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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.

My CV and papers' PDFs are here.

Publications

2009

Marpegan, Leone, Katz, Sobrero, Bekinschtein, Golombek.
Diurnal Variation in Endotoxin-Induced Mortality in Mice: Correlation with Proinflammatory Factors.
Chronobiology International (in press).

Manes, Torralva, Roca, Gleichgerrcht, Bekinschtein, and Hodges. Frontotemporal Dementia presenting as Pathological Gambling. Nature Neurology Review (in press).

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)

Rohaut, Faugeras, Bekinschtein, Wassouf, Chausson, Dehaene and Naccache. Prediction of awakening and detection of conscious processing: utility of cognitive evoked potentials. Reanimation (in press).

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 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.

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.

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 Manes Assessing Level of Consciousness and Cognitive Changes from Vegetative State to Full Recovery. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. August 2005 15:3/4 307-322.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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, 2003

Manuscripts submitted or under revision

--Bekinschtein, Manes, Villarreal, Owen and DellaMaggiore. Movement preparatory activity in the vegetative state: a diagnostic trial.

--Bekinschtein, Davis, Coleman, Owen. Why Clowns taste funny? A study on how we process jokes through semantic ambiguity.

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

--Retsa, Bekinschtein, Bak. Longer or shorter? attentional load in time perception.

CBU publications