Dr. Lorina Naci
Associate Professor, Psychology
Associate Professor, Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN)
Biography
Lorina Naci is Associate Professor, leader of the 'Consciousness and Cognition group (www.lorinanaci.org), and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge as an International Cooke Fellow. Her work focuses on developing novel biomarkers of healthy and disordered cognition in brain-injured and ageing populations, including individuals with early Alzheimer's dementia. Her work has made ground-breaking contributions to the understanding of cognition and consciousness for individuals with severely limited motoric output, such as severely brain-injured, anaesthetised or advanced Alzheimer's Disease patients. Professor Naci's recent work has enabled some patients, who met all the internationally agreed criteria for the clinical diagnosis of 'vegetative state' to communicate their thoughts to the outside world. Concurrently, she explores the medico-ethical and societal implications of these applications. She is recipient of prestigious funding awards from the Health Research Board of Ireland (2024) and the Science Foundation Ireland (2024). She has held the L'Oréal for Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowship from Canada (2016), and received the L'Oréal Foundation France and UNESCO International Rising Talent Award (2017). Professor Naci is a member of the Governing Board of the Global Brain Health Institute, at Trinity College Dublin and the University of California San Francisco, USA. She is funded by the the Health Research Board of Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, Wellcome Trust, the Irish Research Council, the Provost's Award, China-Trinity fund, Enterprise Ireland, etc.
Professor Naci's work has had significant impacts, including scientific, societal, policy and professional practice and economic. It has been published in leading international journals, including Science Advances (2023), Nature Communications (2024), Journal of the American Medical Association (2024), Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2024), Brain Communications (2024), etc. It is routinely featured in academic textbooks (e.g., 'Cognitive Psychology'; 5th edition E. Bruce Goldstein 2018) and has been featured in Wikipedia"s `Science Highlights of 2023", and editorials in the Science and Nature journals.
Three articles published in the last 12 months (Bayne et al. 2023; Deng et al. 2023; Luppi et al. 2023), two senior-authored (Bayne et al. 2023; Deng et al. 2023), are at the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.com, ranking in the 97-99 percentile of all articles of the same age internationally, for their outstanding attention scores, with 70% of downloads being from members of the public. Bayne et al. Naci (2023) had over 100 mentions in publications all round the world, reaching a readership of 115 million worldwide.
Professor Naci's work has attracted the attention of the media globally (> 200 unique news stories) and she is actively engaged in the public communication of science. Most recently, she spoke to Drive Time on RTE1 on brain health effects of contact sports (Dec 2024). Her recent interview with `Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea", Newsnight"s flagship science program, aired on August 11th, 2024. In January 2024, she was hosted in the studio of Albanian Primetime TV for a 1-hour long feature interview. Professor Naci has given interviews and been featured in The Irish Times, Irish Examiner, The New Scientist, The Daily Mail, BBC World Service, Macleans, The Verge, Brazil Post, NBC News, The Globe and Mail, Los Angeles Times, Radio Canada International, Fox News, Corriere della Sera, The Daily Mail, CTV News, The Huffington Post, Reuters, The Agenda with Steve Parkin, The Chicago Tribune, The Toronto Sun, Global News, Newswise, Medpage Today, Nature, and Science. Her work was profiled in the Irish Times (March 2021) article "Does the key to consciousness lie within our brains?"
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Dounavi ME, McKiernan E, Langsen M, Gregory S, Prats-Sedano M, Mada M, Williams GB, Lawlor B, Naci L, Mackay C, Koychev I, Malhotra P, Ritchie K, Ritchie CW, Su L, Waldman A, O' Brien JT., Investigating the brain's neurochemical profile at midlife in relation to dementia risk factors., Brain Commun. 2024 Apr 17;6(3):fcae138. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae138. PMID: 38779354; PMCID: PMC11109818., 2024
Buller-Peralta I, Gregory S, Low A, Dounavi ME, Wells K, Ntailianis G, Lawlor B, Naci L, Koychev I, Malhotra P, O'Brien JT, Ritchie CW, Muniz-Terrera G., Comprehensive allostatic load risk index is associated with increased frontal and left parietal white matter hyperintensities in mid-life healthy adults., Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49656-3, 2024
Anna M Rosická, Vanessa Teckentrup, Sol Fittipaldi, Augustin Ibanez, Andrew Pringle, Eoghan Gallagher, Anna K Hanlon, Nathalie Claus, Cathal McCrory, Brian Lawlor, Lorina Naci, Claire M Gillan, Distinct associations of biopsychosocial factors with subjective and objective memory., Alzheimer's & Dementia®: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.076878, 2024
Szocs D, Lyu D, Luppi AI, Coppola P, Woodrow R, Williams GB, Allanson J, Pickard JD, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Stamatakis EA., A novel thalamic perspective of (un)consciousness in pharmacological and pathological states in humans. , Under Peer Review, 2024
Axel AS Laurell, Elijah Mak, Maria-Eleni Dounavi, Benjamin R Underwood, Yves Dauvilliers, Robert B Dudas 1,2 , Oriane Marguet 1 , Craig W Ritchie, Ivan Koychev, Brian Lawlor, Lorina Naci , Paresh Malhotra, Oriol Grau-Rivera, Juan Domingo Gispert, John T O"Brien, and the PREVENT Dementia Investigators., Hypothalamic volume and sleep in APOE-"4 carriers., Under Peer Review, 2024
Hu H, Coppola P, Stamatakis EA, Naci L, Typical and disrupted small-world architecture and regional communication in full-term and preterm infants., biorXiv pre-print, 2024
Deng F, El-Sherbiny S, Dounavi ME, Ritchie K, Muniz-Terrera G, Malhotra P, Ritchie CW, Lawlor B, Naci L., Lifestyle activities contribute to cognitive reserve in mid-life in cognitively healthy individuals at risk for late-life Alzheimer's disease., medRxiv. Under Peer Review, 2024
Castro P, Luppi A, Tagliazucchi E, Sanz-Perl Y, Naci L, Owen A M, Sitt J, Destexhe A, Cofré R, Dynamical structure-function correlations provide robust and generalizable signatures of consciousness in humans, bioRxiv 2023.12.19.572402; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.19.572402, 2024
Stefaniak JD, Mak E, Su L, Cartera SF, Dounavi ME, Muniz Terrera G, Wells K, Ritchie K, Lawlor B, Naci L, Koychev I, Malhotra P, Ritchie CW, O'Brien JT., Brain age gap, dementia risk factors and cognition in middle age., Brain Communications https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.078359, 2024
Sosa AL, Brucki SM, Crivelli L, Lopera F, Suemoto CK, Ibanez A, Yassuda MS, Piña-Escudero SD, Aguilar D, Resende EPF, Ringman JM, Slachevsky A, Duran-Aniotz C, Damian A, Carrillo M, García-Peña C, Naci L, Mahinrad S, Sexton C, Aguilar-Navarro S, Parra MA, Luna-Muñoz J, Advancements in Dementia Research, Diagnostics and Care in Latin America: Highlights from the 2023 Alzheimer's Association International Conference Satellite Symposium in Mexico City, Alzheimer's & Dementia®: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. ISSN 1552-5279 doi: 10.1002/alz.13850., 2024
Andrea I. Luppi, Daniel Golkowski, Andreas Ranft, Rudiger Ilg, Denis Jordan, Danilo Bzdok, Adrian M. Owen, Lorina Naci, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis, Enrico Amico, Bratislav Misic., General anaesthesia reduces the uniqueness of brain connectivity across individuals and across species., biorXiv pre-print; Under Peer Review, 2024
Lyu D, Adapa R, Carhart-Harris RL, Roseman L, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Stamatakis E, Diminished functional gradients of the precuneus during altered states of consciousness., Under Peer Review, 2024
Deng F, Ritchie K, Muniz-Terrera G, Malhotra P, Ritchie CW, Lawlor B, Naci L, Genetic risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease is associated with longitudinal loss of functional brain network segregation in middle-aged cognitively healthy individuals: The PREVENT-Dementia Study., medRxiv. Under Peer Review, 2024
Bayne T, Frohlich J, Cusack R, Moser J, Naci L, Infants and Markers: Reply to Taylor and Bremner., Trends in Cognitive Science; doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.02.010., 2024
Luppi AI, Gellersen HM, Liu Z, Peattie ARD, Manktelow AE, Adapa R, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Dimitriadis SI, Stamatakis EA., Systematic evaluation of fMRI data-processing pipelines for consistent functional connectomics, Nature Communications 15, Article number: 4745. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48781-5., 2024
Graham M, Rossor M, Lawlor B, Naci L, Rethinking the Ethics of Informing Research Participants of Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors., PsyArXiv. Under Peer Review, 2024
Buller-Peralta I, Gregory S, Low A, Dounavi ME, Bridgeman K, Ntailianis G, Lawlor B, Naci L, Koychev I, Malhotra P, O'Brien JT, Ritchie WC, Muniz-Terrera G., The pivotal role of sleep in mediating the effects of life stressors and healthy habits on allostatic load in mid-life adults., In Press, 2024
Erukull R, Reid G, Yotter C, Dounavi ME, Low A, O"Brien J, Ritchie C, Lawlor B, Naci L, Malhotra P, Koychev I., Insulin Resistance as a Dementia Prevention Target: Association with Brain Health and Depression in Midlife., In press, 2024
Shah SN, Dounavi ME, Malhotra PA, Lawlor B, Naci L, Koychev I, Ritchie CW, O'Brien JT., Dementia risk and thalamic nuclei volumetry in healthy midlife adults: the PREVENT-Dementia Study., Brain Communications. Volume 6, Issue 2, 2024, fcae046 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae046., 2024
Deng F, Ritchie K, Muniz-Terrera G, Hutchinson S, Malhotra P, Ritchie CW, Lawlor B, Naci L, Cardiovascular risk of dementia is associated with brain"behaviour changes in cognitively healthy, middle-aged individuals., Neurobiology of Ageing, DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.09.006, Volume 144 December, 2024, p78 - 92
Maria-Eleni Dounavi, Elijah Mak, Gregory Operto, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Katie Wells, Ivan Koychev, Paresh Malhotra, Lorina Naci, Brian Lawlor, Li Su, Carles Falcon, Karen Ritchie, Craig W Ritchie, Juan Domingo Gispert, John T O'Brien, Texture-based morphometry in relation to ageing, sex and genetic dementia risk in a midlife population., Human Brain Mapping doi: 10.1002/hbm.26798., 2024
Fasihah Irfani Fitri, Lorina Naci, Yuda Turana, Aldy Safruddin Rambe, Dina Nazriani Ricardo Nitrini, Paulo Caramelli, Modified Brief Cognitive Screening Battery-Indonesian Version (BCSB-INA) or Instrumen Skrining Kognitif Ringkas-Indonesia (INA-SKRin): Development by Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Normative Data Based on Demographic Factors in North Sumatra, Indonesia., Frontiers Human Neuroscience doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1509223, 2024
Qi Q, Deng F, Sammon R, Ritchie K, Muniz-Terrera G, Koychev I, Hutchinson S, Robinson D, Malhotra P. O"Brien J, Ritchie CW, Lawlor B, Naci L, Associations between sex and lifestyle activities with cognitive reserve in mid-life adults with genetic risk for Alzheimer"s disease., Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 16(1):246. DOI: 10.1186/s13195-024-01610-9., 2024
Graham M, Rossor M, Lawlor B, Naci L, Informing Cognitively Healthy Research Participants of Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors - Ethical Implications., Journal of Alzheimer's Disease., 2024
Coppola P, Owen AM, Menon DK, Naci L, Stamatakis EA., The neural correlates of shared and individual experience., Under Peer Review, 2024
Craig W. Ritchie, Katie Wells, Sarah Gregory, Isabelle Carriere, Samuel O. Danso, David Driscoll, Maria-Eleni Dounavi, Robert Hillary, Ivan Koychev, Brian Lawlor, Su Li, Audrey Low, Elijah Mak, Paresh Malhotra, Jean Manson, Riccardo Marioni, Lee Murphy, Lorina Naci, John T O'Brien, William Stewart, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Karen Ritchie, The PREVENT Dementia programme: Baseline demographic, lifestyle, imaging and cognitive data from a midlife cohort study investigating risk factors for neurodegeneration., Brain communications, 2024
Audrey Low, Elizabeth McKiernan, Maria A. Prats-Sedano, Stephen F. Carter, James D. Stefaniak, Li Su, Maria-Eleni Dounavi, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Natalie Jenkins, Katie Wells, Karen Ritchie, Brian Lawlor, Lorina Naci, Paresh Malhotra, Clare Mackay, Ivan Koychev, Tony Thayanandan, Vanessa Raymont , Craig W. Ritchie, John T. O'Brien, Clinical correlates of cerebral microbleeds are altered in healthy midlife adults with traumatic brain injury: the PREVENT-Dementia study., JAMA Network Open.doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.26774, 2024
Elijah Mak, Maria-Eleni Dounavi, Grégory Operto, Elina T. Ziukelis, Coco Newton, Graciela-Terrera Muniz, Paresh Malhotra, Ivan Koychev, Clare Mackay, Brian Lawlor, Lorina Naci, Katie Wells, Karen Ritchie, Li Su, Craig Ritchie, Juan Domingo Gispert, John T O"Brien, APOE "4 exacerbates age-dependent deficits in cortical microstructure., Brain Communications DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad351., 2024
Luppi AI, Hansen JY, Adapa R, Carhart-Harris RL, Roseman L, Timmermann C, Golkowski D, Ranft A, Ilg R, Jordan D, Bonhomme V, Vanhaudenhuyse A, Demertzi A, Jaquet O, Bahri MA, Alnagger NLN, Cardone P, Peattie ARD, Manktelow AE, de Araujo DB, Sensi SL, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Misic B, Stamatakis EA, Mapping Pharmacologically-induced Functional Reorganisation onto the Brain's Neurotransmitter Landscape., SCIENCE ADVANCES DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adf8332, 2023
Deng F, Taylor N, Owen AM, Cusack R, Naci L, Responsiveness variability during anaesthesia relates to inherent differences in brain structure and function of the fronto-parietal networks, Human Brain Mapping, 2023
Bayne T, Frohlich J, Cusack R, Moser J, Naci L., Consciousness in the Cradle: On the Emergence of Infant Experience., Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Dec;27(12):1135-1149. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.08.018, 2023
Tari B, Yehuda MB, Laurell AAS, Ritch e K, Dauvilliers Y, Ritchie C, Lawlor B, Naci L, Terrera GM, Malhotra P, Watermeyer T, Dudas R, Underwood BR, O'Brien JT, Raymont V and Koychev I, The indirect relationship between sleep and cognition in the PREVENT Cohort: Identifying targets for intervention., Front. Sleep, 15 November 2023 Sec. Sleep, Behavior and Mental Health Volume 2 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsle.2023.1226824, 2023
Fallon FT,* Ryan TJ,* Cao R, Haig DA, John YJ, Kidd C, Mitchell KJ, Mitchell M, Naci L, O'Donnell TJ, O'Shea JR, O'Sullivan F, Wheeler R, Dennett DC, Sprevak M, Krakauer JW, What are we talking about? Clarifying the fuzzy concept of representation in neuroscience and beyond., The Transmitter, 2023
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Koychev, I., Malhotra, P., O'Brien J., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L, Sex differences in the associations between risk for late-life AD, protective lifestyle factors and cognition in mid-life., medRxiv. Under Peer Review, 2023
Huntley, J., Bor, D., Fleming, S. M., Mancuso, M., Mediano, P. A. M., Naci, L., Owen, A. M., Rocci, L., Sternin, A., Howard, R., Assessing awareness in severe Alzheimer's disease., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.1035195., 2023
Nemirovsky IE, Popiel NJM, Rudas J, Caius M, Naci L, Schiff ND, Owen, AM, Soddu A, A Novel Implementation of Integrated Information Theory in Resting-State fMRI., Communications Biology DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05063-y. ", 2023
Dounavi, M. E., Newton, C., Jenkins, N, Mak, E., Low, A., Muniz-Terrera, G., Williams, G. B., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Malhotra, P., Mackay, C., Koychev, I., Ritchie, K., Ritchie, C. W., Su, L., O' Brien, J.T. , Macrostructural brain alterations at midlife are connected to cardiovascular and not inherited risk of future dementia: The PREVENT-Dementia study, Journal of Neurology, 2022
Graham M. Farina F, Ritchie C, Lawlor B, Naci L, Fear of dementia and public sharing of research results. , Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2022
Hu, H., Cusack, C., Naci, L., Typical and disrupted brain circuitry for conscious awareness in full-term and preterm infants, Brain Communications, 4, (2), 2022
Coppola P, Spindler LRB, Adapa R, Finoia P, Williams GB, Allanson J, Pickard JD, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Stamatakis EA, The complexity of the stream of consciousness, Communications Biology, 2022
Low, A., Prats-Sedano, M.A., McKiernan, E., Carter, S.F., Stefaniak, J. D., Nannoni, S., Su, L., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Ritchie, K., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Malhotra, P., Mackay, C., Koychev, I., Ritchie, C. W., Markus, H. S., O'Brien, J. T. , Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors of dementia on midlife cerebral small vessel disease in cognitively healthy middle-aged adults: the PREVENT-Dementia study., Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 2022
Low A, Prats-Sedano MA, McKiernan E, Carter SF, Stefaniak JD, Nannoni S, Su L, Dounavi M, Muniz-Terrera G, Ritchie K, Lawlor B, Naci L, Malhotra P, Mackay C, Koychev I, Ritchie CW, Markus HS, O'Brien JT, Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors of dementia on midlife cerebral small vessel disease in cognitively healthy middle-aged adults: the PREVENT-Dementia study, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 2022
Dounavi, Maria-Eleni; Mak, Elijah; Swann, Peter; Low, Audrey; Muniz Terrera, Graciela; McKeever, Anna; Pope, Marianna; Williams, Guy; Wells, Katie; Lawlor, Brain; Naci, Lorina; Malhotra, Paresh; Mackay, Clare; Koychev, Ivan; Ritchie, Karen; Su, Li; Ritchie, Craig; O'Brien, John, Differential association of cerebral blood flow and anisocytosis in APOE ε4 carriers at midlife., Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism., 2022
Fogel S., Ray L., Fang Z., Silverbrook M., Naci L., Owen A., While you were sleeping: Evidence for high-level processing of an auditory narrative during sleep., Consciousness and Cognition, 100, (103306), 2022
Luppi AI, Medianoc PAM, Rosas FE, Allanson J, Pickard JD, Williams GB, Craig MM, Finoia P, Peatti ARD, Coppola P, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Bor D, Stamatakis EA., Whole-brain modelling identifies distinct but convergent paths to unconsciousness in anaesthesia and disorders of consciousness, Communications Biology, 2022
Heneghan A, Deng F, Wells K, Ritchie K, Muniz-Terrera G, Ritchie CW, Lawlor B, Naci L , Modifiable lifestyle activities affect cognition in cognitively healthy middle-aged individuals at risk for late-life Alzheimer's Disease. , Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2022
Naci L., Owen AM. , Uncovering consciousness and revealing the preservation of mental life in unresponsive brain-injured patients, Seminars in Neurology, 2022
Feng Deng, Maria-Eleni Douvani, Karen Ritchie, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Paresh Malhotra, Craig W Ritchie, Brian Lawlor, Lorina Naci, Disrupted role of the connectivity between the locus coeruleus and the hippocampus in cognition of healthy, middle-aged individuals at risk of dementia, medRxiv prep-print; Under Peer Review, 2022
Türker B, Owen AM, Naci L*, Sitt JD*, Processing of the same narrative stimuli elicits common functional connectivity dynamics between individuals., biorXiv pre-print, 2022
Coppola P, Spindler LRB, Adapa R, Finoia P, Williams GB, Allanson J, Pickard JD, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Stamatakis EA., Network dynamics scale with levels of awareness., NeuroImage, 2022
Mackenzie G, Naci L., Well-Being After Severe Brain Injury: What Counts as Good Recovery?, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics., 31, (2), 2021
Huntley J, Fleming SM, Mograbi DC, Bor D, Naci L, Owen AM, Howard R., Understanding Alzheimer's disease as a disorder of consciousness, Translational research and clinical interventions: Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2021
Coulborn S., Taylor C., Naci L., Owen A., Fernández-Espejo D. , Disruptions in effective connectivity within and between default mode network and anterior forebrain mesocircuit in prolonged disorders of consciousness., Brain Sciences, 11, (6), 2021, p749-
Mak, E., Dounavi, M., Operto, G., Ziukelis, E. T., Newton, C., Muniz, G. T., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., Mackay, C., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Wells, K., Ritchie, K., Su, L., Ritchie, C., Gispert, J. D., O'Brien, J. T., APOE ε4 accelerates age-related loss of cortical microstructure: The ALFA and PREVENT multi-cohort study., Under Peer Review, 2021
Varley T, Luppi A, Pappas I, Naci L, Adapa R, Owen AO, Menon D, Stamatakis E., Consciousness and Brain Functional Complexity in Propofol Anaesthesia, Scientific Reports , 2020
Luppi AI, Mediano PAM, Rosas FE, Allanson J, Pickard JD, Carhart-Harris RL, Williams GB, Craig MM, Finoia P, Owen A, Naci L, Menon D, Bor D, Stamatakis EA. , A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by Integrated Information Decomposition., bioRxiv pre-print; Under Peer Review, 2020
Kandeepana S, Rudasb J, Gomez F, Stojanoski B, Valluria S, Owen AM, Naci L, Nichols ES, Soddu A, Modeling an auditory stimulated brain under altered states of consciousness using the generalized ising model, NeuroImage, 223, 2020
Taylor N, Graham M, Delargy M, Naci L, Memory During the Presumed Vegetative State: Implications for Patient Quality of Life, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 29, ("Clinical Neuroethic), 2020, p501 - 510
Tung J, Speechley KN, Gofton T, Gonzalez-Lara LE, Graham M, Naci L, Peterson AH, Owen AM, Weijer C., Towards the assessment of quality of life in patients with disorders of consciousness, Quality of Life Research, 2020
Graham M, Wallace E, Doherty C, McCann A, Naci L, From Awareness to Prognosis: Ethical Implications of Uncovering Hidden Awareness in Behaviorally Nonresponsive Patients, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 28, (Special Issue 4), 2019
Luppi AI, Craig MM, Pappas I, Finoia P, Williams GB, Allanson J, Pickard JD, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Stamatakis EA. , Consciousness-specific dynamic interactions of brain integration and functional diversity, Nature Communications, 10, (4616), 2019, px-x
Graham, M., Doherty, C., & Naci, L, Using neuroimaging to detect covert awareness and determine prognosis of comatose patients: informing surrogate decision-makers of individual patient results., Seminars in Neurology, 38, (5), 2018, p555-560
Naci, Lorina and Haugg, Amelie and MacDonald, Alex and Anello, Mimma and Houldin, Evan and Naqshbandi, Shakib and Gonzalez-Lara, Laura E and Arango, Miguel and Harle, Christopher and Cusack, Rhodri and Owen, Adrian M, Functional diversity of brain networks supports consciousness and verbal intelligence, Scientific Reports , 2018
Irwin K, Sexton C, Daniel T, Lawlor B, Naci L, Healthy Aging and Dementia: Two Roads Diverging in Midlife? Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience , 2018
Haugg A., Cusack R., Gonzales-Lara L., Sorger B., Owen A.M., Naci L., Do patients thought to lack consciousness retain the capacity for internal as well external awareness?, Frontiers in Neurology, 2018
Gibson, R. M., Chennu, S., Fernández-Espejo, D., Naci. L., Owen, A. M, Cruse, D. , Reply to "Is command following unrelated to top-down attention in consciousness disorders?" , Annals of Neurology, 81, (1), 2017, p160-161
Naci, Lorina and Graham, Mackenzie and Owen, Adrian M and Weijer, Charles, Covert narrative capacity: Mental life in patients thought to lack consciousness, Annals of clinical and translational neurology, 4, (1), 2017, p61â"70
Graham, Mackenzie and Owen, Adrian M and à ipi, Kaman and Weijer, Charles and Naci, Lorina, Minimizing the Harm of Accidental Awareness Under General Anesthesia: New Perspectives From Patients Misdiagnosed as Being in a Vegetative State, Anesthesia and analgesia, 2017
Sinai, Leah and Owen, Adrian M and Naci, Lorina, Mapping preserved real-world cognition in severely brain-injured patients, Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition), 22, 2017, p815â"823
Abdalmalak, Androu and Milej, Daniel and Diop, Mamadou and Shokouhi, Mahsa and Naci, Lorina and Owen, Adrian M and St Lawrence, Keith, Can time-resolved NIRS provide the sensitivity to detect brain activity during motor imagery consistently?, Biomedical optics express, 8, (4), 2017, p2162â"2172
Naci, Lorina and Sinai, Leah and Owen, Adrian M, Detecting and interpreting conscious experiences in behaviorally non-responsive patients, NeuroImage, 145, (Pt B), 2017, p304 - 313
Decoding thoughts in disorders of consciousness in, editor(s)M. Monti and W. G. Sannita , Brain Function and Responsiveness in Severe Disorders of Consciousness., Springer, 2016, pp67-80 , [Owen, A. and Naci, L.]
Gibson, Raechelle M and Chennu, Srivas and Fernández-Espejo, Davinia and Naci, Lorina and Owen, Adrian M and Cruse, Damian, Somatosensory attention identifies both overt and covert awareness in disorders of consciousness, Annals of neurology, 80, (3), 2016, p412â"423
Decoding thoughts in behaviourally non-responsive patients. in, editor(s)Walter Sinnott-Armstrong , Finding Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 2016, [Naci, L. ]
Are the senses enough for sense? Early high-level feedback shapes our comprehension of multisensory objects. in, editor(s)S. Zhuanghua and H. J. Müller (Eds.) , Multisensory perception and action: psychophysics, neural mechanisms, and applications. eBook. Frontiers Research Topics., 2015, [Naci, L, Taylor, K. I., Cusack, I., Tyler, L. K.]
MacDonald, Alex A and Naci, Lorina and MacDonald, Penny A and Owen, Adrian M, Anesthesia and neuroimaging: investigating the neural correlates of unconsciousness, Trends in cognitive sciences, 19, (2), 2015, p100â"107
Graham, Mackenzie and Weijer, Charles and Peterson, Andrew and Naci, Lorina and Cruse, Damian and Fernández-Espejo, Davinia and Gonzalez-Lara, Laura and Owen, Adrian M, Acknowledging awareness: informing families of individual research results for patients in the vegetative state, Journal of medical ethics, 41, (7), 2015, p534â"538
Peterson, Andrew and Cruse, Damian and Naci, Lorina and Weijer, Charles and Owen, Adrian M, Risk, diagnostic error, and the clinical science of consciousness, NeuroImage. Clinical, 7, 2015, p588â"597
Graham, M., Weijer, C., Cruse, D.,Fernandez-Espejo, D., Gofton, T., Gonzalez-Lara, L., Lazosky, A., Naci, L., Norton, L., Peterson, A., Speechley, N. K., Young,B., Owen, M. A., An Ethics of Welfare for Patients Diagnosed as Vegetative With Covert Awareness, American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, 6, (2), 2015, p31-41
Brain-Computer Interfaces for Assessment and Communication in Disorders of Consciousness in, Emerging Theory and Practice in Neuroprosthetics, IGI Global, 2014, pp181-214 , [Christoph Guger, Bettina Sorger, Quentin Noirhomme, Lorina Naci, Martin M. Monti, Ruben Real, Christoph Pokorny, Sandra Veser, Zulay Lugo, Lucia Quitadamo, Damien Lesenfants, Monica Risetti, Rita Formisano, Jlenia Toppi, Laura Astolfi, Thomas Emmerling, Lizette Heine, Helena Erlbeck, Petar Horki, Boris Kotchoubey, Luigi Bianchi, Donatella Mattia, Rainer Goebel, Adrian M. Owen, Frederic Pellas, Gernot Müller-Putz, Steven Laureys, Andrea Kübler, Febo Cincotti]
Naci, Lorina and Cusack, Rhodri and Anello, Mimma and Owen, Adrian M, A common neural code for similar conscious experiences in different individuals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, (39), 2014, p14277â"14282
Weijer, Charles and Peterson, Andrew and Webster, Fiona and Graham, Mackenzie and Cruse, Damian and Fernández-Espejo, Davinia and Gofton, Teneille and Gonzalez-Lara, Laura E and Lazosky, Andrea and Naci, Lorina and Norton, Loretta and Speechley, Kathy and Young, Bryan and Owen, Adrian M, Ethics of neuroimaging after serious brain injury, BMC medical ethics, 15, 2014, p41
Peterson, Andrew and Norton, Loretta and Naci, Lorina and Owen, Adrian M and Weijer, Charles, Toward a science of brain death, The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 14, (8), 2014, p29â"31
Peterson, A., Naci, L., Weijer, C., Owen, A., A principled argument, but not a practical one, American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, 4, (1), 2013, p52 - 53
Naci, Lorina and Owen, Adrian M, Making every word count for nonresponsive patients, JAMA neurology, 70, (10), 2013, p1235â"1241
Naci, Lorina and Cusack, Rhodri and Jia, Vivian Z and Owen, Adrian M, The brain's silent messenger: using selective attention to decode human thought for brain-based communication, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 33, (22), 2013, p9385â"9393
Peterson, A., Naci, L., Cruse, C., Fernández-Espejo, E., Graham, M., Weijer, C., Owen, A. O., Assessing decision making capacity in the behaviourally nonreponsive patient with residual covert awareness, American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, 4, (4), 2013, p3-14
Naci, Lorina and Monti, Martin M and Cruse, Damian and KÃŒbler, Andrea and Sorger, Bettina and Goebel, Rainer and Kotchoubey, Boris and Owen, Adrian M, Brain-computer interfaces for communication with nonresponsive patients, Annals of neurology, 72, (3), 2012, p312â"323
Naci, Lorina and Taylor, Kirsten I and Cusack, Rhodri and Tyler, Lorraine K, Are the senses enough for sense? Early high-level feedback shapes our comprehension of multisensory objects, Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 6, 2012, p82
Cusack, Rhodri and Veldsman, Michele and Naci, Lorina and Mitchell, Daniel J and Linke, Annika C, Seeing different objects in different ways: measuring ventral visual tuning to sensory and semantic features with dynamically adaptive imaging, Human brain mapping, 33, (2), 2012, p387â"397
Covington, M., Congzhou, H., Brown, C., Naci, L., Brown, J. , How complex is that sentence? A proposed revision of the Rosenberg and Abbeduto D-Level Scale, Computer Analysis of Speech for Psychological Research, University of Georgia, 2006
Covington, Michael A and He, Congzhou and Brown, Cati and Naci, Lorina and McClain, Jonathan T and Fjordbak, Bess Sirmon and Semple, James and Brown, John, Schizophrenia and the structure of language: the linguist's view, Schizophrenia research, 77, (1), 2005, p85â"98
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Koychev, I., Malhotra, P., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L, Sex differences in the relationship between cognition and brain structure in midlife individuals at risk for future dementia, Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Philadelphia, USA, July 28-Aug. 1, 2024
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Koychev, I., Malhotra, P., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L, Sex differences in the relationship between cognition and brain structure in midlife individuals at risk for future dementia, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, Korea, June 23-27, 2024
Hu, H., Coppola, P., Stamatakis, E., Naci, L, Typical and disrupted small-world architecture and regional communication in full-term and preterm infants, the 27th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Tokyo, Japan, July, 2024
Deng, F., El-Sherbiny, S., Heneghan, A., Dounavi, M. E., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*., Lifestyle activities contribute to cognitive reserve in mid-life individuals at risk of dementia., Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, Korea, June 23-27, 2024
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Brain-based predictions of cardiovascular risk factors in healthy midlife populations at risk of dementia. , School of Psychology Research Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, March 7, 2024
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Koychev, I., Malhotra, P., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*, Sex differences in the relationship between cognition and brain structure in midlife individuals at risk for future dementia., Alzheimer"s Association International Conference Neuroscience Next, Virtual, April 22-25, 2024
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L, Brain-based predictions of cardiovascular risk factors in healthy midlife populations at risk of dementia., Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Philadelphia, USA, July 28-Aug. 1, 2024
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L, Brain-based predictions of cardiovascular risk factors in healthy midlife populations at risk of dementia., Alzheimer"s Association International Conference Neuroscience Next, Virtual, April 22-25, 2024
Farina FR, Lawlor B, Ritchie CW, Naci L, Fear of Alzheimer's disease in women with and without a family history of dementia: results from observational and intervention studies. , Alzheimer's Association Satellite Meeting, South Africa, 2024
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L, Brain-based predictions of cardiovascular risk factors in healthy midlife populations at risk of dementia., Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, Korea, June 23-27, 2024
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Koychev, I., Malhotra, P., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*. , Sex differences in the relationship between cognition and brain structure in midlife individuals at risk for future dementia., School of Psychology Research Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, March 7, 2024
Grainne McGettrick, Lorina Naci, Katy Tobin, Tatyana Mollayeva., Brain health and brain injury: A new policy paradigm?, Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, May 2023, 2023
Deng, F., El-Sherbiny, S., Heneghan, A., Dounavi, M. E., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*., Lifestyle activities contribute to cognitive reserve in mid-life, independently of education, in cognitively healthy middle-aged individuals at risk for late-life Alzheimer's disease., School of Psychology Research Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, March 7, 2023
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., Ritchie, K., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L. , Functional connectome-based prediction of individual clinical and cognitive scores in midlife population with risk of dementia. , Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16-20, 2023
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Koychev, I., Malhotra, P., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*, Sex differences in the associations between the risk for late-life Alzheimer's disease, protective lifestyle factors and cognition in mid-life: The PREVENT Dementia study., Dementia Research Network Ireland (DRNI) Early Career Researcher Day, Dublin, Ireland, October 10, 2023
Deng, F., El-Sherbiny, S., Heneghan, A., Dounavi, M. E., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*, Lifestyle activities contribute to cognitive reserve in mid-life, independently of education, in cognitively healthy middle-aged individuals at risk for late-life Alzheimer's disease., School of Psychology Research Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, March 7, 2023
Fasihah Irfani Fitri, Lorina Naci, Yuda Turana, Aldy Safruddin Rambe, Dina Nazriani Ricardo Nitrini, Paolo Caramelli., Development of the Modified Brief Cognitive Screening Battery-Indonesian Version (Instrumen Skrining Kognitif Ringkas Indonesia/INA-SKRin)., Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, May 2023, 2023
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Muniz‑Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., Ritchie, K., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*, Functional connectome-based prediction of individual clinical and cognitive scores in midlife population with risk of dementia., School of Psychology Research Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, March 7, 2023
Elijah Mak, Maria-Eleni Dounavi, Audrey Low, Graciela Muniz Terrera, Paresh Malhotra, Ivan Koychev, Clare Mackay, Brian Lawlor, Lorina Naci, Katie Wells, Craig Ritchie, Karen Ritchie, Li Su , Juan Domingo Gispert, John T O'Brien, on the behalf of the PREVENT-Dementia and ALFA studies, and TRIBEKA Consortium., Gene-dose effects of APOE e4 on age-dependent increases in peak width of sleletonised mean diffusivity during midlife., VasCog Conference, 2023
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Koychev, I., Malhotra, P., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*, Sex differences in the associations between risk for late-life Alzheimer's disease, protective lifestyle factors and cognition in mid-life., School of Psychology Research Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, March 7, 2023
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., Ritchie, K., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*, Functional connectome-based prediction of individual clinical and cognitive scores in midlife population with risk of dementia., Dementia Research Network Ireland (DRNI) Early Career Researcher Day, Dublin, Ireland, October 10, 2023
Shah, S., Dounavi, M. E., Malhotra, P., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Koychev, I., Ritchie, C. W., O'Brien, J. T. , Measuring the volume of thalamic nuclei in cognitively unimpaired, middle-aged individuals from the PREVENT-Dementia cohort. , Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16-20, 2023
Jani, I., Qi, Q., Deng, F., Gorman, P., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*, Investigating the impact of lifetime traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's risk factors on brain health in middle age, Neuroscience Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland, August 29-30, 2023
Maria-Eleni Dounavi, Elijah Mak, Audrey Low, Guy B. Williams, Katie Wells, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Brian Lawlor, Lorina Naci, Paresh Malhotra, Ivan Koychev, Karen Ritchie, Li Su, Craig W Ritchie, John T O"Brien. , Hyper-perfusion in middle-aged individuals with genetic risk of sporadic Alzheimer's disease. , International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2023
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Koychev, I., Malhotra, P., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*. , Sex differences in the associations between the risk for late-life Alzheimer's disease, protective lifestyle factors and cognition in mid-life: The PREVENT Dementia study., Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16-20, 2023
Stefaniak, J. D., Mak, E., Su, L., Carter, S., Dounavi, M. E., Muniz-Terrera, G., Wells, K., Ritchie, K., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Koychev, I., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., O'Brien, J. T. , Brain age gap, dementia risk factors and cognition in middle age. , Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16-20, 2023
Lorina Naci, Insights into risk and protective factors for dementia in healthy midlife., Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, 08/02/2023, 2023
Rosická A. M., Teckentrup, V., Pringle, A., Gallagher, E., Hanlon, A. K., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Gillan, C. M. , Dissociable associations between dementia risk factors and subjective vs. objective cognitive status., Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16-20, 2023
Hu, H., Coppola, P., Stamatakis, E., Naci, L*, Typical and disrupted brain network dynamics in human neonates., School of Psychology Research Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, March 7, 2023
Dounavi, M. E., Mak, E., Low, A. Williams, G. B., Wells, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., Ritchie, L., Su, L., Ritchie, C.W., O'Brien, J. T. , Investigating the impact of APOE4 genotype on the association between cerebral blood flow and haematological properties in mid-life adults., Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16-20, 2023
Low, A., McKiernan, E., Prats-Sedano, M. A. Carter, S. F., Stefaniak, J. D., Su, L., Dounavi, M. E., Muniz-Terrera, G., Ritchie, K., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Malhotra, P., Mackay, C., Ivan Koychev, Raymont, V., Ritchie, C. W., O'Brien, J. T. , Clinical correlates of cerebral microbleeds are diminished in individuals with traumatic brain injury: the PREVENT-Dementia study. , Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16-20, 2023
Laurell, A. A., Shah, S., Dounavi, M. E., Dudas, R. B., Dauvilliers, Y., Ritchie, C. W., Koychev, I., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Malhotra, P., O'Brien, J. T. , Family history of dementia is associated with sleep dysfunction and smaller volume of the thalamus in the Prevent Dementia study. , Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16-20, 2023
Luppi AI, Hansen JY, Adapa R, Carhart-Harris RL, Roseman L, Timmermann C, Golkowski D, Ranft A, Ilg R, Jordan D, Bonhomme V, Vanhaudenhuyse A, Demertzi A, Jaquet O, Bahri MA, Alnagger NLN, Cardone P, Peattie ARD, Manktelow AE, de Araujo DB, Sensi SL, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Misic B, Stamatakis EA, Mapping Pharmacologically-induced Functional Reorganisation onto the Brain's Neurotransmitter Landscape, Human Brain Mapping Conference, 2023
Lorina Naci, Typical and disrupted brain mechanism for conscious awareness in full-term and preterm infants., Trinity School of Psychology Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 07/03/2023, 2023
Lorina Naci, Responsible Research: Bringing Global Voices to Sharing of Dementia Risk Evidence, 2023 Refereed Talk. Alzheimers Association International Conference, 2023
Lorina Naci, Opening Welcome Talk, Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) Satellite Symposium, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023
Deng, F., El-Sherbiny, S., Heneghan, A., Dounavi, M. E., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L, Lifestyle activities contribute to cognitive reserve in mid-life, independently of education, in cognitively healthy middle-aged individuals at risk for late-life Alzheimer's disease. , Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 16-20, 2023
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Muniz‑Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Koychev, I., Ritchie, K., O'Brien, J. T., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L*, Functional connectome-based prediction of individual clinical and cognitive scores in midlife population with risk of dementia., Neuroscience Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland, August 29-30, 2023
Lorina Naci , Preservation of high-level cognition under deep anaesthesia., Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Cao, B., Heneghan, A., Dounavi, M. E., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Sex differences in the associations of lifestyle activities, risk factors and cognition of middle-aged individuals at risk for late-life AD., PREVENT-Dementia General Assembly, Cambridge, UK, 14/10/2022, 2022
Lorina Naci , The Prevent Dementia Study, St James's Hospital Dementia Research Showcase, St James's Hospital, March, 2022
Lorina Naci, Risk and protective lifestyle factors for Alzheimer's disease in healthy midlife, Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain, Memory Center, University of Pennsylvania, 28 July , 2022, Jason Karlawish
Deng, F., Dounavi, M. E., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L, Disrupted role of the connectivity between the locus coeruleus and the hippocampus in cognition of healthy, middle-aged individuals at risk of dementia: the PREVENT‑Dementia study. , PREVENT-Dementia General Assembly, Cambridge. UK, 14/10/2022, 2022
Lorina Naci, Biomarkers for the early detection of Alzheimer's Disease in asymptomatic midlife individuals, Dementia Research Cluster, Derry, Northern Ireland, 23 March, 2022, Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM) at Ulster University
Lorina Naci, Sex differences in lifestyle activities, risk factors and cognition of midlife individuals, PREVENT Dementia International Consortium General Assembly, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge UK, 13 October, 2022, PREVENT Programme
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Hu, H., Dounavi, M. E., Muniz‑Terrera, G., Williams, G. B., Malhotra, P., Mackay, C. E., Koychev, I., Ritchie, K., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Impact of risk for late-life AD on graph properties of function brain organization and its relationship with cognitive performance., Neuroscience Ireland's Young Investigator Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 27/10/2022, 2022
Deng, F., El-Sherbiny, S., Heneghan, A., Dounavi, M. E., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Lifestyle activities contribute to cognitive reserve in mid-life, independently of education, in cognitively healthy middle-aged individuals at risk for late-life Alzheimer's disease., Neuroscience Ireland's Young Investigator Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 27/10/2022, 2022
Cao, B., Deng, F., Qi, Q., Hu, H., Dounavi, M. E., Muniz‑Terrera, G., Williams, G. B., Malhotra, P., Mackay, C. E., Koychev, I., Ritchie, K., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Impact of risk for late-life AD on graph properties of function brain organization and its relationship with cognitive performance., PREVENT-Dementia General Assembly, Cambridge, UK, 14/10/2022, 2022
Ryberg, M., Naci, L., Conway, R., Cunningham, Z., Hu, H., O'Mara, S., Donnelly, S., The Neural Basis of Post-Covid 'Brain Fog': An Exploratory Study, the 2022 Annual Conference of Psychological Society of Ireland, Laois, Ireland, 2022
Qi, Q., Deng, F., Cao, B., Heneghan, A., Dounavi, M. E., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Sex differences in the associations of lifestyle activities, risk factors and cognition of middle-aged individuals at risk for late-life AD., Neuroscience Ireland's Young Investigator Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 27/10/2022, 2022
Lorina Naci, The impact of Alzheimer's disease risk on brain health in midlife, Monthly research seminar, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, 25 July, 2022, John O'Brien
Deng, F., Naci, L., Functional Segregation in Asymptomatic Midlife Individuals at Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease., Organisation for Human Brain Mapping , Glasgow, Scotland, 2022
Hu, H., Coppola, P., Stamatakis, E., Naci, L., The development of functional small-world architecture in infancy., Organisation for Human Brain Mapping , Glasgow, Scotland, 2022
Lorina Naci, Lifestyle factors create resilience to Alzheimer's Disease from midlife, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, 12-16 November, 2022, Society for Neuroscience
Deng, F., Ritchie, K., Muniz-Terrera, G., Malhotra, P., Ritchie, C. W., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Hyper segregation of functional brain networks and accelerated age-related segregation loss in mid-life cognitively healthy APOE-ɛ4 carriers., PREVENT-Dementia General Assembly, Cambridge, UK, 14/10/2022, 2022
Lorina Naci, Can we prevent Alzheimer's disease? , Terry Pratchett at the Unseen University, Long room hub, 23 September , 2022, Andrew Harkin, Dublin Culture Night
Lorina Naci , The emergence of brain mechanisms of consciousness in newborn infants. , Monash University, Australlia, April, 2022
Lorina Naci, How early can we detect the effects of Alzheimer's disease on cognition and the brain?, Predictive Brain Modelling Group Workshop, TCIN, Trinity College Dublin, 7 July , 2022, PBMG
Lorina Naci, Closing address to the annual conference, Global Brain health Institute Annual Conference, Virtual, 17 June , 2022, Global Brain Health Institute
Lorina Naci, How early can we detect the effects of Alzheimer's disease on cognition and the brain?, Predictive Brain Modelling Group Workshop, TCIN, Trinity College Dublin, 7 July , 2022, PBMG
Hu, H., Coppola, P., Stamatakis, E., Naci, L., The development of functional small-world architecture in early infancy., Neuroscience Ireland's Young Investigator Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 27/10/2022, 2022
Coulborn S, Taylor C, Naci L, Owen A, and Fernández-Espejo D., Disruptions in effective connectivity within and between default mode network and anterior forebrain mesocircuit in disorders of consciousness. , The Brain Conference, 2021
Deng, F., Stewart, E., Naci, L., Brain Network Integrity Across the Lifespan and Its Relationship to Cognition., Neuroscience Ireland Meeting 2021,, Virtual, 2021
Low, A., Prats-Sedano, M.A., McKiernan, E., Carter, S.F., Stefaniak, J. D., Nannoni, S., Su, L., Dounavi, M., Muniz-Terrera, G., Ritchie, K., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Malhotra, P., Mackay, C., Koychev, I., Ritchie, C. W., Markus, H. S., O'Brien, J. T. , Differential sex differences in modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors of dementia on cerebral small vessel disease at midlife: the PREVENT-Dementia study, 2021
Lorina Naci , The brain bases of responsiveness variability under moderate anaesthesia. , Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness., June, 2021
Deng F, Naci L. , Cognition alterations of subjects at increased risk of dementia., Organization for Human Brain Mapping., 2021
Hu, H., Cusack, C., Naci, L., Typical and disrupted brain circuitry for conscious awareness in full-term and preterm infants., Neuroscience Ireland Meeting 2021, Virtual, 2021
Heneghan, A., Deng, F., Muniz-Terrera, G., Wells, K., Ritchie, K., Ritchie, C., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Modifiable lifestyle activities affect cognition in asymptomatic mid-life individuals at risk for late-life Alzheimer's Disease., Neuroscience Ireland Meeting 2021, Virtual, 2021
Lorina Naci , To share or not share individual research results. , PREVENT General Assembly, Edinburgh, November , 2021
Heneghan, A., Deng, F., Lawlor, B., Naci, L., Modifiable lifestyle activities affect cognition in asymptomatic midlife individuals at risk for late-life Alzheimer's Disease, The Lancet Summit: Presymptomatic Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Virtual, 14-16 December 2021, 2021
Hu H., Cusack R, Naci L., The ontogeny of the brain circuitry for conscious awareness , Organization for the Human Brain Mapping., 2021
Athena Demertzi, Lucina Uddin, Lorina Naci, The real stance towards the academic profession., Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness., June, 2021
Luppi AI, Mediano PAM, Rosas FE, Allanson J, Pickard JD, Carhart-Harris RL, Williams GB, Craig MM, Finoia P, Owen AM, Naci L, Menon DK, Bor D, Stamatakis EA., A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by Integrated Information Decomposition., The Brain Conference., 2021
Lorina Naci , The preservation of rich mental life and memory formation in a vegetative state patient., International Brain Injury Association, July , 2021
Lorina Naci , Using multisensory stimulation to understand preserved cognition after severe brain injury., University College Dublin, School of Psychology Seminar Series, University College Dublin, 2021
Deng F, Stewart E, Naci L. , Sex disparities in effect of ageing on brain network integrity across the lifespan., Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Virtual., May 2020., 2020
Hu H, Cusack R, Naci L., The development of brain circuitry supporting conscious awareness in infancy., Neuromatch Conference., Virtual., October 2020, 2020
Lorina Naci, Using neuroimaging to understand early neurocognitive impairments in asymptomatic midlife individuals at high risk for later life dementia., PREVENT Consortium Neuroimaging Yearly Symposium., Virtual presentation., June, 2020
Lorina Naci, Preservation of cognition and awareness after severe brain injury: Implications for prognosis., Virtual., November, 2020, Cambridge Neurological Society
Deng F, Stewart E, Naci L. , Sex disparities in effect of ageing on brain network integrity across the lifespan., Neuromatch Conference., Virtual, October 2020, 2020
Lorina Naci, Multimodal Investigation of Biomarkers of early Alzheimer's Disease in Mid-life., Dublin, Ireland., November, 2019, Global Brain Health Institute.
Lorina Naci, Real-world cognition in disorders of consciousness., Chaucer Club, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge., Cambridge UK, May, 2019
MacDonald, P., Hiebert, N., Naci, L., Owen, A.(ed.), Functional Biomarkers of Parkinson's Disease: Changes in Brain-Wide Network Connectivity in Default Mode and Fronto-Parietal Control Networks, MOVEMENT DISORDERS, 34, 2019, S808-S809 p
Lorina Naci, Exploring Consciousness in Severely Brain Injured Non-responsive Patients., What is Life, Consciousness Symposium., Trinity College Dublin., September, 2018
Lorina Naci, A cross-section of the preserved mental life in patients thought to lack consciousness., Neuroethics Network Meeting, Paris, France., June, 2018, ICM, The Brain and Spine Institute, Paris.
Lorina Naci, Functional diversity of brain networks supports consciousness and intelligence., Oliver Zangwill Lecture., Cambridge UK, February, 2018, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.
Lorina Naci, Using Narratives to Understand Human Conscious Experience., Guest Lecture at the Division of Anesthesia, Addenbrookes Hospital University of Cambridge., Cambridge UK, February, 2018
Lorina Naci, Narratives Facilitate Shared Conscious Experience., Long Room Hub, Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Humanities., Trinity College Dublin., May, 2018
Lorina Naci, fMRI brain mapping in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness., Invited speaker at the 21st European Congress of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine., Lithuania, May, 2018
Lorina Naci, Gender equity in Leadership., Point Reyes, California, USA., October, 2017
Lorina Naci, Advanced neuroimaging in the treatment and rehabilitation of concussion., St James' Hospital, Dublin, May, 2017
Lorina Naci, Using Naturalistic Stimulation fMRI for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Clinical Populations., Northern Ireland, UK., 13th December, 2017, Queens University Belfast.
Lorina Naci, Detecting preserved consciousness and communicating with severely brain-injured patients misdiagnosed to be in a vegetative state. , National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dublin., 12th October, 2017
Lorina Naci, Preserved real-world cognition and consciousness in non-responsive patients., Brain Health Network Seminar., Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin., June, 2017, Trinity College & Global Brain Health Institute.
Lorina Naci, The neural machinery of conscious cognition: Converging evidence from anesthesia-induced unconsciousness, severe brain injury and intellectual prowess. , Organization for Human Brain Mapping., Vancouver, Canada., June, 2017
Lorina Naci, The Development of Cross-disciplinary Neurohumanities Initiatives at Trinity College Dublin., National Institutional Strategic Support Fund, Public Patient Involvement Meeting., University College Dublin, October, 2017
Lorina Naci, State-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques for assessing and communicating with severely brain-injured persons., San Francisco, USA, March, 2016, American Philosophical Association.
Lorina Naci, Real-world cognition in the healthy and disordered brain., Cambridge UK, May, 2016, Cambridge Centre of Aging and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.
Lorina Naci, The functional neuroimaging of conscious information processing., Geneva, Switzerland, 1st July, 2016, University of Geneva.
Haugg A, Cusack R, Sorger B, Owen AM, Naci L., A comparison of fMRI-based functional connectivity during resting-state and naturalistic stimulation., Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience., Toronto, Canada, 2016
Haugg A, Cusack R, Sorger B, Owen AM, Naci L., The functional connectivity of conscious information processing during movie watching., Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness., Buenos Aires, Argentina., 2016
Abdalmalak A, Milej D, Diop M, Naci L, Owen AM, Lawrence KSt., Assessing the feasibility of time-resolved fNIRS to detect brain activity during motor imagery., 2016
Naci L, Cusack R, Macdonald A, Anello M, Arango M, Harle C, Owen AM., Assessing consciousness in anesthetized individuals., Organization for Human Brain Mapping., Geneva, Switzerland, 2016
Lorina Naci, Using anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness to identify biomarkers of conscious awareness in the healthy human brain., London, Canada, March, 2015, Rotman Institute of Philosophy.
Horn, A., Naci L., Weijer C., & Owen, A. M., The master of suspense: using movies and fMRI to decode the phenomenology of conscious experience in vegetative state patients., Montreal Neuroethics Conference for Young Researchers., Montreal, Quebec, Canada., April 2015, 2015
Lorina Naci, Towards naturalistic approaches for detecting consciousness with neuroimaging., Paris, France., June, 2015, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
Naci L, Houldin E, Cusack R, Arango M, Harle C, Owen M A., Processing of complex, real world information as awareness fades under sedation., Society for Neuroscience., Chicago, USA., October 2015., 2015
Horn A., Naci L., Weijer C., & Owen A. M., Decoding phenomenal experience in vegetative state patients., Annual Meeting for the Canadian Association for Neuroscience., Vancouver, Canada., May 2015, 2015
Sinai L, Cusack R, Fiaconni C, Gonzalez L, Owen AM, Naci L., Probing the conscious experience of rich auditory stimuli., Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness., Paris, France., June 2015, 2015
Naci, L., Cusack, R., Anello, M., Owen, A. M., Decoding the contents of conscious awareness from brain activity., Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting., Hawaii, USA., June 2015, 2015
Lorina Naci, Detecting conscious experiences in patients with disordered consciousness., London, Canada, January, 2015, The Brain and Mind Institute.
Sinai, L., Cusack, R., Owen, A. M., Naci. L., Probing conscious experience of rich naturalistic stimuli., Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment., 5th-6th Feb 2015, 2015
Naci L, Annello M, MacDonald A, Naqshbandi S, Arango M, Harle C, Owen AM., The cognitive response to complex naturalistic stimuli in states of incremental sedation., Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness., Paris, France., June 2015, 2015
Lorina Naci, Detecting and interpreting conscious experiences in behaviorally non-responsive populations., Towards a Science of Consciousness., Helsinki, Finland., June, 2015
A Peterson, D Cruse, L Naci, D Fernandez-Espejo, T Bruni, C Weijer, AM Owen., A framework for comparing neuroimaging techniques used to assess disorders of consciousness., International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting., Washington, USA., 14th November 2014, 2014
Lorina Naci, Using naturalistic paradigms to probe conscious experience., Medical Research Council - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. , Cambridge UK, December, 2014
Weijer C, Graham M, Peterson A, Naci L, Cruse D, Fernandez-Espejo D, Gonzalez-Lara L, Owen AM., Acknowledging awareness: informing families of individual research results for patients in the vegetative state., Canadian Bioethics Society, Vancouver, Canada., 29th May 2014, 2014
M Graham, C Weijer, D Cruse, D Fernandez-Espejo, L Gonzalez-Lara, L Naci, A Peterson, K Speechley, AM Owen. , Evaluating subjective well-being in patients diagnosed as vegetative, with covert awareness., International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting., Washington, USA., 14th November 2014, 2014
Weijer C, Peterson A, Naci L, Graham M, Cruse D, Fernandez- Espejo D, Lazosky A, and Owen AM. , Why discussion of end-of-life decisions through brain computer interfaces starts the ethical debate off on the wrong foot. , Brain Matters 4: Brain Science and Social Responsibility., Vancouver, Canada., March 2014, 2014
Naci, L., Cusack, R., & Owen, A., A New fMRI Approach For Establishing Conscious Awareness And Communication In Behaviourally Nonresponsive Patients. , Journal of Neurotrauma , Vol. 31, (No. 5), 2014, ppA68 - A68
Graham M, Weijer C, Peterson A, Naci L, Fernandez-Espejo D, Cruse D, Lazosky A, Gonzalez-Lara L, and Owen AM. , Communication with patients diagnosed with disorders of consciousness, and the moral significance of sentience., Canadian Bioethics Society, Vancouver, Canada., 29th May 2014, 2014
Peterson A, Naci L, Weijer C, Benmordecai D, Cruse D, Fernandez-Espejo D, Gofton T, Gonzalez-Lara L, Lazosky A, Norton L, Speechley K, Young B, Owen AM., Is it possible assess decision making capacity in the disorders of consciousness patient?, Canadian Bioethics Society, Vancouver, Canada., 29th May 2014, 2014
Lorina Naci, Anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness., Skience, Collingwood, Canada, March 2014, 2014
Lorina Naci, A common neural code for similar conscious experiences in healthy and brain injured individuals., London, Canada, September, 2014, Rotman Institute of Philosophy.
Norton L, Naci L, Fernandez Espejo D, Young GB, Gofton T, Al Thenayan E, Owen AM., Can you hear me? Assessing Language Processing and Awareness in Comatose Patients using fMRI., London Research Day. , London, Canada, 2014
Lorina Naci, A new fMRI approach for establishing conscious awareness and communication in behaviourally non-responsive patients., University Hospital Critical Care Rounds. , London, Canada, February 2014, 2014
Lorina Naci, Combining fMRI and psychophysiological measures to study conscious awareness in non-responsive patients., Skience, Collingwood, Canada, March 2013, 2013
Norton L, Fernández Espejo D, Naci L, Young GB, Gofton T, Owen AM., Innovative Prognostic Testing of Comatose Patients using fMRI., Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. , San Diego, CA, USA., 2013
Peterson A, Cruse D, Naci L, Fernández-Espejo D, Graham M, Lazosky A, Weijer C, Owen AM. , Ethical challenges in deriving the clinical utility of EEG for diagnosis of the vegetative state., International Neuroethics Society Annual Conference., San Diego, CA, USA., November 2013, 2013
Lorina Naci, Using fMRI to assess conscious awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness - practical considerations., San Diego, USA, July 2013, 2013, Society for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
Naci, L., Cusack, R., Zia, V. Z., Owen, A. M., Making every word count: intuitive and robust communication without a behavioural response., Human Brain Mapping., Beijing, China, 2012
Peterson, A., Naci, L., Cruse, D., FernándezEspejo, D., Graham, M., White, A., Weijer, C., Owen, A. M., Ethical implications of detecting awareness in disorders of consciousness: Question asking through a binary interface. , Brain Matters 3: Values at the Crossroads of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Cleaveland, USA, 2012
Graham, M., White, A., Peterson, A., Naci, L., Cruse, L., Fernández-Espejo, D., Weijer, C., Owen. A. M. , Investigators' ethical obligations to patients' families in disorders of consciousness research. , Brain Matters 3: Values at the Crossroads of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Psychology., Cleveland USA, 2012
Lorina Naci, Using language for the detection of consciousness in non-responsive patients., DECODER Consortium Meeting. , Rome, Italy, March 2012, 2012
Naci, L., Linke, A., Vicente-Grabovetsky, S., Gaudrain, E., Owen, A. M., Cusack, R., Using multi-voxel pattern analysis to decode the targets of auditory selective attention and imagery. , ICON, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2011
Lorina Naci, Deployment of brain-computer interfaces for the detection of consciousness in non-responsive patients. , DECODER Consortium Meeting., Brussels, Belgium., March 2011, 2011
Veldsman, M., Cusack, R., Naci, L., Mitchell, D. J. , Characterising neural tuning to naturalistic objects with Dynamically Adaptive Imaging., Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain., 2010
Lorina Naci, Neural gestures to communicate with vegetative state patients., South Carolina, USA, 2010, University of South Carolina.
Naci, L., Cusack, R, Henson, R., Tyler, L. K. , Adaptive coding of object representation in anterior temporal, but not occipito-temporal regions. , Human Brain Mapping., Barcelona, Spain., 2010
Cusack, R., Veldsman, M., Naci, L., Mitchell, D., J, Linke, A. , Rapidly characterizing multidimensional neural tuning to sensory and semantic features of real-world objects using Dynamically Adaptive Imaging. , Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, Canada, 2010
Naci, L., Henson, R., Taylor, K., Tyler, L. K. , The development of meaning with incremental object awareness: an efMRI study of stages of visual object processing. , Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, USA, 2008
Lorina Naci, Are senses enough for sense?, The Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2008, 2008
Lorina Naci, Multi-sensory integration., Experimental Psychology Society Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, UK , June 2007, 2007
Lorina Naci, Recurrent bottom-up and top-down interactions during multi-sensory object processing., New York City, USA, 2007, The Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
Lorina Naci, Understanding objects: are the senses enough for sense?, Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars, Cambridge UK, 2007, University of Cambridge
Naci, L., Pulvermuller, F., Taylor, K., Shtyrov, Y., Hauk, O., & Tyler, L. K. , Spatiotemporal patterns of cross-modal integration., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, Suppl. E22., 2006
Naci, L., Propositional Attitude Reports and Mental Representations., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research Proceedings, 2003
Research Expertise
Description
In the last two years, Professor Naci has obtained as lead PI €995,990 in competitive grant funding, including the HRB Investigator-Led Project Award (PI; €351,638; 2024), and the Alzheimer's Society UK Project Award (Co-PI; £399,603; 2024). She is currently leading a €31,5 million application for a Research Centre called `Optimizing Brain Health Across the Lifespan (TITAN)", to the Research Ireland Centres Programme. Her SFI `Frontiers for the Future Award" application (PI, €1 million), received a `fundable' score, with the decision outcome forthcoming in December, 2024. In the last two years, she has published 37 peer-reviewed papers, with an additional 11 pre-prints in peer-review, in leading international journals. Professor Naci has pioneered ground-breaking work that detected consciousness in individuals considered to be in a 'vegetative state.' She was the first to pioneer a neuroimaging brain-computer interface using auditory attention (Naci et al. 2012;2013;2014;2016;2017;2022). She discovered that several patients, clinically diagnosed as `vegetative state' for over 12 years, could correctly answer multiple questions by simply attending to the word `yes" or `no". Her work has enabled some individuals, who were thought to be unconscious for several years, to communicate with their families. The impact of the work of Professor Naci and her collaborators is apparent in a change of clinical practice guidelines by the American Academy of Neurology (2018) and the European Academy of Neurology (2020), recommending that neuroimaging be used to help determine clinical diagnosis in the absence of behavioural evidence of consciousness. Additionally, her work was featured in several (7) international policy guidelines. E.g., by the UK Parliament Research Briefings (07/2022; Naci and Owen, 2013), by the German Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies (2023; Graham et al. 2018), and by the Government of Catalonia (2023; Abladmalak et al. 2023) among others. Her recent senior-authored article Deng et al. (2023) was featured on the front page of `Anaesthesiology News", the most widely read publication for the specialty for the last 25 years, and delivered free of charge to all 56,181 anaesthesiologists and anaesthesiology residents in the USA. Professor Naci"s work has also been cited in several (9) USA patents on brain- and human-computer interfaces and devices that monitor treatment compliance. Professor Naci is the lead PI the Dublin site of PREVENT-Dementia, the world's largest study investigating the origins and early diagnosis of dementia. As a Member of the Steering Group of the `PREVENT Dementia International Consortium', she has have facilitated the training of over 22 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows across the five study sites, over 40 publications in esteemed peer-reviewed journals, and €2.5 million in additional grant funding to the consortium.Projects
- Title
- Using dynamic functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Develop Early Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease
- Funding Agency
- Trinity Provost Scholarship Award
- Date From
- 2018
- Date To
- 2022
- Title
- PREVENT Dementia
- Funding Agency
- Global Brain Health Institute, Ireland/USA; Trinity Foundation; PREVENT UK
- Date From
- 2017
- Date To
- 2022
- Title
- Using Neuroimaging and Portable Technologies to Develop Music Based Interventions for Brain-injured Patients
- Funding Agency
- School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin
- Date From
- 2017
- Date To
- 2022
- Title
- Portable techniques for assessing brain function in severely brain-injured patients.
- Funding Agency
- Ussher Fellowship Trinity College Dublin
- Date From
- 2021
- Date To
- 2024
- Title
- Using neuroimaging to detect covert awareness and determine prognosis of comatose patients.
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship
- Date From
- 2019
- Date To
- 2022
- Title
- The Self-regulation of Internal and External Thought.
- Funding Agency
- Trinity-China Student Council Joint Scholarship Programme
- Date From
- 2019
- Date To
- 2023
- Title
- H2020- Preparation Support
- Funding Agency
- Enterprise Ireland
- Date From
- 2018
- Date To
- 2018
- Title
- Welcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) for International Collaborations
- Funding Agency
- Welcome Trust ISSF
- Date From
- 2017
- Date To
- 2020
- Title
- Neuroimaging and Portable Technologies for Interventions for Brain-Injured Patients
- Funding Agency
- Welcome Trust ISSF
- Date From
- 2017
- Date To
- 2022
- Title
- International Rising Talent Award
- Funding Agency
- L'Oréal Foundation, France & UNESCO
- Date From
- 2017
- Date To
- 2019
- Title
- Changing Dementia Narratives/Stigma Through Art
- Funding Agency
- Global Brain Health Institute Project Grant
- Date From
- 2018
- Date To
- 2020
- Title
- ERC Attention Pendulum
- Funding Agency
- European Research Council
Recognition
Representations
Member of Review Board for `Alzheimer"s Association Capacity Building Program Grant' (USA)
Member of Review Board for Alzheimer"s Society (UK) `Doctoral Training Centers" funding initiative
Member of the Board of Managers, of the Ranelagh Multi-denominational School, in Dublin, Ireland
Steering Committee Member of the PREVENT Dementia International Consortium
Consultant for Belgian Alzheimer Foundation
Member of the Council of 'Neuroscience Ireland,' Ireland's National Neuroscience Society
Management Committee Member for the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action: "The Neural Architecture of Consciousness."
PhD dissertation committee for George Blackburne, University College London
Lead Principal Investigator of the `International Consortium on Ethical Frameworks for Advances in Brain Health" (https://www.tcd.ie/Neuroscience/Ethics), with colleagues from Oxford University (UK), University of California San Francisco (UCSF, USA), UCL Queen Square of Neurology (UK), and Samvedna Care (India).
Co-Chair of the the `Featured Research Perspectives" session at the Alzheimer"s Association International Conference (Netherlands, 2023; 300 attendees).
Chair of the Conference Opening Welcome Session, at the Alzheimer"s Association International Conference (AAIC) Satellite Symposium, in Mexico City, Mexico.
Associate Editor for the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
External reviewer for MSc dissertation at McGill University, Canada
Reviewer for the Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme
Reviewer for the Alzheimer's Association "Pilot Awards for Global Brain Health Leaders program"
Member of the Neuroimaging Group of the Neonatal and Children's Hospital Brain Consortium Ireland
Representative of Ireland at the European Union COST Action Grant, titled "The neural architecture of consciousness"
Member of review panel for the "International Graduate Awards to Oxford and Cambridge Universities, UK", from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (USA)
Scientific Advisor for NeuroBlot Inc. , personalized app-based cognitive screening
Scientific Reviewer for Brain-Computer Interface 7th International Meeting, California, USA
External Reviewer for PhD thesis of Michael Craig, at the University of Cambridge
Scientific Reviewer for The Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting
Scientific Reporter for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
External Reviewer for the MSc Thesis for the BioSciences Master program at Ens de Lyon, France
Reporter for the EU Decoder Grant, University of Maastricht
Regular ad-hoc reviewer for over 50 international journals including: PNAS, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Intensive Care Medicine, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, New England Journal of Medicine, Brain, Annals of Neurology, BMC Neurology, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Experimental Psychology, NeuroImage, AJOB Empirical Bioethics, Scientific Reports.
Awards and Honours
Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
Nominated for the Trinity Research Excellence Award
Featured on Wikipedia by the Permanent Canadian Mission to UNESCO
Selected for the "Women in Science Leadership" meeting in Kigali Rwanda, by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
L'Oréal-Unesco for Women In Science International Rising Talents Award
Academic Achievement Award, Albanian Canadian Excellence Award, Canada
L'Oréal for Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowship, with the support of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO
Selected for the Women in Science Leadership workshop, in Banff Canada, by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Postdoctoral Scholar of the Year, Western University, Canada.
Distinguished Person of the Year, Albanian Diaspora of Canada, Canada.
One of Best 51 Discoveries Since 1878, Western University, Canada.
Graduate Fellowship ($300,000; 3% success rate), Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, USA
Travel Grant Award ($1500), Brain (the Journal), UK.
Marie Curie Trainee Award ($10,000), Marie Curie School for Neuroscience, Italy.
Clare College Graduate Student Grant (£1,000), Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK
Grindley Research Grant (£2,000), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK.
Cambridge Philosophical Society Travel Grant (£500), University of Cambridge, UK.
Graduate Presentation Award (2% success), Cognitive Neuroscience Society, USA.
Travel Fellowship Award ($750), Organization for Human Brain Mapping, USA
Grindley Travel Grant (£800), Experimental Psychology Society, UK.
Chibnall Travel Grant (£1,000), Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Richard B. Russell Leadership Fellow, University of Georgia (UGA), USA.
MSc Research Award ($50,000), GlaxoSmithKline Inc., UK
All-Americal Scholar Collegiate Award, University of Georgia, USA.
Presidential Scholar, University of Georgia, USA
Phi Beta Kappa Honour Society, University of Georgia, USA.
Foundation Fellowship Award ($100,000; 0.5% success rate), UGA, USA.
Memberships
Member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Member of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping
Member of the Society for Neuroscience
Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society