Publications

Below is a list of our lab’s research output.

2025

  1. 1.Song Y, Prisciandaro JJ, Apšvalka D, Bernard M, Berrington A, Castelo-Branco M, et al. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the menstrual cycle: a multi-centre assessment of menstrual cycle effects on GABA & GSH. Journal of Neuroscience Methods [Internet]. March 2025 [cited March 25, 2025];:110430. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027025000718
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  2. 2.Kuang C, Duncan NW. Adopting whole-brain computational modelling to investigate neurophysiological features associated with cognition. In: Psychology of Learning and Motivation [Internet]. Academic Press; 2025 [cited April 3, 2025]. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079742125000052
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  3. 3.Souter NE, Racey C, Bhagwat N, Wilkinson R, Duncan NW, Samuel G, et al. Comparing the carbon footprint of fMRI data processing and analysis approaches. Imaging Neuroscience [Internet]. May 2025 [cited May 31, 2025]; Available at: https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.36
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  4. 4.Mavar S, Lee Y-S, Baranova E, Duncan NW, Magioncalda P, Martino M. A working model linking the psychopathology and pathophysiology of major depressive disorder - an umbrella review of neuroimaging studies and a conceptual framework. Molecular Psychiatry [Internet]. August 2025 [cited August 29, 2025];:1–13. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03194-8
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  5. 5.Lugtmeijer S, Yu J-C, Kong X, Bellec PL, Bijsterbosch JD, DuPre E, et al. Proceedings of the OHBM Open Science Room 2024. Aperture Neuro [Internet]. August 2025 [cited September 4, 2025];5. Available at: https://apertureneuro.org/article/142427-proceedings-of-the-ohbm-open-science-room-2024
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  6. 6.Baranova E, Duncan NW. Effectiveness of direct alignment between 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose images and a standard-space template [Internet]. bioRxiv; 2025 [cited September 18, 2025]. Available at: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675968v1
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2024

  1. 1.McManus E, Muhlert N, Duncan NW. InSpectro-Gadget: A Tool for Estimating Neurotransmitter and Neuromodulator Receptor Distributions for MRS Voxels. Neuroinformatics [Internet]. February 2024 [cited February 23, 2024]; Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-024-09654-w
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  2. 2.Rawal A, Truong V, Lo Y-H, Tseng L-Y, Duncan NW. A survey of experimental stimulus presentation code sharing in major areas of psychology. Behavior Research Methods [Internet]. April 2024 [cited April 16, 2024]; Available at: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02390-8
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  3. 3.Duncan NW, Rae CL. Geographical and economic influences on neuroimaging modality choice. Royal Society Open Science [Internet]. May 2024 [cited May 2, 2024];11(5):231496. Available at: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231496
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  4. 4.Sheppard M, Rasgado-Toledo J, Duncan NW, Elliott R, Garza-Villarreal EA, Muhlert N. Noradrenergic Alterations Associated with Early Life Stress. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews [Internet]. July 2024 [cited July 31, 2024];:105832. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763424003014
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  5. 5.Souter NE, Bhagwat N, Racey C, Wilkinson R, Duncan NW, Samuel G, et al. Measuring and reducing the carbon footprint of fMRI preprocessing in fMRIPrep. Human Brain Mapping [Internet]. 2024 [cited August 27, 2024];45(12):e70003. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hbm.70003
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  6. 6.McManus E, Haroon H, Duncan NW, Elliott R, Muhlert N. Hippocampal and limbic microstructure changes associated with stress across the lifespan: a UK biobank study. Scientific Reports [Internet]. September 2024 [cited September 23, 2024];14(1):21735. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-71965-4
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  7. 7.Cheng PZ, Lee H-C, Lane TJ, Hsu T-Y, Duncan NW. Structural alterations in a rumination-related network in patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging [Internet]. October 2024 [cited October 21, 2024];:111911. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925492724001343
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  8. 8.Lo CM, Duncan NW. Self-associated stimuli do not show a metacognitive advantage [Internet]. PsyArXiv; 2024 [cited January 8, 2024]. Available at: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d267r/
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  9. 9.Lo C-M, Duncan NW. Identifying a ubiquitous gene expression variation pattern in the human brain [Internet]. bioRxiv; 2024 [cited July 22, 2024]. Available at: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.21.604497v1
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  10. 10.Han J, Duncan NW, Huang L, Lee C, Yang C-M, Wu Y-C, et al. Arterial spin labeling as a promising alternative to FDG-PET for clinical diagnosis of patients with disorders of consciousness [Internet]. medRxiv; 2024 [cited September 23, 2024]. Available at: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.07.24311648v1
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  11. 11.Golowin S, Duncan NW, Shaikh F, Korn CW. Policies in sequential decision-making [Internet]. OSF; 2024 [cited October 9, 2024]. Available at: https://osf.io/76qdy
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2023

  1. 1.Epp S, Jung H, Borghesani V, Klöwer M, Hoeppli M-E, Misiura M, et al. How can we reduce the climate costs of OHBM? A vision for a more sustainable meeting. Aperture Neuro [Internet]. August 2023 [cited September 13, 2023];3:1–16. Available at: https://apertureneuro.org/article/87678-how-can-we-reduce-the-climate-costs-of-ohbm-a-vision-for-a-more-sustainable-meeting
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  2. 2.Parfenov EA, Duncan NW. Increasing Familiarity With the Heartbeat Counting Task Does Not Affect Performance. Biological Psychology [Internet]. August 2023 [cited August 30, 2023];:108662. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301051123001801
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  3. 3.Duncan NW, Shean R. Analysing the effectiveness of Twitter as an equitable community communication tool for international conferences. PeerJ [Internet]. May 2023 [cited May 8, 2023];11:e15270. Available at: https://peerj.com/articles/15270
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  4. 4.Jaakson M, Tseng P, Duncan NW. Initial meta-analytic evidence for an odour-evoked context-dependent episodic memory effect [Internet]. PsyArXiv; 2023 [cited November 3, 2023]. Available at: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/54qkg/
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2022

  1. 1.McManus E, Haroon H, Duncan NW, Elliott R, Muhlert N. The effects of stress across the lifespan on the brain, cognition and mental health: A UK Biobank study. Neurobiology of Stress [Internet]. April 2022 [cited April 21, 2022];:100447. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352289522000224
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  2. 2.Park H-D, Piton T, Kannape OA, Duncan NW, Lee K-Y, Lane TJ, et al. Breathing is coupled with voluntary initiation of mental imagery. NeuroImage [Internet]. December 2022 [cited October 21, 2022];264:119685. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811922008060
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2021

  1. 1.Hsu T-Y, Liu T-L, Cheng PZ, Lee H-C, Lane TJ, Duncan NW. Depressive rumination is correlated with brain responses during self-related processing. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience [Internet]. September 2021 [cited September 22, 2021];46(5):E518–E527. Available at: https://www.jpn.ca/content/46/5/E518
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  2. 2.Truong V, Cheng PZ, Lee H-C, Lane TJ, Hsu T-Y, Duncan NW. Occipital gamma-aminobutyric acid and glutamate-glutamine alterations in major depressive disorder: An MRS study and meta-analysis. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging [Internet]. February 2021 [cited December 29, 2020];308:111238. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925492720302109
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  3. 3.Hui SCN, Mikkelsen M, Zöllner HJ, Ahluwalia V, Alcauter S, Baltusis L, et al. Frequency drift in MR spectroscopy at 3T. NeuroImage [Internet]. November 2021 [cited July 29, 2021];241:118430. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811921007059
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2020

  1. 1.Truong V, Duncan NW. Suggestions for improving the visualization of magnetic resonance spectroscopy voxels and spectra. Royal Society Open Science [Internet]. 2020 [cited August 5, 2020];7(8):200600. Available at: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.200600
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  2. 2.Považan M, Mikkelsen M, Berrington A, Bhattacharyya PK, Brix MK, Buur PF, et al. Comparison of Multivendor Single-Voxel MR Spectroscopy Data Acquired in Healthy Brain at 26 Sites. Radiology [Internet]. February 2020 [cited February 12, 2020];:191037. Available at: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020191037
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  3. 3.Duncan NW, Hsu T-Y, Cheng PZ, Wang H-Y, Lee H-C, Lane TJ. Intrinsic activity temporal structure reactivity to behavioural state change is correlated with depressive symptoms. The European Journal of Neuroscience. June 2020;00:1–11.
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  4. 4.Botvinik-Nezer R, Holzmeister F, Camerer CF, Dreber A, Huber J, Johannesson M, et al. Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature [Internet]. May 2020 [cited June 1, 2020];:1–7. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2314-9
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2019

  1. 1.Mikkelsen M, Rimbault DL, Barker PB, Bhattacharyya PK, Brix MK, Buur PF, et al. Big GABA II: Water-referenced edited MR spectroscopy at 25 research sites. NeuroImage [Internet]. March 2019 [cited March 5, 2019]; Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811919301557
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  2. 2.Duncan NW, Zhang J, Northoff G, Weng X. Investigating GABA concentrations measured with macromolecule suppressed and unsuppressed MEGA-PRESS MR spectroscopy and their relationship with BOLD responses in the occipital cortex. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging [Internet]. March 2019 [cited March 19, 2019];50(4):1285–94. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmri.26706
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2018

  1. 1.Zhang J, Huang Z, Chen Y, Zhang J, Ghinda D, Nikolova Y, et al. Breakdown in the temporal and spatial organization of spontaneous brain activity during general anesthesia. Human Brain Mapping. May 2018;39(5):2035–46.
    <a href="Which temporal features that can characterize different brain states (i.e., consciousness or unconsciousness) is a fundamental question in the neuroscience of consciousness. Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), we investigated the spatial patterns of two temporal features: the long-range temporal correlations (LRTCs), measured by power-law exponent (PLE), and temporal variability, measured by standard deviation (SD) during wakefulness and anesthetic-induced unconsciousness. We found that both PLE and SD showed global reductions across the whole brain during anesthetic state comparing to wakefulness. Importantly, the relationship between PLE and SD was altered in anesthetic state, in terms of a spatial "decoupling." This decoupling was mainly driven by a spatial pattern alteration of the PLE, rather than the SD, in the anesthetic state. Our results suggest differential physiological grounds of PLE and SD and highlight the functional importance of the topographical organization of LRTCs in maintaining an optimal spatiotemporal configuration of the neural dynamics during normal level of consciousness. The central role of the spatial distribution of LRTCs, reflecting temporo-spatial nestedness, may support the recently introduced temporo-spatial theory of consciousness (TTC)." class="btn btn-sm">Abstract</a> DOI
  2. 2.Ghinda DC, Wu J-S, Duncan NW, Northoff G. How much is enough-Can resting state fMRI provide a demarcation for neurosurgical resection in glioma? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. January 2018;84:245–61.
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  3. 3.Qin P, Duncan NW, Chen DY-T, Chen C-J, Huang L-K, Huang Z, et al. Vascular-metabolic and GABAergic Inhibitory Correlates of Neural Variability Modulation. A Combined fMRI and PET Study. Neuroscience. March 2018;379:142–51.
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2017

  1. 1.Mikkelsen M, Barker PB, Bhattacharyya PK, Brix MK, Buur PF, Cecil KM, et al. Big GABA: Edited MR spectroscopy at 24 research sites. NeuroImage [Internet]. October 2017 [cited December 4, 2020];159:32–45. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381191730589X
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  2. 2.Martino M, Magioncalda P, Yu H, Li X, Wang Q, Meng Y, et al. Abnormal Resting-State Connectivity in a Substantia Nigra-Related Striato-Thalamo-Cortical Network in a Large Sample of First-Episode Drug-Naïve Patients With Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia bulletin [Internet]. June 2017; Available at: https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/schbul/sbx067 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28605528
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2016

  1. 1.Martino M, Magioncalda P, Huang Z, Conio B, Piaggio N, Duncan NW, et al. Contrasting variability patterns in the default mode and sensorimotor networks balance in bipolar depression and mania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2016;113(17):4824–9. Available at: http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517558113
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  2. 2.Qin P, Grimm S, Duncan NW, Fan Y, Huang Z, Lane T, et al. Spontaneous activity in default-mode network predicts ascription of self-relatedness to stimuli. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience [Internet]. January 2016;11(4):693–702. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26796968
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  3. 3.Lane T, Duncan NW, Cheng T, Northoff G. The Trajectory of the Self. Trends in Cognitive Sciences [Internet]. 2016;20(7):481–2. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.03.004
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  4. 4.Northoff G, Duncan NW. How do abnormalities in the brain’s spontaneous activity translate into symptoms in schizophrenia? From an overview of resting state activity findings to a proposed spatiotemporal psychopathology. Progress in Neurobiology [Internet]. 2016;145:26–45. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2016.08.003
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2015

  1. 1.Qin P, Wu X, Huang Z, Duncan NW, Tang W, Wolff A, et al. How are different neural networks related to consciousness? Annals of Neurology [Internet]. 2015; Available at: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/ana.24479
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  2. 2.Huang Z, Davis Iv HH, Yue Q, Wiebking C, Duncan NW, Zhang J, et al. Increase in glutamate/glutamine concentration in the medial prefrontal cortex during mental imagery: A combined functional mrs and fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping [Internet]. 2015;36(8):3204–12. Available at: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/hbm.22841
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  3. 3.Duncan NW, Hayes DJ, Wiebking C, Tiret B, Pietruska K, Chen DQ, et al. Negative childhood experiences alter a prefrontal-insular-motor cortical network in healthy adults: A preliminary multimodal rsfMRI-fMRI-MRS-dMRI study. Human Brain Mapping [Internet]. 2015;36(11):4622–37. Available at: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/hbm.22941
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  4. 4.Huang Z, Zhang J, Longtin A, Dumont G, Duncan NW, Pokorny J, et al. Is There a Nonadditive Interaction Between Spontaneous and Evoked Activity? Phase-Dependence and Its Relation to the Temporal Structure of Scale-Free Brain Activity. Cerebral Cortex [Internet]. 2015;:1–23. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26643354
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  5. 5.Bai Y, Nakao T, Xu J, Qin P, Chaves P, Heinzel A, et al. Resting state glutamate predicts elevated pre-stimulus alpha during self-relatedness – A combined EEG-MRS study on ‘rest-self overlap.’ Social Neuroscience [Internet]. 2015; Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17470919.2015.1072582
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  6. 6.Qin P, Wu X, Duncan NW, Bao W, Tang W, Zhang Z, et al. GABA A receptor deficits predict recovery in patients with disorders of consciousness: A preliminary multimodal [ 11 C]Flumazenil PET and fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping [Internet]. 2015; Available at: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/hbm.22883
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