Nico U. F. Dosenbach, MD, PhD

I am a neurologist and systems neuroscientist pushing resting state functional connectivity (RSFC) and task fMRI acquisition and analysis methodology to the level of individual patients. 

To create and annotate the functional connectomes of individual patients we have improved the signal-to-noise, spatial resolution and distortion correction of MRI data. Precise, high fidelity individual connectomes are important for diagnostics and patient-specific neurological, neurosurgical and psychiatric treatments. 

My extensive body of work includes discovery of the Action-Mode Network (AMN), and development of individual-specific precision functional mapping (PFM), our studies on the reproducibility of Brain-Wide Association Studies (BWAS), the brain’s Somato-Cognitive Action Network (SCAN), and Psilocybin were published in Nature in 2022, 2023, and 2024 respectively; our work on stimulant medications in Cell in 2025.

At Washington University School of Medicine, I am leading 15-person neuroscience laboratory.