Work Related to the Neuroimaging Lab


Journal Papers

  • Yuanyuan Gao, Rihui Li, Qianheng Ma, Kristi L. Bartholomay, Amy A. Lightbody, and Allan L. Reiss. Aberrant neural activation during inhibitory control in girls with fragile x syndrome. Under Preparation
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Rihui Li, Qianheng Ma, Joseph M. Baker, Stephen Rauch, Robert B. Gunier, Ana M. Mora, Katherine Kogut, Asa Bradman, Brenda Eskenazi, Allan L. Reiss, and Sharon K. Sagiv. Childhood exposure to organophosphate pesticides: Functional connectivity and working memory in adolescents. NeuroToxicology, 103:206–214, 2024 2/5
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Rihui Li, Qianheng Ma, Kristi L. Bartholomay, Amy A. Lightbody, and Allan L. Reiss. Longitudinal changes in functional brain activation and habituation during face processing in fragile x syndrome. Biological Psychiatry, In Press.
  • Yuanyuan Gao, De’Ja Rogers, Alexander von Lühmann, Antonio Ortega-Martinez, David A. Boas, and Meryem Yücel. Short-separation regression incorporated diffuse optical tomography image reconstruction modeling for high-density functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Neurophotonics, 10(2):025007, 2023
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Hanqing Chao, Lora Cavuoto, Pingkun Yan, Uwe Kruger, Jack E. Norfleet, Basiel A. Makled, Steven D. Schwaitzberg, Suvranu De, and Xavier R. Intes. Deep learning-based motion artifact removal in functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Neurophotonics, 9(4):041406, 2022
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Lora Cavuoto, Anirban Dutta, Uwe Kruger, Pingkun Yan, Arun Nemani, Jack E. Norfleet, Basiel A. Makled, Jessica Silvestri, Steven Schwaitzberg, Xavier Intes, and Suvranu De. Decreasing the surgical errors by neurostimulation of primary motor cortex and the associated brain activation via neuroimaging. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 2021
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Pingkun Yan, Uwe Kruger, Lora Cavuoto, Steven Schwaitzberg, Suvranu De, and Xavier Intes. Functional brain imaging reliably predicts bimanual motor skill performance in a standardized surgical task. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 68(7):2058–2066, 2021
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Lora Cavuoto, Steven Schwaitzberg, Jack E. Norfleet, Xavier Intes, and Suvranu De. The effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on human motor functions: A comprehensive review of functional neuroimaging studies. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 2020
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Uwe Kruger, Xavier Intes, Steven Schwaitzberg, and Suvranu De. A machine learning approach to predict surgical learning curves. Surgery, 167(2):321–327, 2020

Journal Papers (Collaboration)

  • Sharon K. Sagiv, Joseph M. Baker, Stephen Rauch, Yuanyuan Gao, Robert B. Gunier, Ana M. Mora, Katherine Kogut, Asa Bradman, Brenda Eskenazi, and Allan L. Reiss. Prenatal and childhood exposure to organophosphate pesticides and functional brain imaging in young adults. Environmental Research, 242:117756, 2024
  • Anil Kamat, Condell Eastmond, Yuanyuan Gao, Arun Nemani, Erim Yanik, Lora Cavuoto, Matthew Hackett, Jack Norfleet, Steven Schwaitzberg, Suvranu De, and Xavier Intes. Assessment of surgical tasks using neuroimaging dataset (astaund). Scientific Data, Accepted, 2023
  • Antonio Ortega-Martinez, De’Ja Rogers, Jessica Anderson, Parya Farzam, Yuanyuan Gao, Bernhard Zimmermann, Meryem A. Yücel, and David A. Boas. How much do time-domain functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

Conference Presentations

  • Yuanyuan Gao, De’Ja Rogers, Alexander Luhmann, Antonio Ortega-Martinez, David Boas, and Meryem Yucel. Short separation regression incorporated diffuse optical tomography (ss-dot). In Society of fNIRS conference, 2022
  • Yuanyuan Gao, De’Ja Rogers, Alexander Luhmann, Antonio Ortega-Martinez, David Boas, and Meryem Yucel. Short separation generalized linear model (glm) based image reconstruction of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fnirs) data. In Society of fNIRS virtual conference, 2021 3/5
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Lora Cavuoto, Pingkun Yan, Uwe Kruger, Jessica Silvestri, Steven Schwaitzberg, Jack E. Norfleet, Basiel A. Makled, Xavier Intes, and Suvranu De. Transcranial direct current stimulation speeds up surgical bimanual motor learning and increases functional activation. In MHSRS, Young Investigator breakout session, 2020
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Lora Cavuoto, Pingkun Yan, Uwe Kruger, Steven Schwaitzberg, Suvranu De, and Xavier Intes. A deep learning approach to remove motion artifacts in fnirs data analysis. In Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2020 (Translational, Microscopy, OCT, OTS, BRAIN), page BM2C.7. Optica Publishing Group, 2020
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Lora Cavuoto, Pingkun Yan, Uwe Kruger, Jessica Silvestri, Steven Schwaitzberg, Xavier Intes, and Suvranu De. Monitoring the effect of transcranial electric current stimulation (tes) during a bimanual motor task via functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fnirs). In Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2020 (Translational, Microscopy, OCT, OTS, BRAIN), page JTh2A.29. Optica Publishing Group, 2020
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Pingkun Yan, Suvranu De, and Xavier Intes. fnirs as a quantitative tool to asses and predict surgical skills. In Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences Congress 2019 (BODA,BRAIN,NTM,OMA,OMP), page BW4A.2. Optica Publishing Group, 2019
  • Yuanyuan Gao, Pingkun Yan, Uwe Kruger, Suvranu De, and Xavier Intes. Neuroimaging biomarkers for surgical skill level prediction. In SPIE.bios, 2019

Conference Presentations (Collaboration)

  • De’Ja Rogers, W. J. O’Brien, Yuanyuan Gao, Bernhard Zimmermann, Shrey Grover, Yiwen Zhang, Anna Kawai Gaona, Jessica Anderson, Parya Farzam, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Terry D. Ellis, Swathi Kiran, David C. Somers, Alexander von Lühmann, Robert Reinhart, David A. Boas, and Meryem A. Yücel. A novel co-localized optode-electrode design for multimodal fnirs-eeg. In The Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2023
  • Rini I Kaplan, Nishaat Mukadam, Jaimie Girnis, Courtney Aul, Alissa Sebastian, Yuanyuan Gao, Alexander Stuber, David A Boas, Swathi Kiran, David C Somers, Alexander Luhmann von, Meryem A Yucel, Terry D Ellis, and Alice Cronin-Golomb. B - 61 Increased Cortical Efficiency in the Absence of Behavioral Improvement on Working Memory Task Revealed by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 38(7):1426–1426, 10 2023
  • David Beeler, Yuanyuan Gao, Vaibhav Tripathi, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Theresa Ellis, Swathi Kiran, Alexander von Lühmann, Meryem Yücel, David Boas, and David Somers. Observability of visual working memory brain circuitry with functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Vision, 23:5841, 08 2023
  • De’Ja Rogers, Yuanyuan Gao, David A. Boas, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Terry D. Ellis, Swathi Kiran, David C. Somers, Alexander von Lühmann, and Meryem A. Yücel. Fast and slow movement-related artifacts in fnirs signal: what is a viable solution? In The Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 2022
  • Jessica Anderson, De’Ja Rogers, Yuanyuan Gao, Parya Farzam, David Beeler, Emily Braun, Lindsay Butler, Erin Carpenter, Jaimie Girnis, Rini Kaplan, Nishaat Muqadam, Vaibhav Tripathi, John Wilson, David C. Somers, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Swathi Kiran, Terry D. Ellis, David A. Boas, and Meryem A. Yücel. Quantification of the diverse effect of hair and skin properties on fnirs signal quality. In The Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 2022
  • De’Ja Rogers, W. J. O’Brien, Yuanyuan Gao, Bernhard Zimmermann, Alice Cronin-Golomb, Terry D. Ellis, Swathi Kiran, David C. Somers, Alexander von Lühmann, Meryem A. Yücel, and David A. Boas. A novel co-localized optode-electrode design for multimodal fnirs-eeg. In The Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 2022