Timothy Verstynen

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Timothy Verstynen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy Verstynen has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 34 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 11 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Timothy Verstynen's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (40 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (32 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (20 papers). Timothy Verstynen is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (40 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (32 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (20 papers). Timothy Verstynen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Taiwan. Timothy Verstynen's co-authors include Fang‐Cheng Yeh, Juan C. Fernandez‐Miranda, Richard B. Ivry, Yibao Wang, Wen‐Yih Isaac Tseng, Kevin Jarbo, Jörn Diedrichsen, Walter Schneider, David Badre and Kirk I. Erickson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Timothy Verstynen

89 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Deterministic Diffusion Fiber Tracking Improved by Quantitative Anisotropy

2013 793 citations Fang‐Cheng Yeh, Timothy Verstynen et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Population-averaged atlas of the macroscale human structural connectome and its network topology

2018 389 citations Fang‐Cheng Yeh, Sandip S. Panesar et al. NeuroImage profile →

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Peter Dechent Germany

Volkmar Glauche Germany

Chloe Hutton United Kingdom

Marc Tittgemeyer Germany

Francesco Tomaiuolo Italy

Stefan Geyer Germany

Dorothee Saur Germany

Flavio Dell’Acqua United Kingdom

Michel Rijntjes Germany

Joshua H. Balsters United Kingdom

Peter Dechent Germany

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timothy Verstynen

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Rasero, Javier, Timothy Verstynen, Thomas E. Kraynak, et al.. (2025). Stressor‐Evoked Brain Activity, Cardiovascular Reactivity, and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Midlife Adults. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(10). e034908–e034908. 1 indexed citations

Rasero, Javier, et al.. (2025). Resting-State Functional Connectivity Does Not Predict Individual Differences in Perceived Psychological Stress Among Midlife Adults: Evidence From a Preregistered Cross-Validation Study. PubMed. 87(2). 138–145. 1 indexed citations

Rubin, Jonathan E., et al.. (2025). CBGTPy: An extensible cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic framework for modeling biological decision making. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0310367–e0310367.

Rasero, Javier, et al.. (2024). Cortical and subcortical brain networks predict prevailing heart rate. Psychophysiology. 61(11). e14641–e14641. 2 indexed citations

Rubin, Jonathan E., et al.. (2024). Rethinking the external globus pallidus and information flow in cortico‐basal ganglia‐thalamic circuits. European Journal of Neuroscience. 60(9). 6129–6144. 4 indexed citations

Molina‐Hidalgo, Cristina, George Grove, Thomas W. Kamarck, et al.. (2023). Effects of a laboratory-based aerobic exercise intervention on brain volume and cardiovascular health markers: protocol for a randomised clinical trial. BMJ Open. 13(11). e077905–e077905. 1 indexed citations

Bond, Krista, et al.. (2023). Competing neural representations of choice shape evidence accumulation in humans. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations

Rasero, Javier, et al.. (2023). Similarity in evoked responses does not imply similarity in macroscopic network states. Network Neuroscience. 8(1). 335–354. 4 indexed citations

Rubin, Jonathan E., et al.. (2022). Identifying control ensembles for information processing within the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(6). e1010255–e1010255. 5 indexed citations

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Rasero, Javier, et al.. (2022). Integrating multiple brain imaging modalities does not boost prediction of subclinical atherosclerosis in midlife adults. NeuroImage Clinical. 35. 103134–103134. 3 indexed citations

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Rubin, Jonathan E., et al.. (2020). The credit assignment problem in cortico‐basal ganglia‐thalamic networks: A review, a problem and a possible solution. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53(7). 2234–2253. 11 indexed citations

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Verstynen, Timothy, et al.. (2019). Reward-driven changes in striatal pathway competition shape evidence evaluation in decision-making. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(5). e1006998–e1006998. 22 indexed citations

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Diedrichsen, Jörn, et al.. (2019). Binding During Sequence Learning Does Not Alter Cortical Representations of Individual Actions. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(35). 6968–6977. 10 indexed citations

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Yeh, Fang‐Cheng, Sandip S. Panesar, David Fernandes, et al.. (2018). Population-averaged atlas of the macroscale human structural connectome and its network topology. NeuroImage. 178. 57–68. 389 indexed citations breakdown →

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Powell, Michael, Javier O. Garcia, Fang‐Cheng Yeh, Jean M. Vettel, & Timothy Verstynen. (2017). Local connectome phenotypes predict social, health, and cognitive factors. Network Neuroscience. 2(1). 86–105. 19 indexed citations

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Jarbo, Kevin, et al.. (2017). Sensory uncertainty impacts avoidance during spatial decisions. Experimental Brain Research. 236(2). 529–537. 3 indexed citations

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Verstynen, Timothy & Bradley Voytek. (2014). Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Greenberg, Adam S., Timothy Verstynen, Yu‐Chin Chiu, et al.. (2012). Visuotopic Cortical Connectivity Underlying Attention Revealed with White-Matter Tractography. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(8). 2773–2782. 84 indexed citations

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Verstynen, Timothy & Philip N. Sabes. (2011). How Each Movement Changes the Next: An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Fast Adaptive Priors in Reaching. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(27). 10050–10059. 165 indexed citations

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Diedrichsen, Jörn, et al.. (2003). Anticipatory adjustments in the unloading task: Is an efference copy necessary for learning?. Experimental Brain Research. 148(2). 272–276. 43 indexed citations

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