Istvan Molnar-Szakacs
Email
imolnar@ucla.edu Phone
Office Phone Number:
310-206-4666 Address
Office Address:
760 Westwood PlazaSuite C8-846Los Angeles, CA 90095UNITED STATES
Dr. Molnar-Szakacs is a Research Neuroscientist at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and co-ordinator of the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity. Dr. Molnar-Szakacs received a Bachelor of Science with Honors from Dalhousie University in Neuroscience and Biology in 2000. He earned his doctorate in Neuroscience from UCLA in 2005, studying the neural basis of non-verbal social communication using a variety of techniques, including behavioral studies, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). He is also a graduate of the FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development?s pre-doctoral training program. He spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland studying the connections between the human mirror neuron system and social brain using electrical neuroimaging (EEG) and fMRI. He joined UCLA?s Semel Institute in 2006. Dr. Molnar-Szakacs? research projects include studies of the brain bases of self-representation, social communication and creativity in developing and adult populations.
Publications:
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Molnar-Szakacs, Arzy
Searching for an integrated self-representation.
Communicative & integrative biology,
2009; 2(4):
365-367.
Arzy Shahar, Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Blanke Olaf
Self in time: imagined self-location influences neural activity
related to mental time travel.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2008; 28(25):
6502-7.
David, Jansen, Cohen, Osswald, Molnar-Szakacs, Newen, Vogeley, Paus
Disturbances of self-other distinction after stimulation of the
extrastriate body area in the human brain.
Social neuroscience,
2008;
1-9.
Wilson Stephen M, Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Iacoboni Marco
Beyond superior temporal cortex: intersubject correlations in
narrative speech comprehension.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991),
2008; 18(1):
230-42.
Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Wu Allan D, Robles Francisco J, Iacoboni Marco
Do you see what I mean? Corticospinal excitability during observation
of culture-specific gestures.
PLoS ONE,
2007; 2(7):
e626.
Molnar-Szakacs, Overy
Music and mirror neurons: from motion to 'e'motion.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience,
2006; 1(3):
235-241.
Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Kaplan Jonas, Greenfield Patricia M, Iacoboni Marco
Observing complex action sequences: The role of the fronto-parietal
mirror neuron system.
NeuroImage,
2006; 33(3):
923-35.
Uddin Marco, Molnar-Szakacs Marco, Zaidel Marco, Iacoboni Marco
rTMS to the right inferior parietal lobule disrupts self-other
discrimination.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience,
2006; 1(1):
65-71.
Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Iacoboni Marco, Koski Lisa, Mazziotta John C
Functional segregation within pars opercularis of the inferior frontal
gyrus: evidence from fMRI studies of imitation and action observation.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991),
2005; 15(7):
986-94.
Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Uddin Lucina Q, Iacoboni Marco
Right-hemisphere motor facilitation by self-descriptive
personality-trait words.
The European journal of neuroscience,
2005; 21(7):
2000-6.
Uddin Lucina Q, Kaplan Jonas T, Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Zaidel Eran, Iacoboni Marco
Self-face recognition activates a frontoparietal "mirror" network in
the right hemisphere: an event-related fMRI study.
NeuroImage,
2005; 25(3):
926-35.
Iacoboni Marco, Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Gallese Vittorio, Buccino Giovanni, Mazziotta John C, Rizzolatti Giacomo
Grasping the intentions of others with one's own mirror neuron system.
PLoS biology,
2005; 3(3):
e79.
Koski Lisa, Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Iacoboni Marco
Exploring the contributions of premotor and parietal cortex to spatial
compatibility using image-guided TMS.
NeuroImage,
2005; 24(2):
296-305.
Iacoboni Marco, Lieberman Matthew D, Knowlton Barbara J, Molnar-Szakacs Istvan, Moritz Mark, Throop C Jason, Fiske Alan Page
Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and
medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting
baseline.
NeuroImage,
2004; 21(3):
1167-73.
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