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Xingbao Li is affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their main research areas include neurology, cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, anesthesiology and pain medicine, and psychiatry and mental health.

Li's work primarily focuses on topics such as transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, functional brain connectivity studies, pain management and treatment, ultrasound and hyperthermia applications, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, as well as neurological disorders and treatments.

The scientist has published research in several venues, with a significant number of papers appearing in "Brain Stimulation." Other publication venues include "World Psychiatry," "ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCH," "bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)," and "Clinical Neurophysiology."

  • Brain Stimulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • World Psychiatry
  • ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCH
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Xingbao Li include:

  • Two weeks of image-guided left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation improves smoking cessation: A double-blind, sham-controlled, randomized clinical trial, 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation: a pivotal multicenter double-blind randomized controlled trial, 2021, World Psychiatry
  • Sonication of the anterior thalamus with MRI-Guided transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) alters pain thresholds in healthy adults: A double-blind, sham-controlled study, 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • Transcranial electrical stimulation motor threshold can estimate individualized tDCS dosage from reverse-calculation electric-field modeling, 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • Reconstruction of shale image based on Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks with gradient penalty, 2020, ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCH

Li has collaborated frequently with several other researchers, most notably:

  • Mark S. George
  • Kevin A. Caulfield
  • Bashar W. Badran
  • Morgan Dancy
  • Jeffrey J. Borckardt

Best Publications

  • A controlled trial of daily left prefrontal cortex TMS for treating depression

    Mark S. George;Ziad Nahas;Ziad Nahas;Monica Molloy;Andrew M. Speer

  • Differential brain activity in alcoholics and social drinkers to alcohol cues: relationship to craving

    Hugh Myrick;Raymond F Anton;Xingbao Li;Scott Henderson;Scott Henderson

  • Effect of Naltrexone and Ondansetron on Alcohol Cue-Induced Activation of the Ventral Striatum in Alcohol-Dependent People

    Hugh Myrick;Raymond F. Anton;Xingbao Li;Scott Henderson

  • Left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) treatment of depression in bipolar affective disorder: a pilot study of acute safety and efficacy.

    Ziad Nahas;F Andrew Kozel;F Andrew Kozel;Xingbao Li;Berry Anderson;Berry Anderson

  • Unilateral left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) produces intensity-dependent bilateral effects as measured by interleaved BOLD fMRI

    Ziad Nahas;Mikhail Lomarev;Donna R Roberts;Ananda Shastri

  • Acute left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation in depressed patients is associated with immediately increased activity in prefrontal cortical as well as subcortical regions

    Xingbao Li;Ziad Nahas;F.Andrew Kozel;Berry Anderson

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex reduces nicotine cue craving.

    Xingbao Li;Karen J. Hartwell;Karen J. Hartwell;Max Owens;Todd LeMatty

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation: a pivotal multicenter double-blind randomized controlled trial

    Abraham Zangen;Hagar Moshe;Diana Martinez;Noam Barnea-Ygael

  • Volitional reduction of anterior cingulate cortex activity produces decreased cue craving in smoking cessation: a preliminary real-time fMRI study.

    Xingbao Li;Karen J. Hartwell;Karen J. Hartwell;Jeffery Borckardt;James J. Prisciandaro

  • Safety, tolerability, and effectiveness of high doses of adjunctive daily left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression in a clinical setting.

    Dakota Hadley;Berry S. Anderson;Jeffrey J. Borckardt;Ashley Arana

  • The maximum-likelihood strategy for determining transcranial magnetic stimulation motor threshold, using parameter estimation by sequential testing is faster than conventional methods with similar precision.

    Alexander Mishory;Christine Molnar;Jejo Koola;Xingbao Li

  • Safety and benefits of distance-adjusted prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation in depressed patients 55-75 years of age: a pilot study.

    Ziad Nahas;Xingbao Li;F.Andrew Kozel;Dario Mirzki

  • Neural correlates of craving and resisting craving for tobacco in nicotine dependent smokers.

    Karen J. Hartwell;Karen J. Hartwell;Kevin A. Johnson;Xingbao Li;Hugh Myrick;Hugh Myrick

  • Mechanisms and state of the art of transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Mark S. George;Ziad Nahas;F. Andrew Kozel;F. Andrew Kozel;Xingbao Li

  • Prefrontal rTMS for treating depression: Location and intensity results from the OPT-TMS multi-site clinical trial

    Kevin A. Johnson;Kevin A. Johnson;Mirza Baig;Dave Ramsey;Sarah H. Lisanby;Sarah H. Lisanby

  • Sonication of the anterior thalamus with MRI-Guided transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) alters pain thresholds in healthy adults: A double-blind, sham-controlled study.

    Bashar W. Badran;Kevin A. Caulfield;Sasha Stomberg-Firestein;Philipp M. Summers

  • Vagus nerve stimulation therapy: A research update

    Mark S. George;Z. Nahas;D. E. Bohning;F. A. Kozel

  • Mechanisms and the Current State of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    Mark S. George;Mark S. George;Ziad Nahas;F. Andrew Kozel;Xingbao Li

  • Interleaved transcranial magnetic stimulation/functional MRI confirms that lamotrigine inhibits cortical excitability in healthy young men.

    Xingbao Li;Charlotte C Tenebäck;Ziad Nahas;F Andrew Kozel

  • Can left prefrontal rTMS be used as a maintenance treatment for bipolar depression?

    Unknown

  • Individualized real-time fMRI neurofeedback to attenuate craving in nicotine-dependent smokers

    Karen J Hartwell;Colleen A Hanlon;Xingbao Li;Jeffrey J Borckardt

  • Reduction of cue-induced craving through realtime neurofeedback in nicotine users: the role of region of interest selection and multiple visits.

    Colleen A. Hanlon;Karen J. Hartwell;Karen J. Hartwell;Melanie Canterberry;Xingbao Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark S. George
Mark S. George Medical University of South Carolina
Jeffrey J. Borckardt
Jeffrey J. Borckardt Medical University of South Carolina
Colleen A. Hanlon
Colleen A. Hanlon Wake Forest University
Daryl E. Bohning
Daryl E. Bohning Medical University of South Carolina
Kathleen T. Brady
Kathleen T. Brady Medical University of South Carolina
Patrick K. Randall
Patrick K. Randall Medical University of South Carolina
Charles H. Large
Charles H. Large Autifony Therapeutics (United Kingdom)
Truman R. Brown
Truman R. Brown Medical University of South Carolina
Michael E. Saladin
Michael E. Saladin Medical University of South Carolina
Marom Bikson
Marom Bikson City College of New York

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