Yaniv Assaf

This study integrates a neuroimaging model of laminar-level connectomics into a biologically-inspired RNN for working memory tasks, improving brain topology representation without sacrificing performance.

The paper uses a tuned Xception CNN to predict sex, age, and BFI traits from T1-weighted MRI scans, showing potential for transfer learning across domains.

The Labbing Project presents a web application for neuroimaging data aggregation and preprocessing, designed to simplify data management for researchers with limited programming experience.

This study shows that differences in FreeSurfer surface reconstruction configurations significantly affect anatomical feature estimation and prediction performance.

This paper compares neural connectomes across 124 mammalian species using a unified protocol, finding that connectome organization aligns with traditional taxonomies.

The paper clusters cortical microstructural datasets using an algorithm adapted from cell omics profiling, validating T1 relaxometry as a tool for exploring cortical laminar composition.

The paper models laminar connectivity in the macaque brain using MRI data and validates it against historical findings with 83% accuracy.

The paper examines brain volumetric changes in a population before and after the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown, finding increases in amygdala, putamen, and anterior temporal cortices, which diminished over time.

This study uses multiple MRI techniques to analyze microstructural changes in white matter tracts after spatial navigation training in rats, finding significant distributional changes in myelin-specific measures.

This study evaluates white matter integrity changes after focused ultrasound thalamotomy and links them to tremor relief in patients with essential tremor and Parkinson's disease.

This study uses diffusion MRI to show short-term structural brain plasticity after motor sequence learning, revealing dynamic changes in motor regions like the premotor cortex and cerebellum.

This study uses a rat model to show that Cyfip1 haploinsufficiency causes white matter changes, myelin thinning, reduced mature oligodendrocytes, and behavioural inflexibility.

This study investigates how damage to the mammillothalamic tract affects hippocampo-cortical oscillatory activity and microstructure, linking these changes to memory impairments.

This paper introduces a method to analyze cortical layer composition using low-resolution T1 MRI images, resolving partial volume effects and enabling subvoxel composition estimation.

The paper investigates how single penetrating vessel occlusions cause widespread brain reorganization dependent on CX3CR1.

This paper reviews the role of diffusion MRI in neuroscience, highlighting its contributions to understanding white matter anatomy, function, and plasticity, while discussing its limitations and future challenges.