Principal Investigators //
- Corey Hill Allen, PhD >
- Nathaniel Anderson, PhD >
- Felicha Candelaria-Cook, PhD >
- Arvind Caprihan, PhD >
- Aparna Gullapalli, PhD >
- Carla Harenski, PhD >
- Jon Houck, Ph.D. >
- Kent A. Kiehl, PhD >
- J. Michael Maurer, PhD >
- Andrew R. Mayer, PhD >
- John Phillips, MD >
- Sephira Ryman, PhD, MS >
- Julia M. Stephen, PhD >
- Andrei Vakhtin, Ph.D.
- Claire E. Wilcox, MD >
Andrei Vakhtin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Vakhtin has over a decade of experience in working with multi-modal neuroimaging methods, which he uses to elucidate the structural and functional effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on the central nervous system. Dr. Vakhtin published one of the seminal findings detailing functional brain changes following pure blast exposure in US Warfighters, underlining the unique challenges facing our Veteran clinical care. He continued to build onto this work by seeking innovative TBI diagnostic tools based on MRI in both civilian and military populations. More recently, Dr. Vakhtin has expanded his focus to examine the influence that TBI history, however distant, may have on accelerating normal brain aging as well as exacerbating neurological ailments in late adulthood.
Selected Publications //
- Diffusion tensor tractography of brainstem fibers and its application to pain >
- Brainstem atrophy in Gulf War illness >
- White matter asymmetry: a reflection of pathology in traumatic brain injury >
- Changes in intrinsic functional brain networks following blast-induced mild traumatic brain injury >
- Simulation and clinical assessment of blast-induced traumatic brain injury >
- Transcranial direct current stimulation’s effect on novice versus experienced learning >
- Fronto‐Parietal gray matter and white matter efficiency differentially predict intelligence in males and females >
- Subcortical correlates of individual differences in aptitude >
- Aberrant development of post-movement beta rebound in adolescents and young adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders >
- Quantity yields quality when it comes to creativity: a brain and behavioral test of the equal-odds rule >
- Functional Brain Networks Contributing to the Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory of >
- Sex differences in the relationship between white matter connectivity and creativity >
