Suril Gohel, Ph.D.
Neuroinformatics lab at Rutgers focused on understanding human brain function during resting state and in task conditions, and how it is disrupted by cognitive challenges and in neuro-clinical populations. Specifically, we use multiband neuroimaging data to understand and quantify frequency specific changes in functional brain integration.
Research Overview
Decoding Brain Function Through Neuroinformatics
Using multiband fMRI acquisition sequences, we have shown the presence of functional integration between brain regions in BOLD signal frequencies higher than 0.1 Hz (Gohel et al. 2015).
These results have further led to quantification of frequency-specific differences in BOLD signal power in drug-naive schizophrenia patients compared to healthy volunteers (Gohel et al., 2018). Secondarily, our research focuses on using advanced neuroimaging data collection and analytical strategies to understand functional brain disruptions in clinical populations. We have successfully used functional neuroimaging to quantify brain disruptions in a variety of neurological disorders, including brain injury, (Gohel, Bharath et al., 2015), and brain tumors (Gohel et al. 2019) as well as mental health disorders including addiction (Filbey, Gohel, et al., 2018) and psychosis (Gohel et al., 2018).
Finally, we also focus on methods of development for quantifying neuronal and neurophysiological components of BOLD fMRI signal and its disruptions in clinical population.
Research Team
The people behind the science
Farzin Hajebrahimi
Post-doctoral Fellow
farzin.hajebrahimi@rutgers.edu
Prashant Ingle
Ph.D. student
pi45@shp.rutgers.edu
Funding & Grants
Supported Research Programs
Federal, foundation, and institutional funding advancing predictive modeling of treatment responses
NEI/NIH
$700,000
Convergence Insufficiency in Persisted Post-Concussion Syndrome
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Brief Overview of Aims: This study is aimed at investigating impact of office-based vergence accommodative therapy on subjects with in Persisted Post-Concussion CI symptoms.
Total Dollar Amount: $700,000
Funding Period: 2021-2025
- 2021-2025
Publications & Impact
Selected Research Publications
2020
The convergence insufficiency neuro-mechanism in adult population study (CINAPS) randomized clinical trial: Design, methods, and clinical data
Alvarez, T.L., Scheiman, M., Santos, E.M., Morales, C., Yaramothu, C., D’Antonio-Bertagnolli, J.V., Biswal, B.B., Gohel, S. and Li, X.
Ophthalmic epidemiology, 27(1), pp.52-72
2020
Test–retest reliability of functional magnetic resonance imaging activation for a vergence eye movement task
Morales, C., Gohel, S., Li, X., Scheiman, M., Biswal, B.B., Santos, E.M., Yaramothu, C. and Alvarez, T.L.
Neuroscience Bulletin, 36, pp.506-518
2018
Frequency specific resting state functional abnormalities in psychosis
Gohel, S., Gallego, J.A., Robinson, D.G., DeRosse, P., Biswal, B. and Szeszko, P.R.
Human brain mapping, 39(11), pp.4509-4518
2017
Do all roads lead to Rome? A comparison of brain networks derived from inter-subject volumetric and metabolic covariance and moment-to-moment hemodynamic correlations in old individuals
Di, X., Gohel, S., Thielcke, A., Wehrl, H.F., Biswal, B.B. and Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Brain Structure and Function, 222, pp.3833-3845
2015
Functional integration between brain regions at rest occurs in multiple-frequency bands
Gohel, S.R. and Biswal, B.B.
Brain connectivity, 5(1), pp.23-34
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