Publications

2023
Gail Is Harmata, Ariane E Rhone, Christopher K Kovach, Sukhbinder Kumar, Md Rakibul Mowla, Rup K Sainju, Yasunori Nagahama, Hiroyuki Oya, Brian K Gehlbach, Michael A Ciliberto, Rashmi N Mueller, Hiroto Kawasaki, Kyle Ts Pattinson, Kristina Simonyan, Paul W Davenport , Matthew A Howard III, Mitchell Steinschneider, Aubrey C Chan, George B Richerson, John A Wemmie, Brian J Dlouhy. 2023. "Failure to breathe persists without air hunger or alarm following amygdala seizures." JCI Insight Oct 3:e172423. Full text.pdf

 

Giovanni Battistella and Kristina Simonyan. 2023. “Clinical implications of dystonia as a neural network disorder.” Advances in Neurobiology. 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

2022

Kristina Simonyan, Stefan Ehrlich, Richard Andersen, Jonathan Brumberg, Frank Guenther, Mark Hallett, Matthew A Howard, José R. del Millán, Richard B Reilly, Tanja Schultz, and Davide Valeriani. 2022. “Brain-computer interfaces for treatment of focal dystonia.” Movement Disorders, 37, 9, Pp. 1798-1802. PDF

 

Multimodal collaborative brain-computer interfaces aid human-machine team decision-making in a pandemic scenario

Davide Valeriani, Lena C. O'Flynn, Alexis Worthley, Azadeh Hamzehei Sichani, and Kristina Simonyan. 2022. “Multimodal collaborative brain-computer interfaces aid human-machine team decision-making in a pandemic scenario.” Journal of Neural Engineering, Oct 17;19(5). PDF

 

Short- and long-term cental action of botulinum neurotoxin treatment in laryngeal dystonia

Lena Carolyn O'Flynn and Kristina Simonyan. 2022. “Short- and long-term cental action of botulinum neurotoxin treatment in laryngeal dystonia.” Neurology, 99, 11, Pp. e1178-e119. PDF

 

Voice tremorLaura Lima de Xavier and Kristina Simonyan. 2022. “Voice tremor.” In Tremors. Oxford University Press. PDF

 

2021
Jana Schill, Kirsten E. Zeuner, Arne Knutzen, Inken Tödt, Kristina Simonyan, and Karsten Witt. 2021. “Functional Neural Networks in Writer's Cramp as Determined by Graph-Theoretical Analysis.” Frontiers in Neurology, Nov 23;12:744503. Full text.pdf

 

Kristina Simonyan, Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer, Andrew Blitzer, Mark Hallett, John F Houde, Teresa Jacobson Kimberley, Laurie J Ozelius, Michael J Pitman, Robert Mark Richardson, Nutan Sharma, and Kristine Tanner. 2021. “Laryngeal Dystonia: Multidisciplinary Update on Terminology, Pathophysiology, and Research Priorities.” Neurology, 96, 21:989-1001. Full text.pdf

 

Alexis Worthley and Kristina Simonyan. 2021. “Suicidal Ideations and Attempts in Patients with Isolated Dystonia.” Neurology, Mar 16;96(11):e1551-e1560. Full text.pdf  Editorial by KE Zeuner and JA van Gerpen

 

Aria Jafari, Laura de Lima Xavier, Jeffrey D Bernstein, Kristina Simonyan, and Benjamin S Bleier. 2021. “Association of Sinonasal Inflammation With Functional Brain Connectivity.” JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Jun 1;147(6):534-543. Full text.pdf

 

Davide Valeriani and Kristina Simonyan. 2021. “The dynamic connectome of speech control.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 1836. PDF  Supplementary material

 

Sanaz Khosravani, Gang Chen, Laurie J Ozelius, and Kristina Simonyan. 2021. “Neural endophenotypes and predictors of laryngeal dystonia penetrance and manifestation.” Neurobiology of Disease, Jan;148:105223. Full text.pdf

 

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