Publications and communications of Mikhail Zubkov

Ruymaekers, A., Meyer, F., Huang, J., Jacquemin, A., Dauby, S., Salmon, E., Bastin, C., Phillips, C., Zubkov, M., & Bahri, M. A. (30 September 2026). Estimation of SV2A PET-Derived Synaptic Density from Quantitative MRI Using Data-Driven Methods [Poster presentation]. The European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) - the 42nd annual meeting, Girona, Spain.

Meyer, F., Huang, J.* , Ruymaekers, A., Jacquemin, A., Dauby, S., Salmon, E., Bastin, C., Phillips, C., Zubkov, M., & Bahri, M. A. (11 June 2026). Comparative Evaluation of 2D and 2.5D U-Net and cGAN for qMRI to [18F]UCB-H PET Image synthesis [Paper presentation]. GIGA-DAY.

Seret, E., Dejace, C., Muto, V., Dourte, M., de Haan, S., Collette, F., Talwar, P., Zubkov, M., Sacré, P., Schmidt, C., Vandewalle, G., & Hammad, G. (11 June 2026). Age-related changes in fractal regulation of wake and sleep electroencephalography signals [Paper presentation]. GIGA Day 2026.

Minne, R., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., & Zubkov, M. (June 2026). Signal-to-noise ratio optimization for radial acquisition in 23-sodium magnetic resonance imaging [Paper presentation]. 42nd annual meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB), Gerona, Spain.

Mortazavi, N., Zubkov, M., Chylinski, D., Collette, F., Bastin, C., Maquet, P., Vandewalle, G., & Talwar, P. (2026). Sleep arousals are associated with the polygenic risk for developing Alzheimer's disease and with cognitive change in healthy late middle-aged individuals. Sleep. doi:10.1093/sleep/zsag143

Seret, E., Dejace, C., Muto, V., Dourte, M., de Haan, S., Collette, F., Talwar, P., Zubkov, M., Sacré, P., Schmidt, C., Vandewalle, G., & Hammad, G. (21 May 2026). Age-related changes in fractal regulation of wake and sleep electroencephalography signals [Poster presentation]. Journées d'Étude du Vieillissement.

Sharifpour, R., Balda Aizpurua, F., Paparella, I., Read, J., Leysens, Z., Letot, S., Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Collette, F., Phillips, C., Zubkov, M., & Vandewalle, G. (May 2026). Cortical excitability is affected by light exposure - Distinct effects in adolescents and young adults. Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, 20, 100138. doi:10.1016/j.nbscr.2025.100138

Balda Aizpurua, F., Sharifpour, R., Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Letot, S., Berger, A., Mortazavi, N., KOSHMANOVA, E., Collette, F., Lamalle, L., Jacobs, H., Zubkov, M., Talwar, P., & Vandewalle, G. (2026). In vivo modulation of locus coeruleus activity by light. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/344666. doi:10.64898/2026.04.28.721313

Zubkov, M., Pine, K., Bazin, P. L., Talwar, P., Mortazavi, N., Dauby, S., Geron, C., Beckers, E., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., Collette, F., Maquet, P., Lommers, E., Alkemade, A., Weiskopf, N., Vandewalle, G., & Kirilina, E. (2026). Pooling quantitative MRI data: A multi-protocol study of healthy subcortical ageing. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/340098. doi:10.64898/2026.01.07.698256

Sharifpour, R., Campbell, I., Balda, F., Paparella, I., Beckers, E., Mortazavi, N., Collette, F., Phillips, C., Talwar, P., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., & Vandewalle, G. (2026). Regional Hypothalamic Responses to Light Vary Across Developmental Stages but Remain Stable with Time of Day. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/340099. doi:10.64898/2026.01.05.697645

Talwar, P.* , Zubkov, M., Gasparello, A., Seret, E., Wagner, L., Mortazavi, N., Collette, F., Hammad, G., Schmidt, C., & Vandewalle, G.*. (2026). Aquaporin-4 haplotype–dependent modulation of the association between sleep microarousals and pontine grey matter myelin [Poster presentation]. European Human Genetics Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Zubkov, M. (January 2026). Simulating SRSLY: Sensitivity Resolved SubvoxeL sepctroscopY [Paper presentation]. ISMRM Benelux Chapter 18th Annual Meeting, Antwerp, Belgium.

Zubkov, M., Gasparello, A., Simos, N.-I., Spruyt Maarten, Mortazavi, N., Lamalle, L., Collette, F., Lommers, E., Pine Kerrin, Kirilina Evgeniya, Talwar, P., & Vandewalle, G. (2026). Drivers of locus coeruleus contrast in magnetization transfer magnetic resonance imaging [Paper presentation]. 2026 OHBM Annual Meeting, Bordeaux, France.

Zubkov, M., Pine, K. J., Bazin, P.-L., Kuegler, N., Talwar, P., Mortazavi, N., Dauby, S., Geron, C., Beckers, E., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., Collette, F., Maquet, P., Lommers, E., Alkemade, A., Weiskopf, N., Vandewalle, G., & Kirilina, E. (2026). Pooling quantitative MRI data: A multi-protocol study of healthy subcortical aging. Imaging Neuroscience. doi:10.1162/imag.a.1315

Talwar, P., Mortazavi, N., KOSHMANOVA, E., Muto, V., Gasparello, A., Degueldre, C., Berthomier, C., Collette, F., Bastin, C., Phillips, C., Maquet, P., Zubkov, M., & Vandewalle, G. (2025). Age-Related Differences in the Association between REM Sleep and the Polygenic Risk for Parkinson's Disease. Annals of Neurology. doi:10.1002/ana.78112

Campbell, I.* , Balda Aizpurua, J.* , Sharifpour, R., Paparella, I., Beckers, E., Mortazavi, N., Read, J., Phillips, C., Collette, F., Talwar, P., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., & Vandewalle, G. (2025). Regional activity within the human amygdala varies with season, mood and illuminance. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-67715-3

Mortazavi, N., Zubkov, M., Chylinski, D., Collette, F., Bastin, C., Maquet, P., Vandewalle, G., & Talwar, P. (2025). Sleep arousals are associated with the polygenic risk for developing Alzheimer's disease and with cognitive decline in healthy late middle-aged individuals. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/340097. doi:10.1101/2025.11.11.687823

Gasparello, A., Talwar, P., Mortazavi, N., Collette, F., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., Schmidt, C., & Vandewalle, G. (20 October 2025). In vivo investigation of the links between Locus Coeruleus integrity and sleep-related variables in humans using 7 Tesla MRI [Paper presentation]. 16th Belgian Society for Neuroscience (BSN) Meeting, Leuven, Belgium.

Seret, E., Gasparello, A., Talwar, P., Mortazavi, N., Collette, F., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., Schmidt, C., & Vandewalle, G. (October 2025). Locus coeruleus activity is positively associated with spindles number in men [Poster presentation]. 16th Belgian Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Leuven, Belgium.

Mortazavi, N., Talwar, P., KOSHMANOVA, E., Sharifpour, R., Beckers, E., Paparella, I., Balda, F., Bastin, C., Collette, F., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., Zubkov, M., & Vandewalle, G. (26 September 2025). The Crosstalk Between the Anterior Hypothalamus and the Locus Coeruleus During Wakefulness Is Associated with Low-Frequency Oscillations Power During Sleep. Clocks and Sleep, 7 (4), 53. doi:10.3390/clockssleep7040053

Gasparello, A., Zubkov, M., Talwar, P., Patino Rana, D., Hammad, G., Mortazavi, N., Seret, E., Lamalle, L., Collette, F., Schmidt, C., & Vandewalle, G. (12 September 2025). Pre-clinical manifestations of Parkinson's disease: Locus coeruleus, sleep, and cognition [Poster presentation]. GIGA Day 2025, Liège, Belgium.

Spruyt, M., Mortazavi, N., Talwar, P., Beckers, E., Gasparello, A., Zubkov, M., & Vandewalle, G. (07 June 2025). Association of REM Sleep Quality and Tonic Activity of the Locus Coeruleus: Evidence from an Augmented Dataset [Paper presentation]. Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS), Bruxelles, Belgium.

Zubkov, M. (2025). Editorial for “Functional MRI and Tumor Vasculature Correlation in Ewing Sarcoma Xenografts: A Prospective Study Based on MRI-Pathology Co-Alignment”. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. doi:10.1002/jmri.29793

Sharifpour, R., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Balda Aizpurua, F., Beckers, E., Mortazavi, N., KOSHMANOVA, E., Read, J., Collette, F., Phillips, C., Talwar, P., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., & Vandewalle, G. (2025). Light Impact on Thalamo-Cortical Connectivity During an Executive Cognitive Task: Effects of Time of Day and Specificities of Teenagers. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/340100. doi:10.1101/2025.04.03.647005

Paparella, I., Cardone, P., Zanichelli, B., Lamalle, L., Collette, F., Sherif, S., Zubkov, M., Clarke, W. T., Stagg, C. J., Maquet, P., & Vandewalle, G. (2025). 7 Tesla magnetic resonance spectroscopy estimates of GABA concentration relate to physiological measures of tonic inhibition in the human motor cortex. Journal of Physiology. doi:10.1113/JP287311

Mortazavi, N., Talwar, P., Koshmanova, E., Sharifpour, R., Beckers, E., Berger, A., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Balda Aizpurua, F., Dardour Hamzaoui, I., Berthomier, C., Bastin, C., Phillips, C., Maquet, P., Collette, F., Zubkov, M., Lamalle, L., & Vandewalle, G. (11 March 2025). REM sleep quality is associated with balanced tonic activity of the locus coeruleus during wakefulness. Journal of Biomedical Science, 32 (1). doi:10.1186/s12929-025-01127-9

Read, J., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., Vandewalle, G., & Collette, F. (07 February 2025). Characterization of glutamatergic changes associated with mental fatigue using magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging at 7 Tesla [Poster presentation]. MaRBEL 2025, Liège, Belgium. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/E8Y62

Talwar, P., Mortazavi, N., KOSHMANOVA, E., Muto, V., Degueldre, C., Berthomier, C., Collette, F., Bastin, C., Phillips, C., Maquet, P., Vandewalle, G., & Zubkov, M. (2025). Age-related differences in the association between REM sleep and the polygenic risk for Parkinson’s disease. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/334650. doi:10.1101/2025.02.05.636657

Kornaropoulos, E., Pesesse Pierre, Zubkov, M., Vanderthommen, M., Demoulin, C., & Phillips, C. (02 February 2025). Localising unilateral lumbosacral radicular pain through Diffusion Tensor Imaging: an experimental study [Poster presentation]. MARBEL 2025, Liège, Belgium.

Balda Aizpurua, F., Sharifpour, R., Beckers, E., Letot, S., Campbell, I., Berger, A., Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Talwar, P., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., & Vandewalle, G. (2025). Impact of Light Illuminance on Locus Coeruleus Activity during an auditory Emotional Task: Insights from High-Resolution MRI Imaging [Poster presentation]. Marbel 2025.

Gasparello, A., Talwar, P., Zubkov, M., Beckers, E., Mortazavi, N., Hammad, G., Spruyt, M., Patino Rana, D., Schmidt, C., & Vandewalle, G. (2025). Pre-clinical manifestations of Parkinson’s disease: Locus coeruleus, sleep, genetics and cognition [Poster presentation]. MaRBEL congress, Liège, Belgium.

Kornaropoulos, E., Pesesse, P., Vanderthommen, M., Demoulin, C., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., & Zubkov, M. (2025). Localising unilateral lumbosacral radicular pain through Diffusion Tensor Imaging: an experimental study [Poster presentation]. ESMRMB 2025, Marseille, France.

Patino Rana, D., Talwar, P., Zubkov, M., Gasparello, A., Mortazavi, N., Beckers, E., Robert, A., Schmidt, C., Hammad, G., & Vandewalle, G. (2025). FRACTALz- Fractal Dynamics as a Diagnostic Tool in Alzheimer’s Disease [Poster presentation]. MaRBEL congress, Liège, Belgium.

Rohani Rankouhi, S., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., & Phillips, C. (2025). Contrast Optimization for Knee MRI at 7 T [Poster presentation]. MaRBEL 2025, Liège, Belgium.

Rohani Rankouhi, S., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., & Phillips, C. (2025). Contrast Optimization for Knee MRI at 7 T [Poster presentation]. MaRBEL 2025, Liège, Belgium.

Rohani Rankouhi, S., Zubkov, M., Lamalle, L., Bahri, M. A., & Phillips, C. (2025). Contrast Adjustment for MR Images at 7 T [Poster presentation]. ESMRMB, Marseille, France.

Zubkov, M., Pine, K., Bazin, P.-L., Talwar, P., Mortazavi, N., Dauby, S., Geron, C., Beckers, E., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., Collette, F., Maquet, P., Lommers, E., Alkemade, A., Weiskopf, N., Kirilina, E., & Vandewalle, G. (2025). To Pool or Not to Pool? Comparability of Multi-Protocol Ultra-High-Resolution qMRI in Healthy Brain Aging [Paper presentation]. ESMRMB 41st Annual Scientific Meeting, Marseille, France.

Mortazavi, N., Talwar, P., Koshmanova, E., Sharifpour, R., Beckers, E., Berger, A., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Balda Aizpurua, F., Zubkov, M., Lamalle, L., & Vandewalle, G. (25 September 2024). Locus coeruleus activity during wakefulness is associated with sigma power prior to REM sleep [Poster presentation]. The 27th Conference of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), Seville, Spain.

Sharifpour, R., Balda Aizpurua, F., Paparella, I., Read, J., Leysens, Z., Letot, S., Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Collette, F., Phillips, C., Zubkov, M., & Vandewalle, G. (2024). Cortical Excitability is Affected by Light Exposure – Distinct Effects in Adolescents and Young Adults. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.08.21.608922

Read, J., Guillemin, C., Charonitis, M., Beliy, N., Requier, F., Bahri, M. A., Lamalle, L., Zubkov, M., Maquet, P., Phillips, C., Vandewalle, G., & Collette, F. (24 June 2024). Linking cognitive load with mental fatigue: a resting-state functionnal connectivity approach [Poster presentation]. 30th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/PVD3H

Campbell, I., Sharifpour, R., Balda Aizpurua, F., Beckers, E., Paparella, I., Berger, A., Koshmanova, E., Mortazavi, N., Read, J., Zubkov, M., Talwar, P., Collette, F., Sherif, S., Phillips, C., Lamalle, L., & Vandewalle, G. (2024). Regional response to light illuminance across the human hypothalamus. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.96576

Pesesse, P., Vanderthommen, M., Durieux, N., Zubkov, M., & Demoulin, C. (2024). Clinical Value and Reliability of Quantitative Assessments of Lumbosacral Nerve Root Using Diffusion Tensor and Diffusion Weighted MR Imaging: A Systematic Review. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. doi:10.1002/jmri.29213

Paparella, I., Cardone, P., Benedetta Zanichelli, Lamalle, L., Collette, F., Sherif, S., Zubkov, M., William T Clarke, Charlotte J Stagg, Maquet, P., & Vandewalle, G. (2024). 7 Tesla MRS estimates of GABA concentration relate to physiological measures of tonic inhibition in the human motor cortex. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/321277. doi:10.1101/2024.07.12.603209

Zubkov, M., Pine, K., Bazin, P.-L., Mortazavi, N., Sherif, S., Talwar, P., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., Collette, F., Alkemade, A., Kirilina, E., Weiskopf, N., & Vandewalle, G. (2024). R2* age variations in subcortical structures in young adults at 7T [Paper presentation]. 2024 OHBM Annual Meeting, Seoul, South Korea.