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Noah L Fryou, Timothy Jiang, Nathan Frick, Paula Kwasniewska, Mikhail Y. Lipin, Max B. Kelz, STEVEN A. THOMAS, Andrew R. McKinstry-Wu
This study creates a conditional Adra2a knockout mouse line and shows cell-specific contributions of the 2A adrenergic receptor to sedation, hypnosis, and hypothermia.
bioRxiv · Apr 17, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience
Andrzej Z. Wasilczuk, Daiki Takekawa, Joeseph Cichon, Xiaoyan Zhang, Ethan B. Blackwood, Jeffrey Parra-Munevar, Mean-Hwan Kim, William J. Spain, Aaron J. Krom, Hirotaka Kinoshita, Brockton J. Keen, E. Railey White, Max B. Kelz, Nikolai C. Dembrow, Alex Proekt
This study identifies prefrontal cortical neurons that regulate both NREM sleep and anesthesia by modulating their activity and connectivity.
bioRxiv · Oct 10, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience
Panagiotis Fotiadis, Andrew R. McKinstry-Wu, Sarah M. Weinstein, Philip A. Cook, Mark Elliott, Matthew Cieslak, Jeffrey Duda, Theodore Daniel Satterthwaite, Russell Taki Shinohara, Alex Proekt, Max B. Kelz, John A. Detre, Danielle S. Bassett
This study examines changes in brain connectivity and neurovascular dynamics during dexmedetomidine-induced unconsciousness and recovery, finding widespread connectivity decreases and cerebellum-specific increases in structure-function coupling.
Communications Biology · Aug 20, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Adeeti Aggarwal, Jennifer Luo, Helen Chung, Diego Contreras, Max B. Kelz, Alex Proekt
The paper shows that cortical waves coordinate neuronal assemblies in waking and dissociated states, with external stimuli eliciting similar patterns in wakefulness but not under anesthesia.
Cell Reports · Apr 1, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Adeeti Aggarwal, Connor M. Brennan, Jennifer Luo, Helen Chung, Diego Contreras, Max B. Kelz, Alex Proekt
The paper demonstrates visual evoked traveling waves in awake mice, showing feedforward and feedback waves coordinate neural activity across the cortical hierarchy.
bioRxiv · Aug 9, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience
George A. Mashour, Ben Julian A. Palanca, Mathias Basner, Duan Li, Wei Wang, Stefanie Blain‐Moraes, Nan Lin, Kaitlyn L. Maier, Maxwell R. Muench, Vijay Tarnal, Giancarlo Vanini, Edward Andrew Ochroch, Rosemary M. G. Hogg, Marlon Schwartz, Hannah R. Maybrier, , Max B. Kelz
This study investigates recovery of consciousness and cognition after general anesthesia in humans, finding that executive function recovers before other cognitive domains and frontal cortical activity recovers faster than posterior.
eLife · May 10, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Catherine Duclos, Danielle Nadin, Yacine Mahdid, Vijay Tarnal, Paul Picton, Giancarlo Vanini, Goodarz Golmirzaie, Ellen Janke, Michael Simon Avidan, Max B. Kelz, George A. Mashour, Stefanie Blain‐Moraes
This study examines changes in brain network motifs during loss and recovery of consciousness using EEG data from healthy subjects under anesthesia.
Scientific Reports · Feb 16, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Matthew Cieslak, Philip A. Cook, Xiaosong He, Fang-Cheng F. Yeh, Thijs Dhollander, Azeez Adebimpe, Geoffrey K. Aguirre, Danielle S. Bassett, Richard F. Betzel, Josiane Bourque, Laura Mildred Cabral, Christos A. Davatzikos, John A. Detre, Eric Earl, Mark A. Elliott, , Theodore Daniel Satterthwaite
QSIPrep is a software platform for preprocessing diffusion MRI data that supports multiple sampling schemes and ensures reproducibility through standardized workflows and quality measures.
bioRxiv · Sep 4, 2020 · PreprintBioinformatics