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Overview

Thomas Thesen is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and related subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Thesen's work covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills

Their publications appear frequently in several academic venues, with multiple works published in Medical Science Educator, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Alzheimer's & Dementia, Scientific Reports, and NeuroImage.

Recent papers by Thomas Thesen include:

  • Ongoing neural oscillations influence behavior and sensory representations by suppressing neuronal excitability (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Microscale Physiological Events on the Human Cortical Surface (2021, Cerebral Cortex)
  • A systems-level analysis highlights microglial activation as a modifying factor in common epilepsies (2021, Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology)
  • An Intracranial Electrophysiology Study of Visual Language Encoding: The Contribution of the Precentral Gyrus to Silent Reading (2021, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • Web-based vestibular rehabilitation in persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (2021, Brain and Behavior)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Thesen include Orrin Devinsky, Uzoma Ikonne, Douglas McKell, Rebecca Rowe, and Tracey A. H. Taylor.

Best Publications

  • Phasic Firing in Dopaminergic Neurons Is Sufficient for Behavioral Conditioning

    Hsing-Chen Tsai;Feng Zhang;Antoine Roger Adamantidis;Garret D Stuber

  • NeuroGrid: recording action potentials from the surface of the brain

    Dion Khodagholy;Jennifer N Gelinas;Thomas Thesen;Werner Doyle

  • Slow cortical dynamics and the accumulation of information over long timescales

    Christopher J. Honey;Thomas Thesen;Tobias H. Donner;Lauren J. Silbert

  • Multisensory integration: methodological approaches and emerging principles in the human brain.

    Gemma A. Calvert;Thomas Thesen

  • Structural brain abnormalities in the common epilepsies assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study.

    Christopher D Whelan;Christopher D Whelan;Andre Altmann;Juan A Botía;Neda Jahanshad

  • The Human K-Complex Represents an Isolated Cortical Down-State

    Sydney S. Cash;Eric Halgren;Nima Dehghani;Andrea O. Rossetti

  • Interictal epileptiform discharges induce hippocampal–cortical coupling in temporal lobe epilepsy

    Jennifer N Gelinas;Dion Khodagholy;Thomas Thesen;Orrin Devinsky

  • Sensory–motor transformations for speech occur bilaterally

    Gregory B. Cogan;Thomas Thesen;Chad Carlson;Werner Doyle

  • Perceptual confidence neglects decision-incongruent evidence in the brain

    Megan A. K. Peters;Thomas Thesen;Thomas Thesen;Thomas Thesen;Yoshiaki D. Ko;Brian Maniscalco

  • Heterogeneous neuronal firing patterns during interictal epileptiform discharges in the human cortex

    Corey J. Keller;Wilson Truccolo;Wilson Truccolo;John T. Gale;Emad Eskandar

  • Low frequency transcranial electrical stimulation does not entrain sleep rhythms measured by human intracranial recordings

    Belen Lafon;Simon Henin;Simon Henin;Yu Huang;Daniel Friedman;Daniel Friedman

  • Perceiving identical sounds as speech or non-speech modulates activity in the left posterior superior temporal sulcus

    Riikka Möttönen;Gemma A. Calvert;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Paul M. Matthews

  • Sequential then interactive processing of letters and words in the left fusiform gyrus

    Thomas Thesen;Thomas Thesen;Carrie R. McDonald;Chad Carlson;Werner Doyle

  • Localization of dense intracranial electrode arrays using magnetic resonance imaging

    Andrew I. Yang;Xiuyuan Hugh Wang;Werner K. Doyle;Eric Halgren

  • Functional brain connectivity is predictable from anatomic network's Laplacian eigen-structure.

    Farras Abdelnour;Michael Dayan;Orrin Devinsky;Thomas Thesen

  • Default mode network abnormalities in idiopathic generalized epilepsy

    Megan L. McGill;Orrin Devinsky;Clare Kelly;Michael Milham

  • Ongoing neural oscillations influence behavior and sensory representations by suppressing neuronal excitability

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  • Not all predictions are equal: ‘What’ and ‘When’ predictions modulate activity in auditory cortex through different mechanisms

    Ryszard Auksztulewicz;Caspar M. Schwiedrzik;Thomas Thesen;Werner Doyle

  • Structural brain changes in medically refractory focal epilepsy resemble premature brain aging.

    Heath R. Pardoe;James H. Cole;Karen Blackmon;Thomas Thesen

  • Neuroimaging of multisensory processing in vision, audition, touch, and olfaction

    Thomas Thesen;Jonas F. Vibell;Gemma A. Calvert;Robert A. Österbauer

  • Auditory-visual processing represented in the human superior temporal gyrus.

    R.A. Reale;G.A. Calvert;G.A. Calvert;T. Thesen;R.L. Jenison

Frequent Co-Authors

Orrin Devinsky
Orrin Devinsky New York University
Werner Doyle
Werner Doyle New York University
Ruben Kuzniecky
Ruben Kuzniecky Hofstra University
Chad Carlson
Chad Carlson Medical College of Wisconsin
Eric Halgren
Eric Halgren University of California, San Diego
Lucia Melloni
Lucia Melloni Max Planck Society
Sydney S. Cash
Sydney S. Cash Harvard University
William B. Barr
William B. Barr New York University
Carrie R. McDonald
Carrie R. McDonald University of California, San Diego
Jacqueline A. French
Jacqueline A. French New York University

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