Salvatore Torrisi, PhD
Professional Researcher
Radiology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• postdoc Neuroscience National Institute of Mental Health 2018
• PhD Neuroscience University of California, Los Angeles 2013
• MA Applied Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles 2007
• MFA Music Composition / New Media California Institute of the Arts 2003
• BA Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Arizona State University, West 2001

Interests

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• cognitive neuroscience
• anxiety
• fMRI
• methods
• 7T
• hardware peripherals
• pulse sequence testing
• connectivity
• dMRI
• pain
• high resolution
• subcortical

Publications (28)

Top publication keywords:
Neural PathwaysAnticipation, PsychologicalElectroshockThalamusAnxiety DisordersPrefrontal CortexCaudate NucleusFunctional NeuroimagingSeptal NucleiMagnetic Resonance ImagingConnectomePhobia, SocialGyrus CinguliHabenulaCentral Amygdaloid Nucleus

• Enhancing chronic low back pain management: an initial neuroimaging study of a mobile interoceptive attention training.
  Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) 2024 Strigo IA, Guerra SG, Torrisi S, Murphy E, Toor T, Goldman V, Alter BJ, Vu AT, Hecht R, Lotz J, Simmons AN, Mehling WE
• Distortion correction of functional MRI without reverse phase encoding scans or field maps.
  Magnetic resonance imaging 2023 Yu T, Cai LY, Torrisi S, Vu AT, Morgan VL, Goodale SE, Ramadass K, Meisler SL, Lv J, Warren AEL, Englot DJ, Cutting L, Chang C, Gore JC, Landman BA, Schilling KG
• Periaqueductal gray matter and medial prefrontal cortex reflect negative prediction errors during differential conditioning.
  Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 2023 Gorka AX, Philips RT, Torrisi S, Manbeck A, Goodwin M, Ernst M, Grillon C
• The Posterior Cingulate Cortex Reflects the Impact of Anxiety on Drift Rates During Cognitive Processing.
  Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2022 Gorka AX, Philips RT, Torrisi S, Claudino L, Foray K, Grillon C, Ernst M
• Dynamic Time Warping Identifies Functionally Distinct fMRI Resting State Cortical Networks Specific to VTA and SNc: A Proof of Concept.
  Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2022 Philips RT, Torrisi SJ, Gorka AX, Grillon C, Ernst M

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• Highly accelerated submillimeter resolution 3D GRASE with controlled T2 blurring in T2 -weighted functional MRI at 7 Tesla: A feasibility study.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2020 Park S, Torrisi S, Townsend JD, Beckett A, Feinberg DA
• Intrinsic connections between thalamic sub-regions and the lateral prefrontal cortex are differentially impacted by acute methylphenidate.
  Psychopharmacology 2020 Gorka AX, Lago TR, Balderston N, Torrisi S, Fuchs B, Grillon C, Ernst M
• Striatal responsiveness to reward under threat-of-shock and working memory load: A preliminary study.
  Brain and behavior 2019 Gaillard C, Guillod M, Ernst M, Torrisi S, Federspiel A, Schoebi D, Recabarren RE, Ouyang X, Mueller-Pfeiffer C, Horsch A, Homan P, Wiest R, Hasler G, Martin-Soelch C
• Resting-state connectivity of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and the central nucleus of the amygdala in clinical anxiety
  Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN 2019 Torrisi S, Alvarez GM, Gorka AX, Fuchs B, Geraci M, Grillon C, Ernst M
• Resting-state fMRI in disorders of consciousness to facilitate early therapeutic intervention.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2019 Boerwinkle VL, Torrisi SJ, Foldes ST, Marku I, Ranjan M, Wilfong AA, Adelson PD
• Subcentimeter epilepsy surgery targets by resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging can improve outcomes in hypothalamic hamartoma.
  Epilepsia 2018 Boerwinkle VL, Foldes ST, Torrisi SJ, Temkit H, Gaillard WD, Kerrigan JF, Desai VR, Raskin JS, Vedantam A, Jarrar R, Williams K, Lam S, Ranjan M, Broderson JS, Adelson D, Wilfong AA, Curry DJ
• Statistical power comparisons at 3T and 7T with a GO / NOGO task.
  NeuroImage 2018 Torrisi S, Chen G, Glen D, Bandettini PA, Baker CI, Reynolds R, Yen-Ting Liu J, Leshin J, Balderston N, Grillon C, Ernst M
• Extended amygdala connectivity changes during sustained shock anticipation.
  Translational psychiatry 2018 Torrisi S, Gorka AX, Gonzalez-Castillo J, O'Connell K, Balderston N, Grillon C, Ernst M
• Intrinsic functional connectivity of the central extended amygdala.
  Human brain mapping 2017 Tillman RM, Stockbridge MD, Nacewicz BM, Torrisi S, Fox AS, Smith JF, Shackman AJ
• Threat of shock increases excitability and connectivity of the intraparietal sulcus.
  eLife 2017 Balderston NL, Hale E, Hsiung A, Torrisi S, Holroyd T, Carver FW, Coppola R, Ernst M, Grillon C
• Intrinsic functional connectivity of the central nucleus of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
  NeuroImage 2017 Gorka AX, Torrisi S, Shackman AJ, Grillon C, Ernst M
• Resting state connectivity of the human habenula at ultra-high field.
  NeuroImage 2016 Torrisi S, Nord CL, Balderston NL, Roiser JP, Grillon C, Ernst M
• The neural basis of improved cognitive performance by threat of shock.
  Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 2016 Torrisi S, Robinson O, O'Connell K, Davis A, Balderston N, Ernst M, Grillon C
• Anxiety Patients Show Reduced Working Memory Related dlPFC Activation During Safety and Threat.
  Depression and anxiety 2016 Balderston NL, Vytal KE, O'Connell K, Torrisi S, Letkiewicz A, Ernst M, Grillon C
• Resting state connectivity of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis at ultra-high field.
  Human brain mapping 2015 Torrisi S, O'Connell K, Davis A, Reynolds R, Balderston N, Fudge JL, Grillon C, Ernst M
• fMRI functional connectivity applied to adolescent neurodevelopment.
  Annual review of clinical psychology 2015 Ernst M, Torrisi S, Balderston N, Grillon C, Hale EA
• Controlling automatic imitative tendencies: interactions between mirror neuron and cognitive control systems.
  NeuroImage 2013 Cross KA, Torrisi S, Reynolds Losin EA, Iacoboni M
• Advancing understanding of affect labeling with dynamic causal modeling.
  NeuroImage 2013 Torrisi SJ, Lieberman MD, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL
• Differences in resting corticolimbic functional connectivity in bipolar I euthymia.
  Bipolar disorders 2013 Torrisi S, Moody TD, Vizueta N, Thomason ME, Monti MM, Townsend JD, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL
• Frontal-amygdala connectivity alterations during emotion downregulation in bipolar I disorder.
  Biological psychiatry 2012 Townsend JD, Torrisi SJ, Lieberman MD, Sugar CA, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL
• Regional fMRI hypoactivation and altered functional connectivity during emotion processing in nonmedicated depressed patients with bipolar II disorder.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2012 Vizueta N, Rudie JD, Townsend JD, Torrisi S, Moody TD, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL
• Normal amygdala activation but deficient ventrolateral prefrontal activation in adults with bipolar disorder during euthymia.
  NeuroImage 2011 Foland-Ross LC, Bookheimer SY, Lieberman MD, Sugar CA, Townsend JD, Fischer J, Torrisi S, Penfold C, Madsen SK, Thompson PM, Altshuler LL
• Striatal FoxP2 is actively regulated during songbird sensorimotor learning.
  PloS one 2010 Teramitsu I, Poopatanapong A, Torrisi S, White SA