Education and Training

Awards and Honors

• UCLA Life Science Faculty Award (Assistant Professor) for Outstanding Research Publication, UCLA Life Sciences, 2014.
• Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (Italian National Scientific Habilitation), Italian Ministry for University and Research, 2019-2029.
• International Prize Giuseppe Sciacca for Medical Research, Sciacca Foundation, 2018.
• Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA Psychology Department, 2015.
• Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA Psychology Department, 2019.
• Rising Star, Association for Psychological Science (APS), 2013.
• UCLA Life Science Faculty Award (Associate Professor) for Outstanding Research Publication, UCLA Life Sciences, 2020.

Publications

1. Caeyenberghs K, Imms P, Irimia A, Monti MM, Esopenko C, de Souza NL, Dominguez D JF, Newsome MR, Dobryakova E, Cwiek A, Mullin HAC, Kim NJ, Mayer AR, Adamson MM, Bickart K, Breedlove KM, Dennis EL, Disner SG, Haswell C, Hodges CB, Hoskinson KR, Johnson PK, Königs M, Li LM, Liebel SW, Livny A, Morey RA, Muir AM, Olsen A, Razi A, Su M, Tate DF, Velez C, Wilde EA, Zielinski BA, Thompson PM, Hillary FG. ENIGMA's simple seven: Recommendations to enhance the reproducibility of resting-state fMRI in traumatic brain injury.. NeuroImage. Clinical, 2024.
2. Toker D, Müller E, Miyamoto H, Riga MS, Lladó-Pelfort L, Yamakawa K, Artigas F, Shine JM, Hudson AE, Pouratian N, Monti MM. Criticality supports cross-frequency cortical-thalamic information transfer during conscious states.. eLife, 2024.
3. Monti MM, Beekman R, Spivak NM, Thibaut A, Schnakers C, Whyte J, Molteni E, Curing Coma Campaign and its Contributing Members. Common Data Element for Disorders of Consciousness: Recommendations from the Working Group on Therapeutic Interventions.. Neurocritical care, 2023.
4. Monti MM, Spivak NM, Edlow BL, Bodien YG. What is a minimal clinically important difference for clinical trials in patients with disorders of consciousness? a novel probabilistic approach.. PloS one, 2023.
5. Kuhn T, Spivak NM, Dang BH, Becerra S, Halavi SE, Rotstein N, Rosenberg BM, Hiller S, Swenson A, Cvijanovic L, Dang N, Sun M, Kronemyer D, Berlow R, Revett MR, Suthana N, Monti MM, Bookheimer S. Transcranial focused ultrasound selectively increases perfusion and modulates functional connectivity of deep brain regions in humans.. Frontiers in neural circuits, 2023.
6. Zheng ZS, Reggente N, Monti MM. Arousal Regulation by the External Globus Pallidus: A New Node for the Mesocircuit Hypothesis.. Brain sciences, 2023.
7. Frohlich J, Chiang JN, Mediano PAM, Nespeca M, Saravanapandian V, Toker D, Dell'Italia J, Hipp JF, Jeste SS, Chu CJ, Bird LM, Monti MM. Author Correction: Neural complexity is a common denominator of human consciousness across diverse regimes of cortical dynamics.. Communications biology, 2023.
8. Frohlich J, Chiang JN, Mediano PAM, Nespeca M, Saravanapandian V, Toker D, Dell'Italia J, Hipp JF, Jeste SS, Chu CJ, Bird LM, Monti MM. Author Correction: Neural complexity is a common denominator of human consciousness across diverse regimes of cortical dynamics.. Communications biology, 2023.
9. Coetzee JP, Johnson MA, Lee Y, Wu AD, Iacoboni M, Monti MM. Dissociating Language and Thought in Human Reasoning.. Brain sciences, 2022.
10. Frohlich J, Chiang JN, Mediano PAM, Nespeca M, Saravanapandian V, Toker D, Dell'Italia J, Hipp JF, Jeste SS, Chu CJ, Bird LM, Monti MM. Neural complexity is a common denominator of human consciousness across diverse regimes of cortical dynamics.. Communications biology, 2022.
11. Cain JA, Visagan S, Monti MM. S.M.A.R.T. F.U.S: Surrogate Model of Attenuation and Refraction in Transcranial Focused Ultrasound.. PloS one, 2022.
12. Zheng ZS, Monti MM. Cortical and thalamic connections of the human globus pallidus: Implications for disorders of consciousness.. Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2022.
13. Weiler M, Casseb RF, de Campos BM, Crone JS, Lutkenhoff ES, Vespa PM, Monti MM, EpiBioS4Rx Study Group. Evaluating denoising strategies in resting-state functional magnetic resonance in traumatic brain injury (EpiBioS4Rx).. Human brain mapping, 2022.
14. Luppi AI, Cain J, Spindler LRB, Górska UJ, Toker D, Hudson AE, Brown EN, Diringer MN, Stevens RD, Massimini M, Monti MM, Stamatakis EA, Boly M, Curing Coma Campaign and Its Contributing Collaborators. Correction: Mechanisms Underlying Disorders of Consciousness: Bridging Gaps to Move Toward an Integrated Translational Science.. Neurocritical care, 2022.
15. Dell'Italia J, Sanguinetti JL, Monti MM, Bystritsky A, Reggente N. Current State of Potential Mechanisms Supporting Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Neuromodulation.. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2022.
16. Cain JA, Spivak NM, Coetzee JP, Crone JS, Johnson MA, Lutkenhoff ES, Real C, Buitrago-Blanco M, Vespa PM, Schnakers C, Monti MM. Ultrasonic Deep Brain Neuromodulation in Acute Disorders of Consciousness: A Proof-of-Concept.. Brain sciences, 2022.
17. Toker D, Pappas I, Lendner JD, Frohlich J, Mateos DM, Muthukumaraswamy S, Carhart-Harris R, Paff M, Vespa PM, Monti MM, Sommer FT, Knight RT, D'Esposito M. Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022.
18. Spivak NM, Sanguinetti JL, Monti MM. Focusing in on the Future of Focused Ultrasound as a Translational Tool.. Brain sciences, 2022.
19. Frohlich J, Crone JS, Johnson MA, Lutkenhoff ES, Spivak NM, Dell'Italia J, Hipp JF, Shrestha V, Ruiz Tejeda JE, Real C, Vespa PM, Monti MM. Neural oscillations track recovery of consciousness in acute traumatic brain injury patients.. Human brain mapping, 2022.
20. Monti MM, Schnakers C. Flowchart for Implementing Advanced Imaging and Electrophysiology in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness: To fMRI or Not to fMRI?. Neurology, 2022.
21. Frohlich J, Johnson MA, McArthur DL, Lutkenhoff ES, Dell'Italia J, Real C, Shrestha V, Spivak NM, Ruiz Tejeda JE, Vespa PM, Monti MM. Sedation-Induced Burst Suppression Predicts Positive Outcome Following Traumatic Brain Injury.. Frontiers in neurology, 2021.
22. Frohlich J, Toker D, Monti MM. Consciousness among delta waves: a paradox?. Brain : a journal of neurology, 2021.
23. Luppi AI, Cain J, Spindler LRB, Górska UJ, Toker D, Hudson AE, Brown EN, Diringer MN, Stevens RD, Massimini M, Monti MM, Stamatakis EA, Boly M, Curing Coma Campaign and Its Contributing Collaborators. Mechanisms Underlying Disorders of Consciousness: Bridging Gaps to Move Toward an Integrated Translational Science.. Neurocritical care, 2021.
24. Claassen J, Akbari Y, Alexander S, Bader MK, Bell K, Bleck TP, Boly M, Brown J, Chou SH, Diringer MN, Edlow BL, Foreman B, Giacino JT, Gosseries O, Green T, Greer DM, Hanley DF, Hartings JA, Helbok R, Hemphill JC, Hinson HE, Hirsch K, Human T, James ML, Ko N, Kondziella D, Livesay S, Madden LK, Mainali S, Mayer SA, McCredie V, McNett MM, Meyfroidt G, Monti MM, Muehlschlegel S, Murthy S, Nyquist P, Olson DM, Provencio JJ, Rosenthal E, Sampaio Silva G, Sarasso S, Schiff ND, Sharshar T, Shutter L, Stevens RD, Vespa P, Videtta W, Wagner A, Ziai W, Whyte J, Zink E, Suarez JI, Curing Coma Campaign. Proceedings of the First Curing Coma Campaign NIH Symposium: Challenging the Future of Research for Coma and Disorders of Consciousness.. Neurocritical care, 2021.
25. Stern JM, Spivak NM, Becerra SA, Kuhn TP, Korb AS, Kronemyer D, Khanlou N, Reyes SD, Monti MM, Schnakers C, Walshaw P, Keselman I, Cohen MS, Yong W, Fried I, Jordan SE, Schafer ME, Engel J, Bystritsky A. Safety of focused ultrasound neuromodulation in humans with temporal lobe epilepsy.. Brain stimulation, 2021.
26. Olsen A, Babikian T, Bigler ED, Caeyenberghs K, Conde V, Dams-O'Connor K, Dobryakova E, Genova H, Grafman J, Håberg AK, Heggland I, Hellstrøm T, Hodges CB, Irimia A, Jha RM, Johnson PK, Koliatsos VE, Levin H, Li LM, Lindsey HM, Livny A, Løvstad M, Medaglia J, Menon DK, Mondello S, Monti MM, Newcombe VFJ, Petroni A, Ponsford J, Sharp D, Spitz G, Westlye LT, Thompson PM, Dennis EL, Tate DF, Wilde EA, Hillary FG. Toward a global and reproducible science for brain imaging in neurotrauma: the ENIGMA adult moderate/severe traumatic brain injury working group.. Brain imaging and behavior, 2021.
27. Cain JA, Visagan S, Johnson MA, Crone J, Blades R, Spivak NM, Shattuck DW, Monti MM. Real time and delayed effects of subcortical low intensity focused ultrasound.. Scientific reports, 2021.
28. Schnakers C, Divine J, Johnson MA, Lutkenhoff E, Monti MM, Keil KM, Guthrie J, Pouratian N, Patterson D, Jensen G, Morales VC, Weaver KF, Rosario ER. Longitudinal changes in blood-based biomarkers in chronic moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: preliminary findings.. Brain injury, 2021.
29. Cain JA, Spivak NM, Coetzee JP, Crone JS, Johnson MA, Lutkenhoff ES, Real C, Buitrago-Blanco M, Vespa PM, Schnakers C, Monti MM. Ultrasonic thalamic stimulation in chronic disorders of consciousness.. Brain stimulation, 2021.
30. Rosenberg BM, Mennigen E, Monti MM, Kaiser RH. Functional Segregation of Human Brain Networks Across the Lifespan: An Exploratory Analysis of Static and Dynamic Resting-State Functional Connectivity.. Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020.
31. La Rocca M, Garner R, Amoroso N, Lutkenhoff ES, Monti MM, Vespa P, Toga AW, Duncan D. Multiplex Networks to Characterize Seizure Development in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients.. Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020.
32. Frohlich J, Bird LM, Dell'Italia J, Johnson MA, Hipp JF, Monti MM. Erratum: High-voltage, diffuse delta rhythms coincide with wakeful consciousness and complexity in Angelman syndrome.. Neuroscience of consciousness, 2020.
33. Wright MJ, Monti MM, Lutkenhoff ES, Hardy DJ, Litvin PY, Kelly DF, Guskiewicz K, Cantu RC, Vespa PM, Hovda DA, Lopez WD, Wang C, Swerdloff R, Fuster JM. Memory in repeat sports-related concussive injury and single-impact traumatic brain injury.. Brain injury, 2020.
34. Lutkenhoff ES, Nigri A, Rossi Sebastiano D, Sattin D, Visani E, Rosazza C, D'Incerti L, Bruzzone MG, Franceschetti S, Leonardi M, Ferraro S, Monti MM. EEG Power spectra and subcortical pathology in chronic disorders of consciousness.. Psychological medicine, 2020.
35. Lutkenhoff ES, Wright MJ, Shrestha V, Real C, McArthur DL, Buitrago-Blanco M, Vespa PM, Monti MM. The subcortical basis of outcome and cognitive impairment in TBI: A longitudinal cohort study.. Neurology, 2020.
36. Lutkenhoff ES, Shrestha V, Ruiz Tejeda J, Real C, McArthur DL, Duncan D, La Rocca M, Garner R, Toga AW, Vespa PM, Monti MM, EpiBioS4Rx Study Group. Early brain biomarkers of post-traumatic seizures: initial report of the multicentre epilepsy bioinformatics study for antiepileptogenic therapy (EpiBioS4Rx) prospective study.. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2020.
37. Dell'Italia J, Johnson MA, Vespa PM, Monti MM. Accounting for Changing Structure in Functional Network Analysis of TBI Patients.. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2020.
38. Chiang JN, Peng Y, Lu H, Holyoak KJ, Monti MM. Distributed Code for Semantic Relations Predicts Neural Similarity during Analogical Reasoning.. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2020.
39. Holyoak KJ, Monti MM. Relational Integration in the Human Brain: A Review and Synthesis.. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2020.
40. Provencio JJ, Hemphill JC, Claassen J, Edlow BL, Helbok R, Vespa PM, Diringer MN, Polizzotto L, Shutter L, Suarez JI, Stevens RD, Hanley DF, Akbari Y, Bleck TP, Boly M, Foreman B, Giacino JT, Hartings JA, Human T, Kondziella D, Ling GSF, Mayer SA, McNett M, Menon DK, Meyfroidt G, Monti MM, Park S, Pouratian N, Puybasset L, Rohaut B, Rosenthal ES, Schiff ND, Sharshar T, Wagner A, Whyte J, Olson DM, Neurocritical Care Society Curing Coma Campaign. The Curing Coma Campaign: Framing Initial Scientific Challenges-Proceedings of the First Curing Coma Campaign Scientific Advisory Council Meeting.. Neurocritical care, 2020.
41. Schnakers C, Monti MM. Towards improving care for disorders of consciousness.. Nature reviews. Neurology, 2020.
42. Lutkenhoff ES, Johnson MA, Casarotto S, Massimini M, Monti MM. Subcortical atrophy correlates with the perturbational complexity index in patients with disorders of consciousness.. Brain stimulation, 2020.
43. Crone JS, Lutkenhoff ES, Vespa PM, Monti MM. A systematic investigation of the association between network dynamics in the human brain and the state of consciousness.. Neuroscience of consciousness, 2020.
44. Frohlich J, Bird LM, Dell'Italia J, Johnson MA, Hipp JF, Monti MM. High-voltage, diffuse delta rhythms coincide with wakeful consciousness and complexity in Angelman syndrome.. Neuroscience of consciousness, 2020.
45. Garner R, La Rocca M, Vespa P, Jones N, Monti MM, Toga AW, Duncan D. Imaging biomarkers of posttraumatic epileptogenesis.. Epilepsia, 2019.
46. Ellingson BM, Yao J, Raymond C, Chakhoyan A, Khatibi K, Salamon N, Villablanca JP, Wanner I, Real CR, Laiwalla A, McArthur DL, Monti MM, Hovda DA, Vespa PM. pH-weighted molecular MRI in human traumatic brain injury (TBI) using amine proton chemical exchange saturation transfer echoplanar imaging (CEST EPI).. NeuroImage. Clinical, 2019.
47. Cheng L, Cortese D, Monti MM, Wang F, Riganello F, Arcuri F, Di H, Schnakers C. Do Sensory Stimulation Programs Have an Impact on Consciousness Recovery?. Frontiers in neurology, 2018.
48. Chiang JN, Rosenberg MH, Bufford CA, Stephens D, Lysy A, Monti MM. The language of music: Common neural codes for structured sequences in music and natural language.. Brain and language, 2018.
49. Schnakers C, Lutkenhoff ES, Bio BJ, McArthur DL, Vespa PM, Monti MM. Acute EEG spectra characteristics predict thalamic atrophy after severe TBI.. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2018.
50. Dell'Italia J, Johnson MA, Vespa PM, Monti MM. Network Analysis in Disorders of Consciousness: Four Problems and One Proposed Solution (Exponential Random Graph Models).. Frontiers in neurology, 2018.
51. Tashjian SM, Goldenberg D, Monti MM, Galván A. Sleep quality and adolescent default mode network connectivity.. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2018.
52. Coetzee JP, Monti MM. At the core of reasoning: Dissociating deductive and non-deductive load.. Human brain mapping, 2018.
53. Schnakers C, Monti MM. Disorders of consciousness after severe brain injury: therapeutic options.. Current opinion in neurology, 2017.
54. Crone JS, Bio BJ, Vespa PM, Lutkenhoff ES, Monti MM. Restoration of thalamo-cortical connectivity after brain injury: recovery of consciousness, complex behavior, or passage of time?. Journal of neuroscience research, 2017.
55. Crone JS, Lutkenhoff ES, Bio BJ, Laureys S, Monti MM. Testing Proposed Neuronal Models of Effective Connectivity Within the Cortico-basal Ganglia-thalamo-cortical Loop During Loss of Consciousness.. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2017.
56. Zheng ZS, Reggente N, Lutkenhoff E, Owen AM, Monti MM. Disentangling disorders of consciousness: Insights from diffusion tensor imaging and machine learning.. Human brain mapping, 2016.
57. DeWolf M, Chiang JN, Bassok M, Holyoak KJ, Monti MM. Neural representations of magnitude for natural and rational numbers.. NeuroImage, 2016.
58. Monti MM, Schnakers C, Korb AS, Bystritsky A, Vespa PM. Non-Invasive Ultrasonic Thalamic Stimulation in Disorders of Consciousness after Severe Brain Injury: A First-in-Man Report.. Brain stimulation, 2016.
59. Thurman SM, van Boxtel JJ, Monti MM, Chiang JN, Lu H. Neural adaptation in pSTS correlates with perceptual aftereffects to biological motion and with autistic traits.. NeuroImage, 2016.
60. Lutkenhoff ES, Chiang J, Tshibanda L, Kamau E, Kirsch M, Pickard JD, Laureys S, Owen AM, Monti MM. Thalamic and extrathalamic mechanisms of consciousness after severe brain injury.. Annals of neurology, 2015.
61. Crone JS, Schurz M, Höller Y, Bergmann J, Monti M, Schmid E, Trinka E, Kronbichler M. Impaired consciousness is linked to changes in effective connectivity of the posterior cingulate cortex within the default mode network.. NeuroImage, 2015.
62. Lutkenhoff ES, Rosenberg M, Chiang J, Zhang K, Pickard JD, Owen AM, Monti MM. Optimized brain extraction for pathological brains (optiBET).. PloS one, 2014.
63. Monti MM, Rosenberg M, Finoia P, Kamau E, Pickard JD, Owen AM. Thalamo-frontal connectivity mediates top-down cognitive functions in disorders of consciousness.. Neurology, 2014.
64. Chennu S, Finoia P, Kamau E, Allanson J, Williams GB, Monti MM, Noreika V, Arnatkeviciute A, Canales-Johnson A, Olivares F, Cabezas-Soto D, Menon DK, Pickard JD, Owen AM, Bekinschtein TA. Spectral signatures of reorganised brain networks in disorders of consciousness.. PLoS computational biology, 2014.
65. Monti MM, Lutkenhoff ES, Rubinov M, Boveroux P, Vanhaudenhuyse A, Gosseries O, Bruno MA, Noirhomme Q, Boly M, Laureys S. Dynamic change of global and local information processing in propofol-induced loss and recovery of consciousness.. PLoS computational biology, 2013.
66. Chennu S, Finoia P, Kamau E, Monti MM, Allanson J, Pickard JD, Owen AM, Bekinschtein TA. Dissociable endogenous and exogenous attention in disorders of consciousness.. NeuroImage. Clinical, 2013.
67. Lutkenhoff ES, McArthur DL, Hua X, Thompson PM, Vespa PM, Monti MM. Thalamic atrophy in antero-medial and dorsal nuclei correlates with six-month outcome after severe brain injury.. NeuroImage. Clinical, 2013.
68. Sandrone S, Bacigaluppi M, Galloni MR, Cappa SF, Moro A, Catani M, Filippi M, Monti MM, Perani D, Martino G. Weighing brain activity with the balance: Angelo Mosso's original manuscripts come to light.. Brain : a journal of neurology, 2013.
69. Torrisi S, Moody TD, Vizueta N, Thomason ME, Monti MM, Townsend JD, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL. Differences in resting corticolimbic functional connectivity in bipolar I euthymia.. Bipolar disorders, 2013.
70. Naci L, Monti MM, Cruse D, Kübler A, Sorger B, Goebel R, Kotchoubey B, Owen AM. Brain-computer interfaces for communication with nonresponsive patients.. Annals of neurology, 2012.
71. Monti MM, Parsons LM, Osherson DN. Thought beyond language: neural dissociation of algebra and natural language.. Psychological science, 2012.
72. Monti MM, Pickard JD, Owen AM. Visual cognition in disorders of consciousness: from V1 to top-down attention.. Human brain mapping, 2012.
73. Monti MM. Cognition in the vegetative state.. Annual review of clinical psychology, 2012.
74. Monti MM, Osherson DN. Logic, language and the brain.. Brain research, 2011.
75. Monti MM. Statistical Analysis of fMRI Time-Series: A Critical Review of the GLM Approach.. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2011.
76. Fernández-Espejo D, Bekinschtein T, Monti MM, Pickard JD, Junque C, Coleman MR, Owen AM. Diffusion weighted imaging distinguishes the vegetative state from the minimally conscious state.. NeuroImage, 2010.
77. Monti MM, Laureys S, Owen AM. The vegetative state.. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2010.
78. Monti MM, Vanhaudenhuyse A, Coleman MR, Boly M, Pickard JD, Tshibanda L, Owen AM, Laureys S. Willful modulation of brain activity in disorders of consciousness.. The New England journal of medicine, 2010.
79. Hampshire A, Chamberlain SR, Monti MM, Duncan J, Owen AM. The role of the right inferior frontal gyrus: inhibition and attentional control.. NeuroImage, 2010.
80. Monti MM, Parsons LM, Osherson DN. The boundaries of language and thought in deductive inference.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009.
81. Monti MM, Coleman MR, Owen AM. Neuroimaging and the vegetative state: resolving the behavioral assessment dilemma?. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009.
82. Coleman MR, Bekinschtein T, Monti MM, Owen AM, Pickard JD. A multimodal approach to the assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness.. Progress in brain research, 2009.
83. Monti MM, Coleman MR, Owen AM. Executive functions in the absence of behavior: functional imaging of the minimally conscious state.. Progress in brain research, 2009.
84. Monti MM, Osherson DN, Martinez MJ, Parsons LM. Functional neuroanatomy of deductive inference: a language-independent distributed network.. NeuroImage, 2007.