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Dr Wael El-Deredy 

Photograph of Wael El-Deredy

Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience

Room 124D
Zochonis Building
Brunswick Street
Manchester
M13 9PL

 

Research

Reward processing; Brain dynamics; Inverse problem of the electroencephalography; Probabilistic models; Neural complexity

 

Collaborators and affiliated staff

Collaborators

  • Alfredo Vellido
    Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña - Dpto. de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos
  • José Manuel Gutiérrez
    Universidad de Cantabria - Dpto. de Matemática Aplicada y Ciencias de la Computación
  • Matthias M. Müller
    Universität Leipzig - Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie
  • Neil M. Branston
    Inst. of Neurology - Queen Square
  • Paulo JG Lisboa
    Liverpool John Moores Univ. - School of Computing and Maths
  • Pedro Valdes-Sosa
    Centro Neurociencias Cubans
  • Thomas Gruber
    Universität Leipzig - Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie
  • Professor Anthony Jones
    Medical and Human Sciences
 

Publications

2011

  • Brown, CA, Watson, A, Morton, D, Power A, El-Deredy, W, Jones, AKP. (2011). Role of central neuphysiological systems in placebo analgesia and their relationship to cognitive processing mediating placebo responding. Future Neurology, 6(3), 389-398. eScholarID:133453 | DOI:10.2217/fnl.11.21
  • J. Kuenzel, I. Blanchette, E.H. Zandstra, A. Thomas and W. El-Deredy. (2011). Awareness Changes Placebo Effects for Feeling Relaxed, but not for Liking. Journal of Marketing Communication, 1. eScholarID:96724 | DOI:DOI: 10.1080/13527266.2010.548009
  • Koychev, I, El-Deredy, W, Deakin, W, Francis, J. (2011). New visual information processing abnormality biomarkers for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics, 5(4), 357-368. eScholarID:133455 | DOI:10.1517/17530059.2011.586029
  • Koychev, I., Deakin, J., Haenschel, C. & El-Deredy, W (2011). Abnormal neural oscillations in schizotypy during a visual working memory task: support for a deficient top-down network? Neuropsychologia, 49(10), 2866-73. eScholarID:133402 | PMID:21703284 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.012
  • Krol, M & El-Deredy, W. (2011). Misperceptions are the price for facilitation in object recognition. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, eScholarID:112215 | DOI:10.1080/20445911.2011.553596
  • Król, M. & El-Deredy, W (2011). When believing is seeing: the role of predictions in shaping visual perception. Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester), 64(9), 1743-71. eScholarID:133413 | PMID:21824013 | DOI:10.1080/17470218.2011.559587
  • Kuenzel, J, Blanchette, I, Lion, R, Zandstra, E, Thomas, A and El-Deredy, W. (2011). Conditioning specific positive states to unfamiliar flavours influences flavour liking. Food Quality and Preference, 22(5), 397-403. eScholarID:133456 | DOI:10.1016/j.foodqual.2010.10.009
  • Kuenzel, J., Zandstra, E., El Deredy, W., Blanchette, I. & Thomas, A (2011). Expecting yoghurt drinks to taste sweet or pleasant increases liking. Appetite, 56(1), 122-127. eScholarID:133411 | PMID:21147190 | DOI:10.1016/j.appet.2010.12.009
  • Makin, A., Ackerley, R., Wild, K., Poliakoff, E., Gowen, E. & El-Deredy, W (2011). Coherent illusory contours reduce microsaccade frequency. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2798-801. eScholarID:133407 | PMID:21683722 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.001
  • Mason L, O’Sullivan N, Blackburn M, Bentall RP, El-Deredy W. (2011). I want it now! Neural correlates of human delay discounting in hypomania. Biological Psychiatry, eScholarID:140434 | DOI:doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.10.008
  • Moutoussis, M., Bentall, R., El-Deredy, W. & Dayan, P (2011). Bayesian modelling of Jumping-to-Conclusions bias in delusional patients. Cogn Neuropsychiatry, 16(5), 422-47. eScholarID:133406 | PMID:21480015 | DOI:10.1080/13546805.2010.548678
  • O'Driscoll, M., El-Deredy, W. & Ramsden, R (2011). Brain stem responses evoked by stimulation of the mature cochlear nucleus with an auditory brain stem implant. Ear Hear, 32(3), 286-299. eScholarID:133401 | PMID:21157353 | DOI:10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181fc9d72
  • O'Driscoll, M., El-Deredy, W., Atas, A., Sennaroglu, G., Sennaroglu, L. & Ramsden, R (2011). Brain stem responses evoked by stimulation with an auditory brain stem implant in children with cochlear nerve aplasia or hypoplasia. Ear Hear, 32(3), 300-312. eScholarID:133405 | PMID:21150625 | DOI:10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181fc9f17
  • O'Sullivan, N., Szczepanowski, R., El-Deredy, W., Mason, L. & Bentall, R (2011). fMRI evidence of a relationship between hypomania and both increased goal-sensitivity and positive outcome-expectancy bias. Neuropsychologia, 49(10), 2825-35. eScholarID:133410 | PMID:21703286 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.008
  • Zandstra, E. & El-Deredy, W (2011). Effects of energy conditioning on food preferences and choice. Appetite, 57(1), 45-9. eScholarID:133408 | PMID:21440593 | DOI:10.1016/j.appet.2011.03.007

2010

  • Brown CA, El-Deredy W, Blanchette I. (2010). Attentional modulation of visual-evoked potentials by threat: Investigating the effect of evolutionary relevance. Brain and Cognition, 74(3), 281-287. eScholarID:92430 | DOI:doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2010.08.008
  • Debbie L. Morton, Wael El-Deredy, Alison Watson and Anthony K.P. Jones. (2010). Placebo analgesia as a case of a cognitive style driven by prior expectation. Brain Reseach, 1359, 137-141. eScholarID:92433 | DOI:DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.08.046
  • J. Kuenzel, E.H. Zandstra, R. Lion, I. Blanchette, A. Thomas, W. El-Deredy. (2010). Conditioning unfamiliar and familiar flavours to specific positive emotions. Food Quality and Preference, 21(8), 1105-1107. eScholarID:96722 | DOI:10.1016/j.foodqual.2010.09.003
  • Koychev, I., El-Deredy, W., Haenschel, C. & Deakin, J (2010). Visual information processing deficits as biomarkers of vulnerability to schizophrenia: an event-related potential study in schizotypy. Neuropsychologia, 48(7), 2205-14. eScholarID:133412 | PMID:20412812 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.014
  • Morton, D., Brown, C., Watson, A., El-Deredy, W. & Jones, A (2010). Cognitive changes as a result of a single exposure to placebo. Neuropsychologia, 48(7), 1958-64. eScholarID:133403 | PMID:20331992 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.016

2009

  • Li M, Dias B, Jarman I, El-Deredy W, Lisboa PJG. (2009). Grocery Shopping Recommendations Based on Basket-Sensitive Random Walk. Presented at KDD-09: 15TH ACM SIGKDD CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. eScholarID:76552 | DOI:10.1145/1557019.1557150
  • Applegate, E; El-Deredy, W; Bentall, RP. (2009). Reward responsiveness in psychosis-prone groups: Hypomania and negative schizotypy. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 47(5), 452-456. eScholarID:32294 | DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.017
  • Makin A, Poliakoff E, El-Deredy W. (2009). Tracking visible and occluded targets: changes in event related potentials during motion extrapolation. Neuropsychologia, 47( 4), eScholarID:1d19042 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.01.010
  • Morton DL, Watson A , El-Deredy W, Jones AKP. (2009). Reproducibility of placebo analgesia: Effect of dispositional optimism. Pain, 146(1-2), 194-198. eScholarID:76550 | DOI:10.1016/j.pain.2009.07.026
  • Watson AAJ, El-Deredy W, G Iannetti, Lloyd D; Tracey I , Vogt BA , Nadeau V, Jones AKP. (2009). Placebo conditioning and placebo analgesia modulate a common brain network during pain anticipation and perception. Pain, 145(1-2), 24-30. eScholarID:1d19035 | DOI:10.1016/j.pain.2009.04.003

2008

  • Boyle Y, El-Deredy W, Martínez Montes E, Bentley DE, Jones AK P. (2008). Selective modulation of nociceptive processing due to noise distraction. Pain, 138( 3), eScholarID:1d18359 | DOI:10.1016/j.pain.2008.02.020
  • Brown CCA, Seymour B, El-Deredy W, Jones AK P. (2008). Confidence in beliefs about pain predicts expectancy effects on pain perception and anticipatory processing in right anterior insula. Pain, 139(2), 324-32. eScholarID:1d18358 | DOI:10.1016/j.pain.2008.04.028
  • Christopher A. Brown, Ben Seymour, Yvonne Boyle, El-Deredy W, Jones AK P. (2008). Modulation of pain ratings by expectation and uncertainty: Behavioral characteristics and anticipatory neural correlates. Pain, 135, 240-250. eScholarID:1d16033 | DOI:DOI:10.1016/j.pain.2007.05.022
  • Clark J, Brown C, Jones A, El-Deredy W. (2008). Dissociating nociceptive modulation by the duration of pain anticipation from unpredictability in the timing of pain. Clin Neurophysiol, 119( 12), eScholarID:1d18357 | DOI:10.1016/j.clinph.2008.09.022
  • Eduardo Martinez-Montes, Elena R Cuspineda-Bravo, El-Deredy W, Jose M Sanchez-Bornot, Agustin Lage-Castellanos, Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa. (2008). Exploring event-related brain dynamics with tests on complex valued time-frequency representations. Statistics in Medicine, 27, eScholarID:1d17720 | DOI:10.1002/sim.3132
  • Hussain A J, Knowles A, Lisboa PJG, El-Deredy W. (2008). Financial time series prediction using polynomial pipelined neural networks. Expert Systems with Applications, 35, eScholarID:1d18360

2007

  • Abir J Hussain, Adam Knowles, Paulo J G Lisboa, El-Deredy W. (2007). Polynomial Pipelined Neural Network and its application to time series prediction. Springer. eScholarID:2d1936
  • Bhavna Kulkarni, D E Bentley, Elliott R, PJ Julyan, E Boger, A Watson, Y Boyle, El-Deredy W, Jones AK P. (2007). Arthritic pain is processed in brain areas concernedwith emotions and fear. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 56 (4), 1345-1354. eScholarID:1d12953 | DOI:10.1002/art.22460
  • Watson A, El-Deredy W, Vogt BA, Jones AK P. (2007). Placebo analgesia is not due to compliance or habituation: EEG and behavioural evidence. NeuroReport, 18, 771-775. eScholarID:1d27649
  • Zampini M, El-Deredy W, Bentley DE, Vogt B, Jones AK P, Spence C. (2007). Attention speeds the perceptual processing of painful stimuli. Behavioral Brain Research, 414, eScholarID:1d17105

2006

  • Anthony C Fisher, El-Deredy W, Richard P Hagan, Malcolm C Brown, Paulo J.G Lisboa. (2006). Removal of eye movement artefacts from single channel recordings of retinal evoked potentials using synchronous dynamical embedding and independent component analysis. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, eScholarID:1d13632
  • Watson A, El-Deredy W, Bentley DE, Brent A Vogt, Jones AK P. (2006). Categories of placebo response in the absence of site-specific expectation of analgesia. Pain, 126, 115-122. eScholarID:1d13634

2005

  • Watson A, El-Deredy W, Bentley DE, Boyle Y, Brent Vogt, Jones AK P. (2005). Placebo-induced reductions in pain ratings & laser evoked potentials. Poster 11th World congress on Pain IASP, Sydney 2005. eScholarID:3d601
  • El-Deredy W, Boyle Y, Bentley DE, Jones AK P. (2005). Modulation of laser evoked potentials frequency response to pain localisation, affect and distraction. eScholarID:2d2231
  • N Trujilli-Barreto, Boyle Y, El-Deredy W, Bentley DE, Jones AK P. (2005). Modulation of medial and lateral pain systems by noise distraction. eScholarID:2d2223
  • Branston Neil M, El-Deredy W, McGlone FP. (2005). Changes in neural complexity of the EEG during a visual oddball task. CLIN. NEUROPHYS, 116, eScholarID:1d11669 | DOI:10.1016/j.clinph.2004.07.015

2004

  • T N Hoang, El-Deredy W, Bentley DE, Jones AK P, P J Lisboa, Francis P McGlone. (2004). Dipole source localisation using independent component analysis: Single trial localisation of laser evoked pain. eScholarID:2d1202
  • Thang N Hoang, El-Deredy W, Paulo J. G. Lisboa, Francis P McGlone. (2004). Inter-trial phase synchronisation in the ERP Delta band accounts for differences in oddball P300. eScholarID:2d1937
  • Zald David, Boileau I, El-Deredy W, Gunn R, McGlone F, Dichter GS, Dagher A. (2004). Dopamine transmission in the human striatum during monetary reward tasks. J. NEUROSCIENCE, 24, 4105-4112. eScholarID:1d11670 | DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4643-03.2004

2003

  • Huang Y, Lisboa PJG, El-Deredy W. (2003). Tumour grading from magnetic resonance spectroscopy: a comparison of feature extraction with variable selection. STATISTICS IN MEDICINE, 22, 1, eScholarID:1d11672
  • Vellido Alfredo, El-Deredy W, Lisboa Paulo JG. (2003). Selective smoothing of the generative topographic mapping. IEEE TRANS NEURAL NETWORKS, 14, 847-852. eScholarID:1d11671 | DOI:10.1109/TNN.2003.813834
  • Orla S Cronin, El-Deredy W, Christopher G Harbron, Marie Hayet, Shail Patel. (2003) EP1271341 Software Patent: System for analysing textual data. eScholarID:13d48

2001

  • Branston NM, El-Deredy W. (2001). Movement discrimination by single cells in the human pallidum characterised by hidden Markov models. EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH, 137, 1, eScholarID:1d11673
  • Hyvonen MT, Hiltunen Y, El-Deredy W, Ojala T, Vaara J, Kovanen PT, Ala-Korpela M. (2001). Application of self-organizing maps in conformational analysis of lipids. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 123, 5, eScholarID:1d11674

2000

  • El-Deredy W, Branston NM, Samuel M, Schrag A, Rothwell JC, Thomas DGT, Quinn NP. (2000). Firing patterns of pallidal cells in Parkinsonian patients correlate with their pre-pallidotomy clinical scores. NEUROREPORT, 11, 15, eScholarID:1d11676
  • Lee YYB, Huang Y, El-Deredy W, Lisboa PJG, Arus C, Harris P. (2000). Robust methodology for the discrimination of brain tumours from in vivo magnetic resonance spectra. IEE PROCEEDINGS-SCIENCE MEASUREMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, 147, 6, eScholarID:1d11675

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