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Tara Pirnia

MD/PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Verified email at andrew.cmu.edu
Cited by 806

Structural plasticity of the hippocampus and amygdala induced by electroconvulsive therapy in major depression

SH Joshi, RT Espinoza, T Pirnia, J Shi, Y Wang… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) elicits a rapid and robust clinical response in
patients with refractory depression. Neuroimaging measurements of structural plasticity …

[HTML][HTML] Electroconvulsive therapy mediates neuroplasticity of white matter microstructure in major depression

H Lyden, RT Espinoza, T Pirnia, K Clark… - Translational …, 2014 - nature.com
Whether plasticity of white matter (WM) microstructure relates to therapeutic response in major
depressive disorder (MDD) remains uncertain. We examined diffusion tensor imaging (DTI…

[HTML][HTML] Electroconvulsive therapy and structural neuroplasticity in neocortical, limbic and paralimbic cortex

T Pirnia, SH Joshi, AM Leaver, M Vasavada… - Translational …, 2016 - nature.com
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective and rapidly acting treatment for severe
depression. To understand the biological bases of therapeutic response, we examined …

[HTML][HTML] A tensor-based morphometry analysis of regional differences in brain volume in relation to prenatal alcohol exposure

…, AJW Van Der Kouwe, CD Molteno, T Pirnia… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2014 - Elsevier
Reductions in brain volumes represent a neurobiological signature of fetal alcohol spectrum
disorders (FASD). Less clear is how regional brain tissue reductions differ after normalizing …

Modulation of intrinsic brain activity by electroconvulsive therapy in major depression

AM Leaver, R Espinoza, T Pirnia, SH Joshi… - Biological psychiatry …, 2016 - Elsevier
… to sex data, unpaired t test compared age data, and paired t tests compared changes in …
(*) indicates a significant difference in these means (paired t test). Note that although there is …

[HTML][HTML] Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Neo-Tethys in Central Iran: Evidence from petrology and age of the Nain-Ashin ophiolitic basalts

T Pirnia, E Saccani, G Torabi, M Chiari, Š Goričan… - Geoscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Nain and Ashin ophiolites consist of Mesozoic mélange units that were emplaced in the
Late Cretaceous onto the continental basement of the Central-East Iran microcontinent (…

Subthalamic nucleus neurons differentially encode early and late aspects of speech production

WJ Lipski, A Alhourani, T Pirnia, PW Jones… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
… For a given sequence of n spikes within time interval T, the PS burst index was based on
the probability of encountering n or more spikes within time interval T, given a Poisson-…

Late Ediacaran crustal thickening in Iran: Geochemical and isotopic constraints from the~ 550 Ma Mishu granitoids (northwest Iran)

…, M Murata, TF Yui, S Arai, F Chen, T Pirnia… - International Geology …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… The one-stage model age (T DM ) was calculated assuming Nd isotopic growth of the
depleted mantle reservoir from εNd(t) = 0 at 4.56 Ga to εNd(t) = +10 at present, according to the …

Hippocampal dysfunction during declarative memory encoding in schizophrenia and effects of genetic liability

T Pirnia, RP Woods, LS Hamilton, H Lyden… - Schizophrenia …, 2015 - Elsevier
… Functional T 2 *-weighted gradient echo and echo-planar images were acquired on a
Siemens 3T Allegra system (Milwaukee, WI) at the UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping …

Random forest classification of depression status based on subcortical brain morphometry following electroconvulsive therapy

BSC Wade, SH Joshi, T Pirnia… - 2015 IEEE 12th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disorders of the central nervous system are often accompanied by brain abnormalities
detectable with MRI. Advances in biomedical imaging and pattern detection algorithms have led …