Publications

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2026

Diogo, F. M. C., França, L. G. S., Leocadio-Miguel, M. A., Barbosa, M. N., & Azevedo, C. V. M. D. (2026). Menstrual cycle irregularity is a biological determinant of mental health independent of sleep in adolescents. bioRxiv. (Submitted)

Whelan, T. P., França, L. G. S., Dimitrov, M., Pretzsch, C. M., Velthuis, H., Pereira, A. C., … & McAlonan, G. M. (2026). Autistic Neural ‘Shiftability’: The Distinct Pharmacological Landscape of the Autistic Brain. Translational Psychiatry. (Accepted/In press)

Smith, B. C., Pansara, Z., Timmerman, R. H., Molefi, E., Da Silva Costa, T., Thornton, C., França, L. G. S., Stirling, R. E., Heaps, S. E., Karoly, P. J., Leocadio-Miguel, M., Taylor, P. N., Leiberg, K., & Wang, Y. (2026). Habitual lifestyle timing explains circadian timing, but daily lifestyle changes do not, in free-living humans across 2000 days. arXiv:2606.28261.

Pugliane, K. C., França, L. G. S., Leocadio-Miguel, M., & Araújo, J. F. (2026). Low-latitude environmental regularity supports circadian organisation in blind adults. Chronobiology International, 1-18.

dos Santos Batista, E., Silva Gomes, S. R. B., de Morais Ferreira, A. B., França, L. G. S., Araújo, J. F., Mortatti, A. L., & Leocadio-Miguel, M. A. (2026). From movement to METs: A validation of ActTrust® for energy expenditure estimation and physical activity classification in young adults. PLoS One, 21(5), e0348631.

Pugliane, K. C., Franca, L. G. S., Leocadio-Miguel, M., & Araújo, J. F. (2026). Low-latitude environmental regularity sustains non-photic entrainment in blind adults. bioRxiv.

Dimitrov, M., Wong, N. M. L., Leaman, S., França, L. G. S., Valasakis, I., He, J., … & Daly, E. (2026). μ-Opioid Modulation of Sensorimotor Functional Connectivity in Autism: Insights from a Pharmacological Neuroimaging Investigation using Tianeptine. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 6(2), 100663.

Cupertino, L., Lirani-Silva, E., Orcioli-Silva, D., Beretta, V. S., França, L. G. S., Coelho, D. B., & Vitorio, R. (2026). From Resting-State to Movement: The Role of Cortical Networks in Parkinsonian Gait. Gait and Posture, 125, 109961.

2025

Lirani-Silva, E., Silva, L. C. S., Orcioli-Silva, D., Beretta, V. S., Franca, L. G. S., Coelho, D. B., & Vitorio, R. (2025). Resting-state Alpha Reactivity Is Reduced in Parkinson’s Disease and Associated With Gait Variability. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 39(9), 742-751.

dos Santos Batista, E., Basilio Gomes, S. R., de Morais Ferreira, A. B., Franca, L. G. S., Fontenele Araújo, J., Mortatti, A. L., & Leocadio-Miguel, M. A. (2025). From Movement to METs: A Validation of ActTrust® for Energy Expenditure Estimation and Physical Activity Classification in Young Adults. bioRxiv.

Dimitrov, M., Wong, N. M. L., Leaman, S., Franca, L. G. S., Valasakis, I., He, J., … & Daly, E. (2025). μ-Opioid Modulation of Sensorimotor Functional Connectivity in Autism: Insights from a Pharmacological Neuroimaging Investigation using Tianeptine. bioRxiv.

Kulgod, A., van der Linden, D., Franca, L., Jackson, M., & Zamansky, A. (2025). Non-invasive canine electroencephalography (EEG): a systematic review. BMC Veterinary Research, 21(1), 73.

Whelan, T. P., Franca, L. G. S., Dimitrov, M., Mulcrone, N., Puts, N. A. J., Daly, E., & McAlonan, G. M. (2025). The pharmacologically diverse human brain: how neurosignalling systems regulate neurotypical and neurodivergent resting-state networks. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 28(Supplement_1), i261.

2024

Lirani-Silva, E., Silva, L. C. S., Orcioli-Silva, D., Beretta, V. S., Franca, L. G. S., Coelho, D. B., & Vitorio, R. (2024). Resting-state alpha reactivity is reduced in Parkinson disease and associated with gait variability. bioRxiv.

Whelan, T. P., Franca, L. G. S., Dimitrov, M., Pretzsch, C. M., Velthuis, H., Pereira, A. C., … & McAlonan, G. M. (2024). Autistic Neural Shiftability: The Distinct Pharmacological Landscape of the Autistic Brain. medRxiv.

Ferré, I. B. S., Corso, G., Lima, G. Z. S., Lopes, S. G., Leocadio-Miguel, M. A., França, L. G. S., Prado, T. L., & Araújo, J. F. (2024). Cycling reduces the entropy of neuronal activity in the human adult cortex. PLoS One.

Gale-Grant, O., Chew, A., Falconer, S., França, L. G. S., Fenn-Moltu, S., Hadaya, L., … & Batalle, D. (2024). Clinical, socio-demographic, and parental correlates of early autism traits. Scientific Reports 14, 8393.

França, L. G. S., Ciarrusta, J., Gale-Grant, O., Fenn-Moltu, S., Fitzgibbon, S., Chew, A., … & Batalle, D. (2024). Neonatal brain dynamic functional connectivity in term and preterm infants and its association with early childhood neurodevelopment. Nature Communications. 15, 16.

2023

França, L. G. S., Fenn-Moltu, S., & Batalle, D. (2023). Dynamic functional connectivity. In Connectome Analysis (pp. 219-245). Academic Press.

Kulgod, A., Linden, D. V. D., Franca, L. G. S., Jackson, M., & Zamansky, A. (2023). Non-invasive canine electroencephalography (EEG): a systematic review. bioRxiv, 2023-08.

2022

França, L. G. S., Ciarrusta, J., Gale-Grant, O., Fenn-Moltu, S., Fitzgibbon, S., Chew, A., … & Batalle, D. (2022). Neonatal brain dynamic functional connectivity: impact of preterm birth and association with early childhood neurodevelopment. bioRxiv, 2022-11.

Gale-Grant, O., Chew, A., Falconer, S., França, L. G. S., Fenn-Moltu, S., Hadaya, L., … & Batalle, D. (2022). Clinical, socio-demographic, and parental correlates of early autism traits. bioRxiv, 2022-09.

Gale‐Grant, O., Fenn‐Moltu, S., França, L. G. S., Dimitrova, R., Christiaens, D., Cordero‐Grande, L., … & Batalle, D. (2022). Effects of gestational age at birth on perinatal structural brain development in healthy term‐born babies. Human Brain Mapping, 43(5), 1577-1589.

Kendall, C., Kerr, L. R. F. S., Miranda, J. G. V., Rubin de Pinho, S. T., Silva Andrade, R. F., Rodrigues, L. C.,…, França, L. G. S., … & Barreto, M. L. (2022). A social network approach for the study of leprosy transmission beyond the household. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 116(2), 100-107.

2019

Vakharia, V. N., Sparks, R. E., Li, K., O’Keeffe, A. G., Pérez‐García, F., França, L. G. S., … & Duncan, J. S. (2019). Multicenter validation of automated trajectories for selective laser amygdalohippocampectomy. Epilepsia, 60(9), 1949-1959.

Li, K., Vakharia, V. N., Sparks, R., França, L. G. S., Granados, A., McEvoy, A. W., … & Duncan, J. S. (2019). Optimizing trajectories for cranial laser interstitial thermal therapy using computer-assisted planning: a machine learning approach. Neurotherapeutics, 16, 182-191.

França, L. G. S., Montoya, P., & Miranda, J. G. V. (2019). On multifractals: a non-linear study of actigraphy data. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 514, 612-619.

2018

França, L. G. S., Miranda, J. G. V., Leite, M., Sharma, N. K., Walker, M. C., Lemieux, L., & Wang, Y. (2018). Fractal and multifractal properties of electrographic recordings of human brain activity: toward its use as a signal feature for machine learning in clinical applications. Frontiers in physiology, 9, 1767.

França, L. G. S., Miranda, J. G., Leite, M., Sharma, N. K., Walker, M. C., Lemieux, L., & Wang, Y. (2018). Fractal and multifractal properties of electrographic recordings of human brain activity. arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.03889.

2017

Sharma, N. K., Pedreira, C., Centeno, M., Chaudhary, U. J., Wehner, T., França, L. G. S., … & Lemieux, L. (2017). A novel scheme for the validation of an automated classification method for epileptic spikes by comparison with multiple observers. Clinical Neurophysiology, 128(7), 1246-1254.

Costa, I. D. S., Gamundí, A., Miranda, J. G. V., França, L. G. S., De Santana, C. N., & Montoya, P. (2017). Altered functional performance in patients with fibromyalgia. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 11, 14.