Thomas Thesen

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Thesen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Thesen has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 29 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 25 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Thomas Thesen's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (37 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (33 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (27 papers). Thomas Thesen is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (37 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (33 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (27 papers). Thomas Thesen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Grenada and United Kingdom. Thomas Thesen's co-authors include Orrin Devinsky, Werner Doyle, Gemma A. Calvert, Chad Carlson, György Buzsáki, Jennifer N. Gelinas, Dion Khodagholy, Ruben Kuzniecky, Eric Halgren and George G. Malliaras and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Thesen

102 papers receiving 4.8k citations

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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.

NeuroGrid: recording action potentials from the surface of the brain

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Werner Doyle United States

István Ulbert Hungary

Emad N. Eskandar United States

Josef Parvizi United States

Shigeru Kitazawa Japan

Lotfi B. Merabet United States

Nathan E. Crone United States

Hermann Hinrichs Germany

Thomas E. Schläepfer Germany

Mark E. Wheeler United States

Werner Doyle United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Thesen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thesen, Thomas, et al.. (2025). LLM‐based generation of USMLE‐style questions with ASPET/AMSPC knowledge objectives: All RAGs and no riches. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2 indexed citations

Thesen, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Generative AI as the First Patient: Practice, Feedback, and Confidence. Medical Science Educator. 35(5). 2555–2560.

Thesen, Thomas, et al.. (2024). AI Patient Actor: An Open-Access Generative-AI App for Communication Training in Health Professions. Medical Science Educator. 35(1). 25–27. 8 indexed citations

Pinto-Powell, Roshini, et al.. (2024). Preparing healthcare leaders of the digital age with an integrative artificial intelligence curriculum: a pilot study. Medical Education Online. 29(1). 2315684–2315684. 11 indexed citations

Kaestner, Erik, Chad Carlson, Werner Doyle, et al.. (2024). Binding of cortical functional modules by synchronous high-frequency oscillations. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(10). 1988–2002. 5 indexed citations

Thesen, Thomas, Ingrid Bahner, Andrea N. Belovich, et al.. (2023). Not Just Fun and Games: Game-Based Learning in Health Professions Education. Medical Science Educator. 33(5). 1301–1306. 3 indexed citations

Jiang, Xi, Isaac Shamie, Lucía Melloni, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal dynamics of human high gamma discriminate naturalistic behavioral states. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(8). e1010401–e1010401. 3 indexed citations

Doyle, Werner, Orrin Devinsky, Daniel Friedman, et al.. (2019). Neural correlates of unstructured motor behaviors. Journal of Neural Engineering. 16(6). 66026–66026. 8 indexed citations

Lohnas, Lynn J., Katherine Duncan, Werner Doyle, et al.. (2018). Time-resolved neural reinstatement and pattern separation during memory decisions in human hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(31). E7418–E7427. 40 indexed citations

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Chen, Kenny, Werner Doyle, Orrin Devinsky, et al.. (2018). Patient-Specific Pose Estimation in Clinical Environments. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. 6. 1–11. 47 indexed citations

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Jiang, Xi, Isaac Shamie, Lucía Melloni, et al.. (2018). Coarse behavioral context decoding. Journal of Neural Engineering. 16(1). 16021–16021. 7 indexed citations

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Lafon, Belen, Simon Henin, Yu Huang, et al.. (2017). Low frequency transcranial electrical stimulation does not entrain sleep rhythms measured by human intracranial recordings. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1199–1199. 134 indexed citations

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Thesen, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Decrypting cryptogenic epilepsy: semi-supervised hierarchical conditional random fields for detecting cortical lesions in MRI-negative patients. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 17(1). 3885–3914. 7 indexed citations

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Abdelnour, Farras, Ashish Raj, Orrin Devinsky, & Thomas Thesen. (2016). Network Analysis on Predicting Mean Diffusivity Change at Group Level in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Brain Connectivity. 6(8). 607–620. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Anli, Daniel Friedman, Preet Minhas, et al.. (2015). Exploring the efficacy of a 5-day course of transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) on depression and memory function in patients with well-controlled temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior. 55. 11–20. 59 indexed citations

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Koyama, Maki, Michael P. Milham, F. Xavier Castellanos, et al.. (2014). Cortical thickness abnormalities associated with dyslexia, independent of remediation status. NeuroImage Clinical. 7. 177–186. 34 indexed citations

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Blackmon, Karen, Orrin Devinsky, Chad Carlson, et al.. (2014). Limitations of functional magnetic resonance imaging in mapping function near a vascular lesion: A case study. 3(4). 197–202. 1 indexed citations

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Thesen, Thomas, Karen Blackmon, Yijun Zhao, et al.. (2014). Hierarchical Conditional Random Fields for Outlier Detection: An Application to Detecting Epileptogenic Cortical Malformations. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1080–1088. 9 indexed citations

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Keller, Corey J., Wilson Truccolo, John T. Gale, et al.. (2010). Heterogeneous neuronal firing patterns during interictal epileptiform discharges in the human cortex. Brain. 133(6). 1668–1681. 144 indexed citations

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Cash, Sydney S., Eric Halgren, Nima Dehghani, et al.. (2009). The Human K-Complex Represents an Isolated Cortical Down-State. Science. 324(5930). 1084–1087. 272 indexed citations

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