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Spyros Kollias is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work covers multiple specific topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Kollias has published research in several academic venues with a particular focus on journals associated with neurology and psychiatry. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • The Journal of Headache and Pain

The following are recent papers authored or co-authored by Kollias, reflecting diverse aspects of neuroimaging, brain connectivity, and related disorders:

  • Triple Network Model Dynamically Revisited: Lower Salience Network State Switching in Pre-psychosis (2020, Frontiers in Physiology)
  • Abnormal Connectivity and Brain Structure in Patients With Visual Snow (2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
  • Age influences structural brain restoration during weight gain therapy in anorexia nervosa (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Structural brain network characteristics in patients with episodic and chronic migraine (2021, The Journal of Headache and Pain)
  • Disentangling the Effects of Spinal Cord Injury and Related Neuropathic Pain on Supraspinal Neuroplasticity: A Systematic Review on Neuroimaging (2020, Frontiers in Neurology)

The scientist collaborates regularly with several colleagues in their research, including:

  • Lars Michels
  • Marco Piccirelli
  • Roger Luechinger
  • Patrick Freund
  • Jürgen Hänggi

Best Publications

  • The current state-of-the-art of spinal cord imaging: Methods

    Patrick W. Stroman;Claudia A. M. Wheeler-Kingshott;M. Bacon;J. M. Schwab

  • A new correlation-based fuzzy logic clustering algorithm for fMRI

    Xavier Golay;Spyros Kollias;Gautier Stoll;Dieter Meier

  • Beyond re-membering: phantom sensations of congenitally absent limbs.

    Peter Brugger;Spyros S. Kollias;René M. Müri;Gérard Crelier

  • Intraoperative validation of functional magnetic resonance imaging and cortical reorganization patterns in patients with brain tumors involving the primary motor cortex

    Javier Fandino;Spyros S. Kollias;Heinz Gregor Wieser;Anton Valavanis

  • SENSE‐DTI at 3 T

    T. Jaermann;T. Jaermann;G. Crelier;K.P. Pruessmann;X. Golay;X. Golay

  • The current state-of-the-art of spinal cord imaging: Applications

    Claudia A. M. Wheeler-Kingshott;Patrick W. Stroman;J. M. Schwab;M. Bacon

  • What Disconnection Tells about Motor Imagery: Evidence from Paraplegic Patients

    Hatem Alkadhi;Peter Brugger;Sabina Hotz Boendermaker;Gerard Crelier

  • Neuroradiology of cholesteatomas.

    K Baráth;A M Huber;Philipp Stämpfli;Z Varga

  • Reduced field-of-view MRI using outer volume suppression for spinal cord diffusion imaging

    Bertram J. Wilm;J. Svensson;J. Svensson;A. Henning;K. P. Pruessmann

  • Neural correlates for the acquisition of natural language syntax.

    Marco Tettamanti;Hatem Alkadhi;Andrea Moro;Daniela Perani

  • Changes of non-affected upper limb cortical representation in paraplegic patients as assessed by fMRI.

    Armin Curt;Hatem Alkadhi;Gérard R Crelier;Sabina Hotz Boendermaker

  • Plasticity of the human motor cortex in patients with arteriovenous malformations: a functional MR imaging study.

    Hatem Alkadhi;Spyros S. Kollias;Gérard R. Crelier;Xavier Golay

  • Reproducibility of Primary Motor Cortex Somatotopy Under Controlled Conditions

    Hatem Alkadhi;Gerard R. Crelier;Sabina Hotz Boendermaker;Xavier Golay

  • Preservation of motor programs in paraplegics as demonstrated by attempted and imagined foot movements.

    Sabina Hotz-Boendermaker;Marion Funk;Paul E. Summers;Peter Brugger

  • An fMRI study of the role of suprapontine brain structures in the voluntary voiding control induced by pelvic floor contraction.

    Hao Zhang;André Reitz;Spyros S. Kollias;Paul E. Summers

  • Contrast-Enhanced PET/MR Imaging Versus Contrast-Enhanced PET/CT in Head and Neck Cancer: How Much MR Information Is Needed?

    Felix P. Kuhn;Martin Hüllner;Caecilia E. Mader;Nikos Kastrinidis

  • PRESTO-SENSE: an ultrafast whole-brain fMRI technique.

    Xavier Golay;Xavier Golay;Xavier Golay;Klaas P. Pruessmann;Markus Weiger;Gérard R. Crelier

  • Aberrant Coupling Within and Across the Default Mode, Task-Positive, and Salience Network in Subjects at Risk for Psychosis

    Diana Wotruba;Lars Michels;Roman Buechler;Sibylle Metzler

  • Neurofeedback-mediated self-regulation of the dopaminergic midbrain

    James Samuel Sulzer;Ranganatha Sitaram;Ranganatha Sitaram;Maria Laura Blefari;Spyros Kollias

  • Combined thalidomide and temozolomide treatment in patients with glioblastoma multiforme.

    Fabian Baumann;Miroslava Bjeljac;Spyros S. Kollias;Brigitta G. Baumert

  • Noninvasive measurement of regional cerebral blood flow and regional cerebral blood volume by near-infrared spectroscopy and indocyanine green dye dilution.

    Emanuela Keller;Andreas Nadler;Hatem Alkadhi;Spyros S Kollias

  • Glucocorticoid Therapy-Induced Memory Deficits: Acute versus Chronic Effects

    Daniel Coluccia;Oliver T. Wolf;Spyros Kollias;Benno Roozendaal

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Michels
Lars Michels University of Zurich
Marie-Claude Hepp-Reymond
Marie-Claude Hepp-Reymond University of Zurich
Patrick Freund
Patrick Freund University of Zurich
Alfred Buck
Alfred Buck University of Zurich
Peter Brugger
Peter Brugger University of Zurich
M. Mallar Chakravarty
M. Mallar Chakravarty McGill University
Dante Mantini
Dante Mantini KU Leuven
Christoph Hock
Christoph Hock University of Zurich
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich
Ranganatha Sitaram
Ranganatha Sitaram St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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