Instructors

Estate (Tato) M. Sokhadze, Ph.D., BCN
Research Professor of Biomedical Sciences
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Greenville Campus, Greenville, SC, USA
Phone: (864) 454-1080
SOKHADZE@greenvillemed.sc.edu

CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE

2017           Board Certification in Neurofeedback (BCN), Biofeedback Certification International Alliance

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES

International Society Neurofeedback & Research (ISNR), Association Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback (AAPB), International Organization for Psychophysiology (IOP), Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), International Society for Addiction Medicine (ISAM), Neurofeedback and Neuromodulation Research (formerly ISNR-RF, President since 2014)

EDITORIAL AND REVIEWER WORK

Journal Editorial Board Membership: Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback, Editorial Board;

J Neurotherapy, Associate Editor; J Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Editorial Board, J Bioengineering and Biomedical Sciences, Editorial Board; Journal of Complementary Medicine and Integrative Health, Editorial Board; NeuroRegulation, Associate Editor.

Reviewer for more than 40 journals, several book publishers, member of review panels (study sections) at NIH, DoD and several international funding agencies.

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (selected)

Pritchard, W., Sokhadze, E., and Houlihan, M.: Effects of nicotine and smoking on event-related potentials. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 6(6):961-984, 2004.

Sokhadze, T., Tasman, A., Singh, S., Stewart, C., Surja, A., and Hollifield, M.: Dense-array qEEG/ERP study of frontal deficits in patients with substance use disorder and PTSD. J. Neurother. 12(1):73-77, 2007.

Sokhadze, T.M., Cannon, R., and Trudeau, D.L.: EEG biofeedback as a treatment for substance use disorders: Review, rating of efficacy and recommendations for future research. Appl. Psychophysiol. Biofeedback 33(1):1-28, 2008.

Sokhadze, E., Stewart, C., Hollifield, M., and Tasman, A.: Event-related potential study of executive dysfunctions in a speeded reaction task in cocaine addiction. J. Neurother. 12(4):185-204, 2008.

Sokhadze, E., Singh, S., Stewart, C., Hollifield, M., El-Baz, A., and Tasman, A.: Attentional bias to drug and stress-related pictorial cues in cocaine addiction comorbid with PTSD. J. Neurother. 12(4):205-225, 2008.

Sokhadze, E.M., El-Baz, A., Baruth, J., Mathai, G., Sears, L., and Casanova M.F.: Effect of a low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on gamma frequency oscillations and event-related potentials during processing of illusory figures in autism. J. Autism Dev. Disord. 39(4):619-634, 2009.

Sokhadze, E., Baruth, J., Tasman, A., Sears, L., Mathai, G., El-Baz, A., and Casanova, M.F.: Event-related potential study of novelty processing abnormalities in autism. Appl. Psychophysiol. Biofeedback 34(1):37-51, 2009.

Sokhadze, E., Stewart, C., Sokhadze, G., Husk, M, and Tasman, A.: Effects of neurofeedback-based behavioral therapy on ERP measures of executive functions in drug abuse. J. Neurother. 13(4):260-262, 2009.

Sokhadze, E., Baruth, J., Tasman, A., Mansoor, M., Ramaswamy, R., Sears, L., Mathai, G.,   El -Baz, A., and Casanova, M.F.: Low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) affects event-related potential measures of novelty processing in autism. Appl. Psychophysiol. Biofeedback 35(2):147-161, 2010.

Sokhadze, E., Baruth, J., El-Baz, A., Horrell, T., Sokhadze, G., Carroll, T., Tasman, A., Sears, L., and Casanova, M.F.: Impaired error monitoring and correction function in autism. J. Neurother. 14(2):79-95, 2010.

Baruth, J., Casanova, M., Sears, L., and Sokhadze, E.: Early-stage visual processing abnormalities in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Transl. Neurosci. 1(2):177-187, 2010.

Sherlin, L., Arns, M., Lubar, J., and Sokhadze, E.: A position paper on neurofeedback for the treatment of ADHD. J. Neurother. 14(2):66-78, 2010.

Horrell, T., El-Baz, A., Baruth, J., Tasman, A., Sokhadze, G., Stewart, C., and Sokhadze, E.: Neurofeedback effects on evoked and induced EEG gamma band reactivity to drug -related cues in cocaine addiction. J. Neurother. 14(3):195-216, 2010.

Baruth, J., Casanova, M., El-Baz, A., Horrell, T., Mathai, G., Sears, L., and Sokhadze, E.: Low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation modulates evoked-gamma frequency oscillations in autism spectrum disorders. J. Neurother. 14(3):179-194, 2010.

Sokhadze, E.M., Tasman, A., Tamas, R., and El-Mallakh, R.S.: Event-related potential study of the effects of emotional facial expressions on task performance in euthymic bipolar patients. Appl. Psychophysiol. Biofeedback 36(1):1-13, 2011.

Sokhadze, E., Stewart, C. M., Tasman, A., Daniels, R., and Trudeau, D.: Review of rationale for neurofeedback application in adolescent substance abusers with comorbid disruptive behavioral disorders. J. Neurother. 15:232-261, 2011.

Gross, E., El-Baz, A.S., Sokhadze, G.E., Sears, L., Casanova, M.F., and Sokhadze, E.M.: Induced EEG gamma oscillation alignment improves differentiation between autism and ADHD group responses in a facial categorization task. J. Neurother. 16(2):78-91, 2012.

Sokhadze, E.: Peak performance training using prefrontal EEG biofeedback. Biofeedback 39:7-15, 2012.

Sokhadze, E.M., Baruth, J.M., Sears, L., Sokhadze, G.E., El-Baz, A.S., and Casanova, M.F.: Prefrontal neuromodulation using rTMS improves error monitoring and correction functions in autism. Appl. Psychophysiol. Biofeedback 37(2):91-102, 2012.

Sokhadze, E.M., Baruth, J.M, Sears, L., Sokhadze, G.E., El-Baz, A.S, Williams, E., Klapheke, R., and Casanova, M.F.: Event-related potential study of attention regulation during illusory figure categorization task in ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, and typical children. J. Neurother. 16(1):12-31, 2012.

Casanova, M., Baruth, J., El-Baz, A., Tasman, A., Sears, L., and Sokhadze, E.: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) modulates event-related potential (ERP) indices of attention in autism. Transl. Neurosci. 3(2):170-180, 2012.

Hillard, B., El-Baz, A.S., Sears, L., Tasman, A., and Sokhadze, E.M.: Neurofeedback training aimed to improve focused attention and alertness in children with ADHD: a study of relative power of EEG rhythms using custom-made software application. Clin. EEG Neurosci. 44(3):193-202, 2013.

Sokhadze, E.M., El-Baz, A.S., Sears, L.L., Opris, I., and Casanova, M.F.: rTMS neuromodulation improves electrocortical functional measures of information processing and behavioral responses in autism. Front. Syst. Neurosci. 8:134, 2014.

Sokhadze, E.M., El-Baz, A.S., Tasman, A., Sears, L.L., Wang, Y., Lamina, E.V., and Casanova, M.F.: Neuromodulation integrating rTMS and neurofeedback for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder: an exploratory study. Appl. Psychophysiol. Biofeedback 39(3-4):237-257, 2014.

Sokhadze, E.M., Frederick, J., Wang, Y., Kong, M., El-Baz, A., Tasman, A., and Casanova, M.F.: Event-related potential (ERP) study of facial expression processing deficits in autism, J. Communications Research, 7(4):391-412, 2015.

Sokhadze, E.M., Tasman, A., Sokhadze, G., El-Baz, A.S., and Casanova, M.F.: Behavioral, cognitive, and motor preparation deficits in a visual cued spatial attention task in autism. Appl. Psychophysiol. Biofeedback 41:81-92, 2016.

Wang, Y., Sokhadze, E.M., El-Baz, A.S., Li, X., Sears, L., Casanova, M. F., and Tasman, A.: Relative power of specific EEG bands and their ratios during neurofeedback training in children with autism spectrum disorder. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 9:723, 2016.

Sokhadze, E. M., Casanova, M. F., El-Baez, A. S., Farag, H. E., Li, X., and Wang, Y.: TMS-based neuromodulation of evoked and induced gamma oscillations and event-related potentials in children with autism. NeuroRegulation 3(3):101-126, 2016.

Sokhadze, E., and Daniels, R.: Effects of prefrontal 40 Hz-centered EEG band neurofeedback on emotional state and cognitive functions in adolescents. Adolescent Psychiatry, 6(2), 116-129, 2016.

Sokhadze, E.M., Casanova, M. F., Casanova, E., Lamina, E., Kelly, D.P., and Khachidze, I.: Event-related potentials (ERP) in cognitive neuroscience research and application. NeuroRegulation 4(1): 14-27, 2017; http://dx.doi.org/10.15540/nr.4.1.14.

Sokhadze, E., Lamina, E., Casanova, E., Kelly, D., Opris, I., Khachidze, I., and Casanova, M.F. Atypical processing of novel distracters in a visual oddball task in autism spectrum disorder. Behav. Sci. 7:79, 2017; http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs7040079.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Trudeau, D., Sokhadze, E., and Cannon, R.: Neurofeedback in alcohol and drug dependency. In: H. Budzynski, T. Budzynski, J. Evans and A. Abarbanel (Eds.); Introduction to Quantitative EEG and Neurofeedback: Advanced Theory and Applications. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2009, pp. 239-267.

Sokhadze, E.M., Baruth, J., Tasman, A., and Casanova, M.F.: Event-related potential studies of cognitive processing abnormalities in autism. In: M.F. Casanova, A.S. El-Baz and J.S. Suri (Eds.); Imaging the Brain in Autism. Springer: New York, 2013, pp. 61-86.

Casanova, M.F., Baruth, J., El-Baz, A.S., Sokhadze, G.E., Hensley, M., and Sokhadze, E.M.: Evoked and induced gamma- frequency oscillation in autism. In: M.F. Casanova, A.S. El-Baz and J.S. Suri (Eds.); Imaging the Brain in Autism. Springer: New York, 2013, pp. 87-106.

Sokhadze, E.M., Trudeau, D.L., and Cannon, R.L.: Treating addiction disorders. In: D.S. Cantor and J.R. Evans (Eds.); Clinical Neurotherapy: Application of Techniques for Treatment. Elsevier, Academic Press: San Diego, CA, 2014, pp. 265-299.

Sokhadze, E., Sears, L., El-Baz, A., Tasman, A. and Casanova, M.F.: Clinical applications of electrophysiological approaches based on cortical modularity. In: M.F. Casanova and I. Opris (Eds.); Recent Advances on the Modular Organization of the Cortex. Springer: New York, 2015, pp. 239-270.

Sokhadze, E.M., Frederick, J., Wang, Y., Kong, M., El-Baz, A.S., Tasman, A., and Casanova, M.F.: Event-related potential (ERP) study of facial expression processing deficits in autism. In: B. Flores (Ed.); Emotional and Facial Expressions: Recognition, Developmental Differences and Social Importance. NOVA Science Publishers, 2015, pp.109-130.

Sokhadze, E.M., Trudeau, D., Cannon, R., Bodenhamer-Davis, E., & Davis, R.E.: Substance use disorders and neurofeedback. In: M. Schwartz and F. Andrasik (Eds.); Biofeedback: A Practitioner’s Guide, Fourth Edition, Guilford Press, 2016, pp. 707-716.

Sokhadze, E., El-Baz, A., Tasman, A., Sokhadze, G., Farag, H., and Casanova, M.F.: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulations (rTMS) effects on evoked and induced gamma frequency EEG oscillations in autism spectrum disorder. In: M.F. Casanova, A.S. El-Baz and J. Suri (Eds.); Autism Imaging and Devices. Francis & Taylor Publ., 2016, pp.497-536.

Sokhadze, E.M.; Casanova M. F.; Casanova, E.; Kelly, D.P.; Khachidze, I.; Wang, Y.; Li, X. Applications of ERPs in autism research and as functional outcomes of neuromodulation treatment. In: S.R Harris (Ed.); Event-Related Potential (ERP): Methods, Outcomes and Research Insights. NOVA Science Publishers: NY, 2017, pp.27-88.

Sokhadze, E.M.: Lessons learned from Peniston’s brainwave training protocol. In: A. Martins-Mourao and C. Kerson (Eds.); Alpha Theta Neurofeedback in the 21st Century: A Handbook for Clinicians and Practitioners, Expanded 2nd edition. FNNR, BMed Press: Murfreesboro, TN, 2017, pp. 245-279.

Information from ResearchGate, Frontiers Loop, Google Scholar and LinkedIn

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tato-sokhadze-52985240?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=LSOB_IsAAAAJ&gmla=AJsN-F4RvH3RG8z8pHOF1QQcb9T_q2zSxFSvdaEUsPVHet1ToKNTCtczioFZvO-gUP1zSVVpico-NCmHC-Aa_kA374PWkBj_AY2SSWQAeGoWrN3g4Frupp8

Frontiers Loop: http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/71979/overview