Uzay E. Emir

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

This paper develops a single-shot MRI sequence to simultaneously measure BOLD and slow CSF velocity, showing their spatial coupling in the brain.

This study shows baclofen, a GABAB receptor agonist, impairs motor learning and reduces expected decreases in GABA levels during motor learning.

This paper develops a novel UTE 31P 3D MRSI acquisition and processing pipeline, demonstrating high repeatability across different clinical setups.

The paper investigates how glutamate and GABA in the intraparietal sulcus relate to visuomotor processing and fluid intelligence across development, showing age-dependent effects and neural mediation.

This study quantifies in vivo brain iron concentration using a 3D rosette-based ultra-short echo time MRI sequence and demonstrates its ability to highlight deep brain structures with potential iron accumulations.

The paper introduces NIfTI-MRS, a standardized format for magnetic resonance spectroscopy data to improve sharing and integration across the MRS community.

This study uses MRSI to show GABA changes in the cerebellum during visuomotor adaptation correlate with performance and network connectivity.

This study examines cortical hand map changes after finger nerve block, finding persistent representation despite input loss, suggesting distributed processing and homeostatic mechanisms.

The paper shows that age-related decline in cortical inhibitory tone increases motor memory, and this effect depends on the excitation/inhibition balance in sensorimotor cortex.

This study shows that repeated unilateral handgrip contractions at 50% MVC improve contralateral hand response times and alter functional connectivity and neurochemical levels in sensorimotor areas.

The paper shows that hippocampal activity predicts excitatory-inhibitory fluctuations in visual cortex during memory recall.

This paper introduces a 3D dual-echo UTE MRI sequence for imaging myelin bilayers, showing higher uT2 fraction in white matter than grey matter.

This study shows that brain stimulation enhances perceptual learning by reducing GABA levels and altering functional connectivity between visual and decision-related brain areas.

The paper investigates the relationship between GABAergic inhibition and eye dominance in the human visual cortex during monocular visual stimulation, finding a significant correlation during active sensory processing.

The paper investigates how GABA levels and functional connectivity in M1 and cerebellum relate to retention of visuomotor adaptation.

This study develops a high-resolution MRSI technique for the cerebellum, enabling detailed metabolic mapping with improved spatial resolution and reduced artifacts.

This study introduces a multi-band magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging technique that accelerates data acquisition while maintaining spectral quality for metabolite mapping.

This study identifies two mechanisms involving the hippocampus and neocortex that protect against memory interference by organizing contextual representations and modulating neocortical inhibition.

This study investigates changes in GABA concentrations in human motor cortex during motor learning and finds a significant reduction in GABA associated with learning.