Publications de Farnaz Delavari

A Longitudinal and Reproducible Anti-coactivation Pattern Between the Cerebellum and the Ventral Tegmental Area Relates to Apathy in Schizophrenia

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Farnaz Delavari

Negative symptoms of schizophrenia lack effective treatments. Anomalies in the reward system and cerebellum have been linked to these symptoms. The cerebellum modulates reward circuitry via the ventral tegmental area (VTA). The "cognitive dysmetria theory" ...

Elsevier BV2025

Multivariate deep phenotyping reveals behavioral correlates of non-restorative sleep in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

Farnaz Delavari

Converging evidence suggests that sleep disturbances can directly contribute to a transdiagnostic combination of behavior and neurocognitive difficulties characterizing most forms of psychopathology. However, it remains unclear how the growing comprehensio ...

ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD2025

Limbic-Sensorimotor Tug of War for the Hippocampus: Dynamic Functional Connectivity as a Transdiagnostic Vulnerability Marker in Offspring of Emotion Dysregulation Patients

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Farnaz Delavari

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Elsevier BV2025

Thalamic contributions to psychosis susceptibility: Evidence from co-activation patterns accounting for intra-seed spatial variability (μCAPs)

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thomas William Arthur Bolton, Nada Kojovic, Farnaz Delavari

The temporal variability of the thalamus in functional networks may provide valuable insights into the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. To address the complexity of the role of the thalamic nuclei in psychosis, we introduced micro-co-activation patterns ( ...

Wiley2024

Transdiagnostic markers across the psychosis continuum: a systematic review and meta-analysis of resting state fMRI studies

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Farnaz Delavari

Psychotic symptoms are among the most debilitating and challenging presentations of severe psychiatric diseases, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and bipolar disorder. A pathophysiological understanding of intrinsic brain activity underlying psychos ...

Frontiers Media Sa2024

Amygdala subdivisions exhibit aberrant whole-brain functional connectivity in relation to stress intolerance and psychotic symptoms in 22q11.2DS

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Halima Rafi, Farnaz Delavari

The amygdala is a key region in emotional regulation, which is often impaired in psychosis. However, it is unclear if amygdala dysfunction directly contributes to psychosis, or whether it contributes to psychosis through symptoms of emotional dysregulation ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Dynamic connectivity of hippocampal parcels unveils vulnerability markers in offspring of bipolar patients

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Farnaz Delavari

WILEY2023

Altered Cerebellar Ventral Tegmental Area Functional Connectivity With Decreased Social Motivation in Schizophrenia Using Resting State Bold Signal Variability - Preliminary Results

Farnaz Delavari

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2023

The continuum of attention dysfunction: Evidence from dynamic functional network connectivity analysis in neurotypical adolescents

Farnaz Delavari

The question of whether attention-related disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are best understood as clinical categories or as extreme ends of a spectrum is an ongoing debate. Assessing individuals with varying degrees of atte ...

2023

Neural Basis of Internal Attention in Adults with Pure and Comorbid ADHD

Halima Rafi, Farnaz Delavari

Objective: To examine whether putatively atypical neuronal activity during internal attention in ADHD yields insights into processes underlying emotion dysregulation. Methods: We used a word processing paradigm to assess neural activations in adults with A ...

2023

The Cerebellum and Cognitive Function: Anatomical Evidence from a Transdiagnostic Sample

Charles Laidi, Farnaz Delavari

Multiple lines of evidence across human functional, lesion, and animal data point to a cerebellar role, in particular of crus I, crus II, and lobule VIIB, in cognitive function. However, a mapping of distinct facets of cognitive function to cerebellar stru ...

Springer2023

Neural substrates of psychosis revealed by altered dependencies between brain activity and white-matter architecture in individuals with 22q11 deletion syndrome

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti, Emeline Mullier, Karin Bortolin, Farnaz Delavari

Background: Dysconnectivity has been consistently proposed as a major key mechanism in psychosis. Indeed, disruptions in large-scale structural and functional brain networks have been associated with psychotic symptoms. However, brain activity is largely c ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Exploring associations between diurnal cortisol, stress, coping and psychopathology in adolescents and young adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Olivia Zanoletti, Maude Schneider, Farnaz Delavari

Background: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is a neurogenetic condition associated to a high risk for psychiatric disorders, including psychosis. Individuals with 22q11DS are thought to experience increased levels of chronic stress, which could lead to ...

2022

Dysmaturation Observed as Altered Hippocampal Functional Connectivity at Rest Is Associated With the Emergence of Positive Psychotic Symptoms in Patients With 22q11 Deletion Syndrome

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maude Schneider, Daniela Maria Zöller, Karin Bortolin, Farnaz Delavari

BACKGROUND: Hippocampal alterations are among the most replicated neuroimaging findings across the psychosis spectrum. Moreover, there is strong translational evidence that preserving the maturation of hippocampal networks in mice models prevents the progr ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2021

TbCAPs: A toolbox for co-activation pattern analysis

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thomas William Arthur Bolton, Eva Blondiaux, Constantin Tuleasca, Gwladys Rey, Julian Gaviria, Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho, Baptiste Gauthier, Lukasz Dawid Smigielski, Elenor Morgenroth, Farnaz Delavari

Functional magnetic resonance imaging provides rich spatio-temporal data of human brain activity during task and rest. Many recent efforts have focussed on characterising dynamics of brain activity. One notable instance is co-activation pattern (CAP) analy ...

2020