Research lab of Dr. Beth A. Lopour
University of California, Irvine, Biomedical Engineering
An up-to-date list of publications can be found at Google Scholar.
Note: Below, Lopouratory trainees are underlined in all publications.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
30. Blanca Romero Milà, Kavya Remakanthakurup Sindhu, John R. Mytinger, Daniel W. Shrey, and Beth A. Lopour. EEG biomarkers for the diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms. Front. Neurol. 13:960454, 2022.
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29. Sangwoo Han, Mayra Isabel Contreras, Afsheen Bazrafkan, Masih Rafi, Shirin M Dara, Ani Orujyan, Anais Panossian, Christian Crouzet, Beth A. Lopour, Bernard Choi, Robert H Wilson, Yama Akbari. Cortical anoxic spreading depolarization during cardiac arrest is associated with remote effects on peripheral blood pressure and postresuscitation neurological outcome. Neurocritical Care 37(1):139-154, 2022.
Access: Springer (open access)
28. Derek K. Hu, Parker W. Goetz, Phuc D. To, Cristal Garner, Amber L. Magers, Clare Skora, Nhi Tran, Tammy Yuen, Shaun A. Hussain, Daniel W. Shrey, and Beth A. Lopour. Evolution of Cortical Functional Networks in Healthy Infants. Front. Netw. Physiol. 2:893826, 2022.
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27. Michael D. Nunez, Krit Charupanit, Indranil Sen-Gupta, Beth A. Lopour*, Jack J. Lin*. Beyond rates: Time-varying dynamics of high frequency oscillations as a biomarker of the seizure onset zone. Journal of Neural Engineering 19:016034, 2022. *These authors contributed equally to this work.
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26. Makoto Miyakoshi, Hiroki Nariai, Rajsekar R. Rajaraman, Danilo Bernardo, Daniel W. Shrey, Beth A. Lopour, Myung Shin Sim, Richard J Staba, Shaun A Hussain. Automated preprocessing and phase-amplitude coupling analysis of scalp EEG discriminates infantile spasms from controls during wakefulness. Epilepsy Research, 178:106809, 2021.
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25. Lilian Y. Li, Jason Schiffman, Derek K. Hu, Beth A. Lopour, Elizabeth A. Martin. An Effortful Approach to Social Affiliation in Schizophrenia: Increased Theta and Alpha Connectivity During a Live Social Interaction. Brain Sciences 11(10):1346, 2021.
Access: MDPI (open access)
24. Rachel J. Smith, Derek K. Hu, Daniel W. Shrey, Rajsekar Rajaraman, Shaun A. Hussain, Beth A. Lopour. Computational characteristics of interictal electroencephalography associated with infantile spasms. Epilepsy Research 176:106704, 2021.
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23. Rachel J. Smith, Ehsan Alipourjeddi, Cristal Garner, Amy L. Maser, Daniel W. Shrey, Beth A. Lopour. Infant functional networks are modulated by state of consciousness and circadian rhythm. Network Neuroscience 5(2):614-630, 2021.
Access: MIT Press (open access)
22. Matine Azadian, Guilian Tian, Afsheen Bazrafkan, Niki Maki, Masih Rafi, Nikole Chetty, Monica Desai, Ieeshiah Otarola, Francisco Aguirre, Shuhab M. Zaher, Ashar Khan, Yusuf Suri, Minwei Wang, Beth A. Lopour, Oswald Steward, Yama Akbari. Overnight caloric restriction prior to cardiac arrest and resuscitation leads to improved survival and neurological outcome in a rodent model. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14:609670, 2021.
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21. Colin M McCrimmon, Aliza Riba, Cristal Garner, Amy L. Maser, Donald J. Phillips, Maija Steenari, Daniel W. Shrey, Beth A. Lopour. Automated detection of ripple oscillations in long-term scalp EEG from patients with infantile spasms. Journal of Neural Engineering, 18(1):016018, 2021.
Access: Author’s accepted version or IOP or bioRxiv
20. Krit Charupanit, Indranil Sen-Gupta, Jack J. Lin, Beth A. Lopour. Amplitude of high frequency oscillations as a biomarker of the seizure onset zone. Clinical Neurophysiology, 131(11):2542-2550, 2020.
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19. Kavya Remakanthakurup Sindhu, Richard J. Staba, Beth A. Lopour. Trends in the use of automated algorithms for the detection of high frequency oscillations in the epileptic brain. Epilepsia 61(8):1553-1569, 2020.
Access: Author’s accepted version or Wiley Online
18. Derek K. Hu, Lilian Y. Li, Beth A. Lopour, Elizabeth A. Martin. Schizotypy dimensions are associated with altered resting state alpha connectivity. Int J Psychophysiol, 155:175-183, Sep 2020.
17. Krit Charupanit, Indranil Sen-Gupta, Jack J. Lin, Beth A. Lopour. Detection of anomalous high frequency events in human intracranial EEG. Epilepsia Open, 5(2):263-273, 2020.
Access: Wiley Online (open access)
16. Derek K. Hu, Daniel W. Shrey, Beth A. Lopour. Effect of interictal epileptiform discharges on EEG-based functional connectivity networks. Clinical Neurophysiology, 2020, in press.
Access: Author’s accepted version or Elsevier
15. William Stacey, Mark Kramer, Kristin Gunnarsdottir, Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, Kareem Zaghloul, Sara Inati, Sridevi Sarma, Jennifer Stiso, Ankit N. Khambhati, and Danielle S. Bassett, Rachel J. Smith, Virginia B. Liu, Beth A. Lopour, Richard Staba. Emerging roles of network analysis for epilepsy. Epilepsy Research, 159:106255, Jan 2020.
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14. Rachel J. Smith, Hernando Ombao, Daniel W. Shrey, Beth A. Lopour. Inference on long-range temporal correlations in human EEG data. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019, to appear.
Access: Author’s accepted version or IEEE
13. Daniel W. Shrey, Olivia Kim McManus, Rajsekar Rajaraman, Hernando Ombao, Shaun A. Hussain, Beth A. Lopour. Strength and stability of functional networks predict treatment response in infants with epileptic spasms. Clinical Neurophysiology, 129(10), Oct 2018.
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12. Seyede Mahya Safavi, Beth A. Lopour, Pai H. Chou. Reducing the Computational Complexity of EEG Source Localization with Cortical Patch Decomposition and Optimal Electrode Selection. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 65(10):2298-2310, 2018.
Access: IEEE
11. Rachel J. Smith, Amanda Sugijoto, Neggy Rismanchi, Shaun A. Hussain, Daniel W. Shrey, Beth A. Lopour. Long-range temporal correlations reflect treatment response in the electroencephalogram of patients with infantile spasms. Brain Topography, 30(6):810-821, 2017.
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10. Krit Charupanit, Beth A. Lopour. A Simple statistical method for the automatic detection of high frequency oscillations in human intracranial EEG. Brain Topography, 30(6):724-738, 2017. DOI 10.1007/s10548-017-0579-6.
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9. Donald E. Lee, Lauren G. Lee, Danny Siu, Afsheen K. Bazrafkan, Maryam Hosseini, Beth A. Lopour, Yama Akbari. Correlates of consciousness at near-electrocerebral silence in an asphyxial cardiac arrest model. Brain Connectivity, 7(3): 172-181, April 2017.
Access: Mary Ann Leibert, Inc (open access)
8. Beth A. Lopour, Richard J. Staba, John M. Stern, Itzhak Fried, Dario L. Ringach. Characterization of long-range functional connectivity in epileptic networks by neuronal spike-triggered local field potentials. Journal of Neural Engineering, 13(2):026031, 2016.
Access: IOP Science or Author’s accepted version*
7. Vera M. Dadok, Heidi E. Kirsch, James W. Sleigh, Beth A. Lopour, Andrew J. Szeri. A probabilistic method for determining cortical dynamics during seizures. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 38(3):559-75, June 2015.
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6. Vera M. Dadok, Heidi E. Kirsch, James W. Sleigh, Beth A. Lopour, and Andrew J. Szeri. A probabilistic framework for a physiological representation of sleep state. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 37(1):105-24, Aug 2014.
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5. Beth A. Lopour, Abtine Tavassoli, Itzhak Fried, and Dario L. Ringach. Coding of information in the phase of local field potentials within human medial temporal lobe. Neuron (79)3:594-606, 2013.
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4. Beth A. Lopour, Savas Tasoglu, Heidi E. Kirsch, James W. Sleigh, and Andrew J. Szeri. A continuous mapping of EEG sleep states through association with a mesoscale cortical model. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 30(2): 471–487, 2011.
Access: Springer (open access)
3. Beth A. Lopour and Andrew J. Szeri. A model of feedback control for the charge-balanced suppression of epileptic seizures. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 28(3):375-387, 2010.
Access: Pubmed Central (open access)
2. Beth A. Lopour and Andrew J. Szeri. Adaptive sliding mode control of a charged particle in an ion trap. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 17(5):1083-1095, Sept 2009.
Access: IEEE
1. Mark A. Kramer, Beth A. Lopour, Heidi E. Kirsch, and Andrew J Szeri. Bifurcation control of a seizing human cortex. Physical Review E, 73: 041928 (2006).
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Conference Proceedings
7. Parker Goetz, Derek K. Hu, Phuc D. To, Cristal Garner, Tammy Yuen, Clare Skora, Daniel W. Shrey, Beth A. Lopour. Scalp EEG markers of normal infant development using visual and computational approaches. 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2021.
Access: Author’s accepted version or IEEE
6. Seyede Mahya Safavi, Ninaz Valisharifabad, Robert C. Sabino, Demi Tran, Jack J. Lin, Beth A. Lopour, Pai H. Chou. Investigation of morphological variations of photoplethysmography signal in human epilepsy. 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, pp. 2687-2690, 2020.
Access: Author’s accepted version or IEEE
5. Christine King, Beth A. Lopour. Introducing Neuroscience to High School Students through Low-Cost Brain Computer Interface Technologies. Annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2020.
Access: Author’s accepted version or ASEE
4. Rachel J. Smith, Daniel W. Shrey, Shaun A. Hussain, Beth A. Lopour. Quantitative characteristics of hypsarrhythmia in infantile spasms, Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 538-541, July 2018. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512348.
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3. Krit Charupanit, Michael D. Nunez, Danilo Bernardo, Martina Bebin, Darcy A. Krueger, Hope Northrup, Mustafa Sahin, Joyce Wu, Beth A. Lopour. Automated Detection of High Frequency Oscillations in Human Scalp Electroencephalogram, Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., 3116-3119, July 2018. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513033.
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2. Seyedemahya Safavi, SeungJae Lee, Beth A. Lopour, Pai H. Chou. Complexity reduction techniques in MUSIC-based EEG source localization. IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Image Processing (GlobalSIP), December 7, 2016 – December 9, 2016, Washington, D.C.
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1. Beth A. Lopour and Andrew J. Szeri. Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics: Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics, chapter 86: Spatial Considerations of Feedback Control for the Suppression of Epileptic Seizures, pages 495-500. Springer, 2008.
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* This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication/published in Journal of Neural Engineering. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it.