Boris C. Bernhardt

23.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
236 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Boris C. Bernhardt is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris C. Bernhardt has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 182 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 89 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 77 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Boris C. Bernhardt's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (146 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (75 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (59 papers). Boris C. Bernhardt is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (146 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (75 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (59 papers). Boris C. Bernhardt collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Boris C. Bernhardt's co-authors include Neda Bernasconi, Tania Singer, Andrea Bernasconi, Jonathan Smallwood, Seok‐Jun Hong, Daniel S. Margulies, Elizabeth Jefferies, Casey Paquola, Reinder Vos de Wael and Alan C. Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Boris C. Bernhardt

222 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Neural Basis of Empathy 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2021 2020 2019 2019 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Neural Basis of Empathy
    2012 678 citations Boris C. Bernhardt, Tania Singer profile →
  2. The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective
    2021 537 citations Jonathan Smallwood, Boris C. Bernhardt et al. profile →
  3. BrainSpace: a toolbox for the analysis of macroscale gradients in neuroimaging and connectomics datasets
    2020 325 citations Reinder Vos de Wael, Casey Paquola et al. Communications Biology profile →
  4. Atypical functional connectome hierarchy in autism
    2019 301 citations Seok‐Jun Hong, Reinder Vos de Wael et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Microstructural and functional gradients are increasingly dissociated in transmodal cortices
    2019 296 citations Casey Paquola, Reinder Vos de Wael et al. profile →
  6. Gradients of structure–function tethering across neocortex
    2019 291 citations Laura E. Suárez, Ross D. Markello et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Epilepsy and brain network hubs
    2022 117 citations Jessica Royer, Boris C. Bernhardt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Boris C. Bernhardt Canada 60 8.5k 3.8k 3.3k 1.6k 1.4k 236 11.7k
Peter Kochunov United States 49 7.8k 0.9× 4.1k 1.1× 2.4k 0.7× 914 0.6× 1.5k 1.1× 281 12.7k
Katherine L. Narr United States 65 6.5k 0.8× 3.9k 1.0× 3.7k 1.1× 874 0.6× 1.4k 1.0× 259 13.6k
Nicolas Delcroix France 22 10.7k 1.3× 4.2k 1.1× 2.7k 0.8× 961 0.6× 2.2k 1.6× 47 14.9k
Dimitri Papathanassiou France 15 9.8k 1.2× 3.9k 1.0× 2.4k 0.7× 899 0.6× 2.0k 1.5× 48 14.0k
Kiralee M. Hayashi United States 35 5.1k 0.6× 2.3k 0.6× 3.1k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 833 0.6× 46 10.6k
Paul G. Nestor United States 52 6.4k 0.8× 2.3k 0.6× 2.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 863 0.6× 157 9.3k
Jason P. Lerch Canada 59 8.1k 1.0× 3.2k 0.9× 3.9k 1.2× 1.9k 1.2× 1.5k 1.1× 170 15.8k
Olivier Etard France 22 11.0k 1.3× 3.9k 1.0× 2.6k 0.8× 1.0k 0.6× 2.3k 1.7× 67 15.4k
Adriana Di Martino United States 50 11.3k 1.3× 3.6k 1.0× 3.7k 1.1× 523 0.3× 1.8k 1.3× 98 13.6k
Daniel S. OʼLeary United States 67 8.7k 1.0× 3.4k 0.9× 5.7k 1.7× 2.3k 1.4× 1.4k 1.0× 165 14.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mottron, Laurent, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric developmental bifurcations in polarized environments: a new class of human variants, which may include autism. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(12). 6155–6164. 2 indexed citations
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Hoppe, Christian, Anna Tietze, Valeri Borger, et al.. (2025). Association of Cortical Atrophy Patterns With Clinical Phenotypes and Histopathological Findings in Patients With Rasmussen Syndrome. Neurology. 104(10). e213629–e213629. 1 indexed citations
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Fadaie, Fatemeh, Benoît Caldairou, Ravnoor Gill, et al.. (2024). Region-specific MRI predictors of surgical outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy. NeuroImage Clinical. 43. 103658–103658. 1 indexed citations
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Vogel, Jacob W., Aaron Alexander‐Bloch, Konrad Wagstyl, et al.. (2024). Deciphering the functional specialization of whole-brain spatiomolecular gradients in the adult brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(25). e2219137121–e2219137121. 10 indexed citations
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Park, Shinwon, Koen V. Haak, Stuart Oldham, et al.. (2024). A shifting role of thalamocortical connectivity in the emergence of cortical functional organization. Nature Neuroscience. 27(8). 1609–1619. 18 indexed citations
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Saberi, Amin, Casey Paquola, H. Lina Schaare, et al.. (2024). Microstructural asymmetry in the human cortex. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10124–10124. 4 indexed citations
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Kasper, Burkhard S., John S. Archer, Boris C. Bernhardt, et al.. (2024). ILAE neuroimaging task force highlight: Subcortical laminar heterotopia. Epileptic Disorders. 26(2). 225–232. 1 indexed citations
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Fadaie, Fatemeh, Ravnoor Gill, Benoît Caldairou, et al.. (2024). MRI-Derived Modeling of Disease Progression Patterns in Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Neurology. 103(3). e209524–e209524. 3 indexed citations
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Ottoy, Julie, Min Su Kang, Reinder Vos de Wael, et al.. (2023). Mapping the effects of functional and structural network reorganization on the tau‐cognition relationship in Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S14).
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Royer, Jessica, Sara Larivière, Raúl Rodríguez‐Cruces, et al.. (2023). Cortical microstructural gradients capture memory network reorganization in temporal lobe epilepsy. Brain. 146(9). 3923–3937. 20 indexed citations
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Hong, Seok‐Jun, et al.. (2023). Diverging asymmetry of intrinsic functional organization in autism. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(10). 4331–4341. 11 indexed citations
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Caciagli, Lorenzo, Casey Paquola, Xiaosong He, et al.. (2022). Disorganization of language and working memory systems in frontal versus temporal lobe epilepsy. Brain. 146(3). 935–953. 39 indexed citations
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Tavakol, Shahin, Qiongling Li, Jessica Royer, et al.. (2021). A Structure–Function Substrate of Memory for Spatial Configurations in Medial and Lateral Temporal Cortices. Cerebral Cortex. 31(7). 3213–3225. 6 indexed citations
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Park, Bo‐yong, Hyunjin Park, Filip Morys, et al.. (2021). Inter-individual body mass variations relate to fractionated functional brain hierarchies. Communications Biology. 4(1). 735–735. 24 indexed citations
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Ho, Nerissa Siu Ping, Daniel H. Baker, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, et al.. (2020). Missing the forest because of the trees: slower alternations during binocular rivalry are associated with lower levels of visual detail during ongoing thought. Neuroscience of Consciousness. 2020(1). niaa020–niaa020. 4 indexed citations
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Suárez, Laura E., Ross D. Markello, Golia Shafiei, et al.. (2019). Gradients of structure–function tethering across neocortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(42). 21219–21227. 291 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hong, Seok‐Jun, Reinder Vos de Wael, Richard A. I. Bethlehem, et al.. (2019). Atypical functional connectome hierarchy in autism. Nature Communications. 10(1). 301 indexed citations breakdown →
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Turnbull, Adam, Hao-Ting Wang, Charlotte Murphy, et al.. (2019). Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supports context-dependent prioritisation of off-task thought. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3816–3816. 120 indexed citations
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Valk, Sofie L., Boris C. Bernhardt, Fynn‐Mathis Trautwein, et al.. (2017). Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Science Advances. 3(10). e1700489–e1700489. 173 indexed citations
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Bernhardt, Boris C., et al.. (2009). Longitudinal and cross-sectional analysis of atrophy in pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy. Neurology. 72(20). 1747–1754. 197 indexed citations

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