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Overview

Thomas Maloney is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with notable contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their work has involved specialized topics including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Maloney are:

  • Reduced gray matter volume and cortical thickness associated with traffic-related air pollution in a longitudinally studied pediatric cohort, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Automated grading of enlarged perivascular spaces in clinical imaging data of an acute stroke cohort using an interpretable, 3D deep learning framework, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Examining reaction time variability on the stop-signal task in the ABCD study, 2022, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • Processing of pain by the developing brain: evidence of differences between adolescent and adult females, 2022, Pain
  • Brain Structural Changes During Juvenile Fibromyalgia: Relationships With Pain, Fatigue, and Functional Disability, 2022, Arthritis & Rheumatology

Frequent co-authors in Thomas Maloney's publications include:

  • Vivek Khandwala
  • Brady J. Williamson
  • Achala Vagal
  • Jennifer Vannest
  • Pooja Khatri

Their work is regularly published in venues such as Stroke, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, Pain, and Brain Imaging and Behavior.

Best Publications

  • Role of the anterior cingulate and medial orbitofrontal cortex in processing drug cues in cocaine addiction.

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Dardo Tomasi;Suparna Rajaram;Lisa A. Cottone

  • Is decreased prefrontal cortical sensitivity to monetary reward associated with impaired motivation and self-control in cocaine addiction?

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Nelly Alia-Klein;Dardo Tomasi;Lei Zhang

  • The Neuropsychology of Cocaine Addiction: Recent Cocaine Use Masks Impairment

    Patricia A Woicik;Scott J Moeller;Nelly Alia-Klein;Thomas Maloney

  • Anterior cingulate cortex hypoactivations to an emotionally salient task in cocaine addiction

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Nelly Alia-Klein;Dardo Tomasi;Jean Honorio Carrillo

  • The effect of graded monetary reward on cognitive event-related potentials and behavior in young healthy adults

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Lisa A. Cottone;Zhiru Jia;Thomas Maloney

  • Motivated attention to cocaine and emotional cues in abstinent and current cocaine users – an ERP study

    Jonathan P. Dunning;Muhammad A. Parvaz;Muhammad A. Parvaz;Greg Hajcak;Thomas Maloney

  • Widespread disruption in brain activation patterns to a working memory task during cocaine abstinence.

    D. Tomasi;R.Z. Goldstein;F. Telang;T. Maloney

  • Sigma (12-15 Hz) and delta (0.3-3 Hz) EEG oscillate reciprocally within NREM sleep.

    S. Uchida;T. Maloney;J.D. March;R. Azari

  • Oral methylphenidate normalizes cingulate activity in cocaine addiction during a salient cognitive task

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Patricia A. Woicik;Thomas Maloney;Dardo Tomasi

  • Disrupted functional connectivity with dopaminergic midbrain in cocaine abusers.

    Dardo Tomasi;Nora D. Volkow;Nora D. Volkow;Ruiliang Wang;Jean H. Carrillo;Jean H. Carrillo

  • Cognitive and behavioral outcomes in benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes

    Jennifer Vannest;Jeffrey R. Tenney;Rose Gelineau-Morel;Thomas Maloney

  • Dopaminergic Response to Drug Words in Cocaine Addiction

    Rita Z. Goldstein;Dardo Tomasi;Nelly Alia-Klein;Jean Honorio Carrillo

  • Gene x disease interaction on orbitofrontal gray matter in cocaine addiction.

    Nelly Alia-Klein;Muhammad A. Parvaz;Patricia A. Woicik;Anna B. Konova

  • Enhanced choice for viewing cocaine pictures in cocaine addiction.

    Scott J. Moeller;Thomas Maloney;Muhammad A. Parvaz;Jonathan P. Dunning;Jonathan P. Dunning

  • Beta (20-28 Hz) and delta (0.3-3 Hz) EEGs oscillate reciprocally across NREM and REM sleep.

    Sunao Uchida;Tom Maloney;Irwin Feinberg

  • Thalamo-cortical dysfunction in cocaine abusers: implications in attention and perception.

    Dardo Tomasi;Rita Z. Goldstein;Frank Telang;Thomas Maloney

  • Impaired insight in cocaine addiction: laboratory evidence and effects on cocaine-seeking behaviour

    Scott J. Moeller;Thomas Maloney;Muhammad A. Parvaz;Muhammad A. Parvaz;Nelly Alia-Klein

  • Impaired Neural Response to Negative Prediction Errors in Cocaine Addiction

    Muhammad A. Parvaz;Anna B. Konova;Greg H. Proudfit;Jonathan P. Dunning

  • Repeat variation in the human PER2 gene as a new genetic marker associated with cocaine addiction and brain dopamine D2 receptor availability.

    Shumay E;Fowler Js;Wang Gj;Logan J

  • Clinical and neural responses to cognitive behavioral therapy for functional tremor.

    Alberto J. Espay;Scott Ries;Thomas Maloney;Jennifer Vannest

  • Precise conservation of NREM period 1 (NREMP1) delta across naps and nocturnal sleep: implications for REM latency and NREM/REM alternation.

    I Feinberg;T Maloney;J D March

Frequent Co-Authors

Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health
Rita Z. Goldstein
Rita Z. Goldstein Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Nelly Alia-Klein
Nelly Alia-Klein Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Frank Telang
Frank Telang National Institutes of Health
Gene-Jack Wang
Gene-Jack Wang National Institutes of Health
Dardo Tomasi
Dardo Tomasi National Institutes of Health
Irwin Feinberg
Irwin Feinberg University of California, Davis
Joanna S. Fowler
Joanna S. Fowler Brookhaven National Laboratory
Greg Hajcak
Greg Hajcak Santa Clara University
Anat Biegon
Anat Biegon Stony Brook University

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