  | Mortazavi, N. (2025). Neuroimaging and Electrophysiology of the Association Between Sleep, the Locus Coeruleus, and Alzheimer’s Disease [Doctoral thesis, GIGA-CRC Human Imaging]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/336493 |
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. |
 | 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  Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
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. |
 | 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 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | 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 |
 | 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. Peer reviewed |
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. |
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. Peer reviewed |
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. Peer reviewed |
 | Talwar, P., Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Collette, F., Maquet, P., Phillips, C., & Vandewalle, G. (27 September 2024). Age related changes in the association between REM sleep and the polygenic risk for Parkinson’s disease [Poster presentation]. 27th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, Seville, Spain. Peer reviewed |
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. Peer reviewed |
Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Beckers, E., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Balda Aizpurua, F., Lamalle, L., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (13 September 2024). Locus Coeruleus Activity during Wake Is Associated with Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Intensity [Poster presentation]. GIGA DAY, Liege, Belgium. Peer reviewed |
 | Talwar, P., Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Collette, F., Maquet, P., Phillips, C., & Vandewalle, G. (13 September 2024). Age-related changes in the association between REM sleep and the polygenic risk for Parkinson’s disease [Poster presentation]. GIGA DAY, Liege, Belgium. Peer reviewed |
Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Beckers, E., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Balda Aizpurua, F., Lamalle, L., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (23 June 2024). Locus Coeruleus Activity during Wake Is Associated with Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Intensity [Poster presentation]. Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Seoul, South Korea. Peer reviewed |
 | 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 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | 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. Peer reviewed |
 | Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Paparella, I., Aizpurua, J. F. B., Koshmanova, E., Mortazavi, N., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (2024). Impact of light on task-evoked pupil responses during cognitive tasks. Journal of Sleep Research, 14101. doi:10.1111/jsr.14101 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Beckers, E., Campbell, I., Sharifpour, R., Paparella, I., Berger, A., Balda Aizpurua, F., Koshmanova, E., Mortazavi, N., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., Jacobs, H. I. L., & Vandewalle, G. (2024). Impact of repeated short light exposures on sustained pupil responses in an fMRI environment. Journal of Sleep Research, 14085. doi:10.1111/jsr.14085 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Beckers, E., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Balda Aizpurua, F., Lamalle, L., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (24 September 2023). Association between locus coeruleus activity during wakefulness and sleep features [Poster presentation]. ESRS sleep school. Peer reviewed |
 | Paparella, I., Campbell, I., Sharifpour, R., Beckers, E., Berger, A., Balda Aizpurua, F., Koshmanova, E., Mortazavi, N., Talwar, P., Degueldre, C., Lamalle, L., Sherif, S., Phillips, C., Maquet, P., & Vandewalle, G. (16 September 2023). Light modulates task-dependent thalamo-cortical connectivity during an auditory attentional task. Communications Biology, 6 (1), 945. doi:10.1038/s42003-023-05337-5 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Koshmanova, E., Berger, A., Beckers, E., Campbell, I., Mortazavi, N., Sharifpour, R., Paparella, I., Balda Aizpurua, F., Berthomier, C., Degueldre, C., Salmon, E., Lamalle, L., Bastin, C., Van Egroo, M., Phillips, C., Maquet, P., Collette, F., Muto, V., Chylinski, D., ... Vandewalle, G. (2023). Locus coeruleus activity while awake is associated with REM sleep quality in older individuals. JCI Insight. doi:10.1172/jci.insight.172008 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Beckers, E., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Balda Aizpurua, F., Lamalle, L., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (25 July 2023). Association between locus coeruleus activity during wakefulness and sleep features [Poster presentation]. The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Montreal, Canada. Editorial reviewed |
 | Sharifpour, R., Paparella, I., Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Balda Aizpurua, F., Berger, A., Koshmanova, E., Mortazavi, N., Sherif, S., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., & Vandewalle, G. (23 July 2023). Non-visual Impacts of Light on Effective Connectivity associated to executive brain responses [Poster presentation]. The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Montreal, Canada. Peer reviewed |
 | Berger, A., Koshmanova, E., Beckers, E., Sharifpour, R., Paparella, I., Campbell, I., Mortazavi, N., Balda Aizpurua, F., Yi, Y.-J., Lamalle, L., Dricot, L., Phillips, C., Jacobs, H. I. L., Talwar, P., El Tahry, R., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (21 June 2023). Structural and functional characterization of the locus coeruleus in young and late middle-aged individuals. Frontiers in Neuroimaging, 2. doi:10.3389/fnimg.2023.1207844 Peer reviewed |
 | Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Paparella, I., Balda Aizpurua, J. F., Koshmanova, E., Mortazavi, N., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (2023). Impact of light on task-evoked pupil responses during cognitive tasks. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/305632. doi:10.1101/2023.04.12.536570 |
 | Beckers, E., Campbell, I., Sharifpour, R., Paparella, I., Berger, A., Balda Aizpurua, F., Koshmanova, E., Mortazavi, N., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., Jacobs, H. I. L., & Vandewalle, G. (2023). Impact of repeated short light exposures on sustained pupil responses in an fMRI environment. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/304482. doi:10.1101/2023.04.12.536600 |
Beckers, E., Campbell, I., Sharifpour, R., Paparella, I., Berger, A., Balda Aizpurua, F., Koshmanova, E., Mortazavi, N., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., Jacobs, H., & Vandewalle, G. (2023). Frequency analysis of sustained pupil size under various melanopic irradiance in young healthy individuals [Poster presentation]. Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, Lausanne, Switzerland. Peer reviewed |
 | Sharifpour, R., Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Balda Aizpurua, F., Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Paparella, I., Sherif, S., Phillips, C., & Vandewalle, G. (29 November 2022). Pitfalls in recording BOLD signal responses to light in small hypothalamic nuclei using Ultra-High-Field 7 Tesla MRI [letter to the editor]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (49), 2212123119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2212123119 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Koshmanova, E., Muto, V., Chylinski, D., MOURAUX, C., Reyt, M., Grignard, M., Talwar, P., Lambot, E., Berthomier, C., Brandewinder, M., Mortazavi, N., Degueldre, C., Luxen, A., Salmon, E., Georges, M., Collette, F., Maquet, P., Van Someren, E., & Vandewalle, G. (10 November 2022). Genetic risk for insomnia is associated with objective sleep measures in young and healthy good sleepers. Neurobiology of Disease, 175, 105924. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105924 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Koshmanova, E., Berger, A., Mortazavi, N., Beckers, E., Ji, J., Campbell, I., Sharifpour, R., Paparella, I., Chylinski, D., Muto, V., Berthomier, C., Degueldre, C., Salmon, E., Lamalle, L., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (27 September 2022). Locus coeruleus reactivity during wakefulness is associated with REM sleep intensity [Poster presentation]. ESRS. Peer reviewed |
Balda Aizpurua, F., Sharifpour, R., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Mortazavi, N., Beckers, E., Berger, A., Koshmanova, E., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., Sherif, S., Maquet, P., & Vandewalle, G. (27 September 2022). Ultra high-field MRI indications that exposure to blue enriched light increases attention brain responses during an oddball task [Paper presentation]. The Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR). Peer reviewed |
Beckers, E., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Sharifpour, R., Koshmanova, E., Berger, A., Balda Aizpurua, F., Mortazavi, N., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., Jacobs, H., & Vandewalle, G. (27 September 2022). Characterisation of pupil responses to alternating light intensities across different cognitive tasks [Paper presentation]. The 26th Conference of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS). Peer reviewed |
Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Muto, V., Chylinski, D., Jaspar, M., Meyer, C., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Paparella, I., Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Degueldre, C., Berthomier, C., Schmidt, C., Collette, F., Dijk, D., Phillips, C., Maquet, P., Talwar, P., & Vandewalle, G. (27 September 2022). Association of Alzheimer’s disease genetic risk and EEG features of the awake brain in healthy young men [Paper presentation]. The 26th Conference of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS). Peer reviewed |
Sharifpour, R., Campbell, I., Paparella, I., Beckers, E., Balda Aizpurua, F., Mortazavi, N., Berger, A., Talwar, P., Koshmanova, E., Lamalle, L., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (23 June 2022). Ultra High Field 7 Tesla fMRI potential in revealing hypothalamus responses to blue-enriched light exposure [Paper presentation]. Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, Manchester, United Kingdom. Peer reviewed |
Campbell, I., Sharifpour, R., Balda Aizpurua, F., Beckers, E., Paparella, I., Berger, A., Koshmanova, E., Mortazavi, N., Lamalle, L., Phillips, C., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (2022). Ultra-high-field fMRI indications that exposure to light modulates emotional brain responses in the hypothalamus [Paper presentation]. SLTBR congress, Manchester, United Kingdom. Peer reviewed |
Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Muto, V., Chylinski, D., Jaspar, M., Meyer, C., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Paparella, I., Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Degueldre, C., Berthomier, C., Schmidt, C., Collette, F., Dijk, D.-J., Phillips, C., MAQUET, P., Talwar, P., & Vandewalle, G. (2022). Alzheimer’s disease genetic risk and electroencephalography signals during wakefulness: Insights into the possible disease correlation [Paper presentation]. The 26th Conference of the European Sleep Research Society, Athens, Greece. Editorial reviewed |
 | Mortazavi, N., Koshmanova, E., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Paparella, I., Campbell, I., Beckers, E., Talwar, P., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (2022). Brain correlates of perceptual switch during perception rivalry: an ultra-high field 7T functional magnetic resonance imaging study [Paper presentation]. The Brain Conference. Peer reviewed |
Paparella, I., Campbell, I., Sharifpour, R., Berger, A., Koshmanova, E., Beckers, E., Mortazavi, N., MAQUET, P., Sherif, S., & Vandewalle, G. (2022). Blue light modulates task-dependent subcortico-cortical connectivity during an auditory attentional task [Paper presentation]. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS. Peer reviewed |
Mortazavi, N., Mahdipour, M., Obeydinia, S., & Tahmasian, M. (01 October 2020). The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on the Association between Positive Affect and Resting-State Networks [Paper presentation]. 7th International Human Brain Mapping Congress. Peer reviewed |
Esfandiari, T., Mortazavi, N., Mahdipour, M., & Zarei, M. (20 October 2019). Comparing the Activity of Different Regions of the Brain during Overt and Covert Verb Generation, Word Repetition, and Finger, Foot, and Lip Movement [Paper presentation]. the 6th International Human Brain Mapping Congress. Peer reviewed |
Mortazavi, N., Mahdipour, M., Tahmasian, M., Ebneabbasi, A., & Walter, M. (05 October 2019). The Association between Alexithymia and Functional Connectivity of Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex [Paper presentation]. the 6th International Human Brain Mapping Congress. Peer reviewed |
Mortazavi, N., Zarani, F., & Mahmood, H. (03 September 2018). Predicting trait mindfulness based on childhood maltreatment [Paper presentation]. 1st International Congress of Early Childhood Health and Education. Peer reviewed |
