Martin Max Monti

This study uses tFUS to show that stimulating the central thalamus impairs vigilance and the pulvinar affects visuospatial attention in healthy volunteers.

The paper analyzes 2,242 naturalistic reports from the ALTERD app to compare the phenomenology of psychedelics, cannabis, meditation, and dreams, finding psychedelics align with dreams and meditation in some aspects but show unique transformative features.

This study links self-reported sleep quality to subcortical morphometry, finding smaller shape measures in the caudate, putamen, and pallidum correlate with worse sleep quality, independent of demographic and biometric factors.

This study examines how transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) affects resting-state functional connectivity in large-scale neural networks in healthy adults.

The paper introduces an AI framework to simulate and predict mechanisms of consciousness and disorders, validated with neurophysiological data.

This study examines how brain-age differences (PAD) change over time after traumatic brain injury (TBI) using a large multi-cohort dataset.

The paper identifies a preserved cross-frequency cortical-thalamic communication channel during conscious states and shows its disruption in unconsciousness and enhancement in psychedelic states.

This study identifies early functional connectivity changes in thalamic and hippocampal networks as biomarkers for epileptogenesis after traumatic brain injury.

This study investigates the relationship between language and deductive reasoning by inhibiting brain regions associated with language and reasoning, finding dissociable effects on linguistic and deductive tasks.

This study evaluates denoising pipelines for resting-state fMRI in traumatic brain injury patients, finding that some strategies reduce noise effects better than others, though high-motion participants lead to data loss.

The paper identifies the edge-of-chaos critical point as the state of cortical dynamics during conscious states and shows it is disrupted during unconsciousness.

This study uses low-intensity focused ultrasound to modulate deep brain structures and observes changes in BOLD signal and perfusion using functional MRI.

The paper examines the relationship between EEG power spectra, subcortical damage, and consciousness disorders, showing how combining EEG, clinical, and MRI data can improve diagnosis.

The paper shows that EEGs from children with Angelman syndrome exhibit greater complexity during wakefulness than sleep, challenging theories that link consciousness to information-poor dynamics.

The paper reports in vivo evidence of an ultradirect extra-thalamic pallido-cortical pathway in humans using the Human Connectome Project dataset.

The paper investigates how subcortical brain damage, particularly in the thalamus, relates to functional outcome and cognitive impairment six months after traumatic brain injury.

The paper uses neuroimaging and computational modeling to show that semantic relations are represented in the brain as distributed patterns over abstract relations in parietal cortex.

This study uses fMRI to show that structured sequences in music and language share a common neural code, including Broca's area, challenging domain-specific hypotheses.