Stephanie Forkel
My research focusses on mapping inter-individual variability in brain structure and function and their impact on cognition and clinical symptoms in neurological and psychiatric patient populations.
I am an associate editor for Cortex and a reviewer for over 20 journals and several funding agencies (incl. ERC StG, MRC). Early on in my career, I had the great honour of contributing to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for Medicine or Physiology and the German Scholar Organisation Leadership Academy. I received the top10 Young scientist award/ Academics “Nachwuchspreis” which is acknowledging dedicated and talented young researchers for outstanding contributions to science and science communication.
Beyond my academic endeavours, I contribute to a plethora of public engagement projects. I have a colourful portfolio of experiences, including broadcasting, storytelling. I have previously worked with the BBC, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the Science Gallery London, Pint of Science, and Native Scientists. Also, I won a Wellcome Trust Image award. I published an interview with the Nobel Laureate Professor Elizabeth Blackburn in honour of International Women’s Day. A personal endeavour of mine is the use of 3D printing for science.
Find me on:
Reviewer & Editor profile: https://publons.com/researcher/1226824/stephanie-j-forkel/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephanie_Forkel2
Twitter: https://twitter.com/StephForkel
Scientific articles
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Latent disconnectome prediction of long-term cognitive symptoms in stroke
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10.13140/RG.2.2.17963.36641 -
The emergent properties of the connected brain
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Stephanie J. Forkel.
Science. 2022-11-04. 378(6619) : 505-510.
10.1126/science.abq2591 -
Multimodal anatomy of the human forniceal commissure
Kevin Akeret, Stephanie J. Forkel, Raphael M. Buzzi, Flavio Vasella, Irmgard Amrein, Giovanni Colacicco, Carlo Serra, Niklaus Krayenbühl.
Commun Biol. 2022-07-25. 5(1)
10.1038/s42003-022-03692-3 -
The genetic architecture of language functional connectivity
Yasmina Mekki, Vincent Guillemot, Hervé Lemaître, Amaia Carrión-Castillo, Stephanie Forkel, Vincent Frouin, Cathy Philippe.
NeuroImage. 2022-04-01. 249 : 118795.
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118795 -
Stroke disconnectome decodes reading networks
Stephanie J. Forkel, Loïc Labache, Parashkev Nachev, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Isabelle Hesling.
Preprint bioRxiv. 2022-03-21.
10.1101/2022.03.20.485029 -
Multimodal Anatomy of the Human Forniceal Commissure
Kevin Akeret, Stephanie Forkel, Raphael Buzzi, Flavio Vasella, Irmgard Amrein, Giovanni Colacicco, Carlo Serra, Niklaus Krayenbühl.
. 2022-01-24.
10.21203/rs.3.rs-1193017/v1 -
Atlasing white matter and grey matter joint contributions to resting-state networks in the human brain
Victor Nozais, Stephanie J Forkel, Laurent Petit, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Marc Loliot.
Preprint bioRxiv. 2022-01-11.
10.1101/2022.01.10.475690 -
White Matter Variability, Cognition, and Disorders
Stephanie J. Forkel, Patrick Friedrich, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Henrietta Howells.
Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, 2nd edition. 2022-01-01. : 233-241.
10.1016/b978-0-12-819641-0.00086-4 -
Paul Broca: from fame to shame?
Thomas Boraud, Stephanie J. Forkel.
Brain. 2021-12-17.
10.1093/brain/awab444 -
Longitudinal prediction of motor dysfunction after stroke: a disconnectome study.
Lilit Dulyan, Lia Talozzi, Valentina Pacella, Maurizio Corbetta, Stephanie J. Forkel, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten.
Preprint medRxiv. 2021-12-02.
10.1101/2021.12.01.21267129 -
White matter variability, cognition, and disorders: a systematic review
Stephanie J. Forkel, Patrick Friedrich, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Henrietta Howells.
Brain Struct Funct. 2021-11-03.
10.1007/S00429-021-02382-W -
Functionnectome as a framework to analyse the contribution of brain circuits to fMRI
Nozais V, Forkel SJ, Foulon C, Petit L, Thiebaut de Schotten M.
Commun Biol. .
10.1038/S42003-021-02530-2 -
Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience
Rémi Gau, Stephanie Noble, Katja Heuer, Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Isil P. Bilgin, Yu-Fang Yang, Julia M. Huntenburg, Johanna M.M. Bayer, Richard A.I. Bethlehem, Shawn A. Rhoads, Christoph Vogelbacher, Valentina Borghesani, Elizabeth Levitis, Hao-Ting Wang, Sofie Van Den Bossche, Xenia Kobeleva, Jon Haitz Legarreta, Samuel Guay, Selim Melvin Atay, Gael P. Varoquaux, Dorien C. Huijser, Malin S. Sandström, Peer Herholz, Samuel A. Nastase, AmanPreet Badhwar, Guillaume Dumas, Simon Schwab, Stefano Moia, Michael Dayan, Yasmine Bassil, Paula P. Brooks, Matteo Mancini, James M. Shine, David O’Connor, Xihe Xie, Davide Poggiali, Patrick Friedrich, Anibal S. Heinsfeld, Lydia Riedl, Roberto Toro, César Caballero-Gaudes, Anders Eklund, Kelly G. Garner, Christopher R. Nolan, Damion V. Demeter, Fernando A. Barrios, Junaid S. Merchant, Elizabeth A. McDevitt, Robert Oostenveld, R. Cameron Craddock, Ariel Rokem, Andrew Doyle, Satrajit S. Ghosh, Aki Nikolaidis, Olivia W. Stanley, Eneko Uruñuela, Nasim Anousheh, Aurina Arnatkeviciute, Guillaume Auzias, Dipankar Bachar, Elise Bannier, Ruggero Basanisi, Arshitha Basavaraj, Marco Bedini, Pierre Bellec, R. Austin Benn, Kathryn Berluti, Steffen Bollmann, Saskia Bollmann, Claire Bradley, Jesse Brown, Augusto Buchweitz, Patrick Callahan, Micaela Y. Chan, Bramsh Q. Chandio, Theresa Cheng, Sidhant Chopra, Ai Wern Chung, Thomas G. Close, Etienne Combrisson, Giorgia Cona, R. Todd Constable, Claire Cury, Kamalaker Dadi, Pablo F. Damasceno, Samir Das, Fabrizio De Vico Fallani, Krista DeStasio, Erin W. Dickie, Lena Dorfschmidt, Eugene P. Duff, Elizabeth DuPre, Sarah Dziura, Nathalia B. Esper, Oscar Esteban, Shreyas Fadnavis, Guillaume Flandin, Jessica E. Flannery, John Flournoy, Stephanie J. Forkel, Alexandre R. Franco, Saampras Ganesan, Siyuan Gao, José C. García Alanis, Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Tristan Glatard, Enrico Glerean, Javier Gonzalez-Castillo, Cassandra D. Gould van Praag, Abigail S. Greene, Geetika Gupta, Catherine Alice Hahn, Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Daniel Handwerker, Thomas S. Hartmann, Valérie Hayot-Sasson, Stephan Heunis, Felix Hoffstaedter, Daniela M. Hohmann, Corey Horien, Horea-Ioan Ioanas, Alexandru Iordan, Chao Jiang, Michael Joseph, Jason Kai, Agah Karakuzu, David N. Kennedy, Anisha Keshavan, Ali R. Khan, Gregory Kiar, P. Christiaan Klink, Vincent Koppelmans, Serge Koudoro, Angela R. Laird, Georg Langs, Marissa Laws, Roxane Licandro, Sook-Lei Liew, Tomislav Lipic, Krisanne Litinas, Daniel J. Lurie, Désirée Lussier, Christopher R. Madan, Lea-Theresa Mais, Sina Mansour L, J.P. Manzano-Patron, Dimitra Maoutsa, Matheus Marcon, Daniel S. Margulies, Giorgio Marinato, Daniele Marinazzo, Christopher J. Markiewicz, Camille Maumet, Felipe Meneguzzi, David Meunier, Michael P. Milham, Kathryn L. Mills, Davide Momi, Clara A. Moreau, Aysha Motala, Iska Moxon-Emre, Thomas E. Nichols, Dylan M. Nielson, Gustav Nilsonne, Lisa Novello, Caroline O’Brien, Emily Olafson, Lindsay D. Oliver, John A. Onofrey, Edwina R. Orchard, Kendra Oudyk, Patrick J. Park, Mahboobeh Parsapoor, Lorenzo Pasquini, Scott Peltier, Cyril R. Pernet, Rudolph Pienaar, Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Anqi Qiu, Tiago Quendera, Laura C. Rice, Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Saige Rutherford, Mathias Scharinger, Dustin Scheinost, Deena Shariq, Thomas B. Shaw, Viviana Siless, Molly Simmonite, Nikoloz Sirmpilatze, Hayli Spence, Julia Sprenger, Andrija Stajduhar, Martin Szinte, Sylvain Takerkart, Angela Tam, Link Tejavibulya, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Ina Thome, Laura Tomaz da Silva, Nicolas Traut, Lucina Q. Uddin, Antonino Vallesi, John W. VanMeter, Nandita Vijayakumar, Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, Jakub Vohryzek, Jakša Vukojević, Kirstie Jane Whitaker, Lucy Whitmore, Steve Wideman, Suzanne T. Witt, Hua Xie, Ting Xu, Chao-Gan Yan, Fang-Cheng Yeh, B.T. Thomas Yeo, Xi-Nian Zuo.
Neuron. 2021-06-01. 109(11) : 1769-1775.
10.1016/J.NEURON.2021.04.001 -
The squirrel monkey model in clinical neuroscience
Julie Royo, Stephanie J. Forkel, Pierre Pouget, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 2021-06-01.
10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.06.006 -
Imaging evolution of the primate brain
Patrick Friedrich, Stephanie J. Forkel, Céline Amiez, Joshua H. Balsters, Olivier Coulon, Lingzhong Fan, Alexandros Goulas, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Erin E. Hecht, Katja Heuer, Tianzi Jiang, Robert D. Latzman, Xiaojin Liu, Kep Kee Loh, Kaustubh R. Patil, Alizée Lopez-Persem, Emmanuel Procyk, Jerome Sallet, Roberto Toro, Sam Vickery, Susanne Weis, Charles R. E. Wilson, Ting Xu, Valerio Zerbi, Simon B. Eickoff, Daniel S. Margulies, Rogier B. Mars, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten.
NeuroImage. 2021-03-01. 228 : 117685.
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117685 -
Lesion-symptom mapping: from single cases to the human disconnectome
S. Forkel.
Encyclopaedia of Behavioural Neuroscience 2e Section: Methods for Studying The Brain. 2020-06.
10.13140/RG.2.2.26163.66088 -
Functionnectome: a framework to analyse the contribution of brain circuits to fMRI
Victor Nozais, Stephanie J. Forkel, Chris Foulon, Laurent Petit, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten.
Preprint bioRxiv. 2021-01-08.
10.1101/2021.01.06.425574 -
Anchoring the human olfactory system within a functional gradient
Alice Waymel, Patrick Friedrich, Pierre-Antoine Bastian, Stephanie J. Forkel, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten.
NeuroImage. 2020-08-01. 216 : 116863.
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116863 -
White matter variability, cognition, and disorders: a systematic review.
Stephanie J Forkel, Patrick Friedrich, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Henrietta Howells.
. 2020-04-25.
10.1101/2020.04.22.20075127 -
The role of left fronto-parietal tracts in hand selection: Evidence from neurosurgery
Henrietta Howells, Guglielmo Puglisi, Antonella Leonetti, Luca Vigano, Luca Fornia, Luciano Simone, Stephanie J. Forkel, Marco Rossi, Marco Riva, Gabriella Cerri, Lorenzo Bello.
Cortex. 2020-04-01.
10.1016/j.cortex.2020.03.018 -
Anchoring the human olfactory system to a functional gradient
Alice Waymel, Patrick Friedrich, Pierre-Antoine Bastian, Stephanie Forkel, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten.
. 2020-03-20.
10.1101/2020.03.19.998849 -
Mapping the principal gradient onto the corpus callosum
Patrick Friedrich, Stephanie J. Forkel, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten.
. 2020-03-05.
10.1101/2020.03.05.978171 -
Towards metabolic disconnection – symptom mapping
Stephanie J Forkel, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten.
Brain. 2020-03-01. 143(3) : 718-721.
10.1093/brain/awaa060 -
Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging
Michael Milham et al.
Neuron. 2020-02-01. 105(4) : 600-603.
10.1016/j.neuron.2019.12.023 -
Anatomical evidence of an indirect pathway for word repetition
Stephanie J. Forkel, Emily Rogalski, Niki Drossinos Sancho, Lucio D'Anna, Pedro Luque Laguna, Jaiashre Sridhar, Flavio Dell'Acqua, Sandra Weintraub, Cynthia Thompson, M.-Marsel Mesulam, Marco Catani.
Neurology. 2020-01-29. 94(6) : e594-e606.
10.1212/WNL.0000000000008746 -
Differences in Frontal Network Anatomy Across Primate Species
Rachel L. C. Barrett, Matthew Dawson, Tim B. Dyrby, Kristine Krug, Maurice Ptito, Helen D'Arceuil, Paula L. Croxson, Philippa J. Johnson, Henrietta Howells, Stephanie J. Forkel, Flavio Dell'Acqua, Marco Catani.
J. Neurosci.. 2020-01-16. 40(10) : 2094-2107.
10.1523/jneurosci.1650-18.2019 -
The effect of left fronto-parietal resections on hand selection: a lesion-tractography study
Henrietta Howells, Guglielmo Puglisi, Antonella Leonetti, Luca Vigano, Luca Fornia, Luciano Simone, Stephanie J. Forkel, Marco Rossi, Marco Riva, Gabriella Cerri, Lorenzo Bello.
. 2019-12-12.
10.1101/2019.12.11.872754 -
Neural organization of ventral white matter tracts parallels the initial steps of reading development
Jolijn Vanderauwera, Astrid De Vos, Stephanie J. Forkel, Marco Catani, Jan Wouters, Maaike Vandermosten, Pol Ghesquière.
Brain and Language. 2018-08-01. 183 : 32-40.
10.1016/j.bandl.2018.05.007 -
Lesion mapping in acute stroke aphasia and the implications for recovery
Stephanie J. Forkel, Marco Catani.
Neuropsychologia. 2018-07-01. 115 : 88-100.
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.036 -
Short parietal lobe connections of the human and monkey brain
Marco Catani, Naianna Robertsson, Ahmad Beyh, Vincent Huynh, Francisco de Santiago Requejo, Henrietta Howells, Rachel L.C. Barrett, Marco Aiello, Carlo Cavaliere, Tim B. Dyrby, Kristine Krug, Maurice Ptito, Helen D'Arceuil, Stephanie J. Forkel, Flavio Dell'Acqua.
Cortex. 2017-12-01. 97 : 339-357.
10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.022 -
Mentalizing the body
Sahba Besharati, Stephanie J. Forkel, Michael Kopelman, Mark Solms, Paul M. Jenkinson, Aikaterini Fotopoulou.
Brain. 2016-01-24. 139(3) : 971-985.
10.1093/brain/awv390 -
Corrigendum to “The affective modulation of motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia: Behavioural and lesion evidence”
Sahba Besharati, Stephanie J. Forkel, Michael Kopelman, Mark Solms, Paul M. Jenkinson, Aikaterini Fotopoulou.
Cortex. 2015-05-01. 66 : 176.
10.1016/j.cortex.2015.01.001 -
The white matter of the human cerebrum: Part 1 The occipital lobe by Heinrich Sachs
Stephanie J. Forkel, Sajedha Mahmood, Francesco Vergani, Marco Catani.
Cortex. 2015-01-01. 62 : 182-202.
10.1016/j.cortex.2014.10.023 -
The affective modulation of motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia
Sahba Besharati, Stephanie J. Forkel, Michael Kopelman, Mark Solms, Paul M. Jenkinson, Aikaterini Fotopoulou.
Cortex. 2014-12-01. 61 : 127-140.
10.1016/j.cortex.2014.08.016 -
Heinrich Sachs (1863-1928)
Stephanie J. Forkel.
J Neurol. 2014-10-26. 262(2) : 498-500.
10.1007/s00415-014-7517-2 -
Intralobar fibres of the occipital lobe
Francesco Vergani, Sajedha Mahmood, Cristopher M. Morris, Patrick Mitchell, Stephanie J. Forkel.
Cortex. 2014-07-01. 56 : 145-156.
10.1016/j.cortex.2014.03.002 -
Altered Integrity of Perisylvian Language Pathways in Schizophrenia
Marco Catani, Michael C. Craig, Stephanie J. Forkel, Richard Kanaan, Marco Picchioni, Timothea Toulopoulou, Sukhwinder Shergill, Steve Williams, Declan G. Murphy, Philip McGuire.
Biological Psychiatry. 2011-12-01. 70(12) : 1143-1150.
10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.06.013 -
Altered Integrity of Perisylvian Language Pathways in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Auditory Hallucinations
Marco Catani, Michael C. Craig, Stephanie J. Forkel, Richard Kanaan, Marco Picchioni, Timothea Toulopoulou, Sukhwinder Shergill, Steve Williams, Declan G. Murphy, Philip McGuire.
Biological Psychiatry. 2011-12-01. 70(12) : 1143-1150.
10.1016/J.BIOPSYCH.2011.06.013 -
Lateralisation of the arcuate fasciculus predicts aphasia recovery at 6 months
Stephanie J. Forkel, Flavio Dell’Acqua, Lalit Kalra, Steven C. Williams, Marco Catani.
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2011-01-01. 23 : 164-166.
10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.221 -
Asymmetry of white matter pathways in the brain
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In book: The Two Halves of the Brain. 2010-01-01.
10.7551/mitpress/9780262014137.001.0001