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Vesa Kiviniemi is affiliated with Oulu University Hospital in Finland and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans several main fields of study including Medicine, with 75 publications, and Neuroscience, with 71 publications. Within these areas, Kiviniemi's work touches multiple subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's research covers diverse topics, primarily focusing on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Cerebrospinal Fluid and Hydrocephalus, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques, and Neural Dynamics and Brain Function.

Kiviniemi has published in a number of scientific venues, with frequent appearances in journals and proceedings including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Human Brain Mapping.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Kiviniemi are:

  • The glymphatic system: Current understanding and modeling, 2022, iScience
  • Human NREM Sleep Promotes Brain-Wide Vasomotor and Respiratory Pulsations, 2022, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Cardiovascular brain impulses in Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Brain
  • The variability of functional MRI brain signal increases in Alzheimer's disease at cardiorespiratory frequencies, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Spectral analysis of physiological brain pulsations affecting the BOLD signal, 2021, Human Brain Mapping

The scientist collaborates frequently with a set of coauthors who have contributed alongside them in numerous studies. These include Vesa Korhonen, Heta Helakari, Janne Kananen, Niko Huotari, and Matti Järvelä.

Best Publications

  • Toward discovery science of human brain function

    Bharat B. Biswal;Maarten Mennes;Xi Nian Zuo;Suril Gohel

  • Dynamic functional connectivity: Promise, issues, and interpretations

    R. Matthew Hutchison;Thilo Womelsdorf;Elena A. Allen;Elena A. Allen;Peter A. Bandettini

  • Persistent default-mode network connectivity during light sedation.

    Michael D. Greicius;Vesa Kiviniemi;Osmo Tervonen;Vilho Vainionpää

  • Independent component analysis of nondeterministic fMRI signal sources.

    Vesa Kiviniemi;Juha-Heikki Kantola;Jukka Jauhiainen;Aapo Hyvärinen

  • Alterations in regional homogeneity of resting-state brain activity in autism spectrum disorders.

    Jyri-Johan Paakki;Jukka Rahko;Xiangyu Long;Irma Moilanen

  • Functional segmentation of the brain cortex using high model order group-PICA.

    VJ Kiviniemi;T Starck;J Remes;X Long

  • Ultra-fast magnetic resonance encephalography of physiological brain activity – Glymphatic pulsation mechanisms?

    Vesa Kiviniemi;Vesa Kiviniemi;Xindi Wang;Vesa Korhonen;Tuija Keinänen

  • The effect of model order selection in group PICA.

    Ahmed Abou-Elseoud;Tuomo Starck;Jukka Remes;Juha Nikkinen

  • The glymphatic system: Current understanding and modeling

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  • A sliding time-window ICA reveals spatial variability of the default mode network in time.

    Vesa Kiviniemi;Tapani Vire;Jukka J. Remes;Ahmed Abou Elseoud

  • Functional connectivity under six anesthesia protocols and the awake condition in rat brain.

    Jaakko Paasonen;Petteri Stenroos;Raimo A. Salo;Vesa Kiviniemi

  • Infra-Slow EEG Fluctuations Are Correlated with Resting-State Network Dynamics in fMRI

    Tuija Hiltunen;Jussi Kantola;Ahmed Abou Elseoud;Pasi Lepola

  • Slow vasomotor fluctuation in fMRI of anesthetized child brain

    Vesa Kiviniemi;Jukka Jauhiainen;Osmo Tervonen;Eija Pääkkö

  • Midazolam sedation increases fluctuation and synchrony of the resting brain BOLD signal

    Vesa J. Kiviniemi;Hannu Haanpää;Juha-Heikki Kantola;Jukka Jauhiainen

  • ICA model order selection of task co-activation networks.

    Kimberly Louise Ray;D Reese McKay;Peter Mickle Fox;Michael Cody Riedel

  • Default mode network as revealed with multiple methods for resting-state functional MRI analysis.

    Xiang-Yu Long;Xi-Nian Zuo;Vesa Kiviniemi;Yihong Yang

  • Group-ICA Model Order Highlights Patterns of Functional Brain Connectivity

    Ahmed Abou Elseoud;Harri Littow;Jukka Remes;Tuomo Starck

  • Preoperative localization of the sensorimotor area using independent component analysis of resting-state fMRI

    Salla-Maarit Kokkonen;Juha Nikkinen;Jukka Remes;Jussi Kantola

  • Longitudinal changes in total brain volume in schizophrenia: relation to symptom severity, cognition and antipsychotic medication

    Juha Veijola;Joyce Y. Guo;Jani S. Moilanen;Erika Jääskeläinen

  • Human NREM Sleep Promotes Brain-Wide Vasomotor and Respiratory Pulsations

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  • Using coherence to measure regional homogeneity of resting-state FMRI signal.

    Dongqiang Liu;Chaogan Yan;Juejing Ren;Li Yao

  • Resting state fMRI reveals a default mode dissociation between retrosplenial and medial prefrontal subnetworks in ASD despite motion scrubbing

    Tuomo Starck;Tuomo Starck;Juha Nikkinen;Jukka Rahko;Jukka Remes;Jukka Remes

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham K. Murray
Graham K. Murray University of Cambridge
Hanna Ebeling
Hanna Ebeling Oulu University Hospital
Yu-Feng Zang
Yu-Feng Zang Hangzhou Normal University
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Martin Walter
Martin Walter Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Synnöve Carlson
Synnöve Carlson Aalto University
Christian F. Beckmann
Christian F. Beckmann Radboud University
Xi-Nian Zuo
Xi-Nian Zuo Beijing Normal University
Anna Barnes
Anna Barnes University College London
Mirka Hintsanen
Mirka Hintsanen University of Oulu

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