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Maxwell Wang PhD

    Education & Training

  • Carnegie Mellon University, PhD, 2023
  • Washington University, BS, 2016
Representative Publications

Karim, H. T.*, Wang, M. B.*, Andreescu, C., Tudorascu, D., Butters, M. A., Karp, J. F., ... & Aizenstein, H. J. (2018). Acute trajectories of neural activation predict remission to pharmacotherapy in late-life depression. NeuroImage: Clinical, PubMed PMID: 30013927 (*: equal contribution) PMCID: PMC6024196.

Payabvash S., Palacios E., Owen J., Wang M. B., Tavassoli T., … & Marco, E. (2019). White Matter Connectome Correlates of Auditory Over-Responsivity: Edge Density Imaging and Machine-learning Classifiers. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, PubMed PMID: 30983979

Payabvash, S., Palacios, E. M., Owen, J. P., Wang, M. B., Tavassoli, T., Gerdes, M., ... & Mukherjee, P. (2019). White matter connectome edge density in children with autism spectrum disorders: potential imaging biomarkers using machine-learning models. Brain connectivity, 9(2), 209-220., PMID: 30661372

Palacios E., Owen J., Yuh E., Wang M. B., Vassar M., Ferguson A., … & Mukherjee P. (2020). The Evolution of White Matter Changes After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Science Advances, PubMed PMID: 32821816

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.
 
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, 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.
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