Recognition and Publications
Simonyan K, Herscovitch P, Horwitz B. Speech-induced striatal dopamine release is left lateralized and coupled to functional striatal circuits in healthy humans: A combined PET, fMRI and DTI study. NeuroImage (2013) 70:21-32. PMID: 23277111
Simonyan K, Feng X, Henriquez VM, Ludlow CL. Combined laryngeal inflammation and trauma mediate long-lasting immunoreactivity response in the brainstem sensory nuclei in the rat. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience (2012) Nov 15, Vol 6, Article 97, 1-10. PMID: 23162441
Simonyan K, Blitzer A. Commentary on "Bilateral cerebellar stroke presenting with acute dysphonia and late palatal tremor". Movement Disorders (2012) Mar;27(3):346-8. PMID: 22411847
Simonyan K, Horwitz B, Jarvis ED. Dopamine regulation of human speech and song: A critical review. Brain and Language (2012) Sep;122(3):142-50. PMCID: PMC3362661
Simonyan K, Ludlow CL. Abnormal structure-function relationship in spasmodic dysphonia. Cerebral Cortex (2012) Feb:22(2):417-25. PMCID: PMC3256408
Simonyan K, Horwitz B. Laryngeal Motor Cortex and Control of Speech in Humans. Neuroscientist (2011) Apr;17(2):197-208. PMID: 21362688
Husain FT, Medina RE, Davis CW, Szymko-Bennett Y, Simonyan K, Pajor NM, Horwitz B. Neuroanatomical changes due to hearing loss and chronic tinnitus: A combined VBM and DTI study. Brain Research (2011) Jan 19;1369:74-88. Epub 2010 Nov 1. PMID: 21047501
Simonyan K, Ludlow CL. Abnormal activation of the primary somatosensory cortex in spasmodic dysphonia: an FMRI study. Cerebral Cortex (2010) Nov;20(11):2749-59. Epub 2010 Mar 1. PMID: 20194686
Simonyan K, Ludlow CL, Vortmeyer AO. Brainstem pathology in spasmodic dysphonia. Laryngoscope (2010) Jan;120(1):121-4. PMID: 19795469
Simonyan K, Ostuni J, Ludlow CL, Horwitz B. Functional but not structural networks of the human laryngeal motor cortex show left hemispheric lateralization during syllable but not breathing production. Journal of Neuroscience (2009) Nov 25;29(47):14912-23. PMID: 19940187
Lowell SY, Poletto CJ, Knorr-Chung BR, Reynolds RC, Simonyan K, Ludlow CL. Sensory stimulation activates both motor and sensory components of the swallowing system. Neuroimage (2008) Aug 1;42(1):285-95. Epub 2008 Apr 26. PMID: 18515150
Simonyan K, Tovar-Moll F, Ostuni J, Hallett M, Kalasinsky VF, Lewin-Smith MR, Rushing EJ, Vortmeyer AO, Ludlow CL. Focal white matter changes in spasmodic dysphonia: a combined diffusion tensor imaging and neuropathological study. Brain (2008) Feb;131(Pt 2):447-59. Epub 2007 Dec 14. PMID: 18083751
*Rated "Recommended" by Faculty of 1000, Medicine
Simonyan K, Saad ZS, Loucks TM, Poletto CJ, Ludlow CL. Functional neuroanatomy of human voluntary cough and sniff production. Neuroimage (2007) Aug 15;37(2):401-9. Epub 2007 May 24. PMID: 17574873
*Rated "Recommended" by Faculty of 1000, Biology
Loucks TM, Poletto CJ, Simonyan K, Reynolds CL, Ludlow CL. Human brain activation during phonation and exhalation: common volitional control for two upper airway functions. Neuroimage (2007) May 15;36(1):131-43. Epub 2007 Mar 12. PMID: 17428683
Simonyan K, Jürgens U. Afferent cortical connections of the motor cortical larynx area in the rhesus monkey. Neuroscience (2005) 130(1):133-49. PMID: 15561431
Simonyan K, Jürgens U. Afferent subcortical connections into the motor cortical larynx area in the rhesus monkey. Neuroscience (2005) 130(1):119-31. PMID: 15561430
Rödel RM, Olthoff A, Tergau F, Simonyan K, Kraemer D, Markus H, Kruse E. Human cortical motor representation of the larynx as assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Laryngoscope (2004) May;114(5):918-22. PMID: 15126757
Simonyan K, Jürgens U. Efferent subcortical projections of the laryngeal motorcortex in the rhesus monkey. Brain Research (2003) Jun 6;974(1-2):43-59. PMID: 12742623
Simonyan K, Jürgens U. Cortico-cortical projections of the motorcortical larynx area in the rhesus monkey. Brain Research (2002) Sep 13;949(1-2):23-31. PMID: 12213296