Publications of Sofie L. Valk

Bernhardt, B. C., Valk, S. L., Hong, S.-J., Soulières, I., & Mottron, L. (2025). Autism-related shifts in the brain's information processing hierarchy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2025.04.008

Manoli, A., Van Overwalle, F., Grosse Wiesmann, C., & Valk, S. L. (2025). Functional recruitment and connectivity of the cerebellum is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood. Nature Communications, 16. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-60523-9

Saberi, A., Wischnewski, K. J., Jung, K., Lotter, L. D., Schaare, H. L., Banaschewski, T., … Valk, S. L. (2025). Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling. Science Advances, 11. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adr8164

Fan, Y.-S., Xu, Y., Wan, B., Sheng, W., Wang, C., Yang, M., … Chen, H. (2025). Anterior-posterior systematic deficits of cortical thickness in early-onset schizophrenia. Communications Biology, 8. doi:10.1038/s42003-025-08216-3

Wang, Y., Eichert, N., Paquola, C., Rodriguez-Cruces, R., DeKraker, J., Royer, J., … Bernhardt, B. C. (2025). Multimodal gradients unify local and global cortical organization. Nature Communications, 16. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59177-4

Ganesan, S., Barrios, F. A., Batta, I., Bauer, C. C. C., Braver, T. S., Brewer, J. A., … King, A. P. (2025). ENIGMA-meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 10, 425–436.

Puhlmann, L. M., Vrticka, P., Linz, R., Valk, S. L., Papassotiriou, I., Chrousos, G. P., … Singer, T. (2025). Serum BDNF increase after 9-month contemplative mental training is associated with decreased cortisol secretion and increased dentate gyrus volume: Evidence from a randomized clinical trial. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 5. doi:10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100414

Xie, K., Royer, J., Rodriguez‐Cruces, R., Horwood, L., Ngo, A., Arafat, T., … Bernhardt, B. C. (2025). Temporal lobe epilepsy perturbs the brain‐wide excitation‐inhibition balance: Associations with microcircuit organization, clinical parameters, and cognitive dysfunction. Advanced Science, 12. doi:10.1002/advs.202406835

Auer, H., Cabalo, D. G., Rodríguez-Cruces, R., Benkarim, O., Paquola, C., DeKraker, J., … Royer, J. (2025). From histology to macroscale function in the human amygdala. ELife, 13. doi:10.7554/eLife.101950

John, A., Hettwer, M., Schaare, H. L., Saberi, A., Bayrak, S., Wan, B., … Valk, S. L. (2025). A multimodal characterization of low-dimensional thalamocortical structural connectivity patterns. Communications Biology, 8. doi:10.1038/s42003-025-07528-8

Saberi, A., Ebneabbasi, A., Rahimi, S., Sarebannejad, S., Sen, Z. D., Graf, H., … Tahmasian, M. (2025). Convergent functional effects of antidepressants in major depressive disorder: A neuroimaging meta-analysis. Molecular Psychiatry, 30, 736–751.

Paquola, C., Garber, M., Frässle, S., Royer, J., Zhou, Y., Tavakol, S., … Bernhardt, B. C. (2025). The architecture of the human default mode network explored through cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow. Nature Neuroscience. doi:10.1038/s41593-024-01868-0

Wan, B., Saberi, A., Paquola, C., Schaare, H. L., Hettwer, M., Royer, J., … Valk, S. L. (2024). Microstructural asymmetry in the human cortex. Nature Communications, 15. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-54243-9

Hardikar, S., Mckeown, B., Schaare, H. L., Wallace, R. S., Xu, T., Lauckener, M. E., … Smallwood, J. (2024). Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits. ELife, 13. doi:10.7554/eLife.93689

Hardikar, S., McKeown, B., Turnbull, A., Xu, T., Valk, S. L., Bernhardt, B. C., … Smallwood, J. (2024). Personality traits vary in their association with brain activity across situations. Communications Biology, 7. doi:10.1038/s42003-024-07061-0

Royer, J., Paquola, C., Valk, S. L., Kirschner, M., Hong, S.-J., Park, B.-yong, … Bernhardt, B. C. (2024). Gradients of brain organization: Smooth sailing from methods development to user community. Neuroinformatics, 22, 623–634.

Weber, C. F., Kebets, V., Benkarim, O., Lariviere, S., Wang, Y., Ngo, A., … Bernhardt, B. (2024). Contracted functional connectivity profiles in autism. Molecular Autism, 15. doi:10.1186/s13229-024-00616-2

Serio, B., Hettwer, M., Wiersch, L., Bignardi, G., Sacher, J., Weis, S., … Valk, S. L. (2024). Sex differences in functional cortical organization reflect differences in network topology rather than cortical morphometry. Nature Communications, 15. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51942-1

Valk, S. L., Engert, V., Puhlmann, L. M., Linz, R., Caldairou, B., Bernasconi, A., … Singer, T. (2024). Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol. ELife, 12. doi:10.7554/eLife.87634

Küchenhoff, S., Bayrak, S., Zsido, R., Saberi, A., Bernhardt, B. C., Weis, S., … Valk, S. L. (2024). Relating sex differences in cortical and hippocampal microstructure to sex hormones. Nature Communications, 15. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51459-7