Publications

Sánchez, Víctor; Novi, Sergio; Carvalho, Alex C; Quiroga, Andres; Menezes Forti, Rodrigo; Cendes, Fernando; Yasuda, Clarissa Lin; Mesquita, Rickson C; (2026).

Graph Analysis of Age-Related Changes in Resting-State Functional Connectivity Measured with fNIRS

Journal of Ageing and Longevity

Novi, Sergio L; Navarathna, Nithya; D’Cruz, Marcel; Brooks, Justin R; Maron, Bradley A; Isaiah, Amal; (2026).

Deep learning in otolaryngology: a narrative review

JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery

Nusraty, Sabrina; Navarathna, Nithya; Novi, Sergio; Bortfeld, Heather; Mitchell, Ron B; Isaiah, Amal; (2026).

Polysomnographic versus parent-reported predictors of executive function in children with sleep disordered breathing

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Fong, Daniel C; Navarathna, Nithya; Uddin, Sophia; Bortfeld, Heather; Novi, Sergio; Isaiah, Amal; (2025).

Parent Reports Versus Objective Behavioral Measures in Pediatric Sleep‐Disordered Breathing

Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology

Laforge, G; Kolisnyk, M; Novi, S; Kazazian, K; Ardakani, M; Abdalmalak, A; Debicki, D; Gofton, T; Owen, AM; Norton, L; (2025).

Parallel EEG-fNIRS assessments of covert cognition in behaviorally non-responsive ICU patients: A multi-task feasibility study in a case of acute motor sensory axonal neuropathy

Journal of Neurology

Sánchez, Victor; Novi, Sergio; Carvalho, Alex C; Quiroga, Andres F; Forti, Rodrigo M; Cendes, Fernando; Yasuda, Clarissa L; Mesquita, Rickson; (2025).

Comparative analysis of resting-state functional connectivity networks across different age groups using fNIRS

Clinical and Translational Neurophotonics 2025

Sánchez, Víctor; Bortoletto, Luis Felipe; Mazala, Caroline G; Quiroga, Andrés; Novi, Sergio; Mesquita, Rickson C; (2025).

Disrupted functional connectivity in carotid artery stenosis patients: Insights from fNIRS during a vasoreactivity test

Brain Organoid and Systems Neuroscience Journal

Martins, Giovani G; Silva, Guilherme J; Lucena, Erick P; Soto, Andres Q; Novi, Sergio L; Uchida, Marco C; Mesquita, Rickson C; (2025).

Cerebral responses to resistance training under different loads assessed with functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Biophotonics in Exercise Science, Sports Medicine, Health Monitoring Technologies, and Wearables VI

Navarathna, Nithya; Novi, Sergio L; Uddin, Sophia; Fong, Daniel C; Bortfeld, Heather; Isaiah, Amal; (2025).

Assessing Executive Function in Pediatric Sleep‐Disordered Breathing Using Functional Neuroimaging

Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

Yücel, Meryem A; Luke, Robert; Mesquita, Rickson C; von Lühmann, Alexander; Mehler, David MA; Lührs, Michael; Gemignani, Jessica; Abdalmalak, Androu; Albrecht, Franziska; de Almeida Ivo, Iara; (2025).

fNIRS reproducibility varies with data quality, analysis pipelines, and researcher experience

Communications biology

Mesquita, Rickson C; Bortoletto, Luis Felipe; Sánchez, Víctor; Novi, Sergio; Martins, Giovani G; (2025).

Minimizing the Effects of Autonomic Responses in fNIRS for Improved Data Reliability

Optics and the Brain

Kazazian, Karnig; de Jeu, Jack; Abdalmalak, Androu; Novi, Sergio L; Kolisnyk, Matthew; Gupta, Garima; Gonzalez‐Lara, Laura E; Gofton, Teneille E; Norton, Loretta; Debicki, Derek B; (2025).

Detecting awareness in the intensive care unit using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy

Annals of Neurology

Kolisnyk, Matthew; Novi, Sergio; Abdalmalak, Androu; Ardakani, Reza Moulavi; Kazazian, Karnig; Laforge, Geoffrey; Debicki, Derek B; Owen, Adrian M; (2024).

Assessing the consistency and sensitivity of the neural correlates of narrative stimuli using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Imaging Neuroscience

Gupta, Garima; Kolisnyk, Matthew; Kazazian, Karnig; Shahid, Rafeh; Urian, Diana; Novi Jr, Sergio; Pantazopoulos, Koula; Abdalmalak, Androu; Huntley, Jonathan D; Debicki, Derek; (2024).

Investigating covert awareness in individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

Alzheimer's & Dementia

Kazazian, Karnig; Abdalmalak, Androu; Novi, Sergio L; Norton, Loretta; Moulavi-Ardakani, Reza; Kolisnyk, Matthew; Gofton, Teneille E; Mesquita, Rickson C; Owen, Adrian M; Debicki, Derek B; (2024).

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy: A novel tool for detecting consciousness after acute severe brain injury

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Machado, Ana Carolina Cabral de Paula; Magalhaes, Livia de Castro; de Oliveira, Suelen Rosa; Novi, Sergio Luiz; Mesquita, Rickson C; de Miranda, Debora Marques; Bouzada, Maria Candida F; (2023).

Can tactile reactivity in preterm born infants be explained by an immature cortical response to tactile stimulation in the first year? A pilot study

Journal of Perinatology

Novi, Sergio L; Carvalho, Alex C; Forti, Rodrigo Menezes; Cendes, Fernado; Yasuda, Clarissa L; Mesquita, Rickson C; (2023).

Revealing the spatiotemporal requirements for accurate subject identification with resting-state functional connectivity: a simultaneous fNIRS-fMRI study

Neurophotonics

Kolisnyk, Matthew; Kazazian, Karnig; Rego, Karina; Novi, Sergio L; Wild, Conor J; Gofton, Teneille E; Debicki, Derek B; Owen, Adrian M; Norton, Loretta; (2023).

Predicting neurologic recovery after severe acute brain injury using resting-state networks

Journal of neurology

Abdalmalak, Androu; Novi, Sergio L; Kazazian, Karnig; Norton, Loretta; Benaglia, Tatiana; Slessarev, Marat; Debicki, Derek B; Lawrence, Keith St; Mesquita, Rickson C; Owen, Adrian M; (2022).

Effects of systemic physiology on mapping resting-state networks using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Frontiers in neuroscience

Almeida, SRM; Stefano Filho, CA; Vicentini, J; Novi, SL; Mesquita, RC; Castellano, G; Li, LM; (2022).

Modeling functional network topology following stroke through graph theory: functional reorganization and motor recovery prediction

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Ayaz, Hasan; Baker, Wesley B; Blaney, Giles; Boas, David A; Bortfeld, Heather; Brady, Kenneth; Brake, Joshua; Brigadoi, Sabrina; Buckley, Erin M; Carp, Stefan A; (2022).

Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report

Neurophotonics

Quiroga, Andrés; Novi, Sergio; Martins, Giovani; Bortoletto, Luis Felipe; Avelar, Wagner; Guillaumon, Ana Terezinha; Li, Li Min; Cendes, Fernando; Mesquita, Rickson Coelho; (2022).

Quantification of the tissue oxygenation delay induced by breath-holding in patients with carotid atherosclerosis

Metabolites

Wu, Shin-Ting; Silva, Jose Angel Ivan Rubianes; Novi, Sergio Luiz; de Souza, Nicolas Gabriel SR; Forero, Edwin Johan; Mesquita, Rickson C; (2021).

Accurate image-guided (re) placement of NIRS probes

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

Bertachini, Ana Lívia Libardi; Januario, Gabriela Cintra; Novi, Sergio Luiz; Mesquita, Rickson Coelho; Silva, Marco Aurélio Romano; Andrade, Gláucia Manzan Queiroz; de Resende, Luciana Macedo; de Miranda, Débora Marques; (2021).

Hearing brain evaluated using near-infrared spectroscopy in congenital toxoplasmosis

Scientific reports

Novi, Sergio L; Roberts, Erin; Spagnuolo, Danielle; Spilsbury, Brianna M; Price, D'manda C; Imbalzano, Cara A; Forero, Edwin; Yodh, Arjun G; Tellis, Glen M; Tellis, Cari M; (2020).

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy for speech protocols: characterization of motion artifacts and guidelines for improving data analysis

Neurophotonics

Novi, Sergio Luiz; Forero, Edwin Johan; Rubianes Silva, Jose Angel Ivan; De Souza, Nicolas Gabriel SR; Martins, Giovani Grisotti; Quiroga, Andres; Wu, Shin-Ting; Mesquita, Rickson C; (2020).

Integration of spatial information increases reproducibility in functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Frontiers in Neuroscience

de Oliveira, Suelen Rosa; Machado, Ana Carolina CP; de Paula, Jonas Jardim; Novi, Sérgio Luiz; Mesquita, Rickson C; de Miranda, Débora Marques; Bouzada, Maria Cândida F; (2019).

Changes of functional response in sensorimotor cortex of preterm and full-term infants during the first year: an fNIRS study

Early human development

De Oliveira, Suelen Rosa; de Paula Machado, Ana Carolina Cabral; De Paula, Jonas Jardim; De Moraes, Paulo Henrique Paiva; Nahin, Maria Juliana Silvério; Magalhaes, Livia de Castro; Novi, Sergio L; Mesquita, Rickson C; De Miranda, Débora Marques; Bouzada, Maria Cândida Ferrarez; (2018).

Association between hemodynamic activity and motor performance in six-month-old full-term and preterm infants: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

Neurophotonics

Forero, Edwin J; Novi, Sergio L; Avelar, Wagner M; Anjos, Carlos A; Menko, Julien G; Forti, Rodrigo M; Oliveira, Vinicius R; Cendes, Fernando; Covolan, Roberto JM; Mesquita, Rickson C; (2017).

Use of near-infrared spectroscopy to probe occlusion severity in patients diagnosed with carotid atherosclerotic disease

Medical Research Archives

Novi, Sergio L; Rodrigues, Renato BML; Mesquita, Rickson C; (2016).

Resting state connectivity patterns with near-infrared spectroscopy data of the whole head

Biomedical Optics Express