Publications
I have a double background in Neuropsychology and clinical Neuroimaging, both of which I combine in my current research. My research is at the forefront of mapping the connectional anatomy of cognition to identify inter-individual variability in the structure and function of the brain. I capitalise on exciting new technologies and methods to identify variability within and across populations to formulate novel anatomical cognitive models and improve personalised medicine.
To achieve this goal, my research follows several lines of investigation:
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Mapping neurovariability to predict clinical impairments and recovery for precision medicine
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Anatomical studies of the human brain to map and validate the white matter networks
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Comparative Anatomy studies to map the evolution of the brain as the foundation of higher cognitive functions
F1000 recommendations:
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Cappa S: F1000Prime Recommendation of [Forkel SJ et al., Neurology 2020]. In F1000Prime,
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Tippett D: F1000Prime Recommendation of [Forkel SJ et al., Brain 2014]. In F1000Prime,
PREPRINTS
1. Gau et al. Brainhack: developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience. Neuron 10.31234/osf.io/rytjq
2. Royo J, Forkel SJ, Pouget P*, Thiebaut de Schotten M*. Saimiri model in Clinical Neuroscience Research Under review, 10.13140/RG.2.2.34359.55200/1
3. Forkel SJ, Friedrich P, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Howells H. White matter variability, cognition, and disorders: a systematic review. Under review,10.1101/2020.04.22.20075127
4. Nozais V, Forkel SJ, Petit L, Thiebaut de Schotten M. Functionnectome: a framework to analyse the contribution of brain circuits to fMRI. Under review, 10.1101/2021.01.06.425574
MAPPING VARIABILITY FOR PRECISION MEDICINE
Towards metabolic disconnection – symptom mapping
Forkel SJ & Thiebaut de Schotten
Brain, doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa060, 2020
The effect of fronto-parietal resection on hand selection for grasping and manipulation
Howells HR, Puglisi G, Leonetti A, Vigano L, Fornia L, SimoneL, Forkel SJ, Rossi M, Cerri G, Bello L.
Cortex, 2020
Anatomical evidence of an indirect pathway for word repetition.
Forkel SJ, Rogalski E, Drossinos Sancho N, D'Anna L, Luque Laguna P, Sridhar J, Dell'Acqua F, Weintraub S, Thompson C, Catani M & Mesulam M-M
Neurology, 2020, F1000 Prime:
One size fits all does not apply to brain lateralisation.
Thiebaut de Schotten M, Friedrich P, Forkel SJ.
Physics of Life Reviews, doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.07.007, 2019
Lesion mapping in acute stroke aphasia and its implications for recovery.
Forkel SJ & Catani M.
Neuropsychologia 115:88-100, 2018
Forkel SJ, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Dell'Acqua F, Kalra L, Murphy, Williams S & Catani.
Brain 137(Pt 7):2027-39, 2014, F1000 Prime:
Beyond cortical localization in clinico-anatomical correlation.
Catani M, Dell'Acqua F, Bizzi A, Forkel SJ, Williams SC, Simmons A, Murphy DG & Thiebaut de Schotten M.
Cortex 48(10):1262-87, 2012
A lateralized brain network for visuospatial attention.
Thiebaut de Schotten M, Dell'Acqua F, Forkel SJ, Simmons A, Vergani F, Murphy DG & Catani M.
Nature Neuroscience 14(10):1245-6, 2011
Catani M, Craig MC, Forkel SJ, Kanaan R, Picchioni M, Toulopoulou T, Shergill S, Williams S, Murphy DG & McGuire P.
Biological Psychiatry 70(12):1143-50, 2011
ANATOMICAL STUDIES OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
Anchoring the human olfactory system to a functional gradient.
Waymel A, Friedrich P, Forkel SJ*, Thiebaut de Schotten M*. *joint last.
NeuroImage, doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116863, 2020
Mapping the principal gradient onto the corpus callosum
Friedrich P, Forkel SJ, Thiebaut de Schotten M.
NeuroImage, doi: 2020
An ancestral anatomical and spatial bias for visually guided behavior
Friedrich P, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Forkel SJ, Stacho M, Howells HR
PNAS, 117(5):2251-2252. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1918402117, 2020
The white matter of the human cerebrum: part I The occipital lobe by Heinrich Sachs.
Forkel SJ, Mahmood S, Vergani F & Catani M.
Cortex 62:182-202, 2015
Intralobar fibres of the occipital lobe: a post mortem dissection study.
Vergani F, Mahmood S, Morris CM, Mitchell P & Forkel SJ.
Cortex 56:145-56, 2014
Forkel SJ, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Kawadler JM, Dell'Acqua F, Danek A & Catani M.
Cortex 56:73-84, 2014
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY & THE EVOLUTION OF COGNITION
Saimiri model in Clinical Neuroscience Research
Royo J, Forkel SJ, Pouget P, Thiebaut de Schotten M.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34359.55200/1, under review
Imaging the primate brain evolution: the next frontier?
Friedrich P, Forkel SJ, Amiez C, Balsters JH, Coulon O, Fan L, Goulas A, Hadj-Bouziane F, Hecht EE, Heuer K, Jiang TLatzman RD, Liu X , Kee Loh K, Patil KR, Lopez-Persem A, Procyk E, Sallet J, Toro R, Vickery S, Weis S, Wilson C, Xu T, Zerbi V, Eickoff SB *, Margulies D*, Mars RB*, Thiebaut de Schotten M* joint last
NeuroImage, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117685, 2021
Accelerating the evolution of nonhuman primate neuroimaging
Milham M, Petkov C, Margulies M, Schroeder C, Basso MA, Belin P, Fox A, Kastner S, Mars RB, Messinger A, Poirier C, Vanduffel W, Van Essen DC, Albin S, Alvand A, Becker Y, Ben Hamed S, Benn A, Bodin C, Boretius S, Cagna B, Coulon O, ElGohary SH, Evrard H, Forkel SJ,
Friedrich P, Froudist-Walsh S, Gao Y, Gozzi A, Grigis A, Hartig R, Hayashi T, Solon Heinsfeld A, Heuer K, Howells Z, Jan Ardesch D, Kagan I, Kelly C, Kennedy H, Klink C, Konen C, Chai Kwok S, Leech R, Liu X, Madan C, Madushanka W, Majka P, Mallon AM, Marche K, Meguerditchian A, Menon R, Merchant H, Messinger A, Mitchell A, Nenning KH, Nikolaidis A, Ortiz-Rios M, Pagani M, Pareek V, Petkov C, Pool RR, Prescott M, Procyk E, Rajimehr R, Rautu IS, Raz A, Roe AW, Roumazeilles L, Sakai T, Sallet J, Saldivar PJ, Sato C, Sawiak S, Schiffer M, Schroeder CE, Schwiedrzik CM, Seidlitz J, Sein J, Shen Z, Silva A, Simone L, Sirmpilatze N, Sliwa J, Smallwood J, Tasserie J, Toro R, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Trapeau R, Vezoli J, Garza Villarreal E, Wang Z, Wells S, Williams B, Xu T, Xu AG, Yacoub E, and Zhan M
Neuron, 105(4):600-603. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.12.023, 2020
Differences in frontal network anatomy across primate species.
Barrett R, Dawson M, Dyrby T, Krug K, Ptito M, D'Arceuil H, Croxson PL, Johnson P, Howells H, Forkel SJ, Dell’Acqua F & Catani M
Journal of Neuroscience, 2020
Structural Variability Across the Primate Brain: A Cross-Species Comparison. Croxson PL, Forkel SJ, Cerliani L & Thiebaut de Schotten M
Cereb Cortex 28(11):3829-3841, 2018
Short parietal lobe connections of the human and monkey brain.
Catani M, Robertsson N, Beyh A, Huynh V, de Santiago Requejo F, Howells H, Barrett RL, Aiello M, Cavaliere C, Dyrby T, Krug K, Ptito M, D'Arceuil H & Forkel SJ*, Dell'Acqua F*. *joint last.
Cortex 97:339-357, 2017
Book Chapters &
other media
Sidiropoulos K & Forkel SJ. Neuronale Netwerke. In ADHS und Neurofeedback, Springer Verlag 2021, forthcoming (in German)
Forkel SJ et al. Clinical applications of diffusion tractography. In the Handbook of Diffusion Imaging. (Dell’Acqua & Leemanns, Eds), forthcoming
Forkel SJ. Anatomy and disorders of the language system. In Encyclopaedia of Behavioural Neuroscience 2e, (Della Sala et al., Eds). Elsevier, forthcoming
Forkel SJ. Lesion-symptom mapping: from single cases to the human disconnectome. In Encyclopaedia of Behavioural Neuroscience 2e, (Della Sala et al., Eds). Elsevier, 10.13140/RG.2.2.26163.66088
Catani M & Forkel SJ. Diffusion Imaging Methods in Language Sciences. In Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics (de Zubicaray & Schiller, Eds). OUP, 2019
Forkel SJ & Catani M. Structural Neuroimaging. In Research Methods in Psycholinguistics (de Groot & Hoogart, Eds). Wiley & Sons, 2018
Rickards T, Baldo J, Yochim BP. Changes to the Brain: Methods of Investigation, Aging, and Neuroplasticity (image contribution) in Yochim & Woodhead (Eds). Psychology of Aging: A Biopsychosocial Perspective. Springer, 2017
Forkel SJ & Howells H. Professor Blackburn on Unconscious biases. Published online on the Lindau Nobel Laureate website, 2015
Design Patent. Design accessible via EUIPO Registered Community Design no.003823012-0001
Catani M, Forkel SJ, Thiebaut de Schotten M. Asymmetry of white matter pathways in the brain. In The Two Halves Of The Brain: Information Processing In The Cerebral Hemispheres (Eds, Hugdahl, K & Davidson, RJ). MIT Press, 2010