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Wood Neuro Research Group

黑料正能量

Wood Neuro Research Group

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Publications featuring the PI are bolded, and all members advised by the PI are underlined.

Journal Publications (Peer-Reviewed)

  1. Abdelmohsen, L., Oden, A., Ibrahim, T., Novelli, E., Wood, S.*, Grande-Gutierrez, N.*, “Computational Fluid Dynamics to Assess Differences in the Cerebrovascular Hemodynamics of Adults with Sickle Cell Disease with and without and Stroke,” Annals of Biomedical Engineering, In Press.

  2.  Santini, T., Li, J., Liou, J., Wood, S., Aizenstein, H., Mettenburg, J., Novelli, E. M., Oluwole, O.*, Ibrahim, T. S*. “Accelerated brain atrophy in sickle cell anemia despite chronic exchange transfusion therapy – a case report.” Radiology Case Reports, 2026, April, 21 (4).

  3. Mossazghi, N., Farhat, N., Santini, T., Karim, H., Novelli, E., Ibrahim, T.S., Wood, S., “Investigating Disruptions in Information Flow due to Sickle Cell Disease using Granger Causality Analysis”, Human Brain Mapping, 2025, November, 46 (16), .

  4. Farhat, N.*, Li, J.*, Berardinelli, J., Stauffer, M., Sajewski, A., Alkhateeb, S., Schweitzer, N., Jin, H., Wood, S., Ikonomovic, M. D., Liou, J.-J., Aizenstein, H. J., Mettenburg, J. M., Santini, T., Wu, M., Kofler, J. K., & Ibrahim, T. S., “Bridging neuroimaging and neuropathology: A comprehensive workflow for targeted sampling of white matter lesions,” Journal of Neuroimaging, 2025, September, 35(5), e70094. .

  5. Disu, J. D. K., Jonassaint, C. R., Santini, T., Ibrahim, T. S., Novelli, E. M., & Wood, S., "Nociceptive and Neuropathic Pain Descriptors in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease are Associated with Overlap Activity in the Default, Salience and Somatosensory Networks. The Journal of Pain, 2025, 105532,  August, Volume 36,
  6. Fanta, A., Dosunmu-Ogunbi, A., Ruesch, A., Jonassaint, J., Disu, J.D., Xu, J.Z., Huppert, T., Kainerstorfer, J.M., Novelli, E.M. and Wood, S.Assessment of Cerebral Autoregulation and Cerebral Perfusion in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease using Frequency-Domain Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Journal of Applied Physiology, 2025. . *Awarded as APSelect, a collection from the American Physiological Society that showcases some of the best recently published articles in physiological research, for September 2025
  7. Roy, S., Wu, J., Cao, J., Disu, J., Bharadwaj, S., Meinert-Spyker, E., Grover, P., Kainerstorfer, J. and Wood, S., “Exploring the Impact and Influence of Melanin on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Measurement,," Journal of Biomedical Optics 29(S3), S33310 (25 September 2024). .  *Rated among the top journals published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics in 2024.
  8. Kwasa, J., Peterson, H., Jones, L., Karrobi, K., Parker, T., Nickerson, N., and Wood, S., “Demographic Reporting and Phenotypic Exclusion in fNIRS.” Frontiers in Neuroscience, Brain Imaging Methods. 2023, May.

Proceedings of Conferences and Symposia (Peer Reviewed)

  1.  Abdelmohsen, L., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Wood, S., Grande-Gutierrez, N.,“Personalized Cerebrovascular Modeling: Comparing Generalized and Patient-Specific Boundary Condition Approaches for Sickle Cell Disease,” World Congress of Biomechanics, Vancouver, Canada; 2026, July. (Accepted)

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    Abdelmohsen, L., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Wood, S., Grande-Gutierrez, N., “Personalized Cerebrovascular Modeling: Comparing Generalized and Patient-Specific Boundary Condition Approaches for Sickle Cell Disease,” World Congress of Biomechanics, Vancouver, Canada; 2026, July. (Accepted)

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    Roy, S., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Abdelmohsen, L., Wood, S., “Altered Sensory-Pain Transitions in Sickle Cell Disease Reflect Central Sensitization,” Journal of Sickle Cell Disease, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA; 2026, June. (Accepted)

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    Abdelmohsen, L., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Oden, A., Novelli, E., Jonassaint, C., Grande-Gutierrez, N., Wood, S., “Patient-Specific Modeling Reveals Stroke-Related Cerebral Hemodynamic Changes in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease,” Journal of Sickle Cell Disease, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA; 2026, June. (Accepted)* with Oral Presentation.

  5.  

    Mossazghi, N., Karim, H., Wood, S., Cognitive task performance reveals reduced structural–functional coupling in sickle cell disease,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Bordeaux, France; 2026, June. (Accepted)

  6.  

    Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Abdelmohsen, L., Meinert-Spyker, E., Wood, S., “Central Sensitization drives Cerebellar and Cortical Pain Phenotypes in Sickle Cell Disease,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Bordeaux, France; 2026, June. (Accepted)

  7.  

    Zhao, H., Salmon, W., Li, J., Bocchetta, M., Thurston, R.,  Wood, S., Santini, T., Ibrahim, T.S., “HypSeg: A Deep Learning Pipeline for Hypothalamic Subregion Segmentation Trained on High-Resolution 7 Tesla MRI, In Proc. of the 32nd International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa; 2026, 11-14, May. (Accepted).* with Oral Presentation

  8.  

    Appiah Anokye, C. N.Y.A., Roy, S., Issahaku, S., Wood, S., Mills, G., Kaufmann, E., E., “Advancing Peripheral Oxygen Saturation (Spo 2) Measurement Accuracy Using Biophysics-Informed Machine Learning Techniques to Mitigate Racial Disparities,” In Proc. of 16th OSA Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA; 2026, April 26-29. (Accepted) * with Oral Presentation.

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    Roy, S., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Abdelmohsen, L., Meinert-Spyker, E., Wood, S., “Altered Detection-Pain Transition Profiles and Cortical Signatures of Sensitization in Sickle Cell Disease,” The Journal of Pain, Philadelphia, PA; 2026, March. (Accepted)

  10.  

    Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Abdelmohsen, L., Alter, B., Wood, S., “Cerebellar and Cortical Correlates of Central Sensitization Define Pain Phenotypes In Sickle Cell Disease,” The Journal of Pain, Philadelphia, PA; 2026, March. (Accepted)

  11. Abdelmohsen, L., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Oden, A., Novelli, E., Jonassaint, C., Grande-Gutierrez, N., Wood, S., “Cerebral Arterial Flow Velocities Are Associated With Pain Burden and Cognitive Performance in Adults With Sickle Cell Disease: Preliminary Finding,” The Journal of Pain, Philadelphia, PA; 2026, March. (Accepted)

  12.  Duong, A., Roy, S., Meinert-Spyker, E., Cao, J., Kwasa, J., Kainerstorfer, J., Grover, P., Wood, S., “Novel Optode Sensor Development for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Systems and its use in Dark, Coarse, and Curly Hair,” Photonics West, San Francisco, CA; 2026, February. (Accepted) * with Oral Presentation.

  13.  Momoh, S., Tukakira, J. Meinert-Spyker, E., Candra, L., Ibrahim, TS, Novelli, E.M., Wu, M., Wood, S., Xu, J., “Sex-related differences in silent cerebral infarction burden among adults with sickle cell disease,” American Society of Hematology, Orlando, FL; 2025, December. (Accepted) with ASH Abstract Achievement top 10% acceptance rate.

  14.  Jallepalli, D., Roy, S., Meinert-Spyker, E., Xu, J., Wood, S. “Cerebral and Peripheral Microvascular Function in Sickle Cell Disease: Blood Flow and Oxygen Extraction via Diffuse Correlation and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy,” American Society of Hematology, Orlando, FL; 2025, December. (Accepted)

  15.  Kiriza, N., Abdelmohsen, L., Meinert-Spyker, E., Tukakira, J., Oluwole, F., Adiat, A., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Jonassaint, J., Olesugun Joseph, D. A., Osunkalu, V., Oluwole, O., DeCastro, L., Novelli, E., Adeyemo, T., Wood, S., Xu, J., “Raising hemoglobin level with erythropoietin improves cerebral but not muscle tissue oxygenation in patients with sickle cell disease,” American Society of Hematology, Orlando, FL; 2025, December. (Accepted) with ASH Abstract Achievement top 10% acceptance rate.

  16.  Roy, S., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Abdelmohsen, L., Wood, S., “Quantitative Sensory Testing and EEG Reveal Cortical Dysregulation in SCD Pain,” Society of Neuroscience, San Diego, CA; 2025, November. (Accepted)

  17. Mossazghi, N., Roy, S., Disu, J., Abdelmohsen, L., Meinert-Spyker, E., Wood, S., “Disrupted cognitive-flexibility networks due to sickle cell disease captured by simultaneous task-based fMRI-EEG,” Society of Neuroscience, San Diego, CA; 2025, November. (Accepted)

  18.  Soo, R., Abdelmohsen, L., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Wood, S., “Quantifying Skull Thickness from MR images of Adults with Sickle Cell Disease,” Biomedical Engineering Society, San Diego, CA; 2025, October. (Accepted)

  19.  Disu, J., Jonassaint, C., Santini, T., Ibrahim, T. S., Novelli, E., Wood, S., “Distinct Somatosensory Connectivity Patterns Linked to Cramping and Stabbing Pain in Sickle Cell Disease,” Biomedical Engineering Society, San Diego, CA; 2025, October. (Accepted) with Oral Presentation.

  20.  Roy, S., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Abdelmohsen, L., Wood, S., “EEG Spectral Signatures of Acute Pain‑Diven Dynamics in Sickle Cell Disease: A Feasibility Study,” Biomedical Engineering Society, San Diego, CA; 2025, October. (Accepted)

  21.  Appiah Anokye, C. N.Y.A., Mills, G., Issahaku, S., Roy, S., Wood, S., Kaufmann, E., E., “Advancing Peripheral Oxygen Saturation (Spo 2) Measurement Accuracy Using Biophysics-Informed Machine Learning Techniques to Mitigate Racial Disparities,” In: CBAS Biennial Science and Development Conference. [conference presentation] CBAS, 2025. Accra, Ghana.

  22. Mossazghi, N., Karim, H., Wood, S., “The neural basis of cognitive deficits in adults with sickle cell disease: a task-based fMRI study,” University of Pittsburgh's Department of Psychiatry Research Day, Pittsburgh, PA; 2025, June. (Accepted)  *Received Pitt Psychiatry Research Day Top Poster Presentation Award

  23. Roy, S., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Abdelmohsen, L., Wood, S.,   EEG Spectral Signatures of Sensory Dysfunction and Central Sensitization in Sickle Cell Disease: A Pilot Thermal Pain Study, Pain Day, Pittsburgh, PA, 2025, May. (Accepted) 

  24. Abdelmohsen, L., Oden, A., Soo, R., Ibrahim, T.S., Novelli, E., Wood, S., Grande-Gutierrez, N., “Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Cerebrovascular Hemodynamic Differences in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease: Comparing a Stroke and Non-Stroke Patient,” ASME SB3C Summer Bioengineering Conference, 2025, June. (Accepted) with Oral Presentation.

  25. Meinert-Spyker, E., Santini, T., Disu, J., Abdelmohsen, L., Wood, S., “A Pilot Study shows Altered Orientation Dispersion Index in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Brisbane, Australia; 2025, June. (Accepted)

  26. Mossazghi, N., Disu, J., Abdelmohsen, L., Meinert-Spyker, E., Karim, H., Wood, S., “The neural basis of cognitive deficits in adults with sickle cell disease: a task-based fMRI study,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Brisbane, Australia; 2025, June. (Accepted)

  27. Mossazghi, N., Roy, S., Disu, J., Abdelmohsen, L., Meinert-Spyker, E., Wood, S., “Increased synchronization in cognitive flexibly tasks in Sickle Cell Disease: A Feasibility Study,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Brisbane, Australia; 2025, June. (Accepted)

  28. Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Abdelmohsen, L., Wood, S., “Altered Pain Processing and Temporal Dynamics of Brain Microstates in Sickle Cell Disease Adults,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Brisbane, Australia; 2025, June. (Accepted) 

  29. Mossazghi, N., Jonassaint, J., Disu, J., Jonassaint, C., Wood, S., “Leveraging Painimation and Machine Learning to Identify Predictive Features of Chronic Pain,” 2025 USASP Meeting, Chicago, IL; 2025, April. (Accepted) 

  30. Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Abdelmohsen, L., Meinert-Spyker, E., Jonassaint, C., Wood, S., “Investigating Chronic Pain Mechanisms In Adult Sickle Cell Disease Measured By Functional Connectivity - A Feasible Study,” 2025 USASP Meeting, Chicago, IL; 2025, April. (Accepted)

  31. Abdelmohsen, L., Mossazghi, N., Roy, S., Disu, J., Meinert-Spyker, E., Saber, C., Xu, J. Z., Wood, S., “Assessing the Impact of Cognitive Load on Resting State Tissue Oxygen Saturation in Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease” American Society of Hematology, San Diego, CA; 2024, December. (Accepted)
  32. Meinert-Spyker, E., Saber, C., Disu, J., Abdelmohsen, L., Mossazghi, N., Xu, J. Z., Wood, S., “Patients with Sickle Cell Disease Experience a Heightened Hyperemic Response during the Vascular Occlusion Test,” American Society of Hematology, San Diego, CA; 2024, December. (Accepted)
  33. Disu, J., Abdelmohsen, L., Mossazghi, N., Meinert-Spyker, E., Saber, C., Xu, J. Z., Wood, S., “Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation and Blood Pressure Reveal the Severity of Autoregulatory Dysfunction in Sickle Cell Disease,” American Society of Hematology, San Diego, CA, 2024, December. (Accepted)
  34. Saber, C., Meinert-Spyker, E., Abdelmohsen, L., Philips, B., Disu, J., Mossazghi, N., Kiriza, N., Nouraie, S., Oluwole, O., DeCastro, L., Straub, A., Novelli, E., Wood, S., Xu, J., Z., “Higher Hemoglobin Level Correlates with Increased Tissue Oxygenation in a Comprehensive Profile of Hemorheology in Sickle Cell Disease,” American Society of Hematology, San Diego, CA; 2024, December. (Accepted)
  35. Kirages, A., Roy, S., Grover, P., Kainerstorfer, J., Wood, S., “Melanin Impacts Respiratory NIRS Signal Quality,” Biomedical Engineering Society, Baltimore, MD; 2024, October (Accepted)
  36. Disu, J., Farhat, N., Santini, T., Ibrahim, T.S., Jonassaint, C., Wood, S., “Exploring Brain Connectivity and Pain Variability in Sickle Cell Disease Using 7-Tesla Resting State Imaging,” Biomedical Engineering Society, Baltimore, MD, 2024, October. (Accepted)
  37. Gu, Y., Mossazghi, N., Wood, S., “Deep Learning Method for SCD rsfMRI Classification and Prediction,” 黑料正能量’s Biomedical Engineering Forum, Pittsburgh, PA, 2024, September. (Accepted)
  38. Disu, J., Farhat, N., Santini, T., Ibrahim, T.S., Jonassaint, C., Wood, S., “Exploring Brain Connectivity and Pain Variability in Sickle Cell Disease Using 7-Tesla Resting State Imaging,” 黑料正能量’s Biomedical Engineering Forum, Pittsburgh, PA; 2024, September. (Accepted)
  39. Roy, S., Mossazghi, N., Bulger, E., Lin, J., Saber, C., Shinn-Cunningham, B., Kainerstorfer, J., Xu., J. Z., Wood, S., “The potential of using a hemodynamic signal as a biomarker of cognitive deficit in sickle cell disease”, fNIRS 2024, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 2024, September. (Accepted)
  40. Mossazghi, N., Farhat, N., Santini, T., Oluwole, O., Novelli, E., Ibrahim, T.S., Wood, S., “Investigating Disruptions in Information Flow due to Sickle Cell Disease using Granger Causality Analysis.” Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, Korea; 2024, June. (Accepted)
  41. Meinert-Spyker, E., Santini, T., Bharadwaj, S., Jonassaint, C., Butters, M., Oluwole, O., Novelli, E., Ibrahim, T.S., and Wood, S., “Fractional Anisotropy Varies with Age, Cognition, and Depression in Patients with Sickle Cell,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, Korea; 2024, June. (Accepted)
  42. Abdelmohsen, L., Oden, A., Ibrahim, T., Novelli, E., Grande-Gutierrez, N., Wood, S., “Patient-specific Computational Modeling of Cerebral Blood Flow in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease” Biomedical Engineering Society; 2023, October. (Accepted)
  43. Cao, J., Mehta, N., Wu, J., Wood, S., Kainerstorfer, J., and Grover, P., “Scaling of Algorithmic Bias in Pulse Oximetry with Signal-to-Noise Ratio,” 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2023, July 24-28 (Accepted)
  44. Meinert-Spyker, E., Santini, T., Bharadwaj, S., Novelli, E., Ibrahim, T.S., and Wood, S., “Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) subtype and sex analysis of diffusion metrics on 7T MRI”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montréal, Canada; 2023, 22-26, July. (Accepted).
  45. Bharadwaj, S., Santini, T., Oluwole, B., Novelli, E., Ibrahim, T.S., and Wood, S., “Investigating accelerated brain aging in Sickle Cell Disease”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montréal, Canada; 2023, 22-26, July. (Accepted).
  46. Meinert-Spyker, E., Santini, T., Bharadwaj, S., Novelli, E., Ibrahim, T.S., and Wood, S., “Patients with sickle cell disease have altered brain fractional anisotropy, axial, mean and radial diffusivity quantified by 7T MRI”, In Proc. of the 32nd International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada; 2023,3-8, June. (Accepted).
  47. Bharadwaj, S., Santini, T., Disu, J., D., K., Oluwole, B., Novelli, E., Ibrahim, T.S., and Wood, S., “Analyzing Cortical Thickness and Volume in patients with Sickle Cell Disease using 7T-MRI”, In Proc. of the 32nd International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada; 2023,3-8, June. (Accepted).
  48. Kwasa, J., Peterson, H., Jones, L., Karrobi, K., Parker, T., Nickerson, N., and Wood, S., “Demographic Reporting and Phenotypic Exclusion in Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS): Another Data Crisis.” 2022 INS Annual Meeting. International Neuroethics Society. 2022, November 2-4 (Accepted). Awarded Best Virtual Abstract