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Surjo R. Soekadar is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany, with a research focus spanning neuroscience and medicine. Their work primarily addresses topics such as EEG and brain-computer interfaces, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, and neuroscience and neural engineering. They have contributed to subfields including cognitive neuroscience, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, rehabilitation, and biomedical engineering.

Soekadar's publication record includes numerous papers in leading scientific venues. Notable recent works include:

  • Consensus on the reporting and experimental design of clinical and cognitive-behavioural neurofeedback studies (CRED-nf checklist), 2020, Brain
  • A large, curated, open-source stroke neuroimaging dataset to improve lesion segmentation algorithms, 2022, Scientific Data
  • Global synergistic actions to improve brain health for human development, 2023, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • The ENIGMA Stroke Recovery Working Group: Big data neuroimaging to study brain-behavior relationships after stroke, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Brain-Computer Interface-Controlled Exoskeletons in Clinical Neurorehabilitation: Ready or Not?, 2022, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Frequent publication venues for Soekadar include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Morals & Machines
  • Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors such as David Haslacher, Steven C. Cramer, Annalisa Colucci, Sook-Lei Liew, and Michael R. Borich.

Within their academic contributions, Surjo R. Soekadar has also published a book titled Brain Imaging Relations Through Simultaneous Recordings in 2023 through Frontiers Media.

Key areas of their work include studies on transcranial magnetic stimulation, functional brain connectivity, acute ischemic stroke management, and muscle activation with electromyography.

Best Publications

  • Brain–machine interface in chronic stroke rehabilitation: A controlled study

    Ander Ramos-Murguialday;Doris Broetz;Massimiliano Rea;Leonhard Läer

  • Think to Move: a Neuromagnetic Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) System for Chronic Stroke

    Ethan Buch;Cornelia Weber;Leonardo G. Cohen;Christoph Braun

  • Brain-computer interfaces for post-stroke motor rehabilitation: a meta-analysis

    María A. Cervera;Surjo R. Soekadar;Junichi Ushiba;José del R. Millán

  • Brain-machine interfaces in neurorehabilitation of stroke.

    Surjo R. Soekadar;Niels Birbaumer;Marc W. Slutzky;Leonardo G. Cohen

  • Innovative diagnostic tools for early detection of Alzheimer's disease

    Christoph Laske;Christoph Laske;Hamid R. Sohrabi;Hamid R. Sohrabi;Shaun M. Frost;Karmele López-de-Ipiña

  • Acquired self-control of insula cortex modulates emotion recognition and brain network connectivity in schizophrenia.

    Sergio Ruiz;Sergio Ruiz;Sangkyun Lee;Surjo R. Soekadar;Andrea Caria

  • Consensus on the reporting and experimental design of clinical and cognitive-behavioural neurofeedback studies (CRED-nf checklist)

    Tomas Ros;Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert;Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert;Vadim Zotev;Kymberly D Young

  • BDNF serum and CSF concentrations in Alzheimer's disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus and healthy controls.

    Christoph Laske;Elke Stransky;Thomas Leyhe;Gerhard W. Eschweiler

  • A large, open source dataset of stroke anatomical brain images and manual lesion segmentations

    Sook-Lei Liew;Julia M. Anglin;Nick W. Banks;Matt Sondag

  • Combination of brain-computer interface training and goal-directed physical therapy in chronic stroke: a case report.

    Doris Broetz;Christoph Braun;Cornelia Weber;Surjo R. Soekadar

  • Guiding transcranial brain stimulation by EEG/MEG to interact with ongoing brain activity and associated functions: A position paper.

    Gregor Thut;Til Ole Bergmann;Flavio Fröhlich;Surjo R. Soekadar

  • Hybrid EEG/EOG-based brain/neural hand exoskeleton restores fully independent daily living activities after quadriplegia

    S. R. Soekadar;M. Witkowski;C. Gómez;E. Opisso

  • Mapping entrained brain oscillations during transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)

    Matthias Witkowski;Eliana Garcia-Cossio;Eliana Garcia-Cossio;Bankim S. Chander;Christoph Braun;Christoph Braun

  • Increased plasma concentration of brain-derived neurotrophic factor with electroconvulsive therapy: a pilot study in patients with major depression.

    Christopher M. Marano;Pornima Phatak;Pornima Phatak;Ugandhar Rao Vemulapalli;Ugandhar Rao Vemulapalli;Amritpal Sasan

  • Brain oscillation-synchronized stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in depression using real-time EEG-triggered TMS.

    Brigitte Zrenner;Christoph Zrenner;Pedro Caldana Gordon;Paolo Belardinelli

  • Improving Motor Corticothalamic Communication After Stroke Using Real-Time fMRI Connectivity-Based Neurofeedback.

    Sook Lei Liew;Mohit Rana;Mohit Rana;Mohit Rana;Sonja Cornelsen;Marcos Fortunato De Barros Filho

  • Global synergistic actions to improve brain health for human development

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  • In vivo assessment of human brain oscillations during application of transcranial electric currents

    Surjo R. Soekadar;Surjo R. Soekadar;Matthias Witkowski;Matthias Witkowski;Eliana G. Cossio;Niels Birbaumer

  • An EEG/EOG-based hybrid brain-neural computer interaction (BNCI) system to control an exoskeleton for the paralyzed hand

    Surjo R. Soekadar;Matthias Witkowski;Nicola Vitiello;Niels Birbaumer

  • Help, hope, and hype: Ethical dimensions of neuroprosthetics

    Jens Clausen;Eberhard Fetz;John Donoghue;Junichi Ushiba

  • Enhancing brain-machine interface (BMI) control of a hand exoskeleton using electrooculography (EOG)

    Matthias Witkowski;Mario Cortese;Marco Cempini;Jürgen Mellinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Leonardo G. Cohen
Leonardo G. Cohen National Institutes of Health
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Carolee J. Winstein
Carolee J. Winstein University of Southern California
Jan Born
Jan Born University of Tübingen
Bradley J. MacIntosh
Bradley J. MacIntosh Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
George F. Wittenberg
George F. Wittenberg University of Pittsburgh
Ranganatha Sitaram
Ranganatha Sitaram St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Chunshui Yu
Chunshui Yu Tianjin Medical University General Hospital
Steven A. Kautz
Steven A. Kautz Medical University of South Carolina

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