Sung‐Ho Lee

SORDINO improves fMRI in awake mice by being silent, sensitive, specific, and resistant to motion artifacts, enabling better brain activity mapping.

This study examines how acute alcohol consumption affects neural inhibition in both rats and humans using the Hurst exponent as an fMRI marker, finding reduced inhibition in both species.

The paper assesses consistency of rat fMRI results across 12 centers using a unified pipeline and identifies variability due to experimental differences.

This study uses optogenetic fMRI to identify neural circuits affected by subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease, finding that GP and CPu activity mediate therapeutic effects.

This study identifies neurochemical influences on fMRI response polarity in the striatum, showing opioidergic transmission contributes to negative signals while dopaminergic transmission is associated with positive signals.

This study uses fMRI with optogenetic stimulation to map whole-brain effective connectivity in mice, showing agreement with anatomical data but sensitivity to anesthetics.

This study uses optogenetic stimulation to show that anterior insular cortex neurons suppress default mode network activity and reduce its connectivity with the salience network in rats.

This study shows that chemogenetic activation of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons strengthens functional connectivity in the default mode network in mice.

StandardRat improves functional connectivity specificity in rat brains through a standardized MRI protocol tested across 20 centers.

This study shows that adolescent alcohol exposure reduces functional connectivity in brain networks involved in decision-making, which mediates deficits in behavioral flexibility in adulthood.

The paper shows that a small number of dysregulated adult-born neurons in the hippocampus disrupt brain-wide functional connectivity and spatial memory.