2025
Yachou Y, Bouaziz N, Makdah G, Senova YS, Januel D, Pelissolo A, Mallet L, Leboyer M, Houenou J, Opitz A, Wischnewski M, Laidi C (2025). Transcranial direct current stimulation in patients with depression: An electric field modeling meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders.
Soleimani G, Conelea CA, Kuplicki R, Opitz A, Lim KO, Paulus MP, Ekhtiari H. (2025) Targeting VMPFC-amygdala circuit with TMS in substance use disorder: A mechanistic framework. Addiction Biology.
Ren C, Kung S, Croarkin PE, Opitz A, Forester BP, Hermida AP, Mueller M, Pagali SR, Petrides G, Seiner SJ, Yoon IA, Lapid MI. (2025) Optimizing Electroconvulsive Therapy With E-Field Modeling: A Narrative Review. The Journal of ECT.
Soleimani G, Nitsche MA, Hanlon CA, Lim KO, Opitz A, Ekhtiari H. (2025) Four dimensions of individualization in brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders: context, target, dose, and timing. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Berger TA, Wischnewski M, Opitz A, Alekseichuk I. (2025) Human head models and populational framework for simulating brain stimulations. Scientific Data.
Berger TA, Mantell K, Haigh Z, Perera N, Alekseichuk I, Opitz A. (2025) Comprehensive evaluation of U-Net based transcranial magnetic stimulation electric field estimations. Scientific Reports.
2024
Wischnewski M, Shirinpour S, Alekseichuk I, Lapid MI, Nahas Z, Lim KO, Croarkin PE, Opitz A (2024). Real-time TMS-EEG for brain state-controlled research and precision treatment: a narrative review and guide. Journal of Neural Engineering.
Perera ND, Wischnewski M, Alekseichuk I, Shirinpour S, Opitz A (2024). State dependent motor cortex stimulation reveals distinct mechanisms for corticospinal excitability and cortical responses. eNeuro.
Kazinka R, Choi DS, Opitz A, Lim KO (2024). Individuals with psychosis receive less electric field strength during transcranial direct current stimulation compared to healthy controls. Schizophrenia (Heidelb).
Caulfield KA, LaPorta SM, Walton RM, Collins EV, Summers PM, Cho JY, Antonucci MU, Opitz A, George MS, McTeague LM (2024). Mitigating the risk of overdosing TMS due to coil-to-scalp distance: An electric field modeling study. Brain Stimulation.
Kazinka, R., Roediger, D., Xuan, L., Lingyan, Y., Mueller, BA., Camchong, J., Opitz, A., MacDonald, A., Lim, KO. (2024). tDCS-enhanced cognitive training improves attention and alters connectivity in control and somatomotor networks: a triple blind study. NeuroImage.
Berger, TA., Xu, T., & Opitz, A. (2024). Systematic cross-species comparison of prefrontal cortex functional networks targeted via Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Imaging Neuroscience.
Zhao Z, Shirinpour S, Tran H, Wischnewski M, Opitz A (2024). Intensity- and frequency-specific effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation are explained by network dynamics. J Neural Eng.
Wischnewski M, Berger TA, Opitz A, Alekseichuk I (2024). Causal functional maps of brain rhythms in working memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
Croarkin PE, Opitz A (2024). Advances in precision neuromodulation: electroconvulsive therapy amplitude titration. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Wischnewski M, Berger TA, Opitz A (2024). Meta-modeling the effects of anodal left prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory performance. Imaging Neuroscience 2, 1-14.
Wischnewski M*, Tran H*, Zhao Z, Shirinpour S, Haigh ZJ, Rotteveel J, Perera ND, Alekseichuk I, Zimmermann J, Opitz A (2024). Induced neural phase precession through exogenous electric fields. Nature Communications;15(1):1687. *Contributed Equally
2023
Perera N, Alekseichuk I, Shirinpour S, Wischnewski M, Linn G, Masiello K, Butler B, Russ B, Schroeder C, Falchier A, Opitz A (2023). Dissociation of centrally and peripherally induced transcranial magnetic stimulation effects in nonhuman primates. Journal of Neuroscience. 13;43(50):8649-8662.
Conelea C, Greene DJ, Alexander J, Houlihan K, Hodapp S, Wellen B, Francis S, Mueller B, Hendrickson T, Tseng A, Chen M, Fiecas M, Lim K, Opitz A, Jacob S. (2023). The CBIT + TMS trial: study protocol for a two-phase randomized controlled trial testing neuromodulation to augment behavior therapy for youth with chronic tics. Trials 24(1):439.
Mantell KE, Perera ND, Shirinpour S, Puonti O, Xu T, Zimmermann J, Falchier A, Heilbronner SR, Thielscher A, Opitz A. (2023). Anatomical details affect electric field predictions for non-invasive brain stimulation in non-human primates. Neuroimage 279:120343.
Soleimani G, Kuplicki R, Camchong J, Opitz A, Paulus MP, Lim KO, Ekhtiari H. (2023). Are we really targeting and stimulating DLPFC by placing transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) electrodes over F3/F4? Hum Brain Mapping.
Lee S, Shirinpour S, Alekseichuk I, Perera N, Linn G, Schroeder CE, Falchier AY, Opitz A. (2023). Predicting the phase distribution during multi-channel transcranial alternating current stimulation in silico and in vivo. Computers in Biology and Medicine.
Wischnewski M.*, Alekseichuk I.* ,Opitz A. (2023). Neurocognitive, physiological, and biophysical effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. *Contributed Equally
2022
Turi Z., Hananeia N., Shirinpour S., Opitz A., Jedlicka P., Vlachos A. (2022). Dosing transcranial magnetic stimulation of the primary motor and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices with multi-scale modeling. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16:929814
Wischnewski M., Haigh ZJ., Shirinpour S., Alekseichuk I., Opitz A. (2022) The phase of sensorimotor mu and beta oscillations has the opposite effect on corticospinal excitability. Brain Stimulation. 15(5):1093-1100.
Alekseichuk I, Wischnewski M, Opitz A. (2022). A minimum effective dose for (transcranial) alternating current stimulation. Brain Stimulation 28;S1935-861
Ekhtiari, H., Ghobadi-Azbari, P., Thielscher, A., Antal, A., Li, L. M., Shereen, A Duke, … Opitz, A. et. al. (2022). A Checklist for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Concurrent tES-fMRI Studies (ContES Checklist): A Consensus Study and Statement. Nature Protocols, 1-24
Tran, H., Shirinpour, S., Opitz, A. (2022). Effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on spiking activity in computational models of single neocortical neurons. NeuroImage, 250, 118953.
2021
Shirinpour, S., Hananeia, N., Rosado, J., Tran, H. Galanis, C., Vlachos, A., Jedlicka, P., Queisser, G., Opitz, A. (2021). Multi-scale Modeling Toolbox for Single Neuron and Subcellular Activity under (repetitive) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Brain Simulation, 140, 1470-1482.
Wischnewski, M., Mantell, K. E., & Opitz, A. (2021). Identifying regions in prefrontal cortex related to working memory improvement: a novel meta-analytic method using electric field modeling. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 130, 147-161.
Mantell K, Sutter E, Shirinpour S, Nemanich S, Lench D, Gillick B, Opitz A (2021). Evaluating transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) induced electric fields in pediatric stroke. NeuroImage: Clinical 29
2020
Johnson L*, Alekseichuk I*, Krieg J, Doyle A, Yu Y, Vitek J, Johnson M, Opitz A (2020). Dose-dependent effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on spike timing in awake nonhuman primates. Science Advances 6(36)
Shirinpour S, Alekseichuk I, Mantell K, Opitz A (2020). Experimental evaluation of methods for real-time EEG phase-specific transcranial magnetic stimulation. Journal of Neural Engineering 17(4)
Boayue NM, Csifcsak G, Aslaksen P, Turi Z, Antal A, Groot J, Hawkins GE, Forstmann B, Opitz A, Thielscher A, Mittner M (2020). Increasing propensity to mind‐wander by transcranial direct current stimulation? A registered report. European Journal of Neuroscience 51(3)
2019
Li LM, Violante IR, Zimmerman K, Leech R, Hampshire A, Patel M, Opitz A, McArthur D, Jolly A, Carmichael DW, Sharp DJ (2019). Traumatic axonal injury influences the cognitive effect of non-invasive brain stimulation. Brain 142(10)
Alekseichuk I, Falchier AY, Linn G, Xu T, Milham MP, Schroeder CE, Opitz A (2019). Electric field dynamics in the brain during multi-electrode transcranial electric stimulation. Nature Communications 10
Alekseichuk I, Shirinpour S, Mantell K, Opitz A (2019). Comparative modeling of transcranial magnetic and electric stimulation in mouse, monkey, and human. NeuroImage 194
Turi Z, Csifcsak G, Boayue NM, Aslaksen P, Antal A, Paulus W, Groot J, Hawkins GE, Forstmann B, Opitz A, Thielscher A, Mittner M (2019). Blinding is compromised for transcranial direct current stimulation at 1 mA for 20 min in young healthy adults. European Journal of Neuroscience 50(8)
Li LM, Violante IR, Leech R, Ross E, Hampshire A, Opitz A, Rothwell JC, Carmichael DW, Sharp DJ (2019). Brain state and polarity dependent modulation of brain networks by transcranial direct current stimulation. Human Brain Mapping 40(3)
Li LM, Violante IR, Leech R, Hampshire A, Opitz A, McArthur D, Carmichael DW, Sharp DJ (2019). Cognitive enhancement with Salience Network electrical stimulation is influenced by network structural connectivity. NeuroImage 185
2018
Liu A, Vöröslakos M, Kronberg G, Henin S, Krause MR, Huang Y, Opitz A, Mehta A, Pack CC, Krekelberg B, Berenyi A, Parra LC, Melloni L, Devinsky O, Buzsaki G (2018). Immediate neurophysiological effects of transcranial electrical stimulation. Nature Communications 9
Opitz A, Yeagle E, Thielscher A, Schroeder C, Mehta AD, Milham MP (2018). On the importance of precise electrode placement for targeted transcranial electric stimulation. NeuroImage 181
Xu T, Falchier A, Sullivan EL, Linn G, Ramirez JSB, Ross D, Feczko E, Opitz A, Bagley J, Sturgeon D, Earl E, Miranda-Domínguez O, Perrone A, Craddock RC, Schroeder CE, Colcombe S, Fair DA, Milham MP (2018). Delineating the macroscale areal organization of the macaque cortex In vivo. Cell Reports 23(2)
2017
Kunz P, Antal A, Hewitt M, Neef A, Opitz A, Paulus W (2017). 5 kHz transcranial alternating current stimulation: lack of cortical excitability changes when grouped in a theta burst pattern Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10
Opitz A, Falchier A, Linn GS, Milham MP, Schroeder CE (2017). Limitations of ex vivo measurements for in vivo neuroscience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(20)
Opitz A, WJ Tyler (2017). No implant needed. Nature Biomedical Engineering 1(8)
Faber H, Opitz A, Müller-Dahlhaus F, Ziemann U (2017). Polarity-independent effects of tDCS on paired associative stimulation-induced plasticity. Brain Stimulation 10(6)
2016
Opitz A, Fox MD, Craddock RC, Colcombe S, Milham MP (2016). An integrated framework for targeting functional networks via transcranial magnetic stimulation. NeuroImage 127
Lenz M, Galanis C, Müller-Dahlhaus F, Opitz A, Wierenga CJ, Szabó G, Ziemann U, Deller T, Funke K, Vlachos A (2016). Repetitive magnetic stimulation induces plasticity of inhibitory synapses. Nature communications 7
Cabral-Calderin Y, Williams KA, Opitz A, Dechent P, Wilke M. (2016). Transcranial alternating current stimulation modulates spontaneous low frequency fluctuations as measured with fMRI. NeuroImage 141
Opitz A, Falchier A, Yan CG, Yeagle E, Linn G, Megevand P, Thielscher A, Ross DA, Milham MP, Mehta A, Schroeder CE (2016). Spatiotemporal structure of intracranial electric fields induced by transcranial electric stimulation in humans and nonhuman primates. Scientific reports
Xu T, Opitz A, Craddock RC, Wright MJ, Zuo XN, Milham MP (2016). Assessing Variations in Areal Organization for the Intrinsic Brain: From Fingerprints to Reliability. Cerebral Cortex 26
2015
Turi Z,* Mittner M*, Opitz A*, Popkes M, Paulus W, Antal A (2015). Towards functional differentiation between prefrontal and striatal components of instrumental learning by prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation. Cortex 63
Opitz A, Paulus W, Will S, Antunes A, Thielscher A (2015). Anatomical determinants of the electric field during transcranial direct current stimulation. NeuroImage 109
Polanía R, Moisa M, Opitz A, Grueschow M, Ruff CC (2015). The precision of value-based choices depends causally on fronto-parietal phase coupling. Nature communications 6
2014
Chaieb L, Antal A, Pisoni A, Saiote C, Opitz A, Ambrus GG, Focke N, Paulus W. (2014). Safety of 5 kHz tACS. Brain Stimulation 7
Legon W, Sato TF, Opitz A, Mueller J, Barbour A, Williams A, Tyler WJ (2014). Transcranial focused ultrasound modulates the activity of primary somatosensory cortex in humans. Nature Neuroscience 17
Saiote C, Goldschmidt T, Timäus C, Steenwijk M.D., Opitz A, Antal A, Paulus W, Nitsche M. (2014). Impact of transcranial direct current stimulation on fatigue in multiple sclerosis. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience 32
Opitz A*, Zafar N*, Bockermann V, Rohde V, Paulus W. (2014). Validating computationally predicted TMS stimulation areas using direct electrical stimulation in patients with brain tumors near precentral regions. Neuroimage: Clinical 4
Romero Lauro L, Rosanova M, Mattavelli G, Convento S, Pisoni A, Opitz A, Bolognini N, Valla G. (2014). TDCS increases cortical excitability: Direct evidence from TMS–EEG. Cortex 58
Mueller J, Legon W, Opitz A, Sato TF, Tyler WJ (2014). Transcranial focussed ultrasound modulates intrinsic and evoked EEG dynamics. Brain Stimulation 7
Opitz A*, Legon W*, Mueller J, Barbour A, Paulus W, Tyler WJ (2014). Is sham cTBS real cTBS? The effect on EEG dynamics. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2013
Windhoff M, Opitz A, Thielscher A (2013). Electric field calculations in brain stimulation based on finite elements: an optimized processing pipeline for the generation and usage of accurate individual head models. Human Brain Mapping 34
Paulus W, Opitz A (2013). Ohm's law and tDCS over the centuries. Clinical Neurophysiology 124
Opitz A, Legon W, Rowlands A, Bickel WK, Paulus W, Tyler WJ (2013). Physiological observations validate finite element models for estimating subject-specific electric field distributions induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human motor cortex. NeuroImage 81
2012
Thielscher A, Opitz A, Will S, Windhoff W (2012). Electric field calculations in brain stimulation: The importance of geometrically accurate head models. Biomedical Engineering/Biomedizinische Technik 57
Legon W, Rowlands A, Opitz A, Sato TF, Tyler WJ (2012). Pulsed ultrasound differentially stimulates somatosensory circuits in humans as indicated by EEG and FMRI. PloS One 7
2011
Thielscher A, Opitz A, Windhoff M (2011). Impact of the gyral geometry on the electric field induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation. NeuroImage 54
Opitz A, Windhoff M, Heidemann RM, Turner R, Thielscher A (2011). How the brain tissue shapes the electric field induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation. NeuroImage 58