List of Publications

Computational Psychiatry

Karvelis, P., & Diaconescu, A. O. (2022). A Computational Model of Hopelessness and Active-Escape Bias in Suicidality. Computational Psychiatry, 6(1), 34–59. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/cpsy.80

Karvelis, P. *, Charlton, C. E. *, Allohverdi, S. G., Bedford, P., Hauke, D. J., Diaconescu, A. O. Computational Approaches to Treatment Response Prediction in Major Depression Using Brain Activity and Behavioral Data: A Systematic Review. Network Neuroscience 2022; doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00233

Diaconescu, A. O. *, Wellstein, K. V. *, Kasper, L., Mathys, C. D., & Stephan, K. E. (2020). Hierarchical Bayesian models of social inference for probing persecutory delusional ideation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology Special Issue “Predictive Coding and Psychopathology”, 129(6): 556-569.

Cole, D. M. *, Diaconescu, A. O. *, Pfeiffer, U. J., Brodersen, K. A., Mathys, C. D., Julkowski, D., Ruhrmann, S., Schilbach, L., Tittgemeyer, M., Vogeley, K., & Stephan, K. E. (2020). Atypical processing of uncertainty in individuals at risk for psychosis. Neuroimage Clinical, 26:102239.

Wellstein, K. V.*, Diaconescu, A. O. *, Bischof, M., Rüesch Ranganadan, A., Paolini, G., Aponte, E., Ullrich, J., & Stephan, K. E. (2019). Inflexible social inference in individuals with subclinical persecutory delusional tendencies. Schizophrenia Research, 251, 344-351.

Sevgi, M. *, Diaconescu, A. O. *, Henco, L., Tittgemeyer, M., & Schilbach, L. (2020). Social Bayes: Using Bayesian modeling to study autistic trait-related differences in social cognition. Biological Psychiatry, 87:185–193.

[*: joint first authors]

Diaconescu, A. O., Hauke, D. J., & Borgwardt, S. (2019). Models of persecutory delusions: a mechanistic insight into the early stages of psychosis. Molecular Psychiatry: 1.

Stephan, K.E., Iglesias, S., Heinzle, J., & Diaconescu, A.O. (2015). Translational Perspectives for Computational Neuroimaging. Neuron, 87(4): 716-32.

Diaconescu, A. O., Jensen, J., Wang, H., Willeit, M., Menon, M., Kapur, S., & McIntosh, A. R. (2011). Aberrant Effective Connectivity in Schizophrenia Patients during Appetitive Conditioning. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4(239): 1-14.

Neuropharmacology

Weber, L. A. E.*, Diaconescu, A. O. *, Mathys, C. D., Schmidt, A., Kometer, M., Vollenweider, F., & Stephan, K. S. (2020). Ketamine impacts on hierarchical prediction errors: A computational single-trial analysis of the auditory mismatch. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(29): 5658-5668.

Schmidt, A.*, Diaconescu, A. O. *, Kometer, M., Friston, K. J., Stephan, K. E., & Vollenweider, F. X. (2013). Modeling Ketamine Effects on Synaptic Plasticity During the Mismatch Negativity. Cerebral Cortex. 23(10): 2394-2406.

[*: joint first authors]

Diaconescu, A. O., Menon, M., Jensen, J., Kapur, S., & McIntosh, A. R. (2010). Dopamine-induced changes in neural network patterns supporting aversive conditioning. Brain Research, 1313: 143–161.

Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling

Diaconescu, A. O. *, Stecy, M. *, Kasper, L., Burke, C. J., Nagy, Z., Mathys, C. D., & Tobler, P. N. (2020). Neural arbitration between social and reward learning systems. eLife.

Diaconescu, A.O., Mathys, C.D., Weber, L.A.E., Kasper, L., Mauer, J., Stephan, K.E. (2017). Hierarchical prediction errors in midbrain and septum during social learning. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 12 (4): 618-634.

Diaconescu, A.O., Mathys, C., Weber, L.A.E., Daunizeau, J., Kasper, L., Lomakina, E.I., Fehr, E., & Stephan, K.E. (2014). Inferring on the Intentions of Others by Hierarchical Bayesian Learning. PLoS Comput Biol 10(9): e1003810.

Lomakina E.l., Paliwal S., Diaconescu A.O., Brodersen K.A., Aponte E.A., Buhmann J.M., & Stephan K.E. (2015). Inversion of Hierarchical Bayesian models using Gaussian processes. Neuroimage, 118: 133-145.

Neuromodelling: Electrophysiology

Diaconescu, A. O., Alain, C., & McIntosh, A. R. (2011). The co-occurrence of multisensory facilitation and cross-modal conflict in the human brain. Journal of Neurophysiology, 106(6): 2896–2909.

Diaconescu, A. O., Hasher, L., & McIntosh, A. R. (2012). Visual dominance and multisensory integration changes with age. NeuroImage, 65:152-166.

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