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Maxwell Wang MD, PhD

    Education & Training

  • University of Pittsburgh, MD, 2024
  • Carnegie Mellon University, PhD, 2023
  • Washington University, BS, 2016
Representative Publications

Wang MB, Rahmani F, Benzinger TLS, Raji CA. Edge Density Imaging Identifies White Matter Biomarkers of Late-Life Obesity and Cognition. Aging Dis. 2024 Aug 1;15(4):1899-1912. doi: 10.14336/AD.2022.1210. PMID: 37196133; PMCID: PMC11272213.

Wang M, G'Sell M, Castellano JF, Richardson RM, Ghuman A. A week in the life of the human brain: stable states punctuated by chaotic transitions. Res Sq [Preprint]. 2024 Jan 15:rs.3.rs-2752903. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2752903/v1. PMID: 37034705; PMCID: PMC10081438.

Wang MB, Boring MJ, Ward MJ, Richardson RM, Ghuman AS. Deep brain stimulation for parkinson's disease induces spontaneous cortical hypersynchrony in extended motor and cognitive networks. Cereb Cortex. 2022 Oct 8;32(20):4480-4491. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhab496. PMID: 35136991; PMCID: PMC9574237.

Payabvash S, Palacios EM, Owen JP, Wang MB, Tavassoli T, Gerdes M, Brandes-Aitken A, Mukherjee P, Marco EJ. White Matter Connectome Correlates of Auditory Over-Responsivity: Edge Density Imaging and Machine-Learning Classifiers. Front Integr Neurosci. 2019 Mar 29;13:10. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2019.00010. PMID: 30983979; PMCID: PMC6450221.

Payabvash S, Palacios EM, Owen JP, Wang MB, Tavassoli T, Gerdes M, Brandes-Aitken A, Cuneo D, Marco EJ, Mukherjee P. White Matter Connectome Edge Density in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Potential Imaging Biomarkers Using Machine-Learning Models. Brain Connect. 2019 Mar;9(2):209-220. doi: 10.1089/brain.2018.0658. PMID: 30661372; PMCID: PMC6444925.

Karim HT, Wang M, Andreescu C, Tudorascu D, Butters MA, Karp JF, Reynolds CF 3rd, Aizenstein HJ. Acute trajectories of neural activation predict remission to pharmacotherapy in late-life depression. Neuroimage Clin. 2018 Jun 8;19:831-839. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.06.006. PMID: 30013927; PMCID: PMC6024196.
Student Year
MS4
Career Advisor
Nathan Urban, PhD
Thesis Advisor
Avniel Ghuman, PhD
Program
Neural Computation (CMU)
Dissertation Title

Long term brain dynamics extend cognitive neuroscience to timescales relevant for health and phsiology

Trainee
Current
Training Start Year
2017