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Ziad Nahas is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research focuses broadly on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in neurology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and pharmacology.

The scientist's work covers various research topics including:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Pain Management and Treatment
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies

Ziad Nahas has published extensively in several scientific venues, primarily in:

  • Brain Stimulation
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of ECT
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent publications include:

  • DLPFC stimulation alters working memory related activations and performance: An interleaved TMS-fMRI study, 2022, Brain Stimulation
  • Decreased interhemispheric connectivity and increased cortical excitability in unmedicated schizophrenia: A prefrontal interleaved TMS fMRI study, 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • Vagus nerve stimulation in treatment-resistant depression: A one-year, randomized, sham-controlled trial, 2024, Brain Stimulation
  • A closer look at patterns and characteristics of suicide in Lebanon: A first nationwide report of cases from 2008 to 2018, 2021, Asian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Real-time TMS-EEG for brain state-controlled research and precision treatment: a narrative review and guide, 2024, Journal of Neural Engineering

The body of work features collaborations with other researchers, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Alik S. Widge (17 joint works)
  • C. Sophia Albott (11 joint works)
  • Saydra Wilson (10 joint works)
  • Christi Sullivan (9 joint works)
  • Alexander Herman (9 joint works)

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Efficacy and safety of transcranial magnetic stimulation in the acute treatment of major depression: A multisite randomized controlled trial.

    John P. O’Reardon;H. Brent Solvason;Philip G. Janicak;Shirlene Sampson

  • Daily left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy for major depressive disorder: a sham-controlled randomized trial

    Mark S. George;Sarah H. Lisanby;David Avery;William M. McDonald

  • Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for treatment-resistant depressions: a multicenter study.

    A. John Rush;Mark S. George;Mark S. George;Harold A. Sackeim;Lauren B. Marangell

  • Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS™) for treatment-resistant depression: Efficacy, side effects, and predictors of outcome

    Harold A. Sackeim;A. John Rush;Mark S. George;Mark S. George;Lauren B. Marangell

  • Vagus nerve stimulation: a new tool for brain research and therapy∗

    Mark S. George;Mark S. George;Harold A. Sackeim;A.John Rush;Lauren B. Marangell

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

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

  • Activation of Prefrontal Cortex and Anterior Thalamus in Alcoholic Subjects on Exposure to Alcohol-Specific Cues

    Mark S. George;Raymond F. Anton;Courtnay Bloomer;Charlotte Teneback

  • Two-Year Outcome of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) for Treatment of Major Depressive Episodes

    Ziad Nahas;Lauren B. Marangell;Mustafa M. Husain;A. John Rush

  • Functional Impairment in COPD Patients: The Impact of Anxiety and Depression

    H. Florence Seung Kim;Mark E. Kunik;Victor A. Molinari;Stephany L. Hillman

  • A combined TMS/fMRI study of intensity-dependent TMS over motor cortex.

    Daryl E. Bohning;Ananda Shastri;Kathleen A. McConnell;Ziad Nahas

  • How Coil–Cortex Distance Relates to Age, Motor Threshold, and Antidepressant Response to Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    F. A. Kozel;Z. Nahas;C. DeBrux;M. Molloy

  • Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for major depressive episodes: One year outcomes

    Lauren B Marangell;A.John Rush;Mark S George;Harold A Sackeim

  • The transcranial magnetic stimulation motor threshold depends on the distance from coil to underlying cortex: a replication in healthy adults comparing two methods of assessing the distance to cortex

    Kathleen A McConnell;Ziad Nahas;Ananda Shastri;Jeffrey P Lorberbaum

  • Adaptation and initial validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire – 9 (PHQ-9) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder – 7 Questionnaire (GAD-7) in an Arabic speaking Lebanese psychiatric outpatient sample

    Helen Sawaya;Mia Atoui;Aya Hamadeh;Pia Zeinoun

  • Motor Threshold in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Comparison of a Neurophysiological Method and a Visualization of Movement Method

    Saxby Pridmore;J. Americo Fernandes Filho;Ziad Nahas;Chris Liberatos

  • Changes in Prefrontal Cortex and Paralimbic Activity in Depression Following Two Weeks of Daily Left Prefrontal TMS

    Charlotte C. Teneback;Ziad Nahas;Andrew M. Speer;Monica Molloy

  • Daily Left Prefrontal Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder

    Mark S. George;Sarah H. Lisanby;David Avery;William M. McDonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark S. George
Mark S. George Medical University of South Carolina
Daryl E. Bohning
Daryl E. Bohning Medical University of South Carolina
Xingbao Li
Xingbao Li Medical University of South Carolina
Jeffrey J. Borckardt
Jeffrey J. Borckardt Medical University of South Carolina
Harold A. Sackeim
Harold A. Sackeim Columbia University
Sarah H. Lisanby
Sarah H. Lisanby Arizona State University
Paul E. Holtzheimer
Paul E. Holtzheimer Dartmouth College
Scott Reeves
Scott Reeves St George's, University of London
Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Maziar Moradi-Lakeh
Maziar Moradi-Lakeh Iran University of Medical Sciences

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