Computational Psychiatry
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.
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.
Wellstein, K. V.*, Diaconescu, A. O. *, Bischof, M., Rüesch Ranganadan, A., Paolini, G., Aponte, E., Ullrich, J., & Stephan, K. E. (2019). Social inference and beliefs differ in individuals with subclinical persecutory delusional tendencies. Schizophrenia Research.
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.
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., 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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