Michael J. Prerau

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Michael J. Prerau is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Prerau has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Prerau's work include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (18 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (10 papers). Michael J. Prerau is often cited by papers focused on EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (18 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (10 papers). Michael J. Prerau collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. Michael J. Prerau's co-authors include Patrick L. Purdon, Andrew O. Arnold, Eleazar Eskin, Emery N. Brown, Aaron L. Sampson, Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen, Matt T. Bianchi, P. Grace Harrell, J. Walsh and Eric T. Pierce and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Journal of Neurophysiology.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Prerau

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Electroencephalogram signatures of loss and recovery of consciousness from propofol

2013 535 citations Patrick L. Purdon, Eric T. Pierce et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
A Geometric Framework for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection: Detecting Intrusions in Unlabeled Data

2002 416 citations Michael J. Prerau et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael J. Prerau United States	12	896	372	351	342	209	31	1.7k
Levin Kuhlmann Australia	25	2.1k 2.3×	216 0.6×	61 0.2×	50 0.1×	418 2.0×	88	2.5k
ShiNung Ching United States	18	1.2k 1.4×	48 0.1×	627 1.8×	51 0.1×	492 2.4×	95	2.0k
Zhenhu Liang China	20	888 1.0×	52 0.1×	199 0.6×	23 0.1×	113 0.5×	76	1.4k
Michel Toussaint France	27	552 0.6×	170 0.5×	163 0.5×	134 0.4×	80 0.4×	85	2.5k
Herbert Witte Germany	30	2.6k 3.0×	329 0.9×	34 0.1×	155 0.5×	398 1.9×	167	3.6k
Jorge Bosch‐Bayard Cuba	17	1.3k 1.4×	53 0.1×	87 0.2×	21 0.1×	100 0.5×	54	1.6k
D.O. Walter United States	24	890 1.0×	115 0.3×	26 0.1×	87 0.3×	311 1.5×	44	1.6k
Maryam M. Shanechi United States	24	1.6k 1.8×	185 0.5×	54 0.2×	34 0.1×	815 3.9×	70	2.0k
Gaoxiang Ouyang China	29	1.4k 1.6×	204 0.5×	30 0.1×	88 0.3×	299 1.4×	81	2.3k
Andrés F. Salazar-Gómez United States	8	777 0.9×	24 0.1×	314 0.9×	15 0.0×	270 1.3×	16	1.0k

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Brown, Ritchie E., et al.. (2025). Individualized temporal patterns drive human sleep spindle timing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(2). e2405276121–e2405276121. 1 indexed citations

Carlezon, William A., et al.. (2025). Spontaneous oxycodone withdrawal disrupts sleep, diurnal, and electrophysiological dynamics in rats. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0312794–e0312794.

Zhang, Ying, Michael J. Prerau, Daniel Mobley, et al.. (2024). The National Sleep Research Resource: making data findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable and promoting sleep science. SLEEP. 47(7). 1 indexed citations

Stokes, Patrick A., et al.. (2022). Transient oscillation dynamics during sleep provide a robust basis for electroencephalographic phenotyping and biomarker identification. SLEEP. 46(1). 15 indexed citations

Kozhemiako, Nataliia, Dimitris Mylonas, Jen Q. Pan, et al.. (2022). Sources of Variation in the Spectral Slope of the Sleep EEG. eNeuro. 9(5). ENEURO.0094–22.2022. 16 indexed citations

Stokes, Patrick A. & Michael J. Prerau. (2020). Estimation of Time-Varying Spectral Peaks and Decomposition of EEG Spectrograms. IEEE Access. 8. 218257–218278. 3 indexed citations

Djonlagic, Ina, Sara Mariani, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, et al.. (2020). Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(1). 123–145. 101 indexed citations

Liu, Feng, et al.. (2019). Sparse Multi-task Inverse Covariance Estimation for Connectivity Analysis in EEG Source Space. PubMed. 2018. 299–302. 5 indexed citations

Thomas, Robert J., et al.. (2019). Quantifying statistical uncertainty in metrics of sleep disordered breathing. Sleep Medicine. 65. 161–169. 9 indexed citations

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Prerau, Michael J., Ritchie E. Brown, Matt T. Bianchi, Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen, & Patrick L. Purdon. (2016). Sleep Neurophysiological Dynamics Through the Lens of Multitaper Spectral Analysis. Physiology. 32(1). 60–92. 202 indexed citations

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Akeju, Oluwaseun, Kara J. Pavone, M. Brandon Westover, et al.. (2014). A Comparison of Propofol- and Dexmedetomidine-induced Electroencephalogram Dynamics Using Spectral and Coherence Analysis. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Akeju, Oluwaseun, Kara J. Pavone, M. Brandon Westover, et al.. (2014). A Comparison of Propofol- and Dexmedetomidine-induced Electroencephalogram Dynamics Using Spectral and Coherence Analysis. Anesthesiology. 121(5). 978–989. 123 indexed citations

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Prerau, Michael J., Paul A. Lipton, Howard Eichenbaum, & Uri T. Eden. (2014). Characterizing context‐dependent differential firing activity in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. Hippocampus. 24(4). 476–492. 4 indexed citations

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Prerau, Michael J., et al.. (2014). Tracking the Sleep Onset Process: An Empirical Model of Behavioral and Physiological Dynamics. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(10). e1003866–e1003866. 63 indexed citations

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Purdon, Patrick L., Eric T. Pierce, Eran A. Mukamel, et al.. (2013). Electroencephalogram signatures of loss and recovery of consciousness from propofol. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(12). E1142–51. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prerau, Michael J., Patrick L. Purdon, & Uri T. Eden. (2013). Tracking non-stationary spectral peak structure in EEG data. PubMed. 2013. 417–420. 4 indexed citations

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Sampson, Aaron L., Behtash Babadi, Michael J. Prerau, et al.. (2012). Beamforming approach to phase-amplitude modulation analysis of multi-channel EEG. PubMed. 313. 6731–6734. 2 indexed citations

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Purdon, Patrick L., Emery N. Brown, Kin Foon Kevin Wong, et al.. (2011). Bayesian analysis of trinomial data in behavioral experiments and its application to human studies of general anesthesia. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations

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Mukamel, Eran A., et al.. (2011). Phase-based measures of cross-frequency coupling in brain electrical dynamics under general anesthesia. PubMed. 2011. 1981–1984. 35 indexed citations

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Prerau, Michael J., Adaline C. Smith, Uri T. Eden, et al.. (2008). A mixed filter algorithm for cognitive state estimation from simultaneously recorded continuous and binary measures of performance. Biological Cybernetics. 99(1). 1–14. 17 indexed citations

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