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Tristan Bekinschtein

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Tristan Bekinschtein

Contact details

E-mail address: tristan.bekinschtein@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 531)
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062
Address: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF

Research areas

Non-classical approaches to the study of physiology and cognition of consciousness.

I am an independent research since March 2011

My CV and papers' PDFs are here.

Publications

2012


Ibáñez, Cardona, Vidal Dos Santos, Blenkmann, Aravena, Roca, Hurtado, Nerguizian, Amoruso, Gómez-Arévalo, Chade, Dubrovsky, Gershanik, Kochen, Glenberg, Manes and Bekinschtein. Motor-Language Coupling: Direct Evidence from Early Parkinson's Disease and intracranial cortical recordings. Cortex, (in press)


Chennu and Bekinschtein.Arousal modulates auditory attention and awareness: insights from sleep, sedation and disorders of consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology (Consciousness Research).2012 (3) 0065.
D Cruse, S Chennu, C Chatelle, D Fernández-Espejo, TA Bekinschtein, JD. Pickard, S Laureys, and AM Owen. The relationship between aetiology and covert cognition in the minimally-conscious state. Neurology 2012 Mar 13;78(11):816-22

Faugeras, Rohaut, Weiss, Bekinschtein, Galanaud Puybasset, Bolgert, Sergent, Cohen, Naccache. Event-related potentials elicited by violations of auditory regularities in patients with impaired consciousness. Neuropsychologia. 2012 Feb;50(3):403-18.

2011

-C Wacongne, E Labyt, V van Wassenhove, T Bekinschtein, L Naccache and S Dehaene.Evidence hierarchy of predictions and prediction errors in human cortex Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Dec 20;108(51):20754-9.

-Bekinschtein TA, Peeters M, Shalom D and Sigman M (2011). Sea slugs, subliminal pictures and vegetative state patients: Boundaries of consciousness in classical conditioning.. Front. Psychology 2:337.

-Goupil and Bekinschtein.Cognitive processing during the transition to Sleep. Archives Italiennes de Biologie (in press).

-King, Bekinschtein and Dehaene. Preserved Feedforward But Impaired Top-Down Processes in the Vegetative State? Inconclusive evidence. Science. 2011 Dec 2;334(6060):1203. Technical Commentary on Boly et al, 2011.

-Cruse, Chennu, Chatelle, Bekinschtein, Fernandez-Espejo, Pickard, Laureys and Owen. Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state. Lancet. 2011 Dec 17;378(9809):2088-94.

-Manes F, Torralva T, Ibáñez A, Roca M, Bekinschtein T, Gleichgerrcht E. Decision-Making in Frontotemporal Dementia: Clinical, Theoretical and Legal Implications. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2011 Aug 4;32(1):11-17.

-Bekinschtein, Davis, Coleman, Rodd and Owen.Why Clowns taste funny? A study on how we process jokes through semantic ambiguity. Journal J Neurosci. 2011 Jun 29;31(26):9665-71.

-Faugeras F, Rohaut B, Weiss N, BekinschteinTA, Galanaud D, Puybasset L, Bolgert F, Sergent C, Cohen L, Dehaene S, Naccache L. Probing consciousness with event-related potentials in the vegetative state. Neurology. 2011 Jul 19;77(3):264-8.


-Bekinschtein, Manes, Villarreal, Owen and DellaMaggiore. (2011) fMRI reveals movement preparatory brain activity in presumably unconscious vegetative state patients. Front Hum Neurosci. 2011 Jan 27;5:5




 

 2010


Bekinschtein and Ibanez. 
Explaining seeing? (2010) disentangling qualia from perceptual organization.
Cognitive Neuroscience (in press)


Pegado F, Bekinschtein T, Chausson N, Dehaene S, Cohen L, Naccache L. 
Probing the lifetimes of auditory novelty  detection processes. 
Neuropsychologia. 2010 Aug;48(10):3145-3154.


Fernandez, Bekinschtein, Monti, Coleman and Owen 
 Diffusion weighted imaging distinguishes a cohort of minimally conscious from vegetative state patients.
 Neuroimage. 2010 Aug 20. 


Manes, Torralva, Roca, Gleichgerrcht, Bekinschtein, and Hodges.  
Frontotemporal Dementia presenting as Pathological Gambling. 
Nature Neurology Review 2010 Jun;6(6):347-52. 


 

 2009

Marpegan, Leone, Katz, Sobrero, Bekinschtein, Golombek.
Diurnal Variation in Endotoxin-Induced Mortality in Mice: Correlation with Proinflammatory Factors.
Chronobiology International Oct;26(7):1430-42.

Bekinschtein, Golombek, Simonetta, Coleman & Manes.

Circadian rhythms in the Vegetative State.

Brain Injury 2009, Vol. 23, No. 11, Pages 915-919

Bekinschtein T, Cologan V, Dahmen B, Golombek D. 

You are only coming through in waves: wakefulness variability and assessment in patients with impaired consciousness. 

Prog Brain Res. 2009;177:171-89.

 

Bekinschtein, Shalom, Forcato, Herrera, Manes and Sigman. 

Classical conditioning in the vegetative and minimally conscious state. 

Nature Neuroscience 12, 1343 - 1349 (2009)  Official Link. BBC, New Scientist, The Scientist, etc, X.

 

  Rohaut, Faugeras, Bekinschtein, Wassouf, Chausson, Dehaene and Naccache. 

  Prediction of awakening and detection of conscious processing: utility of cognitive evoked potentials. 

  Reanimation 18(7):659-663

Bekinschtein, Cardozo, Manes.

Strategies of Buenos Aires Waiters to Enhance Memory Capacity in a Real-life Setting.

Behavioral Neurology 2009, 20 (4);65-70. X

Coleman, Bekinschtein, Monti, Owen and Pickard.

A multimodal approach to the assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness.

Prog Brain Res. 2009;177:231-48.X

Torralva, Roca, Gleichgerrcht, Bekinschtein and Facundo Manes.

A Neuropsy Battery to Detect Specific Executive and Social Cognitive impairments in Early Frontotemporal Dementia.

Brain. 132(Pt 5):1299-309.

Bekinschtein, Dehaene, Rohaut, Tadel, Cohen, Naccache .

Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities.

PNAS Feb 2009 X

2008

Bekinschtein and Manes. Neurobiology of consciousness. Vertex. 2008 Mar-Apr;19(78):35-44. Bekinschtein_Manes_conciencia.pdf

Bekinschtein and Manes. Evaluating brain function in patients with disorders of consciousness. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 2008, 75:71-76.

Bekinschtein, Coleman, Niklison, Pickard and Manes. Can electromyography objectively detect voluntary movement in Disorders of Consciousness? J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2008 79: 826-8.bekinschtein_et_al_JNNP2007.pdf

2003-7

Torralva, Kipps, Hodges, Clark, Bekinschtein, Roca, Calcagno, Manes. The relationship between affective decision making and theory of mind in the frontal variant of Frontotemporal Dementia. Neuropsychologia. 2007 Jan 28;45(2):342-9.TOM_DM_accepted.pdf

Leone, Marpegan, Bekinschtein, Costas and golombek. Suprachiasmatic astrocytes as an interface for immune-circadian signalling J Neurosci Res. 2006 Nov 15;84(7):1521-7.

Bekinschtein, Tiberti, Niklison, Tamashiro, Ron, Carpintiero, Villarreal, Forcato, Leiguarda and ManesAssessing Level of Consciousness and Cognitive Changes from Vegetative State to Full Recovery. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. August 2005 15:3/4 307-322. fromVStofullrecovery_accepted.pdf

Marpegan, Bekinschtein, Costas and Golombek. Circadian responses to endotoxin treatment in mice. Journal of Neuroimmunology 2005 Mar;160(1-2):102-9.endotoxin.pdf

Bekinschtein , Fernandez, Goldin, Negro and Golombek. Seasonality in a human native population.Biological Rhythms Research 2004, Vol. 35 Nos 1/2. pp. 145–152.seasonality_accepted.pdf

Bekinschtein, Leiguarda, Sigman, Carpintiero, Armony, Owen, Manes. Emotion processing in the Minimally Conscious State. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2004 May;75(5):788.MCS_emotion_accepted.pdf

Marpegan, Bekinschtein, Ferreyra, Freudenthal, Romano and Golombek. Participation of relA/p65 transcription factor in the mammalian circadian system. Neurosci Lett. 2004 Mar 18;358(1):9-12.paperNFkB.pdf

Capizzano, Acion, Bekinschtein, Furman, Gomila and Starkstein. White matter hyperintensities are significantly associated with cortical atrophy in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 2004 Jun;75(6):822-7.leukoaraiosis.pdf

Golombek, Ferreyra, Agostino, Murad, Rubio, Pizzio, Katz, Marpegan and Bekinschtein. From light to genes: moving the hands of the circadian clock. Frontiers in Bioscience 8, s285-293, May 1, 2003fromlighttogenes.pdf

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