Academic Work

A. Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Solt S, Cotten JF, Cimenser A, Wong KFK, Chemali JJ, Brown EN. Anesthesiology. 115 (4): 791:803, 2011.

Methylphenidate Actively Induces Emergence from General Anesthesia.

2. Cimenser A, Purdon PL, Pierce ET, Walsh JL, Salazar-Gomez AF, Harrell PG, Tavares-Stoeckel C, Habeeb K, Brown EN. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(21):8832-7, 2011.

Tracking brain states under general anesthesia by using global coherence analysis.

3. Wong KFK, Smith A, Pierce E, Harrell PG, Walsh J, Salazar AF, Tavares C, Cimenser A, Prerau M, Mukamel E, Sampson A, Purdon PL, Brown EN. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011:4705-8.

Bayesian Analysis of Trinomial Data in Behavioral Experiments and Its Application to Human Studies of General Anesthesia.

4. Ching S, Cimenser A, Purdon PL, Brown EN, Kopell NJ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107(52) 22665-70, 2010.

Thalamocortical model for a propofol-induced alpha-rhythm associated with loss of consciousness.

5. Cimenser A, Pierce ET, Salazar-Gomez AF, Walsh J, Harrell PG, Tavares CL, Habeeb K, Purdon P and Brown EN. BMC Neurosci. 2009 10.1186/1471-2202-10-S1-P79.

Developing new neurophysiological signatures of general anesthesia induced loss of consciousness.

6. Yoon AC, Kathpalia V, D’Silva S, Cimenser A, Hua SY. Journal of Physiology. 586: 1005-1015, 2008.

Determining Ca2+ - sensor binding time and its variability in evoked neurotransmitter release.

7. Hua SY, Teylan M, Cimenser A. European Journal of Neuroscience. 25: 3217-3225 2007.

An antibody to synaptotagmin I facilitates synaptic transmission.

8. Tchernichovski O, Lints TJ, Deregnaucourt S, Cimenser A, Mitra PP. Ann NY Acad Sci 1016 348 2004.

Studying the Song Development: Process Rationale and Methods.

9. Friedberg R, Lee TD, Zhao WQ and Cimenser A. Ann. Physics 294 67 2001.

A Convergent Iterative Solution of the Quantum Double-Well Potential.

B. Articles In Preparation

10. Cimenser A, Purdon PL, Pierce ET, Walsh JL, Salazar-Gomez AF, Harrell PG, Tavares-Stoeckel C, Habeeb K, Brown EN.

Occipital Electroencephalogram Signatures of Loss and Recovery of Consciousness from General Anesthesia.

11. Cimenser A and Miller KD.

The Effects of Short-Term Synaptic Depression at Thalamocortical Synapses on Response Properties in Cat V1.

12. Cimenser A and Bokil H (To be presented at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Beijing, China, May 2012).

Spectral derivatives of the EEG during epileptic seizures.

C. Conference Abstracts

13. Cimenser A, Purdon PL, Pierce ET, Walsh JL, Salazar-Gomez AF, Harrell PG, Tavares-Stoeckel C, Habeeb K, Brown EN. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., November 2011.

Occipital Electroencephalogram Signatures of Loss and Recovery of Consciousness General Anesthesia.

14. Cimenser A, Pierce ET, Salazar-Gomez AF, Walsh J, Harrell PG, Tavares-Stoeckel CL, Habeeb K, Purdon P, Brown EN.  Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 2010.

Collective dynamics of high density EEG reveals a single dominant mode of activity during general anesthesia-induced unconsciousness.

15. Solt K, Cotten JF, Cimenser A, Brown EN. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 2010.

Distinct arousal states are induced by monoaminergic and cholinergic stimulation during isoflurane general anesthesia.

16. Ching S, Cimenser A, Purdon PL, Brown EN, Kopell NJ. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 2010.

Thalamocortical mechanisms for a propofol-induced alpha rhythm.

17. Cimenser A, Pierce ET, Salazar Gomez AF, Walsh J, Harrell PG, Tavares-Stoeckel CL, Habeeb K, Purdon P, Brown EN. The Annual Harvard Anesthesia Center Poster Session, Boston, MA, October 2010.

Neurophysiological signatures of general anesthesia-induced unconsciousness.

18. Solt K, Cotten JF, Cimenser A, Brown EN. Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society Anesthesiologists in San Diego, CA, October 2010.

Methylphenidate, but Not Physostigmine, Restores Righting in Rats during Isoflurane Hypnosis.

19. Solt K, Cotten JF, Cimenser A, Brown EN. Mechanisms of Anesthesia Conference in Toronto , Canada, June 2010.

Methylphenidate Produces Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence of Arousal During Isoflurane Hypnosis.

20. Solt K, Cotten JF, Cimenser A, Brown EN. 57th annual Association of University Anesthesiologists meeting in Denver, CO, April 2010.

Methylphenidate Restores the Righting Reflex in Rats During Continuous Exposure to Isoflurane.

21. Cimenser A, Pierce ET, Salazar-Gomez AF, Walsh J, Harrell PG, Tavares CL, Habeeb K, Purdon P and Brown EN. Eighteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting in Berlin, Germany, July 2009.

Developing new neurophysiological signatures of general anesthesia induced loss of consciousness.

22. Wood AW, Pierce ET, Cimenser A, Purdon PL, Simon MV, Cambria R, Merhar RC, Kwo J, Walsh JL, Harrell PG, Brown EN. Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, November 2008.

An analysis of electroencephalogram activity across states of arousal in patients undergoing general anesthesia for carotid endarterectomy surgery.

23. Cimenser A, Fitch WT, Mitra PP. Society for Neuroscience, Orlando FL, November 2002.

Hierarchical Structure in Mockingbird Song.

D. Talks

24. Cimenser A. Workshop in Anaesthesia and Sleep : Recent experimental and theoretical aspects. Organization For Computational Neurosciences, Berlin, Germany July 2009.

A new EEG correlate of general anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness.

25. Cimenser A. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY September 2007.

Short-Term Synaptic Depression at Geniculocortical Synapses.