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Patricia M. Desmond

The Royal Melbourne HospitalORCID 0000-0002-4803-6323Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 7 Assay:imaging· 7 Approach:statistical model· 6 Research Focus:differential expression· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1

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Associations between epilepsy-related polygenic risk and brain morphology in childhood

Alexander Ngo, Lang Liu, Sara Larivière, Valeria Kebets, Serena Fett, Clara F. Weber, Jessica Royer, Eric Yu, Raúl Rodríguez‐Cruces, Zhiqiang Zhang, Leon Qi Rong Ooi, B.T. Thomas Yeo, Birgit Frauscher, Casey Paquola, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, , Boris C. Bernhardt

The paper examines associations between epilepsy-related polygenic risk scores and brain morphology in children, finding PRS-related cortical thinning linked to structural patterns in TLE-HS patients.

Brain · Aug 8, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

A worldwide ENIGMA study on epilepsy-related gray and white matter compromise across the adult lifespan

Judy Chen, Alexander Ngo, Raúl Rodríguez‐Cruces, Jessica Royer, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Antonio Gambardella, Luis Concha, Simon Sean Keller, Fernando Cendes, Clarissa Lin Yasuda, Marina K. M. Alvim, Leonardo Bonilha, Ezequiel L. Gleichgerrcht, Niels K. Focke, Barbara A. K. Kreilkamp, , Boris C. Bernhardt

This study examines age-related changes in grey and white matter in TLE patients across the adult lifespan, finding accelerated aging effects after age 55.

bioRxiv · Mar 2, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

Topographic divergence of atypical cortical asymmetry and regional atrophy patterns in temporal lobe epilepsy: a worldwide enigma study

Bo‐yong Park, Sara Larivière, Raúl Rodríguez‐Cruces, Jessica Royer, Shahin Tavakol, Yezhou Wang, Lorenzo Caciagli, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Antonio Gambardella, Luis Concha, Simon Sean Keller, Fernando Cendes, Marina K. M. Alvim, Clarissa Lin Yasuda, Leonardo Bonilha, , Boris C. Bernhardt

This study identifies divergent patterns of atypical cortical asymmetry and regional atrophy in temporal lobe epilepsy using MRI data from a large multi-site cohort.

Brain · Nov 16, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Structural network alterations in focal and generalized epilepsy follow axes of epilepsy risk gene expression: An ENIGMA study

Sara Larivière, Jessica Royer, Raúl Rodríguez‐Cruces, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Antonio Gambardella, Luis Concha, Simon Sean Keller, Fernando Cendes, Clarissa Lin Yasuda, Leonardo Bonilha, Ezequiel L. Gleichgerrcht, Niels K. Focke, Martin Domín, Felix von Podewils, Sönke Langner, , Boris C. Bernhardt

This study links structural network changes in epilepsy syndromes to risk gene expression patterns using ENIGMA data.

bioRxiv · Oct 18, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience

White matter abnormalities across different epilepsy syndromes in adults: an ENIGMA Epilepsy study

Sean N. Hatton, Khoa H Huynh, Leonardo Bonilha, Eugenio Abela, Saud Alhusaini, André Altmann, Marina K. M. Alvim, Akshara R. Balachandra, Emanuele Bartolini, Benjamin Bender, Neda Bernasconi, Andrea Bernasconi, Boris C. Bernhardt, Núria Bargalló, Benoît Caldairou, , Carrie R. McDonald

This study identifies white matter microstructural differences across epilepsy syndromes using diffusion MRI data from a large multicenter cohort.

Brain · Jun 5, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Network-based atrophy modelling in the common epilepsies: a worldwide ENIGMA study

Sara Larivière, Raúl Rodríguez‐Cruces, Jessica Royer, Maria Eugenia Caligiuri, Antonio Gambardella, Luis Concha, Simon Sean Keller, Fernando Cendes, Clarissa Lin Yasuda, Leonardo Bonilha, Ezequiel L. Gleichgerrcht, Niels K. Focke, Martin Domín, Felix von Podewils, Sönke Langner, , Boris C. Bernhardt

This study identifies network associations with atrophy patterns in epilepsy using neuroimaging and connectome analysis across 1,021 patients and 1,564 controls.

bioRxiv · May 4, 2020 · PreprintNeuroscience

CSF biomarkers are differentially related to structural and functional changes in dementia of the Alzheimer’s type

Charles Benjamin Malpas, Michael Martin Saling, Dennis Velakoulis, Patricia M. Desmond, Rodney J. Hicks, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Terence John O'Brien

The paper examines how CSF biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathologies relate to structural and functional brain changes in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type.

Journal of Alzheimer s Disease · Feb 6, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience