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Preprint

H. He, B. Yazdi, A. Sedaghat, S. Hojjati, S. Ozoria, P. Chernek, J. Calimag, F. Feiz, Q. R. Razlighi. Characterization of the hemodynamic response function in default mode network subregions for task-evoked negative BOLD responses. BioRxiv (link).

H. He, C. Habeck, Y. Stern. Amyloid-beta relates to default and attention network connectivity during working memory retrieval. BioRxiv (link).

L. Hong, H. He, and P. Sajda. Pupil-linked phasic arousal relates to the reduction of response inhibition: inferences from a simultaneous pupillometry and EEG-fMRI study. BioRxiv (link).

Journal and Conference Papers

H. He, X. Sun, J. Doose, J. Faller, J.R. McIntosh, G.T. Saber, S. Huffman, L. Hong, S.P. Pantazatos, H. Yuan, L.M. McTeague, R.I. Goldman, T.R. Brown, M.S. George, P. Sajda. TMS-induced modulation of brain networks and its associations to rTMS treatment for depression: a concurrent fMRI-EEG-TMS study. Brain Stimulation, 2025 (link).

H. He, Q. Razlighi, Y. Gazes, C. Habeck, Y. Stern. Integrating individualized connectome with amyloid pathology improves predictive modeling of future cognitive decline. Communications Medicine, 2025 (link).

M. Tahmi, B. Rippon, P. Palta, G. Sherwood, G. Hernandez, L. Soto, F. Ceballos, K. Laing, K. Igwe, H. He, J. Teresi, H. Moreno, W. Kreisl, Q. Razlighi, A.M. Brickman, J.A. Luchsinger. Relationship between Alzheimer disease imaging biomarkers and performance on the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery in late-middle age Hispanics. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 2024.

H. He, L. Hong, and P. Sajda. Pupillary response is associated with the reset and switching of functional brain networks during salience processing. PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011081). Equal contributions

L. Hong, H. He, and P. Sajda. Capturing interactions between arousal and cortical dynamics with simultaneous pupillometry and EEG-fMRI. International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2023. Equal contributions

H. He, N. Ettehadi, A. Shmuel and Q. R. Razlighi. Evidence suggesting common mechanisms underlie contralateral and ipsilateral negative BOLD responses in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 2022 (link).

H. He, Q. R. Razlighi. Landmark-guided region-based spatial normalization for functional magnetic resonance imaging. Human Brain Mapping, 2022 (link).

B. Rippon, P. Palta, M. Tahmi, G. Sherwood, L. Soto, S. Cespedes, Y. Mesen, H. He, K. Laing, H. Moreno, J. Teresi, Q. Razlighi, A. M Brickman, H. Zetterberg, J. A. Luchsinger. Plasma Amyloid and in vivo Brain Amyloid in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2022.

M. Tahmi, B. Rippon, P. Palta, G. Sherwood, G. Hernandez, L. Soto, F. Ceballos, M. Pardo, K. Laing, K. Igwe, H. He, J. Teresi, H. Moreno, Q. Razlighi, A. M Brickman, J. A. Luchsinger. In Vivo Amyloid, Neurodegeneration, and Verbal Learning in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2021.

P. Palta, B. Rippon, M. Tahmi, M. Pardo, A. Johnson, Z. Tomljanovic, H. He, K. Laing, Q. Razlighi, J. Teresi, H. Moreno, A. Brickman, W. Kreisl and J. A. Luchsinger. Sex differences in in-vivo tau neuropathology in a multi-ethnic sample of late middle-aged adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 2021.

P. Palta, B. Rippon, M. Tahmi, G. Sherwood, L. Soto, F. Ceballos, K. Laing, H. He, C. Reitz, Q. Razlighi, J. Teresi, H. Moreno, A. Brickman, and J. A. Luchsinger. Metabolic syndrome and its components in relation to in-vivo brain amyloid and neurodegeneration in late middle-age. Neurobiology of Aging, 2021.

M. Tahmi; B. Rippon; P. Palta; L. Soto; F. Ceballos; M. Pardo; G. Sherwood; G. Hernandez; R. Arevalo; H. He; A. Sedaghat; S. Arabshahi; J. Teresi; H. Moreno; A. M. Brickman; Q. Razlighi; J. A. Luchsinger. Brain Amyloid burden and resting-state functional connectivity in late middle-aged Hispanics. Frontiers in Neurology, 2020.

P. Palta, B. Rippon, C. Reitz, H. He, G. Sherwood, F. Ceballos, J. Teresi, Q. Razlighi, H. Moreno, A. Brickman, and J. A. Luchsinger. Apolipoprotein E Genotype and in-vivo Amyloid Burden in Middle-Aged Hispanics. Neurology, 2020.

H. He, Q. Razlighi. Volumetric Registration of Brain Cortical Regions by Automatic Landmark Matching and Large Deformation Diffeomorphisms. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (IEEE ISBI), 2020.

J. A. Luchsinger; P. Palta; B. Rippon; G. Sherwood; L. Soto; F. Ceballos; K. Laing; K. Igwe; H. He; Q. Razlighi; J. Teresi; H. Moreno; A. M Brickman. Pre-Diabetes, but not Type 2 Diabetes, Is Related to Brain Amyloid in Late Middle-Age. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2020.

J. A. Luchsinger; P. Palta; B. Rippon; L. Soto; F. Ceballos; M. Pardo; K. Laing; K. Igwe; A. Johnson; Z. Tomljanovic; H. He; C. Reitz; W. Kreisl; Q. Razlighi; J. Teresi; H. Moreno; A. M Brickman. Sex Differences in in vivo Alzheimer’s Disease Neuropathology in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2020.

W. Lv, H. He, Q. Liu. The Influence of Physique on Dose Conversion Coefficient from Idealized External Photon Exposures: A Comparison of Doses for Chinese Male Phantoms with 10th, 50th and 90th Percentile Anthropometric Parameters. Journal of Radiation Research, 58.5 (2017): 737-744. Equal contributions

W. Lv, D. Yu, H. He , Q. Liu. Monte Carlo Simulations for Dosimetry in Prostate Radiotherapy with Different Intravesical Volumes and Planning Target Volume Margins. PLoS ONE 11.7 (2016): e0159497.

Abstracts

H. He, C. Habeck, Y. Stern. From Amyloid to Cognition: Integrating Brain Connectome With Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography Improves Predictive Modeling of Cognitive Decline. International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Annual Meeting, 2026. Oral presentation.

H. He, Q. Razlighi, Y. Gazes, C. Habeck, Y. Stern. Network-based amyloid-beta pathology predicts subsequent cognitive decline in cognitively normal older adults. Human Amyloid Imaging conference (HAI), 2025.

C. Chang, H. He, S. Hashempour, G. Doyle, X. Sun, J. Doose, C. Ping, R. Gong, J. Eade, A. Williams, L. Hong, C. Sege, D. Taylor, R. Goldman, N. Schneck, M. George, P. Sajda, L. McTeague. Network Reorganization in MDD patients Following rTMS: Evidence of Decoupling and its Association with Cognitive Flexibility. 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2025.

X. Sun, C. Chang, H. He, A. Mittal, C. Habeck, Y. Stern, P. Sajda. Uncovering Lifespan-Consistent Brain Representations in Cognitive Function via Task Decoding. 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2025.

H. He, X. Sun, J. Doose, A. Blankenship, J. R. Mclntosh, G. T. Saber, J. Faller, Y. Lin, J. B. Teves, S. Huffman, S. P. Pantazatos, R. I. Goldman, M. S. George, T. R. Brown, P. Sajda. TMS-induced modulation of brain networks and its associations to rTMS treatment for depression: a concurrent TMS-EEG-fMRI study. NYC Neuromodulation Conference, 2024.

H. He, X. Sun, J. Doose, A. Blankenship, J. R. Mclntosh, G. T. Saber, J. Faller, Y. Lin, J. B. Teves, S. Huffman, S. P. Pantazatos, R. I.Goldman, M. S. George, T. R. Brown, P. Sajda. Associations of EEG-synchronized rTMS treatment of depression with changes in modulated functional connectivity: a concurrent fMRI-EEG-TMS study. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2023. Oral Presentation in Nanosymposium

H. He, X. Sun, J. Doose, A. Blankenship, J. R. Mclntosh, G. T. Saber, J. Faller, Y. Lin, J. B. Teves, S. Huffman, S. P. Pantazatos, R. I.Goldman, M. S. George, T. R. Brown, P. Sajda. Changes in network connectivity induced by TMS stimulation of DLPFC: a concurrent fMRI-EEG-TMS study. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM), 2023. Oral presentation

Z. Xin, H. He, L. Hong, and P. Sajda. Dynamic causal modeling of the locus coeruleus and preSMA circuit in attentional processing. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM), 2023.

H. He, X. Sun, J. Doose, A. Blankenship, J. R. Mclntosh, G. T. Saber, J. Faller, Y. Lin, J. B. Teves, S. Huffman, S. P. Pantazatos, R. I.Goldman, M. S. George, T. R. Brown, P. Sajda. Whole-brain analysis of concurrent TMS-EEG-fMRI reveals brain-wide state-dependent TMS effects. 5th International Brain Stimulation Conference (BRST), 2023.

H. He, L. Hong, and P. Sajda. Spatiotemporal network connectivity in salience processing with simultaneous pupillometry-EEG-fMRI. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM), 2022.

L. Hong, H. He, and P. Sajda. BOLD activity in locus coeruleus covaries with multiple neural processes in the reorienting response. 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2022.

H. He, L. Hong, and P. Sajda. Brain network causal interactions underlying task-evoked pupil response: a simultaneous pupillometry, EEG, fMRI study. 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2021.

H. He, Q. R. Razlighi. Task-evoked Negative BOLD Response in Human Visual Cortex Regions. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM), 2021.

H. He, L. Hong, P. Sajda. An Automatic and Subject-specific Method for Locus Coeruleus Localization and BOLD Activity Extraction. International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting (ISMRM), 2021.

H. He, Q. R. Razlighi. RBSN: Region-based Diffeomorphic Spatial Normalization via Landmark Matching. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM), 2020.

H. He, Q. R. Razlighi. Functional Connectivity of the Visual Cortex Regions with Positive and Negative BOLD Response. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM), 2020.

P. Li, H. He, Y. Stern, Y. Gazes, C. Habeck. Connectome Based Predictive Modeling Predicts Individual Differences in Processing Speed in Health Young Adults (Poster). 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2018, San Diego, US.

H. He, C. Cheng, Y. Chen, I. Liau, Y. Ching. Cardiac Cycle Phase Classification for Four-dimensional Imaging of Zebrafish Embryos (Poster). International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC), 2017, Jeju, Korea.

H. He, Q. Razlighi. Region-Based Spatial Normalization for fMRI Research in Brain Aging (Poster). 4th Annual New York Metro Imaging Research Symposium (NYMIRS), 2017, New York, US.