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Faisal Karmali, Ph.D.

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  1. R01AG066524 (Seshadri) Sep 1, 2020 - May 1, 2025
    NIH/NIA
    Multidimensional Assessment of Brain Health as a Marker of Dementia Risk and Resilience
    Role: Co-Investigator
  2. R01DC018287 (Karmali & Lewis) Jul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2025
    NIH/NIDCD
    Vestibular Precision: Physiology and Pathophysiology
    Role: PI
  3. R03DC013635 (KARMALI, FAISAL) Dec 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2018
    NIH
    Measuring and Isolating Imprecision in Vestibular Perception and Action
    Role: Principal Investigator

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  1. Madhani A, Lewis RF, Karmali F. How Peripheral Vestibular Damage Affects Velocity Storage: a Causative Explanation. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2022 08; 23(4):551-566. PMID: 35768706; PMCID: PMC9437187.
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  2. Crowson MG, Beyea JA, Cottrell J, Karmali F, Lampasona G, Saunders JE, Lewis RF. The predictive power of geographic health care utilization for unintentional fatal fall rates. BMC Public Health. 2022 02 16; 22(1):328. PMID: 35172791; PMCID: PMC8848674.
    Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
  3. King S, Dahlem K, Karmali F, Stankovic KM, Welling DB, Lewis RF. Imbalance and dizziness caused by unilateral vestibular schwannomas correlate with vestibulo-ocular reflex precision and bias. J Neurophysiol. 2022 02 01; 127(2):596-606. PMID: 35080420; PMCID: PMC8858680.
    Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
  4. Diaz-Artiles A, Karmali F. Vestibular Precision at the Level of Perception, Eye Movements, Posture, and Neurons. Neuroscience. 2021 08 01; 468:282-320. PMID: 34087393; PMCID: PMC9188304.
    Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
  5. Karmali F, Haburcakova C, Gong W, Della Santina CC, Merfeld DM, Lewis RF. An Implanted Vestibular Prosthesis Improves Spatial Orientation in Animals with Severe Vestibular Damage. J Neurosci. 2021 04 28; 41(17):3879-3888. PMID: 33731447.
    Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Animals
  6. Karmali F, Goodworth AD, Valko Y, Leeder T, Peterka RJ, Merfeld DM. The role of vestibular cues in postural sway. J Neurophysiol. 2021 02 01; 125(2):672-686. PMID: 33502934; PMCID: PMC7948142.
    Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  7. Karmali F, Bermúdez Rey MC, Clark TK, Wang W, Merfeld DM. Corrigendum: Multivariate Analyses of Balance Test Performance, Vestibular Thresholds, and Age. Front Neurol. 2020; 11:556797. PMID: 33324315.
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  8. Karmali F. The velocity storage time constant: Balancing between accuracy and precision. Prog Brain Res. 2019; 248:269-276. PMID: 31239137; PMCID: PMC9103412.
    Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  9. King S, Benoit C, Bandealy N, Karmali F. The influence of target distance on perceptual self-motion thresholds and the vestibulo-ocular reflex during interaural translation. Prog Brain Res. 2019; 248:197-208. PMID: 31239132; PMCID: PMC9103442.
    Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  10. Beylergil SB, Karmali F, Wang W, Bermúdez Rey MC, Merfeld DM. Vestibular roll tilt thresholds partially mediate age-related effects on balance. Prog Brain Res. 2019; 248:249-267. PMID: 31239136.
    Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  11. Clark TK, Newman MC, Karmali F, Oman CM, Merfeld DM. Mathematical models for dynamic, multisensory spatial orientation perception. Prog Brain Res. 2019; 248:65-90. PMID: 31239146.
    Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  12. Rosenberg MJ, Galvan-Garza RC, Clark TK, Sherwood DP, Young LR, Karmali F. Human manual control precision depends on vestibular sensory precision and gravitational magnitude. J Neurophysiol. 2018 12 01; 120(6):3187-3197. PMID: 30379610; PMCID: PMC6442919.
    Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  13. Galvan-Garza RC, Clark TK, Sherwood D, Diaz-Artiles A, Rosenberg M, Natapoff A, Karmali F, Oman CM, Young LR. Human perception of whole body roll-tilt orientation in a hypogravity analog: underestimation and adaptation. J Neurophysiol. 2018 12 01; 120(6):3110-3121. PMID: 30332330.
    Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  14. Galvan-Garza RC, Clark TK, Sherwood D, Diaz-Artiles A, Rosenberg M, Natapoff A, Karmali F, Oman CM, Young LR. Human perception of whole body roll-tilt orientation in a hypogravity analog: underestimation and adaptation. J Neurophysiol. 2018 12 01; 120(6):3110-3121. PMID: 30526253.
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  15. Nouri S, Karmali F. Variability in the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex and Vestibular Perception. Neuroscience. 2018 11 21; 393:350-365. PMID: 30189227; PMCID: PMC6684204.
    Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  16. Kabbaligere R, Layne CS, Karmali F. Perception of threshold-level whole-body motion during mechanical mastoid vibration. J Vestib Res. 2018; 28(3-4):283-294. PMID: 30149483; PMCID: PMC6684205.
    Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  17. Karmali F, Whitman GT, Lewis RF. Bayesian optimal adaptation explains age-related human sensorimotor changes. J Neurophysiol. 2018 02 01; 119(2):509-520. PMID: 29118202; PMCID: PMC5867390.
    Citations: 19     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
  18. Karmali F, Bermúdez Rey MC, Clark TK, Wang W, Merfeld DM. Multivariate Analyses of Balance Test Performance, Vestibular Thresholds, and Age. Front Neurol. 2017; 8:578. PMID: 29167656.
    Citations: 27     
  19. Diaz-Artiles A, Priesol AJ, Clark TK, Sherwood DP, Oman CM, Young LR, Karmali F. The Impact of Oral Promethazine on Human Whole-Body Motion Perceptual Thresholds. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol. 2017 Aug; 18(4):581-590. PMID: 28439720; PMCID: PMC5532182.
    Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  20. Lim K, Karmali F, Nicoucar K, Merfeld DM. Perceptual precision of passive body tilt is consistent with statistically optimal cue integration. J Neurophysiol. 2017 05 01; 117(5):2037-2052. PMID: 28179477; PMCID: PMC5434481.
    Citations: 28     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  21. Karmali F, Chaudhuri SE, Yi Y, Merfeld DM. Determining thresholds using adaptive procedures and psychometric fits: evaluating efficiency using theory, simulations, and human experiments. Exp Brain Res. 2016 Mar; 234(3):773-89. PMID: 26645306.
    Citations: 26     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  22. Merfeld DM, Clark TK, Lu YM, Karmali F. Dynamics of individual perceptual decisions. J Neurophysiol. 2016 Jan 01; 115(1):39-59. PMID: 26467513; PMCID: PMC4760478.
    Citations: 15     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
  23. Mardirossian V, Karmali F, Merfeld D. Thresholds for human perception of roll tilt motion: patterns of variability based on visual, vestibular, and mixed cues. Otol Neurotol. 2014 Jun; 35(5):857-60. PMID: 24691502.
    Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  24. Karmali F, Lim K, Merfeld DM. Visual and vestibular perceptual thresholds each demonstrate better precision at specific frequencies and also exhibit optimal integration. J Neurophysiol. 2014 Jun 15; 111(12):2393-403. PMID: 24371292.
    Citations: 32     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  25. Chaudhuri SE, Karmali F, Merfeld DM. Whole body motion-detection tasks can yield much lower thresholds than direction-recognition tasks: implications for the role of vibration. J Neurophysiol. 2013 Dec; 110(12):2764-72. PMID: 24068754.
    Citations: 25     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  26. Lewis RF, Haburcakova C, Gong W, Karmali F, Merfeld DM. Spatial and temporal properties of eye movements produced by electrical stimulation of semicircular canal afferents. J Neurophysiol. 2012 Sep; 108(5):1511-20. PMID: 22673321.
    Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:Animals
  27. Karmali F, Merfeld DM. A distributed, dynamic, parallel computational model: the role of noise in velocity storage. J Neurophysiol. 2012 Jul; 108(2):390-405. PMID: 22514288.
    Citations: 32     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
  28. Karmali F, Shelhamer M. Neurovestibular considerations for sub-orbital space flight: A framework for future investigation. J Vestib Res. 2010; 20(1):31-43. PMID: 20555165; PMCID: PMC3634569.
    Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  29. Karmali F, Shelhamer M. Compensating for camera translation in video eye-movement recordings by tracking a representative landmark selected automatically by a genetic algorithm. J Neurosci Methods. 2009 Jan 30; 176(2):157-65. PMID: 18835407; PMCID: PMC3603379.
    Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
  30. Karmali F, Shelhamer M. The dynamics of parabolic flight: flight characteristics and passenger percepts. Acta Astronaut. 2008 Sep; 63(5-6):594-602. PMID: 19727328.
    Citations: 25     Fields:    
  31. Grabherr L, Karmali F, Bach S, Indermaur K, Metzler S, Mast FW. Mental own-body and body-part transformations in microgravity. J Vestib Res. 2007; 17(5-6):279-87. PMID: 18626138.
    Citations: 16     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  32. Karmali F, Shelhamer M. Compensating for camera translation in video eye movement recordings by tracking a landmark selected automatically by a genetic algorithm. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2006; 2006:5298-301. PMID: 17946296.
    Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
  33. Karmali F, Ramat S, Shelhamer M. Vertical skew due to changes in gravitoinertial force: a possible consequence of otolith asymmetry. J Vestib Res. 2006; 16(3):117-25. PMID: 17312339.
    Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:HumansCTClinical Trials
  34. Karmali F, Shelhamer M. Automatic detection of camera translation in eye video recordings using multiple methods. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 Apr; 1039:470-6. PMID: 15827002.
    Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
  35. Karmali F, Shelhamer M. Automatic detection of camera translation in eye video recordings using multiple methods. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2004; 2004:1525-8. PMID: 17271987.
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