Sonja Fenske

About

Dr Sonja Fenske is a Research Associate at Newcastle University investigating co-occurring autism and epilepsy. She earned her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California and has postdoctoral experience in early childhood development. Her research focuses on neuroimaging, machine learning, and advanced statistics to study brain-behavior relationships in health and disease, particularly in neurodevelopment.

Education

• Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of Southern California, 2020
• MSc in Biomedical Engineering with Neurotechnology, Imperial College London, 2013
• BSc in Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, 2012

Selected publications

• Sex differences in brain-behavior relationships during infancy
• Sex differences in resting state functional connectivity across the first two years of life
• Sensitivity of functional connectivity to periaqueductal gray localization with implications for identifying disease-related changes in chronic visceral pain: A MAPP Research Network Neuroimaging Study
• Cortical Neuromodulation of Pelvic Floor Muscle Tone: A Proof-of-Concept Study
• Motor cortical neuromodulation of pelvic floor muscle tone: potential implications for the treatment of urologic conditions
• Resting-state functional connectivity predicts longitudinal pain symptom change in urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a MAPP Network study
• Towards sparse coding of natural movements for neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces
• ACL Injury Risk Reduction Training Intervention in Female High School Soccer Players