Research

NeuroMark

A major theme of my research has been centered around the NeuroMark initiative, aimed towards establishing a common reference space across neuroimaging analyses. I've contributed to the development of several NeuroMark templates, but my most notable contribution has been towards the development of the NeuroMark Multi-Scale Functional Brain Atlas. This work builds upon the brilliant work of Dr. Iraji and colleagues, expanding their valuable neuroimaging resource by manually and meticulously organizing and describing data-derived brain networks from more than 100,000 resting-state fMRI scans in a way that is hopefully more familiar and accessible to a broader neuroimaging community. To date, this resource has been used in at least 40 studies and I hope that it will continue to be useful for helping to standardize results and expand our understanding of the functional brain (read more about it here).

Graphic abstract from: Addressing Inconsistency in Functional Neuroimaging: A Replicable Data-Driven Multi-Scale Functional Atlas for Canonical Brain Networks https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.09.612129

Schizophrenia and Psychosis

Another common theme of my research are efforts towards better identifying and understanding psychiatric and neurological disorders. Many of my publications have focused specifically on schizophrenia and psychosis, employing the data-driven NeuroMark approach to identify consistent patterns of disrupted network activity in resting-state fMRI.

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Figures from: NeuroMark-SZ: A Holistic Resting-State-fMRI-Based Model for Divergent Functional Circuitry in Schizophrenia https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.12.710902