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Corey D. Forrest, Tommaso Biagioni, Helen G. Liley, Melissa M. Lai, Paul B. Colditz, Robert S. Ware, Roslyn N. Boyd, James A. Roberts (2026). Combined use of electroencephalography and magnetic resonance imaging in the prognostication of neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm infants — A systematic review and meta-analysis. Pediatric Neurology.

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Kartik K. Iyer, James A. Roberts, Michaela Waak, Simon J. Vogrin, Ajay Kevat, Jasneek Chawla, Leena M. Haataja, Leena Lauronen, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Nathan J. Stevenson (2026). Age prediction from infancy to adolescence at the onset of N2 sleep using an ECG-derived tachogram. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.

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Kartik K. Iyer, Sally Staton, Andrew Collaro, Ajay Kevat, Sampsa Vanhatalo, James A. Roberts, Jasneek Chawla, Nathan J. Stevenson (2025). Decoding brain age predictions from sleep electroencephalography across infancy to adolescence. Scientific Reports.

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Justin J. Chapman, Taren Massey-Swindle, Urska Arnautovska, Ingrid J. Hickman, Amanda J. Wheeler, Dan Siskind, Jeroen Deenik, Robert S. Ware, James A. Roberts, Yong Yi Lee, Alyssa Milton, Wolfgang Marx, Stephen J. Wood, Zoe Rutherford, Catherine Kaylor-Hughes, Mike Trott, Co-Design and Research Translation Alliance in Mental Health (CoRTA-MH), The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation’s Implementation and Translation Network, Ravi Iyer (2025). Could master protocols be adapted for effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies?. BMC Medical Research Methodology.

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Sebastien Naze, Luke J. Hearne, Paula Sanz-Leon, Conor Robinson, Caitlin Hall, Saurabh Sonkusare, Bjorn Burgher, Andrew Zalesky, James A. Roberts, Luca Cocchi (2025). Mechanisms and interventions promoting healthy frontostriatal dynamics in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Nature Communications.

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Nathan J. Stevenson, Kartik K. Iyer, Anton Tokariev, James A. Roberts, Sampsa Vanhatalo (2025). Maturation of neuronal activity in the human cortex exhibits robust spatial gradients across the birth transition. Journal of Neuroscience.

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Kartik K. Iyer, James A. Roberts, Michaela Waak, Simon J. Vogrin, Ajay Kevat, Jasneek Chawla, Leena M. Haataja, Leena Lauronen, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Nathan J. Stevenson (2024). A growth chart of brain function from infancy to adolescence based on EEG. eBiomedicine.

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Kartik K. Iyer, James A. Roberts, Michaela Waak, Ajay Kevat, Jasneek Chawla, Leena Lauronen, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Nathan J. Stevenson (2023). Optimization of time series features to estimate brain age in children from electroencephalography. 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC).

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Anne Mette Plomgaard, Nathan Stevenson, James A. Roberts, Tue Hvass Petersen, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Gorm Greisen, The SafeBoosC-II Study Group (2023). Early EEG-burst sharpness and 2-year disability in extremely preterm infants. Pediatric Research.

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Shrey Dutta, Kartik K. Iyer, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Michael Breakspear, James A. Roberts (2023). Mechanisms underlying pathological cortical bursts during metabolic depletion. Nature Communications.

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Kartik K. Iyer, Unnah Leitner, Vito Giordano, James A. Roberts, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Katrin Klebermass-Schrehof, Nathan J. Stevenson (2023). Bedside tracking of functional autonomic age in preterm infants. Pediatric Research.

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Sebastien Naze, Luke J Hearne, James A. Roberts, Paula Sanz-Leon, Bjorn Burgher, Caitlin Hall, Saurabh Sonkusare, Zoie Nott, Leo Marcus, Emma Savage, Conor Robinson, Ye Ella Tian, Andrew Zalesky, Michael Breakspear, Luca Cocchi (2022). Mechanisms of imbalanced frontostriatal functional connectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Brain.

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Paula Sanz-Leon, Lachlan H W Hamilton, Sebastian J Raison, Anna J. X. Pan, Nathan J Stevenson, Robyn M Stuart, Romesh G Abeysuriya, Cliff C Kerr, Stephen B Lambert, James A. Roberts (2022). Modelling herd immunity requirements in Queensland: impact of vaccination effectiveness, hesitancy, and variants of SARS-CoV-2. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

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James C Pang, James K. Rilling, James A. Roberts, Martijn P. Van Den Heuvel, Luca Cocchi (2022). Evolutionary shaping of human brain dynamics. eLife.

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Paula Sanz-Leon, Nathan J Stevenson, Robyn M Stuart, Romesh G Abeysuriya, James C Pang, Stephen B Lambert, Cliff C Kerr, James A. Roberts (2022). Risk of sustained SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Queensland, Australia. Scientific Reports.

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Kartik K Iyer, Unnah Leitner, Vito Giordano, James A. Roberts, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Katrin Klebermass-Schrehof, Nathan J Stevenson (2022). Bedside tracking of functional autonomic age in preterm infants. Pediatric Research.

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James C Pang, Leonardo L Gollo, James A. Roberts (2021). Stochastic synchronization of dynamics on the human connectome. NeuroImage.

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Lachlan Webb, Minna Kauppila, James A. Roberts, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Nathan J Stevenson (2021). Automated detection of artefacts in neonatal EEG with residual neural networks. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.

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Luke J Hearne, Hsiang-Yuan Lin, Paula Sanz-Leon, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, James A. Roberts, Luca Cocchi (2021). ADHD symptoms map onto noise-driven structure--function decoupling between hub and peripheral brain regions. Molecular Psychiatry.

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Nathan J Stevenson, Maria-Luisa Tataranno, Anna Kaminska, Elena Pavlidis, Robert R Clancy, Elke Griesmaier, James A. Roberts, Katrin Klebermass-Schrehof, Sampsa Vanhatalo (2020). Reliability and accuracy of EEG interpretation for estimating age in preterm infants. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.

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Alexander M Puckett, Mark M Schira, Zoey J Isherwood, Jonathan D Victor, James A. Roberts, Michael Breakspear (2020). Manipulating the structure of natural scenes using wavelets to study the functional architecture of perceptual hierarchies in the brain. NeuroImage.

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Nathan J Stevenson, Lisa Oberdorfer, Maria-Luisa Tataranno, Michael Breakspear, Paul B Colditz, Linda S De Vries, Manon JNL Benders, Katrin Klebermass-Schrehof, Sampsa Vanhatalo, James A. Roberts (2020). Automated cot-side tracking of functional brain age in preterm infants with routine EEG monitoring. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.

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James A. Roberts, Leonardo L Gollo, Romesh G Abeysuriya, Gloria Roberts, Philip B Mitchell, Mark W Woolrich, Michael Breakspear (2019). Metastable brain waves. Nature Communications.

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Anton Tokariev, James A. Roberts, Andrew Zalesky, Xuelong Zhao, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Michael Breakspear, Luca Cocchi (2019). Large-scale brain modes reorganize between infant sleep states and carry prognostic information for preterms. Nature Communications.

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Hsiang-Yuan Lin, Alistair Perry, Luca Cocchi, James A. Roberts, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng, Michael Breakspear, Susan Shur-Fen Gau (2019). Development of frontoparietal connectivity predicts longitudinal symptom changes in young people with autism spectrum disorder. Translational psychiatry.

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Luke J Hearne, Hsiang-Yuan Lin, Paula Sanz-Leon, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, James A. Roberts, Luca Cocchi (2019). ADHD symptoms map onto noise-driven structure--function decoupling between hub and peripheral brain regions. Molecular Psychiatry.

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James A. Roberts, Michael Breakspear (2018). Synaptic assays: using biophysical models to infer neuronal dysfunction from non-invasive EEG. Brain.

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Leonardo L Gollo, James A. Roberts, Vanessa L Cropley, Maria a Di Biase, Christos Pantelis, Andrew Zalesky, Michael Breakspear (2018). Fragility and volatility of structural hubs in the human connectome. Nature neuroscience.

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Justin J Chapman, James A. Roberts, Vinh T Nguyen, Michael Breakspear (2017). Quantification of free-living activity patterns using accelerometry in adults with mental illness. Scientific reports.

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Leonardo L Gollo, James A. Roberts, Luca Cocchi (2017). Mapping how local perturbations influence systems-level brain dynamics. Neuroimage.

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Pamela Mukhopadhyay, James A. Roberts, Graeme J Walker (2017). Further assessment of exome-wide UVR footprints in melanoma and their possible relevance. Molecular carcinogenesis.

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James A. Roberts, Alistair Perry, Gloria Roberts, Philip B Mitchell, Michael Breakspear (2017). Consistency-based thresholding of the human connectome. NeuroImage.

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James A. Roberts, Karl J Friston, Michael Breakspear (2017). Clinical applications of stochastic dynamic models of the brain, part II: A review. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

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James A. Roberts, Karl J Friston, Michael Breakspear (2017). Clinical applications of stochastic dynamic models of the brain, part I: A primer. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

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James A. Roberts, Alistair Perry, Anton R Lord, Gloria Roberts, Philip B Mitchell, Robert E Smith, Fernando Calamante, Michael Breakspear (2016). The contribution of geometry to the human connectome. NeuroImage.

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Leonardo L Gollo, Mauro Copelli, James A. Roberts (2016). Diversity improves performance in excitable networks. PeerJ.

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James A. Roberts, Tjeerd W Boonstra, Michael Breakspear (2015). The heavy tail of the human brain. Current opinion in neurobiology.

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Kartik K Iyer, James A. Roberts, Lena Hellström-Westas, Sverre Wikström, Ingrid Hansen Pupp, David Ley, Michael Breakspear, Sampsa Vanhatalo (2015). Early detection of preterm intraventricular hemorrhage from clinical electroencephalography. Critical care medicine.

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Kartik K Iyer, James A. Roberts, Lena Hellström-Westas, Sverre Wikström, Ingrid Hansen Pupp, David Ley, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Michael Breakspear (2015). Cortical burst dynamics predict clinical outcome early in extremely preterm infants. Brain.

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Peter A. Robinson, Svetlana Postnova, Romesh G Abeysuriya, Jong Won Kim, James A. Roberts, Lauren McKenzie-Sell, Angela Karanjai, Cliff C Kerr, Felix Fung, R Anderson, Others (2015). A multiscale “working brain” model. Validating Neuro-Computational Models of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders.

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James A. Roberts, Kartik K Iyer, Simon Finnigan, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Michael Breakspear (2014). Scale-free bursting in human cortex following hypoxia at birth. Journal of Neuroscience.

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Kartik K Iyer, James A. Roberts, Marjo Metsäranta, Simon Finnigan, Michael Breakspear, Sampsa Vanhatalo (2014). Novel features of early burst suppression predict outcome after birth asphyxia. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.

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James A. Roberts, Kartik K Iyer, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Michael Breakspear (2014). Critical role for resource constraints in neural models. Frontiers in systems neuroscience.

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James A. Roberts, Guy Wallis, Michael Breakspear (2013). Fixational eye movements during viewing of dynamic natural scenes. Frontiers in Psychology.

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JA Roberts, PA Robinson (2012). Quantitative theory of driven nonlinear brain dynamics. NeuroImage.

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Matthew J Aburn, CA Holmes, James A. Roberts, Tjeerd W Boonstra, Michael Breakspear (2012). Critical fluctuations in cortical models near instability. Frontiers in Physiology.

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JA Roberts, PA Robinson (2012). Corticothalamic dynamics: structure of parameter space, spectra, instabilities, and reduced model. Physical Review E.

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Frank Freyer, James A. Roberts, Petra Ritter, Michael Breakspear (2012). A canonical model of multistability and scale-invariance in biological systems. PLoS Computational Biology.

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Peter A. Robinson, Andrew JK Phillips, BD Fulcher, Max Puckeridge, James A. Roberts (2011). Quantitative modelling of sleep dynamics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.

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Peter A. Robinson, AJK Phillips, Benjamin David Fulcher, Max Puckeridge, James A. Roberts, CJ Rennie (2011). Quantitative modeling of sleep dynamics. Sleep and Anesthesia.

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Frank Freyer, James A. Roberts, Robert Becker, Peter A. Robinson, Petra Ritter, Michael Breakspear (2011). Biophysical mechanisms of multistability in resting-state cortical rhythms. The Journal of Neuroscience.

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Peter A. Robinson, CJ Rennie, AJK Phillips, Jong Won Kim, James A. Roberts (2010). Phase transitions in physiologically-based multiscale mean-field brain models. Modeling phase transitions in the brain.

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JW Kim, JA Roberts, PA Robinson (2009). Dynamics of epileptic seizures: evolution, spreading, and suppression. Journal of theoretical biology.

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PA Robinson, M Breakspear, JA Roberts (2008). Unified Modeling and Analysis of Primary Generalized Seizures. Computational Neuroscience in Epilepsy.

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JA Roberts, PA Robinson (2008). Modeling distributed axonal delays in mean-field brain dynamics. Physical Review E.

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James A. Roberts, Peter A. Robinson (2008). Modeling absence seizure dynamics: implications for basic mechanisms and measurement of thalamocortical and corticothalamic latencies. Journal of Theoretical Biology.

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AKI Chiang, CJ Rennie, PA Robinson, JA Roberts, MK Rigozzi, RW Whitehouse, RJ Hamilton, E Gordon (2008). Automated characterization of multiple alpha peaks in multi-site electroencephalograms. Journal of neuroscience methods.

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Yu Tyshetskiy, JA Roberts, PA Robinson, IH Cairns, B Li (2007). Spatiotemporal correlation functions in beam-driven plasmas with fluctuations. Physics of Plasmas.

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M Breakspear, JA Roberts, John R Terry, S Rodrigues, N Mahant, PA Robinson (2006). A unifying explanation of primary generalized seizures through nonlinear brain modeling and bifurcation analysis. Cerebral Cortex.

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