Sepulcre Lab

About the lab

PI: Jorge Sepulcre

The Sepulcre lab focuses on brain imaging studies aiming at the understanding of large-scale brain networks implicated in human cognition and neurodegenerative disorders. We also devote a substantial part of our work developing cutting-edge network methodologies for different brain imaging modalities such as functional connectivity MRI and PET imaging.

Research

Our specific research interest aligns with the following topics:

• Systems Neuroscience
• Brain Functional Streams
• Brain Hierarchical Ormembganization
• Multimodal Sensory Integration
• Language Neuroarchitecture
• Neurodegenerative Disorders

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Members

Selected Publications

• Basaia S, Agosta F, Diez I, Bueichekú E, d’Oleire Uquillas F, Delgado-Alvarado M, Caballero-Gaudes C, Rodriguez-Oroz M, Stojkovic T, Kostic VS, Filippi M, Sepulcre J. Neurogenetic traits outline vulnerability to cortical disruption in Parkinson’s disease. Neuroimage Clin 2022 33 ():102941
• Bueichekú E, Gonzalez-de-Echavarri JM, Ortiz-Teran L, Montal V, d’Oleire Uquillas F, De Marcos L, Orwig W, Kim CM, Ortiz-Teran E, Basaia S, Diez I, Sepulcre J. Divergent connectomic organization delineates genetic evolutionary traits in the human brain. Sci Rep 2021 11 (1):19692
• Orwig W, Diez I, Bueichekú E, Vannini P, Beaty R, Sepulcre J. Cortical Networks of Creative Ability Trace Gene Expression Profiles of Synaptic Plasticity in the Human Brain. Front Hum Neurosci 2021 15 ():694274
• Diez I, Sepulcre J. Unveiling the neuroimaging-genetic intersections in the human brain. Curr Opin Neurol 2021 34 (4):480-487
• Kim CM, Montal V, Diez I, Orwig W, , Sepulcre J. Network interdigitations of Tau and amyloid-beta deposits define cognitive levels in aging. Hum Brain Mapp 2021 42 (10):2990-3004
• Orwig W, Diez I, Vannini P, Beaty R, Sepulcre J. Creative Connections: Computational Semantic Distance Captures Individual Creativity and Resting-State Functional Connectivity. J Cogn Neurosci 2021 33 (3):499-509
• Diez I, Larson AG, Nakhate V, Dunn EC, Fricchione GL, Nicholson TR, Sepulcre J, Perez DL. Early-life trauma endophenotypes and brain circuit-gene expression relationships in functional neurological (conversion) disorder. Mol. Psychiatry 2020; ():
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• Costumero V, d’Oleire Uquillas F, Diez I, Andorrà M, Basaia S, Bueichekú E, Ortiz-Terán L, Belloch V, Escudero J, Ávila C, Sepulcre J. Distance disintegration delineates the brain connectivity failure of Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiol. Aging 2020; 88():51-60
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• Bueichekú E, Aznárez-Sanado M, Diez I, d’Oleire Uquillas F, Ortiz-Terán L, Qureshi AY, Suñol M, Basaia S, Ortiz-Terán E, Pastor MA, Sepulcre J. Central neurogenetic signatures of the visuomotor integration system. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2020; 117(12):6836-6843
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• Benito-Aragón C, Gonzalez-Sarmiento R, Liddell T, Diez I, d’Oleire Uquillas F, Ortiz-Terán L, Bueichekú E, Chow HM, Chang SE, Sepulcre J. Neurofilament-lysosomal genetic intersections in the cortical network of stuttering. Prog. Neurobiol. 2020; 184:101718
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• Bueichekú E, Ávila C, Miró-Padilla A, Sepulcre J. Visual search task immediate training effects on task-related functional connectivity. Brain Imaging Behav 2019; 13(6):1566-1579
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• Qian J, Diez I, Ortiz-Terán L, Bonadio C, Liddell T, Goñi J, Sepulcre J. Positive Connectivity Predicts the Dynamic Intrinsic Topology of the Human Brain Network. Front Syst Neurosci 2018; 12:38
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• Diez I, Sepulcre J. Neurogenetic profiles delineate large-scale connectivity dynamics of the human brain. Nat Commun 2018; 9(1):3876
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• Ruiz de Miras J, Costumero V, Belloch V, Escudero J, Ávila C, Sepulcre J. Complexity analysis of cortical surface detects changes in future Alzheimer’s disease converters. Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 38(12):5905-5918
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• Ortiz-Terán L, Diez I, Ortiz T, Perez DL, Aragón JI, Costumero V, Pascual-Leone A, El Fakhri G, Sepulcre J. Brain circuit-gene expression relationships and neuroplasticity of multisensory cortices in blind children. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2017; 114(26):6830-6835
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• Sepulcre J, Grothe MJ, Sabuncu M, Chhatwal J, Schultz AP, Hanseeuw B, El Fakhri G, Sperling R, Johnson KA. Hierarchical Organization of Tau and Amyloid Deposits in the Cerebral Cortex. JAMA Neurol 2017; 74(7):813-820
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• Prčkovska V, Huijbers W, Schultz A, Ortiz-Teran L, Peña-Gomez C, Villoslada P, Johnson K, Sperling R, Sepulcre J. Epicenters of dynamic connectivity in the adaptation of the ventral visual system. Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 38(4):1965-1976
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• Ortiz-Teran L, Ortiz T, Perez DL, Aragon JI, Diez I, Pascual-Leone A, Sepulcre J. Brain Plasticity in Blind Subjects Centralizes Beyond the Modal Cortices. Front Syst Neurosci 2016; 10():61
• Sepulcre J, Schultz AP, Sabuncu M, Gomez-Isla T, Chhatwal J, Becker A, Sperling R, Johnson KA. In Vivo Tau, Amyloid, and Gray Matter Profiles in the Aging Brain. J. Neurosci. 2016; 36(28):7364-74
• Johnson KA, Schultz A, Betensky RA, Becker JA, Sepulcre J, Rentz D, Mormino E, Chhatwal J, Amariglio R, Papp K, Marshall G, Albers M, Mauro S, Pepin L, Alverio J, Judge K, Philiossaint M, Shoup T, Yokell D, Dickerson B, Gomez-Isla T, Hyman B, Vasdev N, Sperling R. Tau positron emission tomographic imaging in aging and early Alzheimer disease. Ann. Neurol. 2016; 79(1):110-9
• Hu C, Sepulcre J, Johnson KA, Fakhri GE, Lu YM, Li Q. Matched signal detection on graphs: Theory and application to brain imaging data classification. Neuroimage 2016; 125():587-600
• Sepulcre J, Masdeu JC. Advanced Neuroimaging Methods Towards Characterization of Early Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease. Methods Mol. Biol. 2016; 1303():509-19
• Sepulcre J. An OP4 functional stream in the language-related neuroarchitecture. Cereb. Cortex 2015; 25(3):658-66
• Sepulcre J. Functional streams and cortical integration in the human brain. Neuroscientist. 2014 Oct; 20(5):499-508.
• Sepulcre J. Integration of visual and motor functional streams in the human brain. Neuroscience Letters. 2014 May 1; 567:68-73.

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