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Overview

Wael El-Deredy is affiliated with Valparaiso University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience, with a significant body of work in cognitive neuroscience as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience. Additional subfields include radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and physiology.

The scientist's research topics cover various aspects of brain function and neural activity. Key areas include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Neuroscience and neural engineering
  • Advanced MRI techniques and applications
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Pain management and placebo effect

Wael El-Deredy has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed scientific publications. Selected recent papers include:

  • "A mean-field model of glutamate and GABA synaptic dynamics for functional MRS," 2022, NeuroImage
  • "C-low threshold mechanoafferent targeted dynamic touch modulates stress resilience in rats exposed to chronic mild stress," 2020, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Persistence of EEG Alpha Entrainment Depends on Stimulus Phase at Offset," 2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "GABA Modulates Frequency-Dependent Plasticity in Humans," 2020, iScience
  • "Cortical ignition dynamics is tightly linked to the core organisation of the human connectome," 2020, PLoS Computational Biology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Nelson J. Trujillo-Barreto, Mónica Otero, Alejandro Weinstein, Caroline Lea-Carnall, and Aland Astudillo. These coauthors have contributed to multiple studies, reflecting ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Wael El-Deredy has published extensively in notable venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • IBRO Neuroscience Reports
  • Scientific Reports
  • IEEE Access
  • NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • Arthritic pain is processed in brain areas concerned with emotions and fear

    Bhavna Kulkarni;D E Bentley;R Elliott;Peter J Julyan

  • Modulation of pain ratings by expectation and uncertainty: Behavioral characteristics and anticipatory neural correlates.

    Christopher A. Brown;Ben Seymour;Yvonne Boyle;Wael El-Deredy

  • The Feedback-Related Negativity Signals Salience Prediction Errors, Not Reward Prediction Errors

    Deborah Talmi;Ryan Atkinson;Wael El-Deredy

  • Reproducibility of placebo analgesia: Effect of dispositional optimism

    Debbie L. Morton;Alison Watson;Wael El-Deredy;Anthony K.P. Jones

  • Placebo conditioning and placebo analgesia modulate a common brain network during pain anticipation and perception

    Alison Watson;Wael El-Deredy;Gian Domenico Iannetti;Donna Lloyd

  • Bayesian inferences about the self (and others): a review.

    Michael Moutoussis;Pasco Fearon;Wael El-Deredy;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Bayesian modelling of Jumping-to-Conclusions bias in delusional patients

    Michael Moutoussis;Richard P. Bentall;Wael El-Deredy;Peter Dayan

  • Pattern recognition approaches in biomedical and clinical magnetic resonance spectroscopy: a review.

    Wael El-Deredy

  • Cued Memory Reactivation during Slow-Wave Sleep Promotes Explicit Knowledge of a Motor Sequence

    James N. Cousins;Wael El-Deredy;Laura M. Parkes;Nora Hennies

  • Why contextual preference reversals maximize expected value.

    Andrew Howes;Paul A. Warren;George D. Farmer;Wael El-Deredy

  • I Want It Now! Neural Correlates of Hypersensitivity to Immediate Reward in Hypomania

    Liam Mason;Noreen O'Sullivan;Marianna Blackburn;Richard Bentall

  • Confidence in beliefs about pain predicts expectancy effects on pain perception and anticipatory processing in right anterior insula

    Christopher A. Brown;Ben Seymour;Wael El-Deredy;Anthony K.P. Jones

  • Decision-making and trait impulsivity in bipolar disorder are associated with reduced prefrontal regulation of striatal reward valuation.

    Liam Mason;Noreen O’Sullivan;Daniela Montaldi;Richard P. Bentall

  • Cued reactivation of motor learning during sleep leads to overnight changes in functional brain activity and connectivity

    James N. Cousins;James N. Cousins;Wael El-Deredy;Wael El-Deredy;Laura M. Parkes;Nora Hennies;Nora Hennies

  • Placebo analgesia is not due to compliance or habituation: EEG and behavioural evidence.

    Alison Watson;Wael El-Deredy;Brent A. Vogt;Anthony K.P. Jones

  • Tumour grading from magnetic resonance spectroscopy: a comparison of feature extraction with variable selection.

    Y. Huang;P. J. G. Lisboa;W. El-Deredy

  • Visual information processing deficits as biomarkers of vulnerability to schizophrenia: An event-related potential study in schizotypy

    Ivan Koychev;Wael El-Deredy;Corinna Haenschel;John Francis William Deakin

  • When the brain expects pain: common neural responses to pain anticipation are related to clinical pain and distress in fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis

    Christopher A. Brown;Wael El-Deredy;Anthony K. P. Jones

  • Sensitivity to pain expectations: A Bayesian model of individual differences.

    R. Hoskin;C. Berzuini;D. Acosta-Kane;W. El-Deredy

  • FMRI evidence of a relationship between hypomania and both increased goal-sensitivity and positive outcome-expectancy bias

    Noreen O'Sullivan;Remigiusz Szczepanowski;Wael El-Deredy;Liam Mason

  • A Systematic Review of Efficacy of the Attention Training Technique in Clinical and Nonclinical Samples.

    Mark M. Knowles;Philip Foden;Wael El-Deredy;Wael El-Deredy;Adrian Wells;Adrian Wells

  • Funding: LM received interdisciplinary funding from the Medical Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

    Liam Mason;Richard P. Bentall;Wael El-Deredy

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony K. P. Jones
Anthony K. P. Jones University of Manchester
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield
Ellen Poliakoff
Ellen Poliakoff University of Manchester
Laura M. Parkes
Laura M. Parkes University of Manchester
John Francis William Deakin
John Francis William Deakin University of Manchester
Francis McGlone
Francis McGlone Liverpool John Moores University
Penelope A. Lewis
Penelope A. Lewis Cardiff University
Brent A. Vogt
Brent A. Vogt Boston University
Donna M. Lloyd
Donna M. Lloyd University of Leeds
Ulrike Hahn
Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London

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