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SARAH HEILBRONNER

TitleAssociate Professor
InstitutionBaylor College of Medicine
DepartmentDepartment of Neurosurgery
AddressOne Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX 77030
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    TitleAssociate Professor
    InstitutionBaylor College of Medicine
    DepartmentDepartment of Neuroscience
    DivisionDepartment of Neuroscience


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    UM1NS132207     (UGURBIL, KAMIL)Sep 15, 2023 - Aug 31, 2028
    NIH
    BRAIN CONNECTS: Center for Mesoscale Connectomics
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    R01MH118257     (HEILBRONNER, SARAH RACHEL)Nov 7, 2018 - Oct 31, 2024
    NIH
    Revealing functional networks and circuits of the posteromedial cortex withanatomical connectivity
    Role: Principal Investigator
    F32MH103931     (HEILBRONNER, SARAH RACHEL)Jul 16, 2014 - Jul 15, 2017
    NIH
    Anatomical connections subserving the default mode network
    Role: Principal Investigator
    F31DA028133     (HEILBRONNER, SARAH RACHEL)Feb 1, 2010 - Jan 31, 2013
    NIH
    The role of cingulate cortex in reward-based decision making
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Schmid W, Danstrom IA, Echevarria MC, Adkinson J, Mattar L, Banks GP, Sheth SA, Watrous AJ, Heilbronner SR, Bijanki KR, Alabastri A, Bartoli E, Schmid W, Danstrom IA, Crespo Echevarria M, Adkinson J, Mattar L, Banks GP, Sheth SA, Watrous AJ, Heilbronner SR, Bijanki KR, Alabastri A, Bartoli E. A biophysically constrained brain connectivity model based on stimulation-evoked potentials. J Neurosci Methods. 2024 May; 405:110106. PMID: 38453060.
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    2. Schmid W, Danstrom IA, Echevarria MC, Adkinson J, Mattar L, Banks GP, Sheth SA, Watrous AJ, Heilbronner SR, Bijanki KR, Alabastri A, Bartoli E. A biophysically constrained brain connectivity model based on stimulation-evoked potentials. bioRxiv. 2023 Nov 06. PMID: 37986830; PMCID: PMC10659345.
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    3. Mantell KE, Perera ND, Shirinpour S, Puonti O, Xu T, Zimmermann J, Falchier A, Heilbronner SR, Thielscher A, Opitz A. Anatomical details affect electric field predictions for non-invasive brain stimulation in non-human primates. Neuroimage. 2023 10 01; 279:120343. PMID: 37619797; PMCID: PMC10961993.
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    4. Cushnie AK, Tang W, Heilbronner SR. Connecting Circuits with Networks in Addiction Neuroscience: A Salience Network Perspective. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 May 22; 24(10). PMID: 37240428; PMCID: PMC10219092.
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    5. Brown TG, Thayer MN, VanTreeck JG, Zarate N, Hart DW, Heilbronner S, Gomez-Pastor R. Striatal spatial heterogeneity, clustering, and white matter association of GFAP+ astrocytes in a mouse model of Huntington's disease. Front Cell Neurosci. 2023; 17:1094503. PMID: 37187609; PMCID: PMC10175581.
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    6. Wong JK, Mayberg HS, Wang DD, Richardson RM, Halpern CH, Krinke L, Arlotti M, Rossi L, Priori A, Marceglia S, Gilron R, Cavanagh JF, Judy JW, Miocinovic S, Devergnas AD, Sillitoe RV, Cernera S, Oehrn CR, Gunduz A, Goodman WK, Petersen EA, Bronte-Stewart H, Raike RS, Malekmohammadi M, Greene D, Heiden P, Tan H, Volkmann J, Voon V, Li L, Sah P, Coyne T, Silburn PA, Kubu CS, Wexler A, Chandler J, Provenza NR, Heilbronner SR, Luciano MS, Rozell CJ, Fox MD, de Hemptinne C, Henderson JM, Sheth SA, Okun MS. Proceedings of the 10th annual deep brain stimulation think tank: Advances in cutting edge technologies, artificial intelligence, neuromodulation, neuroethics, interventional psychiatry, and women in neuromodulation. Front Hum Neurosci. 2022; 16:1084782. PMID: 36819295; PMCID: PMC9933515.
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    7. Cushnie AK, Bullock DN, Manea AMG, Tang W, Zimmermann J, Heilbronner SR. The use of chemogenetic actuator ligands in nonhuman primate DREADDs-fMRI. Curr Res Neurobiol. 2023; 4:100072. PMID: 36691404; PMCID: PMC9860110.
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    8. Foster BL, Koslov SR, Aponik-Gremillion L, Monko ME, Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR. A tripartite view of the posterior cingulate cortex. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2023 03; 24(3):173-189. PMID: 36456807; PMCID: PMC10041987.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    9. Bullock DN, Hayday EA, Grier MD, Tang W, Pestilli F, Heilbronner SR. A taxonomy of the brain's white matter: twenty-one major tracts for the 21st century. Cereb Cortex. 2022 10 08; 32(20):4524-4548. PMID: 35169827; PMCID: PMC9574243.
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    10. Wang MZ, Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR. A structural and functional subdivision in central orbitofrontal cortex. Nat Commun. 2022 06 24; 13(1):3623. PMID: 35750659; PMCID: PMC9232485.
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    11. Chafee MV, Heilbronner SR. Prefrontal cortex. Curr Biol. 2022 04 25; 32(8):R346-R351. PMID: 35472417; PMCID: PMC9832551.
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    12. Grier MD, Yacoub E, Adriany G, Lagore RL, Harel N, Zhang RY, Lenglet C, Ugurbil K, Zimmermann J, Heilbronner SR. Ultra-high field (10.5T) diffusion-weighted MRI of the macaque brain. Neuroimage. 2022 07 15; 255:119200. PMID: 35427769; PMCID: PMC9446284.
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    13. Banks GP, Heilbronner SR, Goodman W, Sheth SA. A population-normalized tractographic fiber atlas of the anterior limb of the internal capsule: relevance to surgical neuromodulation. J Neurosurg. 2022 Apr 08; 1-11. PMID: 35395627.
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    14. Burkhart JC, Gupta S, Borrego N, Heilbronner SR, Packer C. Oxytocin promotes social proximity and decreases vigilance in groups of African lions. iScience. 2022 Apr 15; 25(4):104049. PMID: 35496998; PMCID: PMC9042884.
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    15. Manea AMG, Zilverstand A, Ugurbil K, Heilbronner SR, Zimmermann J. Intrinsic timescales as an organizational principle of neural processing across the whole rhesus macaque brain. Elife. 2022 03 02; 11. PMID: 35234612; PMCID: PMC8923667.
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    16. Redish AD, Kepecs A, Anderson LM, Calvin OL, Grissom NM, Haynos AF, Heilbronner SR, Herman AB, Jacob S, Ma S, Vilares I, Vinogradov S, Walters CJ, Widge AS, Zick JL, Zilverstand A. Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2022 02 14; 377(1844):20200525. PMID: 34957854; PMCID: PMC8710889.
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    17. Schilling KG, Rheault F, Petit L, Hansen CB, Nath V, Yeh FC, Girard G, Barakovic M, Rafael-Patino J, Yu T, Fischi-Gomez E, Pizzolato M, Ocampo-Pineda M, Schiavi S, Canales-Rodr?guez EJ, Daducci A, Granziera C, Innocenti G, Thiran JP, Mancini L, Wastling S, Cocozza S, Petracca M, Pontillo G, Mancini M, Vos SB, Vakharia VN, Duncan JS, Melero H, Manzanedo L, Sanz-Morales E, Pe?a-Meli?n ?, Calamante F, Atty? A, Cabeen RP, Korobova L, Toga AW, Vijayakumari AA, Parker D, Verma R, Radwan A, Sunaert S, Emsell L, De Luca A, Leemans A, Bajada CJ, Haroon H, Azadbakht H, Chamberland M, Genc S, Tax CMW, Yeh PH, Srikanchana R, Mcknight CD, Yang JY, Chen J, Kelly CE, Yeh CH, Cochereau J, Maller JJ, Welton T, Almairac F, Seunarine KK, Clark CA, Zhang F, Makris N, Golby A, Rathi Y, O'Donnell LJ, Xia Y, Aydogan DB, Shi Y, Fernandes FG, Raemaekers M, Warrington S, Michielse S, Ram?rez-Manzanares A, Concha L, Aranda R, Meraz MR, Lerma-Usabiaga G, Roitman L, Fekonja LS, Calarco N, Joseph M, Nakua H, Voineskos AN, Karan P, Grenier G, Legarreta JH, Adluru N, Nair VA, Prabhakaran V, Alexander AL, Kamagata K, Saito Y, Uchida W, Andica C, Abe M, Bayrak RG, Wheeler-Kingshott CAMG, D'Angelo E, Palesi F, Savini G, Rolandi N, Guevara P, Houenou J, L?pez-L?pez N, Mangin JF, Poupon C, Rom?n C, V?zquez A, Maffei C, Arantes M, Andrade JP, Silva SM, Calhoun VD, Caverzasi E, Sacco S, Lauricella M, Pestilli F, Bullock D, Zhan Y, Brignoni-Perez E, Lebel C, Reynolds JE, Nestrasil I, Labounek R, Lenglet C, Paulson A, Aulicka S, Heilbronner SR, Heuer K, Chandio BQ, Guaje J, Tang W, Garyfallidis E, Raja R, Anderson AW, Landman BA, Descoteaux M. Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset? Neuroimage. 2021 11; 243:118502. PMID: 34433094; PMCID: PMC8855321.
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    18. Maisson DJ, Cash-Padgett TV, Wang MZ, Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR, Zimmermann J. Choice-relevant information transformation along a ventrodorsal axis in the medial prefrontal cortex. Nat Commun. 2021 08 10; 12(1):4830. PMID: 34376663; PMCID: PMC8355277.
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    19. Monko ME, Heilbronner SR. Retrosplenial Cortical Connectivity with Frontal Basal Ganglia Networks. J Cogn Neurosci. 2021 05 01; 33(6):1096-1105. PMID: 34428786; PMCID: PMC8428783.
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    20. Tang W, Choi EY, Heilbronner SR, Haber SN. Nonhuman primate meso-circuitry data: a translational tool to understand brain networks across species. Brain Struct Funct. 2021 Jan; 226(1):1-11. PMID: 33128126.
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    21. Yacoub E, Grier MD, Auerbach EJ, Lagore RL, Harel N, Adriany G, Zilverstand A, Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR, Ugurbil K, Zimmermann J. Ultra-high field (10.5 T) resting state fMRI in the macaque. Neuroimage. 2020 12; 223:117349. PMID: 32898683; PMCID: PMC7745777.
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    22. Monko MM, Heilbronner SR. Some animal models are more equal than others: Cortico-striatal circuits for translation. Lab Anim (NY). 2020 08; 49(8):225-226. PMID: 32632327.
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    23. Cushnie AK, El-Nahal HG, Bohlen MO, May PJ, Basso MA, Grimaldi P, Wang MZ, de Velasco Ezequiel MF, Sommer MA, Heilbronner SR. Using rAAV2-retro in rhesus macaques: Promise and caveats for circuit manipulation. J Neurosci Methods. 2020 11 01; 345:108859. PMID: 32668316; PMCID: PMC7539563.
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    24. Grier MD, Zimmermann J, Heilbronner SR. Estimating Brain Connectivity With Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Promise and Peril. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2020 09; 5(9):846-854. PMID: 32513555; PMCID: PMC7483308.
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    25. White JK, Bromberg-Martin ES, Heilbronner SR, Zhang K, Pai J, Haber SN, Monosov IE. A neural network for information seeking. Nat Commun. 2019 11 14; 10(1):5168. PMID: 31727893; PMCID: PMC6856099.
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    26. Burkhart JC, Heilbronner SR. Cracking Down on Complexity in the Evolving Brain. Trends Cogn Sci. 2019 11; 23(11):908-910. PMID: 31601459.
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    27. Widge AS, Heilbronner SR, Hayden BY. Prefrontal cortex and cognitive control: new insights from human electrophysiology. F1000Res. 2019; 8. PMID: 31602292; PMCID: PMC6768099.
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    28. Hirad AA, Bazarian JJ, Merchant-Borna K, Garcea FE, Heilbronner S, Paul D, Hintz EB, van Wijngaarden E, Schifitto G, Wright DW, Espinoza TR, Mahon BZ. A common neural signature of brain injury in concussion and subconcussion. Sci Adv. 2019 08; 5(8):eaau3460. PMID: 31457074; PMCID: PMC6685720.
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    29. Heilbronner SR, Chafee MV. Learning How Neurons Fail Inside of Networks: Nonhuman Primates Provide Critical Data for Psychiatry. Neuron. 2019 04 03; 102(1):21-26. PMID: 30946820; PMCID: PMC6734550.
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    30. Heilbronner SR, Meyer MAA, Choi EY, Haber SN. How do cortico-striatal projections impact on downstream pallidal circuitry? Brain Struct Funct. 2018 Jul; 223(6):2809-2821. PMID: 29654360.
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    31. Safadi Z, Grisot G, Jbabdi S, Behrens TE, Heilbronner SR, McLaughlin NCR, Mandeville J, Versace A, Phillips ML, Lehman JF, Yendiki A, Haber SN. Functional Segmentation of the Anterior Limb of the Internal Capsule: Linking White Matter Abnormalities to Specific Connections. J Neurosci. 2018 02 21; 38(8):2106-2117. PMID: 29358360; PMCID: PMC5824744.
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    32. Heilbronner SR. Modeling risky decision-making in nonhuman animals: shared core features. Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2017 Aug; 16:23-29. PMID: 28523287; PMCID: PMC5431286.
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    33. Coizet V, Heilbronner SR, Carcenac C, Mailly P, Lehman JF, Savasta M, David O, Deniau JM, Groenewegen HJ, Haber SN. Organization of the Anterior Limb of the Internal Capsule in the Rat. J Neurosci. 2017 03 08; 37(10):2539-2554. PMID: 28159909; PMCID: PMC5354315.
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    34. Heilbronner SR, Rodriguez-Romaguera J, Quirk GJ, Groenewegen HJ, Haber SN. Circuit-Based Corticostriatal Homologies Between Rat and Primate. Biol Psychiatry. 2016 10 01; 80(7):509-21. PMID: 27450032; PMCID: PMC5438202.
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    35. Heilbronner SR, Hayden BY. Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex: A Bottom-Up View. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2016 07 08; 39:149-70. PMID: 27090954; PMCID: PMC5512175.
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    36. Heilbronner SR, Hayden BY. The description-experience gap in risky choice in nonhuman primates. Psychon Bull Rev. 2016 Apr; 23(2):593-600. PMID: 26286883.
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    37. Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR. All that glitters is not reward signal. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Sep; 17(9):1142-4. PMID: 25157509.
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    38. Heilbronner SR, Haber SN. Frontal cortical and subcortical projections provide a basis for segmenting the cingulum bundle: implications for neuroimaging and psychiatric disorders. J Neurosci. 2014 Jul 23; 34(30):10041-54. PMID: 25057206; PMCID: PMC4107396.
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    39. Heilbronner SR, Platt ML. Causal evidence of performance monitoring by neurons in posterior cingulate cortex during learning. Neuron. 2013 Dec 18; 80(6):1384-91. PMID: 24360542; PMCID: PMC3892695.
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    40. Heilbronner SR, Meck WH. Dissociations between interval timing and intertemporal choice following administration of fluoxetine, cocaine, or methamphetamine. Behav Processes. 2014 Jan; 101:123-34. PMID: 24135569; PMCID: PMC4081038.
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    41. Heilbronner SR, Hayden BY. Contextual factors explain risk-seeking preferences in rhesus monkeys. Front Neurosci. 2013; 7:7. PMID: 23378827; PMCID: PMC3561601.
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    42. Brent LJ, Heilbronner SR, Horvath JE, Gonzalez-Martinez J, Ruiz-Lambides A, Robinson AG, Skene JH, Platt ML. Genetic origins of social networks in rhesus macaques. Sci Rep. 2013; 3:1042. PMID: 23304433; PMCID: PMC3540398.
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    43. Haber SN, Heilbronner SR. Translational research in OCD: circuitry and mechanisms. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013 Jan; 38(1):252-3. PMID: 23147494; PMCID: PMC3521984.
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    44. McGinty VB, Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR, Dumont EC, Graves SM, Mirrione MM, du Hoffmann J, Sartor GC, Espa?a RA, Millan EZ, Difeliceantonio AG, Marchant NJ, Napier TC, Root DH, Borgland SL, Treadway MT, Floresco SB, McGinty JF, Haber S. Emerging, reemerging, and forgotten brain areas of the reward circuit: Notes from the 2010 Motivational Neural Networks conference. Behav Brain Res. 2011 Nov 20; 225(1):348-57. PMID: 21816177; PMCID: PMC3445023.
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    45. Heilbronner SR, Hayden BY, Platt ML. Decision salience signals in posterior cingulate cortex. Front Neurosci. 2011; 5:55. PMID: 21541308; PMCID: PMC3082768.
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    46. Pearson JM, Heilbronner SR, Barack DL, Hayden BY, Platt ML. Posterior cingulate cortex: adapting behavior to a changing world. Trends Cogn Sci. 2011 Apr; 15(4):143-51. PMID: 21420893; PMCID: PMC3070780.
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    47. Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR, Pearson JM, Platt ML. Surprise signals in anterior cingulate cortex: neuronal encoding of unsigned reward prediction errors driving adjustment in behavior. J Neurosci. 2011 Mar 16; 31(11):4178-87. PMID: 21411658; PMCID: PMC3070460.
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    48. Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR, Platt ML. Ambiguity aversion in rhesus macaques. Front Neurosci. 2010; 4. PMID: 20922060; PMCID: PMC2948461.
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    49. Heilbronner SR, Rosati AG, Stevens JR, Hare B, Hauser MD. A fruit in the hand or two in the bush? Divergent risk preferences in chimpanzees and bonobos. Biol Lett. 2008 Jun 23; 4(3):246-9. PMID: 18364305; PMCID: PMC2610056.
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    50. Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR, Nair AC, Platt ML. Cognitive influences on risk-seeking by rhesus macaques. Judgm Decis Mak. 2008 Jun 01; 3(5):389-395. PMID: 19844596; PMCID: PMC2763334.
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    51. Heilbronner SR, Platt ML. Animal cognition: time flies when chimps are having fun. Curr Biol. 2007 Dec 04; 17(23):R1008-10. PMID: 18054760.
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