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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. For example, she has used neuroimaging to understand how consciousness emerges from the healthy brain and to detect conscious awareness in some severely brain-injured patients, who were clinically diagnosed to be in a vegetative state. Her recent work has enabled some of these individuals to communicate their thoughts to the outside world. Concurrently, she explores the medico-ethical and societal implications of these applications. Her research has been published in high-impact scientific journals and covered widely in the international media. She has held the L'Oréal for Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowship from Canada, and received the L'Oréal Foundation France and UNESCO International Rising Talent Award. 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 Wellcome Trust, the Irish Research Council, the Provost's Award, China-Trinity fund, and Enterprise Ireland.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Bayne T, Frohlich J, Cusack R, Moser J, Naci L, Infants and Markers: Reply to Taylor and Bremner., Trends in Cognitive Science, 2024 Journal Article, 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, 2023 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 2023 DOI

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, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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., Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 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., SCIENCE ADVANCES, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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., Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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, 2023 Journal Article, 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., Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 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, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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., Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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., Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

Graham M, Rossor M, Lawlor B, Naci L, Rethinking the Ethics of Informing Research Participants of Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors., PsyArXiv. Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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., Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

Bayne T, Frohlich J, Cusack R, Moser J, Naci L., Consciousness in the Cradle: On the Emergence of Infant Experience., Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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., 2023 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 2023

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, 2023 Journal Article, 2023

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. , Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 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, 2023 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 2023

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. , Under Peer Review, 2023 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 2022 DOI URL

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 Journal Article, 2022 URL DOI

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 Journal Article, 2022 DOI URL

Naci L., Owen AM. , Uncovering consciousness and revealing the preservation of mental life in unresponsive brain-injured patients, Seminars in Neurology, 2022 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 2022 URL DOI

Mackenzie G, Naci L., Well-Being After Severe Brain Injury: What Counts as Good Recovery?, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics., 31, (2), 2021 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 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- Journal Article, 2021

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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 2020 TARA - Full Text

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 Journal Article, 2020

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 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2019 Other

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 Journal Article, 2019

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 Journal Article, 2018 DOI

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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 2018 URL

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 Journal Article, 2018 URL DOI

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 Journal Article, 2017 Other DOI

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 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

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.] Book Chapter, 2016

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 Journal Article, 2016 DOI

Decoding thoughts in behaviourally non-responsive patients. in, editor(s)Walter Sinnott-Armstrong , Finding Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 2016, [Naci, L. ] Book Chapter, 2016 DOI

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.] Book Chapter, 2015

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 Journal Article, 2015 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2015 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2015 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2015 DOI

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] Book Chapter, 2014 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2014 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2014 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2014 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

Naci, Lorina and Owen, Adrian M, Making every word count for nonresponsive patients, JAMA neurology, 70, (10), 2013, p1235â€"1241 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2012 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2012 DOI

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 Journal Article, 2012 DOI

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 Journal Article, 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 Journal Article, 2005 DOI

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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Meeting Abstract, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Oral Presentation, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Invited Talk, 2023

Lorina Naci, Responsible Research: Bringing Global Voices to Sharing of Dementia Risk Evidence, 2023 Refereed Talk. Alzheimers Association International Conference, 2023 Invited Talk, 2023

Lorina Naci, Opening Welcome Talk, Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) Satellite Symposium, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 2023

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 Oral Presentation, 2022

Lorina Naci , Preservation of high-level cognition under deep anaesthesia., Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022 Invited Talk, 2022

Lorina Naci , The Prevent Dementia Study, St James's Hospital Dementia Research Showcase, St James's Hospital, March, 2022 Invited Talk, 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 Invited Talk, 2022

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 Oral Presentation, 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 Invited Talk, 2022

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 Invited Talk, 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., Neuroscience Ireland's Young Investigator Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, 27/10/2022, 2022 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Oral Presentation, 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 Oral Presentation, 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 Oral Presentation, 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 Invited Talk, 2022

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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Invited Talk, 2022

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 Poster, 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 Invited Talk, 2022

Lorina Naci , The emergence of brain mechanisms of consciousness in newborn infants. , Monash University, Australlia, April, 2022 Invited Talk, 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 Invited Talk, 2022

Lorina Naci, Closing address to the annual conference, Global Brain health Institute Annual Conference, Virtual, 17 June , 2022, Global Brain Health Institute Invited Talk, 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 Invited Talk, 2022

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 Poster, 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 Poster, 2021

Deng, F., Stewart, E., Naci, L., Brain Network Integrity Across the Lifespan and Its Relationship to Cognition., Neuroscience Ireland Meeting 2021,, Virtual, 2021 Poster, 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 Poster, 2021

Lorina Naci , The brain bases of responsiveness variability under moderate anaesthesia. , Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness., June, 2021 Invited Talk, 2021

Deng F, Naci L. , Cognition alterations of subjects at increased risk of dementia., Organization for Human Brain Mapping., 2021 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 2021

Lorina Naci , To share or not share individual research results. , PREVENT General Assembly, Edinburgh, November , 2021 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 2021

Hu H., Cusack R, Naci L., The ontogeny of the brain circuitry for conscious awareness , Organization for the Human Brain Mapping., 2021 Poster, 2021

Athena Demertzi, Lucina Uddin, Lorina Naci, The real stance towards the academic profession., Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness., June, 2021 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 2021

Lorina Naci , The preservation of rich mental life and memory formation in a vegetative state patient., International Brain Injury Association, July , 2021 Invited Talk, 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 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 2020

Hu H, Cusack R, Naci L., The development of brain circuitry supporting conscious awareness in infancy., Neuromatch Conference., Virtual., October 2020, 2020 Poster, 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 Invited Talk, 2020

Lorina Naci, Preservation of cognition and awareness after severe brain injury: Implications for prognosis., Virtual., November, 2020, Cambridge Neurological Society Invited Talk, 2020

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 Poster, 2020

Lorina Naci, Multimodal Investigation of Biomarkers of early Alzheimer's Disease in Mid-life., Dublin, Ireland., November, 2019, Global Brain Health Institute. Invited Talk, 2019

Lorina Naci, Real-world cognition in disorders of consciousness., Chaucer Club, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge., Cambridge UK, May, 2019 Invited Talk, 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 Proceedings of a Conference, 2019

Lorina Naci, Exploring Consciousness in Severely Brain Injured Non-responsive Patients., What is Life, Consciousness Symposium., Trinity College Dublin., September, 2018 Invited Talk, 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. Invited Talk, 2018

Lorina Naci, Functional diversity of brain networks supports consciousness and intelligence., Oliver Zangwill Lecture., Cambridge UK, February, 2018, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Invited Talk, 2018

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 Invited Talk, 2018

Lorina Naci, Narratives Facilitate Shared Conscious Experience., Long Room Hub, Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Humanities., Trinity College Dublin., May, 2018 Invited Talk, 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 Invited Talk, 2018

Lorina Naci, Gender equity in Leadership., Point Reyes, California, USA., October, 2017 Invited Talk, 2017

Lorina Naci, Using Naturalistic Stimulation fMRI for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Clinical Populations., Northern Ireland, UK., 13th December, 2017, Queens University Belfast. Invited Talk, 2017

Lorina Naci, Advanced neuroimaging in the treatment and rehabilitation of concussion., St James' Hospital, Dublin, May, 2017 Invited Talk, 2017

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 Invited Talk, 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. Invited Talk, 2017

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 Invited Talk, 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 Invited Talk, 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. Invited Talk, 2016

Lorina Naci, Real-world cognition in the healthy and disordered brain., Cambridge UK, May, 2016, Cambridge Centre of Aging and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge. Invited Talk, 2016

Lorina Naci, The functional neuroimaging of conscious information processing., Geneva, Switzerland, 1st July, 2016, University of Geneva. Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 2016

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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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. Invited Talk, 2015

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 Poster, 2015

Lorina Naci, Towards naturalistic approaches for detecting consciousness with neuroimaging., Paris, France., June, 2015, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Invited Talk, 2015

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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 2015

Lorina Naci, Detecting conscious experiences in patients with disordered consciousness., London, Canada, January, 2015, The Brain and Mind Institute. Invited Talk, 2015

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 Poster, 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 Poster, 2015

Lorina Naci, Detecting and interpreting conscious experiences in behaviorally non-responsive populations., Towards a Science of Consciousness., Helsinki, Finland., June, 2015 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 2014

Lorina Naci, Using naturalistic paradigms to probe conscious experience., Medical Research Council - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. , Cambridge UK, December, 2014 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 2014

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 Poster, 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 Poster, 2014

Lorina Naci, Anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness., Skience, Collingwood, Canada, March 2014, 2014 Invited Talk, 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. Invited Talk, 2014

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 Poster, 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 Invited Talk, 2014

Lorina Naci, Combining fMRI and psychophysiological measures to study conscious awareness in non-responsive patients., Skience, Collingwood, Canada, March 2013, 2013 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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. Invited Talk, 2013

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 Poster, 2012

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 Poster, 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 Poster, 2012

Lorina Naci, Using language for the detection of consciousness in non-responsive patients., DECODER Consortium Meeting. , Rome, Italy, March 2012, 2012 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 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 Invited Talk, 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 Poster, 2010

Lorina Naci, Neural gestures to communicate with vegetative state patients., South Carolina, USA, 2010, University of South Carolina. Invited Talk, 2010

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 Poster, 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 Poster, 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 Poster, 2008

Lorina Naci, Are senses enough for sense?, The Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2008, 2008 Invited Talk, 2008

Lorina Naci, Recurrent bottom-up and top-down interactions during multi-sensory object processing., New York City, USA, 2007, The Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Invited Talk, 2007

Lorina Naci, Multi-sensory integration., Experimental Psychology Society Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, UK , June 2007, 2007 Invited Talk, 2007

Lorina Naci, Understanding objects: are the senses enough for sense?, Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars, Cambridge UK, 2007, University of Cambridge Invited Talk, 2007

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 Poster, 2006

Naci, L., Propositional Attitude Reports and Mental Representations., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research Proceedings, 2003 Poster, 2003

Research Expertise

Description

In the last five years, I have been awarded €1.5 million in competitive funding and published 27 peer-reviewed papers, with a further 6 manuscripts under review. My research has been covered in scientific editorials (e.g., Science, Nature, Journal of the American Medical Association) and the international media (Irish Times, Irish Independent, The BBC, Scientific American, The Times). My work has made ground-breaking contributions to the understanding of cognition and consciousness for vulnerable individuals with severely limited or unreliable motoric output. I was the first to develop a neuroimaging brain-computer interface using auditory attention (Naci et al. Annals of Neurology 2012) and found that a patient, who was clinically diagnosed as 'vegetative state' for 12 years, could correctly answer multiple questions by simply by attending to the word 'yes' or 'no' (Naci et al. Jama Neurology 2013). Subsequently, I showed that complex cognition in response to everyday events, could be decoded in single healthy individuals from brain activity (Naci et al. PNAS 2014; NeuroImage 2017), and demonstrated that a patient, clinically diagnosed as 'vegetative state' for 16 years, followed real-world events and felt emotion from moment to moment, similarly to healthy individuals. My work is being used to improve on the alarmingly high rates of misdiagnosis (~43%) and inform medical decision-making (Peterson et al. Neuroimage 2015). My translational work builds on my basic neuroscience studies on the brain mechanisms of conscious cognition (Naci et al. Scientific Reports 2018; MacDonald et al. Trends in Cognitive Science 2015; Naci et al., Journal of Neuroscience 2013). For this work, I have received the 'L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Rising Talent' award and my work was featured in the textbook 'Cognitive Psychology: connecting mind, research, and everyday experience' (5th edition E. Bruce Goldstein 2018). My current research programme investigates cognition and consciousness in diverse populations that cannot use their behaviour to communicate, such as anaesthetized individuals (Luppi et al. Communications Biology 2022; Nature Communications 2019), advanced AD patients (Huntley et al. 2021, Alzheimer's and Dementia), sleep (Fogel et al. 2022), and newborn infants (Hu et al. 2022, Brain Communications).

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

Keywords

AGEING; Biomedical Ethics; BRAIN AGEING; CLINICAL ANAESTHESIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; Dementia/ Alzheimer's Disease; disorders of consciousness; Functional neuroimaging; healthcare ethics and law ; Minimally Conscious State; Neuroimaging; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; Vegetative state

Recognition

Representations

Member of the Council of 'Neuroscience Ireland,' Ireland's National Neuroscience Society 15/08/2023

Co-Chair of the the `Featured Research Perspectives" session at the Alzheimer"s Association International Conference (Netherlands, 2023; 300 attendees). 18/07/2023

Chair of the Conference Opening Welcome Session, at the Alzheimer"s Association International Conference (AAIC) Satellite Symposium, in Mexico City, Mexico. 15/05/2023

Session chair for "Knowledge Making Is Imaginative Practice," Creative Brain Week, March 6-11, 2023 08/03/2022

Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Defense [Trinity College Dublin, Candidate: Mr. Mikey Connaughton) 22/11/2023

Associate Editor for the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 01/01/2023

External reviewer for MSc dissertation at McGill University, Canada 2021

Reviewer for the Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme 2021

Reviewer for the Alzheimer's Association "Pilot Awards for Global Brain Health Leaders program" 2019, 2020

Member of the Neuroimaging Group of the Neonatal and Children's Hospital Brain Consortium Ireland 2020

Representative of Ireland at the European Union COST Action Grant, titled "The neural architecture of consciousness" 2019

Member of review panel for the "International Graduate Awards to Oxford and Cambridge Universities, UK", from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (USA) 2018

Scientific Advisor for NeuroBlot Inc. , personalized app-based cognitive screening 2017

Scientific Reviewer for Brain-Computer Interface 7th International Meeting, California, USA 2019

External Reviewer for PhD thesis of Michael Craig, at the University of Cambridge 27/02/2019

Scientific Reviewer for The Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting 2017

Scientific Reporter for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research 2014, 2016

External Reviewer for the MSc Thesis for the BioSciences Master program at Ens de Lyon, France 2016

Reporter for the EU Decoder Grant, University of Maastricht 08/3/2011

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. 2017-2021

Awards and Honours

Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 24/04/2023

Nominated for the Trinity Research Excellence Award 31/04/2023

Featured on Wikipedia by the Permanent Canadian Mission to UNESCO 2019

Selected for the "Women in Science Leadership" meeting in Kigali Rwanda, by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research 2018

L'Oréal-Unesco for Women In Science International Rising Talents Award 2017

Academic Achievement Award, Albanian Canadian Excellence Award, Canada 2017

L'Oréal for Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowship, with the support of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO 2016

Selected for the Women in Science Leadership workshop, in Banff Canada, by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. 2016

Postdoctoral Scholar of the Year, Western University, Canada. 2016

Distinguished Person of the Year, Albanian Diaspora of Canada, Canada. 2015

One of Best 51 Discoveries Since 1878, Western University, Canada. 2014

Graduate Fellowship ($300,000; 3% success rate), Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, USA 2004-2010

Travel Grant Award ($1500), Brain (the Journal), UK. 2009; 2010

Marie Curie Trainee Award ($10,000), Marie Curie School for Neuroscience, Italy. 2008

Clare College Graduate Student Grant (£1,000), Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK 2008

Grindley Research Grant (£2,000), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK. 2008

Cambridge Philosophical Society Travel Grant (£500), University of Cambridge, UK. 2007-2008

Graduate Presentation Award (2% success), Cognitive Neuroscience Society, USA. 2007

Travel Fellowship Award ($750), Organization for Human Brain Mapping, USA 2006

Grindley Travel Grant (£800), Experimental Psychology Society, UK. 2006

Chibnall Travel Grant (£1,000), Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK. 2006

Richard B. Russell Leadership Fellow, University of Georgia (UGA), USA. 2003

MSc Research Award ($50,000), GlaxoSmithKline Inc., UK 2002

All-Americal Scholar Collegiate Award, University of Georgia, USA. 2002

Presidential Scholar, University of Georgia, USA 2001-2002

Phi Beta Kappa Honour Society, University of Georgia, USA. 2001

Foundation Fellowship Award ($100,000; 0.5% success rate), UGA, USA. 2000

Memberships

Member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 2015 – 2022

Member of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping 2007 – 2022

Member of the Society for Neuroscience 2014 – 2022

Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2007 – 2015