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Suresh D. Muthukumaraswamy

Suresh D. Muthukumaraswamy

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Neuroscience

D-Index
54
Citations
12894
World Ranking
4873
National Ranking
17

Overview

Suresh D. Muthukumaraswamy is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research spans several fields within neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, focusing on various subfields that include cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pharmacology, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's work covers multiple key topics, notably:

  • Psychedelics and drug studies
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
  • Treatment of major depression
  • Biochemical analysis and sensing techniques

Frequent co-authorship occurs with researchers such as Rachael L. Sumner, Frederick Sundram, Nicholas Hoeh, Anna Forsyth, and William J. Evans, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts.

The return of research findings can be followed through several publication venues where they have contributed notably, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trials
  • NeuroImage
  • Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Translational Psychiatry

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Muthukumaraswamy include:

  • Blinding and expectancy confounds in psychedelic randomized controlled trials, 2021, Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
  • Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The role of Hebbian learning in human perception: a methodological and theoretical review of the human Visual Long-Term Potentiation paradigm, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • International pooled patient-level meta-analysis of ketamine infusion for depression: In search of clinical moderators, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Acute Mood-Elevating Properties of Microdosed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide in Healthy Volunteers: A Home-Administered Randomized Controlled Trial, 2023, Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Neural correlates of the LSD experience revealed by multimodal neuroimaging

    Robin L. Carhart-Harris;Suresh D. Muthukumaraswamy;Suresh D. Muthukumaraswamy;Leor Roseman;Mendel Kaelen

  • High-frequency brain activity and muscle artifacts in MEG/EEG: a review and recommendations.

    Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy

  • Mu rhythm modulation during observation of an object-directed grasp

    Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy;Blake W. Johnson;Nicolas A. McNair

  • Resting GABA concentration predicts peak gamma frequency and fMRI amplitude in response to visual stimulation in humans

    Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy;Richard Anthony Edward Edden;Derek K. Jones;Jennifer B. Swettenham

  • Increased Global Functional Connectivity Correlates with LSD-Induced Ego Dissolution

    Enzo Tagliazucchi;Enzo Tagliazucchi;Leor Roseman;Mendel Kaelen;Csaba Orban

  • Broadband Cortical Desynchronization Underlies the Human Psychedelic State

    Suresh D Muthukumaraswamy;Robin L Carhart-Harris;Rosalyn J Moran;Matthew J Brookes

  • Increased spontaneous MEG signal diversity for psychoactive doses of ketamine, LSD and psilocybin.

    Michael M. Schartner;Robin L. Carhart-Harris;Adam B. Barrett;Anil K. Seth

  • Orientation Discrimination Performance Is Predicted by GABA Concentration and Gamma Oscillation Frequency in Human Primary Visual Cortex

    Richard Anthony Edward Edden;Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy;Thomas Charles Augustus Freeman;Krish Devi Singh

  • Functional Properties of Human Primary Motor Cortex Gamma Oscillations

    Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy

  • Changes in rolandic mu rhythm during observation of a precision grip.

    Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy;B. W. Johnson

  • Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG

    Christopher Timmermann;Leor Roseman;Michael Schartner;Raphael Milliere

  • Instead of "playing the game" it is time to change the rules: Registered Reports at AIMS Neuroscience and beyond

    Christopher D. Chambers;Eva Feredoes;Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy;Peter Etchells;Peter Etchells;Peter Etchells

  • Blinding and expectancy confounds in psychedelic randomized controlled trials.

    Suresh D Muthukumaraswamy;Anna Forsyth;Thomas Lumley

  • Primary motor cortex activation during action observation revealed by wavelet analysis of the EEG

    Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy;Blake W. Johnson

  • Differences in excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitter levels between depressed patients and healthy controls: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Kate E.M. Godfrey;Abby C. Gardner;Sarah Kwon;William Chea

  • Evidence that Subanesthetic Doses of Ketamine Cause Sustained Disruptions of NMDA and AMPA-Mediated Frontoparietal Connectivity in Humans

    Suresh D Muthukumaraswamy;Alexander D Shaw;Laura E Jackson;Judith Hall

  • Cerebral blood flow predicts differential neurotransmitter activity

    Juergen Dukart;Štefan Holiga;Christopher Chatham;Peter Hawkins

  • The effects of elevated endogenous GABA levels on movement-related network oscillations

    Suresh D. Muthukumaraswamy;Jim F. M. Myers;Sue J. Wilson;David J. Nutt

  • Visual gamma oscillations and evoked responses: variability, repeatability and structural MRI correlates.

    Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy;Krish Devi Singh;Jennifer B. Swettenham;Derek K. Jones

  • Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics

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  • Visual gamma oscillations: The effects of stimulus type, visual field coverage and stimulus motion on MEG and EEG recordings

    Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy;Krish Devi Singh

  • Research report Mu rhythm modulation during observation of an object-directed grasp

    Suresh D. Muthukumaraswamy;Blake W. Johnson;Nicolas A. McNair

Frequent Co-Authors

Krish D. Singh
Krish D. Singh Cardiff University
Khalid Hamandi
Khalid Hamandi Cardiff University
David J. Nutt
David J. Nutt Imperial College London
Robin L. Carhart-Harris
Robin L. Carhart-Harris University of California, San Francisco
Blake W. Johnson
Blake W. Johnson Macquarie University
Juergen Dukart
Juergen Dukart Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
David T. J. Liley
David T. J. Liley University of Melbourne
Rosalyn J. Moran
Rosalyn J. Moran King's College London
Robert Leech
Robert Leech King's College London
Amanda Feilding
Amanda Feilding Beckley Foundation

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