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Eduard Bakštein

Ing. Eduard Bakstein, Ph.D.: Assistant professor at the Dept. of Cybernetics at the FEE, CTU, and researcher and head of the Measurable psychiatry research group at the National Institute of Mental Health . Studied cybernetics and biomedical engineering at FEE CTU, where he also defended his PhD in 2017. [Full CV in PDF, PhD thesis]

 

Research interests

  • Objective biomarkers in neuropsychiatry
  • Data analysis, biostatistics, machine learning
  • Methods for multimodal and longitudinal data analysis
  • (Biomedical) signal processing
  • Event detection and prediction

Selected publications

Astill Wright, L., Bakstein, E., Saunders, K., Guo, B., & Morriss, R. (2026). Performance of active and passive ambulatory assessment measures and mood monitoring in bipolar disorder: A systematic review. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 14(1), 4.

Pfaffenseller, B., Schneider, J., De Azevedo Cardoso, T., Simjanoski, M., Alda, M., Kapczinski, F., & Bakstein, E. (2025). Self-assessment and rest-activity rhythm monitoring for effective bipolar disorder management: A longitudinal actigraphy study. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 13(1), 34.

Bečev, O., Laskov, O., Bakštein, E., Štrobl, J., Hubený, J., Biačková, N., Schlezingerová, N., Novák, T., Mohr, P., & Klírová, M. (2025). High-frequency neurostimulation of the right inferior parietal cortex alters the sense of agency: Results from tACS/tRNS and rTMS-EEG studies. NeuroImage, 318, 121364.

Varga, I., Novak, D., Urgosik, D., Kybic, J., Ruzicka, F., Filip, P., Jech, R., Horn, A., & Bakstein, E. (2025). Precise Electrode Co‐Alignment in Deep Brain Stimulation Fusing Neuroimaging and Electrophysiology. European Journal of Neuroscience, 62(10), e70309.

Spaniel, F., Anyz, J., Grygarova, D., Hubeny, J., Koudelka, V., Shalkin, I., Strobl, J., Hlinka, J., Nagy, T., Jakob, L., Schneider, J., Kudelka, J., & Bakstein, E. (2025). Infra-slow frequency oscillations propagating through multiple organs convey information on phase-specific timing for self-initiated actions. Brain Research, 1867, 149964.

McWhinney, S. R., Hlinka, J., Bakstein, E., Dietze, L. M. F., Corkum, E. L. V., Abé, C., Alda, M., Alexander, N., Benedetti, F., Berk, M., Bøen, E., Bonnekoh, L. M., Boye, B., Brosch, K., Canales-Rodríguez, E. J., Cannon, D. M., Dannlowski, U., Demro, C., Diaz-Zuluaga, A., … Hajek, T. (2024). Principal component analysis as an efficient method for capturing multivariate brain signatures of complex disorders—ENIGMA study in people with bipolar disorders and obesity. Human Brain Mapping, 45(8), 1–16. 

Varga, I., Bakstein, E., Gilmore, G., May, J., & Novak, D. (2024). Statistical segmentation model for accurate electrode positioning in Parkinson’s deep brain stimulation based on clinical low-resolution image data and electrophysiology. PLoS ONE, 19(3 March), 1–23.

Schneider, J., Bakštein, E., Kolenič, M., Vostatek, P., Correll, C. U., Novák, D., & Španiel, F. (2022). Motor activity patterns can distinguish between interepisode bipolar disorder patients and healthy controls. CNS Spectrums, 27(1), 82–92.

Anýž, J., Bakštein, E., Dally, A., Kolenič, M., Hlinka, J., Hartmannová, T., Urbanová, K., Correll, C. U., Novák, D., & Španiel, F. (2021). Validity of the Aktibipo Self-rating Questionnaire for the Digital Self-assessment of Mood and Relapse Detection in Patients With Bipolar Disorder: Instrument Validation Study. JMIR Mental Health, 8(8), e26348.

Bakstein, E., Mladá, K., Fárková, E., Kolenič, M., Španiel, F., Manková, D., … Hajek, T. (2020). Cross‐sectional and within‐subject seasonality and regularity of hospitalizations: A population study in mood disorders and schizophrenia. Bipolar Disorders, (902), bdi.12884.

Serranová, T., Sieger, T., Růžička, F., Bakštein, E., Dušek, P., Vostatek, P., … Jech, R. (2019). Topography of emotional valence and arousal within the motor part of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson’s disease. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 19924.

Anýž, J., Bakštein, E., Dudysová, D., Veldová, K., Kliková, M., Fárková, E., … Španiel, F. (2019). No wink of sleep: Population sleep characteristics in response to the brexit poll and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Social Science and Medicine, 222, 112–121. [PDF author ver.]

Bakštein E., Sieger T., Růžička F., Novák D., Jech R. (2018) Fusion of Microelectrode Neuronal Recordings and MRI Landmarks for Automatic Atlas Fitting in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery. In: Stoyanov D. et al. (eds) OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters, Computer Assisted Robotic Endoscopy, Clinical Image-Based Procedures, and Skin Image Analysis. CARE 2018, CLIP 2018, OR 2.0 2018, ISIC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11041. Springer, Cham, [PDF preprint]

Bakštein, E., Sieger, T., Novák, D., Růžička, F., & Jech, R. (2018). Automated Atlas Fitting for Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Based on Microelectrode Neuronal Recordings. In Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2018 (pp. 105–111). [PDF preprint]

Bakštein, E., Sieger, T., Wild, J., Novák, D., Schneider, J., Vostatek, P., Urgošík, D., Jech, R. (2017). Methods for automatic detection of artifacts in microelectrode recordings. In: Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 290, 39–51. [PDF, supplementary: PDF, matlab codes, data (18MB)]

Bakštein, E. (2016). Deep Brain Recordings in Parkinson’s Disease: Processing, Analysis and Fusion with Anatomical Models, PhD thesis, Czech Technical University in Prague. [PDF]

Spaniel, F., Bakstein, E., Anyz, J., Hlinka, J., Sieger, T., Hrdlicka, J., Gornerova, N., Hoschl, C. (2016) Relapse in schizophrenia: definitively not a bolt from the blue. Neuroscience Letters, S0304-3940(16), 30265–8. [PDF preprint at researchgate]

Bakstein, E.; Sieger, T.; Novák, D.; Jech, R.  (2016) Probabilistic model of neuronal background activity in deep brain stimulation trajectories In: Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics. Basel: Springer, 2016, pp. 97-111. LNCS 9832 [PDF preprint]

Bakstein, E., Schneider, J., Sieger, T., Novak, D., Wild, J., Jech, R. (2015)
Supervised segmentation of microelectrode recording artifacts using power spectral density,
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, 2015-November, pp. 1524-1527. [PDF preprint]

Carmen, C., Isasi, P., Warwick, K., Ruiz, W., Aziz, T., Stein, J., Bakstein, E. (2015): Resting tremor classification and detection in Parkinson's disease patients. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 2015, vol. 16, p. 88-97. ISSN 1746-8094. [PDF at researchgate]

Bakstein, E., Burgess, J., Warwick, K., Ruiz, V., Aziz, T.  (2012): Parkinsonian Tremor Identification with Multiple Local Field Potential Feature Classification. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2012, vol. 2, no. 209, p. 320-330. ISSN 0165-0270. [PDF preprint]