Publications

2025

Simonyan K, O'Flynn LC, Hamzehei Sichani A, Fricht SJ, Rumbach AF, Sharma N, Song PC, Worthley A. Efficacy and safety of sodium oxybate in isolated focal laryngeal dystonia: A phase IIb double-blind placebo-controlled cross-over randomized clinical trial. Annals of Neurology. 2025 Feb;97(2):329-343. Full text.pdf

 

Dwenger K, Roy N, Jennings SG, Smith ME, Mathy P, Simonyan K, Barkmeier-Kraemer JM. Comparing the Effects of Sensory Tricks on Voice Symptoms in Patients With Laryngeal Dystonia and Essential Vocal Tremor. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2025 Feb 27:1-22. Full text.pdf

 

Petit J, Ehrlich SK, Tougas G, Bernstein JM, Buie NE, Simonyan K. Impact of Audio-Visual Complexity on Symptomatology of Laryngeal Dystonia: A Virtual Reality Study. Laryngoscope. 2025. Feb;135(2):787-793. Full text.pdf

2024

Barbe M, Rusz J, Simonyan K. Responsive deep brain stimulation: A new hope for controlling stimulation-induced dysarthria in essential tremor. Movement Disorders. 2024. Sept 17: 1433-1434. Full text.pdf

 

Laabs BH, Lohmann K, Vollstedt EJ, Reinberger T, Nuxoll LM, Kilic-Berkmen G, Perlmutter JS, Loens S, Cruchaga C, Franke A, Dobricic V, Hinrichs F, Grözinger A, Altenmüller E, Bellows S, Boesch S, Bressman SB, Duque KR, Espay AJ, Ferbert A, Feuerstein JS, Frank S, Gasser T, Haslinger B, Jech R, Kaiser F, Kamm C, Kollewe K, Kühn AA, LeDoux MS, Lohmann E, Mahajan A, Münchau A, Multhaupt-Buell T, Pantelyat A, Pirio Richardson SE, Raymond D, Reich SG, Saunders Pullman R, Schormair B, Sharma N, Sichani AH, Simonyan K, Volkmann J, Wagle Shukla A, Winkelmann J, Wright LJ, Zech M, Zeuner KE, Zittel S, Kasten M, Sun YV, Bäumer T, Brüggemann N, Ozelius LJ, Jinnah HA, Klein C, König IR. Genetic Risk Factors in Isolated Dystonia Escape Genome-Wide Association Studies. Movement Disorders. 2024. Nov;39(11):2110-2116. Full text.pdf

Kshatriya N, Battistella G, Simonyan K. Structural and functional brain alternations in laryngeal dystonia: A coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping. 2024. Oct;45(14):e70000. Full text.pdf

 

Dzialas V, Doering E, Eich H, Strafella AP, Vaillancourt DE, Simonyan K, van Eimeren T; International Parkinson Movement Disorders Society‐Neuroimaging Study Group. Houston, We Have AI Problem! Quality Issues with Neuroimaging-Based Artificial Intelligence in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review. Movement Disord. 2024. Dec;39(12):2130-2143. Full text.pdf

2023
Gail Is HarmataAriane E RhoneChristopher K KovachSukhbinder KumarMd Rakibul MowlaRup K SainjuYasunori NagahamaHiroyuki OyaBrian K GehlbachMichael A CilibertoRashmi N MuellerHiroto KawasakiKyle Ts PattinsonKristina SimonyanPaul W Davenport Matthew A Howard IIIMitchell SteinschneiderAubrey C ChanGeorge B RichersonJohn A WemmieBrian J Dlouhy. Failure to breathe persists without air hunger or alarm following amygdala seizures. JCI Insight 2023. Oct 3:e172423. Full text.pdf

 

Giovanni Battistella and Kristina Simonyan. Clinical implications of dystonia as a neural network disorder. Advances in Neurobiology. 2023. 31:223-240. Full text.pdf

 

Stefan K Ehrlich, Giovanni Battistella, and Kristina Simonyan. 2023. “Temporal signature of task-specificity in isolated focal laryngeal dystonia.” Movement Disorders, Jul 25. Full text.pdf

 

Lena C O'Flynn, Steven J Frucht, and Kristina Simonyan. 2023. “Sodium oxybate in alcohol-responsive essential tremor of voice: An open-label phase II study.” Movement Disorders, Jul 14. Full text.pdf

 

Dongren Yao, Lena C O'Flynn, and Kristina Simonyan. 2023. “DystoniaBoTXNet: Novel Neural Network Biomarker of Botulinum Toxin Efficacy in Isolated Dystonia.” Annals of Neurology, Mar;93(3):460-471. Full text.pdf

 

Jana Schill, Kristina Simonyan, Simon Lang, Christian Mathys, Christiane Thiel, and Karsten Witt. 2023. “Parkinson’s Disease Speech Production Network as Determined by Graph-Theoretical Network Analysis.” Network Neuroscience, Jun 30;7(2):712-730. Full text.pdf

 

Saul A Frankford, Lena O Flynn, and Kristina Simonyan. 2023. “Sensory processing in the auditory and olfactory domains is normal in laryngeal dystonia.” Journal of Neurology, Apr;270(4):2184-2190. Full text.pdf

 

Jana Schill, Kristina Simonyan, Maximilian Corsten, Christian Mathys, Christiane Thiel, and Karsten Witt. 2023. “Graph-theoretical insights into the effects of aging on the speech production network.” Cerebral Cortex, Feb 20;33(5):2162-2173. Full text.pdf