Selected Publications


Tefera E, Borges Delfino de Souza H, Blewitt C, Mansoor A, Peters H, Teerawanichpol P, Henin S, Barr WB, Johnson SB, Liu AA. Natural Language Processing Applied to Spontaneous Recall of Famous Faces Reveals Memory Dysfunction in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients. bioRxiv 2024.08.23.609193; doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.23.609193 . +PDF

Weiss SA, Sperling MR, Engel J, Liu A, Fried I, Wu C, Doyle W, Mikell C, Mofakham S, Salamon N, Sim MS, Bragin A, Staba R. Simulated resections and responsive neurostimulator placement can optimize postoperative seizure outcomes when guided by fast ripple networks. Brain Commun 2024 Oct 14;6(5):fcae367. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae367.. +PubMed +PDF

Liu, AA and Barr, WB. Overlapping and distinct phenotypic profiles in Alzheimer’s disease and late onset epilepsy: a biologically-based approach. Front. Neurol., 12 March 2024. Section Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases. Volume 14 - 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1260523 . +PDF +PubMed

Liu AA, Henin S, Abbaspoor S, Bragin A, Buffalo EA, Farrell JS, Foster DJ, Frank LM, Gedankien T, Gotman J, Guidera JA, Hoffman KL, Jacobs J, Kahana MJ, Li L, Liao Z, Lin JJ, Losonczy A, Malach R, van der Meer MA, McClain K, McNaughton BL, Norman Y, Navas-Olive A, de la Prida LM, Rueckemann JW, Sakon JJ, Skelin I, Soltesz I, Staresina BP, Weiss SA, Wilson MA, Zaghloul KA, Zugaro M, Buzsáki G. A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations. Nat Commun. 2022 Oct 12;13(1):6000. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-33536-x. +PDF +PubMed

Barr WB, Liu A, Laduke C, Nadkarni S, Devinsky O. Religious conversion in an older male with longstanding epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior Reports. 2022:18. DOI: 10.1016/j.ebr.2022.100524. +PDF +PubMed

Cowan, Emily T; Liu, Anli A; Henin, Simon; Kothare, Sanjeev; Devinsky, Orrin; Davachi, Lila. Time-dependent transformations of memory representations differ along the long axis of the hippocampus. Learning and Memory. 2021: 28(9): 329-340. DOI: 10.1101/lm.053438.121. +PDF +PubMed

Leeman-Markowski B, Hardstone R, Lohnas L, Cowen B, Davachi L, Doyle W, Dugan P, Friedman D, Liu A, Melloni L, Selesnick I, Wang B, Meador K, Devinsky O. Effects of hippocampal interictal discharge timing, duration, and spatial extent on list learning. Epilepsy & Behavior. 2021:123. DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108209. +PDF +PubMed

Anli Liu. (2021/08). Interview with The Lancet Neurology, 20(8), 602. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(21)00172-1 +PDF

Sun Y, Friedman D, Dugan P, Holmes M, Wu XJ, Liu AA. Machine Learning to Classify Relative Seizure Frequency from Chronic Electrocorticography. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. May 26, 2021. DOI: 10.1097/WNP.0000000000000858. +PDF +PubMed

Henin S, Shankar A, Borges H, Flinker A, Doyle W, Friedman D, Devinsky O, Buzsáki G, Liu AA. Spatiotemporal dynamics between interictal epileptiform discharges and ripples during associative memory processing. Brain. April 23, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.22.216416. +PDF +PubMed

Henin S, Turk-Browne NB, Friedman D, Liu A, Dugan P, Flinker A, Doyle W, Devinsky O, Melloni L. Learning hierarchical sequence representations across human cortex and hippocampus. Science Advances. 2021 Feb 19;7(8). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abc4530. +PDF +PubMed

LeMonda BC, MacAllister W; Morrison C; Vaurio L; Blackmon K; Maiman M; Liu A; Liberta T; Barr WB. Is formal scoring better than just looking? A comparison of subjective and objective scoring methods of the Rey Complex Figure Test for lateralizing temporal lobe epilepsy. Clinical Neuropsychologist. Dec 27 2020, p 1-16. doi: 10.1080/13854046.2020.1865461. +PDF +PubMed

Shum J, Fogarty A, Dugan P, Holmes MG, Leeman-Markowski B, Liu AA, Fisher R, Friedman F. Sounds of Seizures. Seizure. Vol 78. May 2020, Pages 86-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2020.03.008. +PDF

Hirsch LJ, Mirro EA, Salanova V, Witt TC, Drees CN, Brown MG, Lee RW, Sadler TL, Felton EA, Rutecki P, Shin HW, Hadar E, Hegde M, Rao VR, Mnatsakanyan L, Madhavan DS, Zakaria TJ, Liu AA, Heck CN, Greenwood JE, Bigelow JK, Nair DR, Alexopoulos AV, Mackow M, Edwards JC, Sotudeh N, Kuzniecky RI, Gwinn RP, Doherty MJ, Geller EB, Morrell MJ. Mesial temporal resection following long-term ambulatory intracranial EEG monitoring with a direct brain-responsive neurostimulation system. Epilepsia. 2020 Feb 18. doi: 10.1111/epi.16442. +PDF +PubMed

Cowan E, Liu A, Henin S, Kothare S, Devinsky O, Davachi L. Sleep spindles promote the restructuring of memory representations in ventromedial prefrontal cortex through enhanced hippocampal-cortical functional connectivity. J Neurosci. 2020 Jan 17. pii: 1946-19. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1946-19.2020. +PDF +PubMed

Liu A*, Friedman D*, Barron DS, Wang X, Thesen T, Dugan P. Forced conceptual thought induced by electrical stimulation of the left prefrontal gyrus involves widespread neural networks. Epilepsy and Behavior. 2020 Jan 14;104(Pt A):106644. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.106644. +PDF +PubMed

Bauman K, Devinsky O, Liu AA. Temporal lobe surgery and memory: Lessons, risks and opportunities. Epilepsy and Behavior. 2019: Nov. 8. 106596. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.106596. +PDF +PubMed

Henin S, Borges H, Shankar A, Sarac C, Melloni L, Friedman D, Flinker A, Parra LC, Buzsaki G, Devinsky O, Liu A. Closed-loop acoustic stimulation enhances sleep oscillations but not memory performance. eNeuro. 2019 Oct 11. pii: ENEURO.0306-19.2019. +PDF +PubMed

Blackmon K, Barr WB, Morrison C, MacAllister W, Kruse M, Pressl C, Wang X, Dugan P, Liu AA, Halgren E, Devinsky O, Thesen T. Gray and white matter blurring as a marker of memory impairment in MRI-negative temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior. 2019 Aug; 37:34-43. +PDF +PubMed

Kulkarni PM, Xiao Z, Robinson EJ, Jami AS, Zhang J, Zhou H, Henin SE, Liu AA, Osorio RS, Wang J, Chen Z. A deep learning approach for real-time detection of sleep spindles.  J Neural Eng. 2019 Feb 21;16(3):036004. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ab0933. +PDF +PubMed

Henin, Simon; Shankar, Anita*; Hasulak, Nicholas; Friedman, Daniel; Dugan, Patricia; Melloni, Lucia; Flinker, Adeen; Sarac, Cansu; Fang, May; Doyle, Werner; Tcheng, Thomas; Devinsky, Orrin; Davachi, Lila; Liu, Anli. Hippocampal gamma predicts associative memory performance as measured by acute and chronic intracranial EEG. Scientific Reports. Jan 24, 2019. +PDF +Link +PubMed

Liu, Anli; Vöröslakos, Mihaly; Kronberg, Greg; Henin, Simon; Krause, Matthew R; Huang, Yu; Opitz, Alexander; Mehta, Ashesh; Pack, Christopher C; Krekelberg, Bart; Berenyi, Antal; Parra, Lucas C; Melloni, Lucia; Devinsky, Orrin; Buzsáki, György. Immediate neurophysiological effects of transcranial electrical stimulation, Nature Communications 2018 Nov 30. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-0723 +PDF +Editor’s Highlight +PubMed

Lafon, Belen*; Henin, Simon*; Huang, Yu; Friedman, Daniel; Melloni, Lucia; Thesen, Thomas; Doyle, Werner; Buzsáki, György; Devinsky, Orrin; Parra, Lucas C; Liu, Anli*. Low frequency transcranial electrical stimulation does not entrain sleep rhythms as measured in human intracranial recordings. Nature Communications. 2017 Oct 31. Doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01045-x. +PDF +PubMed

Son, Andre Y; Cucca, Alberto; Agarwal, Shashank; Liu, Anli; Di Rocco, Alessandro; Biagioni, Milton C. Are we missing non-motor seizures in Parkinson’s Disease? Two case reports. Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders. 2017. 4:14. +PDF +PubMed

Chen, Hai; Dugan, Patricia; Chong, Derek J; Liu, Anli; Doyle, Werner; Friedman, Daniel. Application of RNS in Refractory Epilepsy: Targeting Insula. Epilepsia Open. 2017 Jul 4. Doi: 10.1002/epi4.12061 +PDF +PubMed

Huang, Yu*; Liu, Anli A*; Lafon, Belen; Friedman, Daniel; Dayan, Michael; Wang, Xiuyuan; Bikson, Marom; Doyle, Werner K; Devinsky, Orrin; Parra, Lucas C. Measurements and models of electric fields in the in vivo human brain during transcranial electric stimulation. eLife. 2017 Feb 7. doi: 10.7554/eLife.18834. +PDF +PubMed

Liu, Anli; Thesen, Thomas; Barr, William; Morrison, Chris; Dugan, Patricia; Wang, Xiuyuan; Meager, Michael; Doyle, Werner; Kuzniecky, Ruben; Devinsky, Orrin; Blackmon, Karen. Parahippocampal and Entorhinal Resection Extent Predicts Verbal Memory Decline in an Epilepsy Surgery Cohort. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2017 May;29(5):869-880. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a01089. +PDF +PubMed

Bikson, Marom; Grossman, Pnina; Thomas, Chris; Zannou, Adantchede Louis; Jiang, Jimmy; Adnan, Tatheer; Mourdoukoutas, Antonios P; Kronberg, Greg; Truong, Dennis; Boggio, Paulo; Brunoni, Andre R; Charvet, Leigh; Fregni, Felipe; Fritsch, Brita; Gillick, Bernadette; Hamilton, Roy H; Hampstead, Benjamin M; Jankord, Ryan; Kirton, Adam; Knotkova, Helena; Liebetanz, David; Liu, Anli; Loo, Colleen; Nitsche, Michael A; Reis, Janine; Richardson, Jessica D; Rotenberg, Alexander; Turkeltaub, Peter E; Woods, Adam J. Response to letter to the editor: Safety of transcranial direct current stimulation: Evidence based update 2016. Brain Stimulation. 2017 Jul 12. pii: S1935-861X(17)30839-2. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2017.06.007 +PDF +PubMed

Lafon B, Liu A, Huang Y, Minas P, Kar K, Bikson M, Friedman D, Krekelberg B, Parra LC. Direct experimental validation of computational current flow models with intra-cranial recordings in human and non-human primates. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation. 2017 Jan 1;10(1):e15. +PDF +Link

Bikson M, Grossman P, Thomas C, Zannou AL, Jiang J, Adnan T, Mourdoukoutas AP, Kronberg G, Truong D, Boggio P, Brunoni AR, Charvet L, Fregni F, Fritsch B, Gillick B, Hamilton RH, Hampstead BM, Jankord R, Kirton A, Knotkova H, Liebetanz D, Liu A, Loo C, Nitsche MA, Reis J, Richardson JD, Rotenberg A, Turkeltaub PE, Woods AJ. Safety of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Evidence Based Update 2016. Brain Stimul. 2016 Jun 15. pii: S1935-861X(16)30140-1. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2016.06.004 +PDF +PubMed

Liu, Anli; Bryant, Andrew; Jefferson, Ashlie; Friedman, Daniel; Minhas, Preet; Barnard, Sarah; Barr, William; Thesen, Thomas; O'Connor, Margaret; Shafi, Mouhsin; Herman, Susan; Devinsky, Orrin; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro; Schachter, Steven. Exploring the efficacy of a 5 day course of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (TDCS) on Depression and Memory Function in Patients with Well-Controlled Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Epilepsy and Behavior, 2016, 55:11-20. +PDF +PubMed

Shafi, Mouhsin M; Liu, Anli; Fox, Michael D; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro; Press, Daniel Z. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Neurological Disease. Psychiatric annals. 2014 44(6):299-304. +PDF

Liu, Anli; Press, Daniel Z. Editorial: Does HIV Age Your Brain? Neurology, 2013; 80:1-2. +PDF +PubMed

Liu, Anli; Fregni, Felipe; Hummel, Freidrich Pascual-Leone, Alvaro. A Review of Therapeutic Applications of TMS/tDCS in Neurology. In: Transcranial Brain Stimulation  (eds: Miniussi C, Paulus W, Rossini PM), 2012, CRC Press. +PDF

Liu, Anli; Pang, Trudy; Herman, Susan; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro; Rotenberg, Alexander. Transcranial magnetic stimulation for refractory focal status epilepticus in the intensive care unit. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy, 2013, 22(10):893-896. +PDF +PubMed

Pentsova, Elena; Liu, Anli; Rosenblum, Marc; O'Reilly, Eileen; Chen, Xi; Hormigo, Adilia. Gemcitabine induced myositis in patients with pancreatic cancer: case reports and topic review. J Neurooncol., 2012, 106(1):15-21 +PDF +PubMed

Liu, Anli A; Voss, Henning; Dyke, Jonathan P; Heier, Linda A; Schiff, Nicholas D.  Arterial Spin Labeling and Altered Cerebral Blood Flow Patterns in the Minimally Conscious State, Neurology, 2011, 18;77(16):1518-23. +PDF +PubMed

Liu, Anli A; Boxhorn, Christine E; Klufas, Michael A; Christos, Paul J; Thorne, Jeffrey T; Shih, Angela Y; Tsankova, Nadejda M; Dorfman, Benjamin J; Henchcliffe, Claire; Piboolnurak, Panida; Nirenberg, Melissa J.  Clinical Predictors of Frequent Patient Telephone Calls in Parkinson’s Disease, Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 2011, 17(2):95-9. +PDF +PubMed

Liu, Anli; Werner, Kelly; Roy, Subhojit; Trojanowski, John Q; Morgan-Kane, Ursula; Miller, Bruce L; Rankin, Katherine P. A case study of an emerging visual artist with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Neurocase, 2009, 15(3): 235-247. +PDF +PubMed

Liu, Anli; Miller, Bruce. Art and the Brain. In: Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology, Volume 88: Handbook of Clinical Neurology (eds: Goldenberg G and Miller BL), 2008, Elsevier, pp. 471-488. +PDF +PubMed

Rankin, Katherine P; Liu, Anli A; Howard, Sara; Slama, Hilary; Hou, Craig E; Shuster, Karen; Miller, Bruce L. A case-controlled study of visual art production in Alzheimer’s and FTLD. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 2007, 20(1): 48-61. +PDF +PubMed

Peabody, John; Liu, Anli. Cross-National Comparison of the Quality of Clinical Care Using Vignettes. Health Policy and Planning. 2007, 22: 294-302. +PDF +PubMed

Peabody, John; Liu Anli; Alisse, Lily; et al. Comparing Quality in Disparate Settings Using Vignettes to Control for Case-Mix Variation.  Working Paper for the Disease Control Priorities Project, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, 2005.