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Ahmed Moustafa

Professor, Psychology & Computational Modeling, Bond University & Chief Editor, Discover …
Verified email at bond.edu.au
Cited by 15374

Hold your horses: impulsivity, deep brain stimulation, and medication in parkinsonism

MJ Frank, J Samanta, AA Moustafa, SJ Sherman - science, 2007 - science.org
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus markedly improves the motor
symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but causes cognitive side effects such as impulsivity. We …

Genetic triple dissociation reveals multiple roles for dopamine in reinforcement learning

MJ Frank, AA Moustafa, HM Haughey… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
What are the genetic and neural components that support adaptive learning from positive
and negative outcomes? Here, we show with genetic analyses that three independent …

Motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease: A unified framework

AA Moustafa, S Chakravarthy, JR Phillips… - Neuroscience & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by a range of motor symptoms. Besides the cardinal
symptoms (akinesia and bradykinesia, tremor and rigidity), PD patients show additional …

[HTML][HTML] Thinking, walking, talking: integratory motor and cognitive brain function

G Leisman, AA Moustafa, T Shafir - Frontiers in public health, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In this article, we argue that motor and cognitive processes are functionally related and most
likely share a similar evolutionary history. This is supported by clinical and neural data …

[HTML][HTML] The cerebellum and psychiatric disorders

…, DH Hewedi, AM Eissa, AA Moustafa - Frontiers in public …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The cerebellum has been considered for a long time to play a role solely in motor coordination.
However, studies over the past two decades have shown that the cerebellum also plays …

Freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease is associated with functional decoupling between the cognitive control network and the basal ganglia

JM Shine, E Matar, PB Ward, MJ Frank, AA Moustafa… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Recent neuroimaging evidence has led to the proposal that freezing of gait in Parkinson's
disease is due to dysfunctional interactions between frontoparietal cortical regions and …

[HTML][HTML] The application of unsupervised clustering methods to Alzheimer's disease

…, JJ Crouse, A Abdalla, AA Moustafa - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Clustering is a powerful machine learning tool for detecting structures in datasets. In the
medical field, clustering has been proven to be a powerful tool for discovering patterns and …

A dopaminergic basis for working memory, learning and attentional shifting in Parkinsonism

AA Moustafa, SJ Sherman, MJ Frank - Neuropsychologia, 2008 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease (PD) patients exhibit cognitive deficits, including reinforcement learning,
working memory (WM) and set shifting. Computational models of the basal ganglia–frontal …

Toward a unified theory of childhood trauma and psychosis: a comprehensive review of epidemiological, clinical, neuropsychological and biological findings

B Misiak, M Krefft, T Bielawski, AA Moustafa… - Neuroscience & …, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a growing body of research focused on the relationship between childhood trauma
and the risk of developing psychosis. Numerous studies, including many large-scale …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions between variation in candidate genes and environmental factors in the etiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a systematic review

…, K Prochwicz, MM Sąsiadek, AA Moustafa… - Molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) are complex and multidimensional disorders with
high heritability rates. The contribution of genetic factors to the etiology of these disorders is …