Sunavsky, A, Hashmi, MA, Robertson, JW, Veinot, J, Hashmi, J,A. (2025). The nucleus accumbens- prefrontal connectivity as a predictor of chronic low back pain. PAIN. accepted
Veinot, J, Cane, Douglas, Hashmi, J.A. (2025). Low working memory underpins the association between aberrant functional properties of pain modulation circuitry and chronic back pain severity . Journal of PAIN. In press
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Robertson J.W, Aristi G, and Hashmi J.A. (2023). White matter microstructure predicts measures of clinical symptoms in chronic back pain patients. Neuroimage Clinical. 37: 103309.
Hanly, J.G, Robertson, J, Kamintsky, L, Beyea S, Fisk, J, Omisade A, Bardouille T, Bowen C, Quraan, M, Mitnitski, A, A, Friedman, A, Hashmi, J.A. (2023). Resting state functional connectivity in SLE patients and association with cognitive impairment and blood–brain barrier permeability.Rheumatology. 62(2): 685-695.
Pak, V, Hashmi, J.A. (2023). Top-down threat bias in pain perception is predicted by higher segregation between resting-state networks. Network Neuroscience. 7(4): 1248-1265.
Wang S, Veinot J, Goyal A, Khatibi A, Lazar SW, Hashmi JA. (2022). Distinct networks of periaqueductal gray columns in pain and threat processing.Neuroimage. 250: 118936.
Aristi, G., Bowen C, Ross, M, Cailkin C, Friedman, A, Hashmi, J.A. (2022). Symptoms of Havana Syndrome are linked with alterations in white matter microstructure. Brain Communications. 4(2): fcac053.
Aristi, G., O’Grady C, Goyal, A, Lynch, M, Bowen, C, Beyea, S, Lazar, S, Hashmi, J.A. (2022). Top- down bias in pain perception is predicted by intrinsic structural and functional connections of the brain.Neuroimage. 258: 119349.
Hanly, JG, Legge A, Kamintsky L, Friedman, A, Hashmi, J.A, Beyea, SD, Fisk J, Omisade, A, Calkin,C, Bardouille, T, Bowen, C, Matheson, K, Fritzler, MJ. (2022). Role of autoantibodies and blood–brain barrier leakage in cognitive impairment in systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus Science & Medicine. 9(1): e000668.
Nani, A, Hashmi, J.A. (2022). The interplay of consciousness and attention in atypical contexts of experience.Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16: 913913.
Khan, S, Hashmi, J.A, Mamashli, F, Hamalainen, M, Kenet, T. (2022). The Functional Significance of Growing and Shrinking Hubs in Beta Band and Gamma Band Mediated Resting State Networks. Frontiers in Neurology.Frontiers in Neurology. 0: 1129.
Hanly JG, Robertson JW, Legge A, Kamintsky L, Aristi G, Friedman A, Beyea SD, Fisk JD, Omisade A, Calkin C, Bardouille T, Bowen C, Matheson K, and Hashmi J.A. (2021). Functional connectivity, extensive blood-brain barrier leakage, and cognitive impairment in systemic lupus erythematosus.ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY. 73: 942-945.
Kamintsky, L, Beyea S, Fisk, J, Hashmi, J.A, Omisade A, Bardouille T, Bowen C, Quraan, M, Mitnitski, A. (Accepted, August 2020). Blood-Brain Barrier Leakage in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is associated with Gray Matter Loss and Cognitive Impairment. Annals of the Rheumatic Disease.
Saghayi, M., Varno F., Matwin S, Greenberg, J, Bracken B,B, Hashmi, A, Lazar, S., Hashmi, J.A. (2020). Resting brain connectivity states predict participant adherence to mental training programs. Network Neuroscience. 1-28.
Lim, M., O’Grady, C., Cane., D, Goyal, A, Lynch, M., Beyea, S., Hashmi, J.A. (Accepted 12, 2019). Schemas induce enduring perceptual bias in pain perception. Journal of Neuroscience. lim_hashhmi_jneuroscience_2020_proof
Gurpreet, M, Hashmi J.A. Spontaneous back-pain alters randomness in functional connections in large scale brain networks: A random matrix perspective. Physica A, October, 2019, preprint_gsm_jah_2019
Sevinc, G., Holzel, B.K., Greenberg, J., Gard, T., Brunsch, V., Hashmi, J.A., Vangel, M., Orr, S.P., Milad, M.R., Lazar, S.W. Learning not to fear: Strengthened Hippocampal Circuits Underlie Enhanced Retrieval of Extinguished Fear Memories Following Mindfulness Training. Biological Psychiatry. 2019
Sevinc, G., Holzel, B.K., Hashmi, J.A., Greenberg, J., Schneider, M.L., McCallister, A., Treadway, M., Dusek, J.A., Carmody, J., Lazar, S.W. (2018). Common and dissociable neural activity after mindfulness-based stress reduction and relaxation response programs. Psychosomatic Medicine, 80 (5), 439-451.
Hashmi. J.A. Placebo response: theory, mechanisms and teleological roots. ELSEVIER- Serial International Review of Neurobiology, volume 138 Neurobiology of the Placebo Effect. Editor Luana Colloca. preprint.
Khan S*, Hashmi, J.A*. Gollub, R.L, Kong, J, Hamalainen, M.S, Stufflebeam S, Kenet T *equal contribution. (2018). Spectral signatures of network development in resting state MEG. Neuroimage. Download
Hashmi, J.A, Loggia, M, Khan, S, Gao,L.,Kim J, Napadow, V, Brown E.N, Akeju OJ, Dexmedetomidine Disrupts the Local and Global Efficiencies of Large-scale Brain Networks. Online First, January 2017, Anesthesiology. Download
Mamashli, F., Khan, S., Bharadwaj, H., Michmizos, K., Ganesan, S., Garel, K.L.A., Hashmi, J.A, Herbert, M.R., Hamalainen, M., Kenet, T. (2016). Auditory processing in noise is associated with complex patterns of disrupted functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 4, 631-647.
Khan, S, Hashmi, J.A, Mamashli, F, Hamalainen, M.S, Kenet T. Altered Onset Response Dynamics in Somatosensory Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Accepted, May 2016, Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Hashmi, J.A, Khan, S, Gollub R.L, Kong J. Intrinsic functional connectivity predicts task evoked responses and pain modulation in an experimental model of pain modulation. In review. Presented at annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 2015, Chicago. link
Hashmi, J.A, Kong J, Spaeth R, Khan S, Kaptchuk T, Gollub R.L. Functional network architecture predicts psychologically mediated analgesia related to treatment in chronic knee pain patients. Journal of Neuroscience, 2014; 34;3924–3936. Download
Hashmi J.A, Baliki M.N, Huang L, Torbey S, Herman K, Schnitzer T.J, Apkarian A.V. Shape shifting pain: Chronification of back pain shifts brain representation from nociceptive to emotional circuits. Brain. 2013;136:2751–2768. Download
Vachon-Presseau, E, Te´ treault, P, Petre, B, Huang, L, Berger, S, Torbey, S, Baria, A.T, Mansour,A.R, Hashmi, J.A, Griffith, J.W, Comasco, E, Schnitzer, T, Baliki, M.N, and Apkarian A.V. Corticolimbic anatomical characteristics predetermine risk for chronic pain. Brain. Accepted March, 2016
Hashmi J.A, Davis K.D. Deconstructing sex differences in pain sensitivity. Topical Review. Pain. 2014;155:10–13.
Spaeth R, Camhi S, Hashmi J.A, Vangel M, Wasan A.D, Edwards R.E, Gollub R.L, Kong, J. A longitudinal study of the reliability of acupuncture deqi sensations in knee osteoarthritis. Evidence based complementary and alternative medicine. 2013.
Chen X, Spaeth RB, Freeman SG, Scarborough DM, Hashmi J.A, Wey H–Y, Egorova N, Vangel M, Mao J, Wasan AD. The modulation effect of longitudinal acupuncture on resting state functional connectivity in knee osteoarthritis patients. Molecular Pain. 11:67. 2015
Cecchi, G.A., Huang, Hashmi J.A, Centeno M, Rish, I Apkarian, A.V. Quantitative dynamics of pain perception. PLoS Computational Biology. 2012:10.1371
Hashmi J.A, Baria A, Baliki M.N, Huang L, Schnitzer TJ, Apkarian A.V. Brain networks predicting placebo analgesia in a clinical trial for chronic back pain. Pain. 2012;153:2393–2402.
Hashmi J.A, Baliki M.N, Huang L, Parks E.L, Chanda M.L, Schnitzer T.J, Apkarian A.V. Lidocaine patch (5%) is no more potent than placebo in treating chronic back pain when tested in a randomized double blind placebo controlled brain imaging study. Molecular Pain. 2012:24;8:29.
Apkarian A.V, Hashmi J.A, Baliki M.N. Pain and the brain: Specificity and plasticity of the brain in clinical chronic pain. Review. Pain. 2011;152:S49–54
Hashmi J.A, Davis K.D. Effects of temperature on heat pain adaptation and habituation in men and women. Pain. 2010;151:737:43.
Hashmi J.A, Davis K.D. Noxious heat evokes stronger sharp and annoying sensations in women than men in hairy skin but not in glabrous skin. Pain. 2010; 151:323–9.
Hashmi J.A, Yashpal K, Holdsworth D.W, Henry J.L. Sensory and vascular changes in a rat monoarthritis model: prophylactic and therapeutic effects of meloxicam. Inflammation Research. 2010; 9:667–78.
Brain Networks & Neurophysiology Lab
Dalhousie University
Faculty of Medicine
Department of Anesthesia,
Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
1-902-494-6592