Mary Pat McAndrews

Single voxel autocorrelation reflects hippocampal function in temporal lobe epilepsy

This study examines how hippocampal dysfunction in temporal lobe epilepsy affects single voxel autocorrelation, finding longer intrinsic timescales in left TLE patients and a link between cluster preservation and memory performance.

Subjective salience ratings are a reliable proxy for physiological measures of arousal

The paper shows that subjective salience ratings reliably correlate with physiological arousal, supporting their use for salience-matching in pain studies.

Leveraging the resting brain to predict memory decline after temporal lobectomy

This study predicts memory decline after temporal lobectomy using resting-state fMRI network measures, finding that left TLE patients with more abnormal memory networks and greater integration of the resected region experience greater verbal memory decline.

Schemas provide a scaffold for neocortical integration at the cost of memory specificity over time

This study uses fMRI to show that schemas facilitate faster memory consolidation by integrating representations in the medial prefrontal cortex, but at the cost of losing memory specificity over time.

Baseline Resting-State Functional Connectivity Determines Subsequent Pain Ratings to a Tonic Ecologically Valid Experimental Model of Orofacial Pain

The paper shows baseline resting-state functional connectivity in pain-related brain regions predicts peak pain ratings from an ecologically valid orofacial pain model.

Changes in patterns of neural activity underlie a time-dependent transformation of memory in rats and humans

The paper shows that memory representation changes over time in rats and humans, with shifts from hippocampal to prefrontal cortex activity as memories age.