expression

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  • Micapipe: A pipeline for multimodal neuroimaging and connectome analysis

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  • A multi-scale cortical wiring space links cellular architecture and functional dynamics in the human brain.

    Casey Paquola;Jakob Seidlitz;Oualid Benkarim;Jessica Royer

  • Functional connectome contractions in temporal lobe epilepsy: Microstructural underpinnings and predictors of surgical outcome

    Sara Larivière;Yifei Weng;Reinder Vos de Wael;Jessica Royer

  • An expanding manifold in transmodal regions characterizes adolescent reconfiguration of structural connectome organization.

    Bo-yong Park;Richard Ai Bethlehem;Casey Paquola;Sara Larivière

  • Signal diffusion along connectome gradients and inter-hub routing differentially contribute to dynamic human brain function.

    Bo-yong Park;Reinder Vos de Wael;Casey Paquola;Sara Larivière

  • Convergence of cortical types and functional motifs in the human mesiotemporal lobe.

    Casey Paquola;Oualid Benkarim;Jordan DeKraker;Sara Larivière

  • Multiscale neural gradients reflect transdiagnostic effects of major psychiatric conditions on cortical morphology

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  • Connectome biomarkers of drug-resistant epilepsy.

    Sara Larivière;Andrea Bernasconi;Neda Bernasconi;Boris C Bernhardt

  • Myeloarchitecture gradients in the human insula: Histological underpinnings and association to intrinsic functional connectivity

    Jessica Royer;Casey Paquola;Sara Larivière;Reinder Vos de Wael

  • The ENIGMA-Epilepsy working group: Mapping disease from large data sets.

    Sanjay M. Sisodiya;Christopher D. Whelan;Sean N. Hatton;Khoa Huynh

  • Microstructure-Informed Connectomics: Enriching Large-Scale Descriptions of Healthy and Diseased Brains

    Sara Larivière;Reinder Vos de Wael;Casey Paquola;Seok-Jun Hong

  • Community-informed connectomics of the thalamocortical system in generalized epilepsy.

    Zhengge Wang;Sara Larivière;Qiang Xu;Reinder Vos de Wael

  • Disrupted functional network integrity and flexibility after stroke: Relation to motor impairments.

    Sara Larivière;Nick S. Ward;Marie-Hélène Boudrias

  • Connectivity alterations in autism reflect functional idiosyncrasy.

    Oualid Benkarim;Casey Paquola;Bo-yong Park;Seok-Jun Hong;Seok-Jun Hong

  • Artificial intelligence for classification of temporal lobe epilepsy with ROI-level MRI data: A worldwide ENIGMA-Epilepsy study.

    Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Brent C Munsell;Saud Alhusaini;Marina K M Alvim

  • Macroscale and microcircuit dissociation of focal and generalized human epilepsies.

    Yifei Weng;Yifei Weng;Sara Larivière;Lorenzo Caciagli;Lorenzo Caciagli;Reinder Vos de Wael

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris C. Bernhardt
Boris C. Bernhardt Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Casey Paquola
Casey Paquola Forschungszentrum Jülich
Andrea Bernasconi
Andrea Bernasconi Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Neda Bernasconi
Neda Bernasconi Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Jonathan Smallwood
Jonathan Smallwood Queen's University
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Birgit Frauscher
Birgit Frauscher Duke University
Simon S. Keller
Simon S. Keller University of Liverpool
Khalid Hamandi
Khalid Hamandi Cardiff University
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University

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