Dr Ali Khatibi PhD

Dr Ali Khatibi

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Senior Research Fellow in Pain and Neuroplasticity
CPR Spine Deputy Director

Ali Khatibi is interested in the study of cognition and an expert in neuroimaging and the study of human spinal cord. His two lines of research is focused on the study of cognitive bias in the processing of pain and also pain interference with motor learning in human spinal cord.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Psychology (KU Leuven, 2014)
  • MA in Psychology (Shahid Beheshti University, 2008)
  • BSc in Biology (Guilan University, 2004) 

Biography

Dr Ali Khatibi received PhD in Psychology from KU Leuven. He completed postdoctoral training at Montreal Neurological Institute investigating motor sequence learning in the human spinal cord before joining CPR spine as a senior research fellow in Pain and Neuroplasticity.

Postgraduate supervision

Pain interference with motor learning in human spinal cord

Research

Pain, Neuroimaging, Spinal Cord Imaging, Neuroplasticity, Motor learning Cognitive Bias

Other activities

  • Editorial board: Cognitive Psychology Section, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Scientific Secretary of the 7th IHBM international Meeting, November 2020

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Gevers-Montoro, C, Liew, B, Deldar, Z, Conesa-Buendía, FM, Ortega de Mues, A, Falla, D & Khatibi, A 2023, 'A network analysis on biopsychosocial factors and pain‑related outcomes assessed during a COVID‑19 lockdown', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 4399. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31054-4

Khatibi, A, Roy, M, Chen, J-I, Gill, L-N, Piche, M & Rainville, P 2023, 'Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear', Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 18, no. 1, nsac056. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac056

Kinany, N, Khatibi, A, Lungu, O, Finsterbusch, J, Büchel, C, Marchand-Pauvert, V, Van De Ville, D, Vahdat, S & Doyon, J 2023, 'Decoding cerebro-spinal signatures of human behavior: Application to motor sequence learning', NeuroImage, vol. 275, 120174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120174

Alinajimi, F, Deldar, Z, Dehghani, M & Khatibi, A 2023, 'Emotion regulation mediates the relationship between family caregivers’ pain related beliefs and patients’ coping strategies', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.983350

Elhamiasl, M, Dehghani, M, Heidari, M, Vancleef, LMG & Khatibi, A 2023, 'Negative interpretation of ambiguous bodily symptoms among illness anxious individuals: Exploring the role of developmental and maintenance constructs', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 13, no. 2022, 985125. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.985125

Khatibi, A, Vahdat, S, Lungu, O, Finsterbusch, J, Büchel, C, Cohen-Adad, J, Marchand-Pauvert, V & Doyon, J 2022, 'Brain-spinal cord interaction in long-term motor sequence learning in human: an fMRI Study', NeuroImage, vol. 253, 119111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119111

Wang, S, Veinot, J, Goyal, A, Khatibi, A, Lazar, S & Ali Hashmi, J 2022, 'Distinct networks of periaqueductal gray columns in pain and threat processing', NeuroImage, vol. 250, 118936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.118936

Matthews, D, Elgueta Cancino, E, Falla, D & Khatibi, A 2022, 'Exploring pain interference with motor skill learning in humans: a systematic review', PLOS One, vol. 17, no. 9, e0274403. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274403

Gevers-Montoro, C, Deldar, Z, Furlan, A, Lazar, EA, Ghalibaf, E, Ortega de Mues, A & Khatibi, A 2022, 'From hands-on to remote: Moderators of response to a novel self-management telehealth programme during the COVID-19 pandemic', European Journal of Pain, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 1368-1379. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1968

Hosseinchi, P, Ghalibaf, E, Dehghani, A & Khatibi, A 2022, 'Negative interpretation of ambiguous bodily information by patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis', Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, vol. 62, 103808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2022.103808

Saberi, M, Khosrowabadi, R, Khatibi, A, Misic, B & Jafari, G 2022, 'Pattern of frustration formation in the functional brain network', Network Neuroscience, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1334-1356. https://doi.org/10.1162/netn_a_00268

Omyan, S, Mazidi, M & Khatibi, A 2022, 'Selective attention to pain and empathy: studying frequent blood donors', Brain and Behaviour, vol. 13, no. 1, e2841. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2841

Lashkari, A, Dehghani, M, Sadeghi-Firoozabadi, V, Heidari, M & Khatibi, A 2022, 'مدلسازی معادله ساختاری اختالل شخصیت مرزی و ناگویی هیجانی: نقش واسطه ای افسردگی و اضطراب', Journal of Modern Psychological Researches, vol. 16, no. 64, 13267. <https://psychologyj.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_13267.html?lang=en>

Comment/debate

Cohen-Adad, J, Alonso-Ortiz, E, Abramovic, M, Arneitz, C, Atcheson, N, Barlow, L, Barry, RL, Barth, M, Battiston, M, Büchel, C, Budde, M, Callot, V, Combes, AJE, De Leener, B, Descoteaux, M, de Sousa, PL, Dostál, M, Doyon, J, Dvorak, A, Eippert, F, Epperson, KR, Epperson, KS, Freund, P, Finsterbusch, J, Foias, A, Fratini, M, Fukunaga, I, Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott, CAM, Germani, G, Gilbert, G, Giove, F, Gros, C, Grussu, F, Hagiwara, A, Henry, PG, Horák, T, Hori, M, Joers, J, Kamiya, K, Karbasforoushan, H, Keřkovský, M, Khatibi, A, Kim, JW, Kinany, N, Kitzler, HH, Kolind, S, Kong, Y, Kudlička, P, Kuntke, P, Kurniawan, ND, Kusmia, S, Labounek, R, Laganà, MM, Laule, C, Law, CS, Lenglet, C, Leutritz, T, Liu, Y, Llufriu, S, Mackey, S, Martinez-Heras, E, Mattera, L, Nestrasil, I, O’Grady, KP, Papinutto, N, Papp, D, Pareto, D, Parrish, TB, Pichiecchio, A, Prados, F, Rovira, À, Ruitenberg, MJ, Samson, RS, Savini, G, Seif, M, Seifert, AC, Smith, AK, Smith, SA, Smith, ZA, Solana, E, Suzuki, Y, Tackley, G, Tinnermann, A, Valošek, J, Van De Ville, D, Yiannakas, MC, Weber, KA, Weiskopf, N, Wise, RG, Wyss, PO & Xu, J 2021, 'Author Correction: Open-access quantitative MRI data of the spinal cord and reproducibility across participants, sites and manufacturers (Scientific Data, (2021), 8, 1, (219), 10.1038/s41597-021-00941-8)', Scientific Data, vol. 8, no. 1, 242. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01026-2

Preprint

Mobarak-Abadi, M, Mahmoudi-Aznave, A, Dehghani, H, Zarei, M, Vahdat, S, Doyon, J & Khatibi, A 2022 'DeepRetroMoCo: deep neural network-based retrospective motion correction algorithm for spinal cord functional MRI' bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.06.506787

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