Publications and communications of Alice Barra

Barra, A., Bodien, Y. G., Tan, C. O., Martens, G., Malone, C., & Giacino, J. T. (October 2025). Behavioral Fluctuation in Disorders of Consciousness: A Retrospective Analysis. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 106 (10), 1505 - 1513. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2025.03.038

Barra, A., Huerta-Gutierrez, R., Annen, J., Martens, G., Laureys, S., Llorens, R., Kurth, T., & Thibaut, A. (2025). Characterization of responders to transcranial direct current stimulation in disorders of consciousness: A retrospective study of 8 clinical trials. Neurotherapeutics, 00587. doi:10.1016/j.neurot.2025.e00587

Martens, G., Barra, A., Nunez Novo, P., Meys, M., Vitello, M., Ibanez-Soria David, Kroupi Eleni, Soria-Frisch Aureli, Gosseries, O., Lejeune, N., Salvador, R., Chugani, K., Nitsche, M., Ruffini, G., & Thibaut, A. (2025). Closed-loop application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for patients with chronic minimally conscious state [Poster presentation]. 28th annual meeting of the ASSC, Heraklion, Greece.

van der Lande, G., Casas-Torremocha, D., Manasanch, A., Dalla Porta, L., Gosseries, O., Alnagger, N., Barra, A., Mejías, J. F., Panda, R., Riefolo, F., Thibaut, A., Bonhomme, V., Thirion, B., Clasca, F., Gorostiza, P., Sanchez-Vives, M. V., Deco, G., Laureys, S., Zamora-López, G., & Annen, J. (11 October 2024). Brain state identification and neuromodulation to promote recovery of consciousness. Brain Communications, 6 (5), 362. doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcae362

Bodien, Y. G., Vora, I., Barra, A., Chiang, K., Chatelle, C., Goostrey, K., Martens, G., Malone, C., Mello, J., Parlman, K., Ranford, J., Sterling, A., Waters, A. B., Hirschberg, R., Katz, D. I., Mazwi, N., Ni, P., Velmahos, G., Waak, K., ... Giacino, J. T. (November 2023). Feasibility and Validity of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised for Accelerated Standardized Testing: A Practical Assessment Tool for Detecting Consciousness in the Intensive Care Unit. Annals of Neurology, 94 (5), 919 - 924. doi:10.1002/ana.26740

Assadzadeh, S.* , Annen, J.* , Sanz, L., Barra, A., Bonin, E., Thibaut, A., Boly, M., Laureys, S., Gosseries, O.* , & Robinson, P. A.*. (01 September 2023). Method for quantifying arousal and consciousness in healthy states and severe brain injury via EEG-based measures of corticothalamic physiology. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 398, 109958. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2023.109958
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Barra, A. (2022). Towards a patient-tailored approach of transcranial electrical stimulation as a treatment to post-comatose patients with disorders of consciousness [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/343446

Barra, A., Rosenfelder, M., Mortaheb, S., Carrière, M., Martens, G., Bodien, Y. G., Morales-Quezada, L., Bender, A., LAUREYS, S., Thibaut, A., & Fregni, F. (24 March 2022). Transcranial Pulsed-Current Stimulation versus Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: A Pilot, Sham-Controlled Cross-Over Double-Blind Study. Brain Sciences, 12 (4), 429. doi:10.3390/brainsci12040429

Lee, M., Sanz, L., Barra, A., WOLFF, A., Nieminen, J. O., Boly, M., Rosanova, M., Casarotto, S., BODART, O., Annen, J., Thibaut, A., Panda, R., BONHOMME, V., Massimini, M., Tononi, G., LAUREYS, S., Gosseries, O.* , & Lee, S.-W.*. (25 February 2022). Quantifying arousal and awareness in altered states of consciousness using interpretable deep learning. Nature Communications, 13 (1), 1064. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28451-0
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Bodien, Y. G.* , Barra, A.* , Temkin, N. R., Barber, J., Foreman, B., Vassar, M., Robertson, C., Taylor, S. R., Markowitz, A. J., Manley, G. T., Giacino, J. T.* , Edlow, B. L.* , & the TRACK-TBI investigators*. (23 November 2021). Diagnosing Level of Consciousness: Limits of the Glasgow Coma Scale Total Score. Journal of Neurotrauma, 38. doi:10.1089/neu.2021.0199
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Sanz, L.* , Aubinet, C.* , Cassol, H., BODART, O., Wannez, S., Bonin, E., Barra, A., Lejeune, N., Martial, C., Chatelle, C., LEDOUX, D., Laureys, S., Thibaut, A., & Gosseries, O. (2021). SECONDs administration guidelines: A fast tool for assessing consciousness in brain-injured patients. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (168), 61968. doi:10.3791/61968
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Martens, G., Ibáñez-Soria, D., Barra, A., Soria-Frisch, A., Piarulli, A., Gosseries, O., Salvador, R., Rojas, A., Nitsche, M. A., Kroupi, E., Laureys, S., Ruffini, G., & Thibaut, A. (2021). A novel closed-loop EEG-tDCS approach to promote responsiveness of patients in minimally conscious state: a study protocol. Behavioural Brain Research, 113311. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113311

Carrière, M., Mortaheb, S., Raimondo, F., Annen, J., Barra, A., Binda Fossati, M. L., Chatelle, C., Hermann, B., Martens, G., Di Perri, C., LAUREYS, S., & Thibaut, A. (2020). Neurophysiological Correlates of a Single Session of Prefrontal tDCS in Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness: A Pilot Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Study. Brain Sciences. doi:10.3390/brainsci10070469

Martens, G., Kroupi, E., Bodien, Y., Frasso, G., Annen, J., Cassol, H., Barra, A., Martial, C., Gosseries, O., Lejeune, N., Soria-Frisch, A., Ruffini, G., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (2020). Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of network-based frontoparietal tDCS in patients with severe brain injury: A randomized controlled trial. NeuroImage: Clinical. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102426

Martens, G., Fregni, F., Carrière, M., Barra, A., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (2019). Single tDCS session of motor cortex in patients with disorders of consciousness: a pilot study. Brain Injury. doi:10.1080/02699052.2019.1667537

Barra, A., Mortaheb, S., Carrière, M., Martens, G., Bodien, Y., Morales-Quezada, L., Fregni, F., Giacino, J., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (15 March 2019). Neurophysiological effects and behavioral outcomes after tPCS and tDCS in a patient in minimally conscious state [Paper presentation]. 13th Congress on Brain Injury, Toronto, Canada.

Martens, G., Barra, A., Carrière, M., Soria-Frisch, A., Ruffini, G., Ibanez, D., Rojas, A., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (February 2019). Improving responsiveness to non-invasive brain stimulation in minimally conscious state patients: a closed-loop approach [Poster presentation]. THE 13TH WORLD CONGRESS ON BRAIN INJURY, Toronto, Canada.

Martens, G., Barra, A., Laureys, S., & Thibaut, A. (February 2019). Recent advance in the treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness: a review of transcranial direct current stimulation efficacy [Poster presentation]. 3rd International Brain Stimulation Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Blandiaux, S., Raimondo, F., Wolff, A., Sanz, L., BODART, O., Barra, A., Annen, J., Wannez, S., Sitt, J. D., Laureys, S., & Gosseries, O. (15 June 2018). PCI & Auditory ERPs for the diagnosis of disorders of consciousness: a EEG-based methods comparison study [Paper presentation]. 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, Lisbon, Portugal.

Thibaut, A., Chatelle, C., VANHAUDENHUYSE, A., Martens, G., Cassol, H., Barra, A., Martial, C., Carrière, M., LAUREYS, S., & Gosseries, O. (June 2018). Transcranial direct current stimulation unveils covert consciousness. Brain Stimulation, 11 (3), 642-644. doi:10.1016/j.brs.2018.02.002

Chatelle, C., Thibaut, A., Gosseries, O., Cassol, H., Aubinet, C., Carrière, M., Wolff, A., Martens, G., Barra, A., Martial, C., Blandiaux, S., Wannez, S., Charland-Verville, V., & Laureys, S. (2018). Fluctuation in behavioral responsiveness in severely brain-injured patients. European Journal of Neurology, 25 (2), 90–276.