Dr. Tramontano specializes in the practice of clinical neuropsychology. He is the Director of the Neurodegenerative Disease Prevention and Treatment Center at the NeuroCognitive & Behavioral Institute (NCBI) and the Sleep Study and Treatment Center. He also directs the functional neurodiagnostics and non-invasive neuromodulation treatment program.
Clinical Research
Dr. Tramontano conducts a variety of sponsored and investigator initiated pharmacological, nutraceutical, neuromodulation and neurodiagnostic research. As a Principal Investigator Dr. Tramontano has completed approximately 70 clinical research studies. His clinical research experience in drug development ranges from bioavailability / bioequivalent studies as well as first in humans Phase I studies through Phase IV clinical trials. Most of his clinical research has been investigating functional brain mapping, neuromodulation, behavioral, biological, and pharmacological treatments for patients with a variety of cognitive and neuropsychiatric conditions, in particular – neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. He has authored several published neuroscience-related articles in medical journals.
Academic
Dr. Tramontano has completed fellowship training at Brown University School of Medicine in clinical neuropsychology, neuromodulation training at Harvard Medical School Sidney Baer Clinical Fellowship training at the Boston Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at the Berenson Allen Center for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation and is an fMRI Visiting Fellow at Harvard Medical School’s Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Bioimaging. He completed his dual internship in clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Boston VA Medical Center Consortium. He completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at St. John’s University and his under graduate studies at Boston University.
Dr. Tramontano is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Medical School – formerly UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and was a faculty member of the Cerebral Dysfunction Clinic at the medical school. He is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at St. John’s University where he taught clinical neuropsychology in the Ph.D. Clinical Psychology Program.
Published Works of Dr. Gerald Tramontano
Connectivity changes following transcranial alternating current stimulation at 5-Hz: an EEG study
Research Square (Research Square), Jun 18, 2024
Attention improvement to transcranial alternating current stimulation at gamma frequency over the right frontoparietal network: a preliminary report
Negative relationship between inter-regional interaction and regional power: a resting fMRI study
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Feb 2, 2024
Connectivity changes following transcranial alternating current stimulation at 5-Hz: an EEG study
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Oct 13, 2023
Concordant dynamic changes of global network properties in the frontoparietal and limbic compartments: An EEG study
Biosystems, Dec 31, 2023
Neural consequences of 5-Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation over right hemisphere: an eLORETA EEG study
Introduction: Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at 5-Hz to the right hemisphere can effectively alleviate symptoms of anxiety. The objective of this study was to explore the neural mechanisms that drive the therapeutic benefits. Methods: We collected electroencephalography (EEG) data from 24 participants with anxiety disorders both before and after the tACS treatment during a single session. We applied the stimulation over the right hemisphere, with 1.0 mA at F4, 1.0 mA at P4, and 2.0 mA at T8, following the 10-10 EEG convention. With eLORETA, we transformed the scalp signals into the current source density in the cortex. We then assessed the differences between post- and pre-treatment brain maps across multiple spectra (delta to low gamma) with non-parametric statistics. Results: We observed a trend of heightened power in alpha and reduced power in mid-to-high beta and low gamma, in accord with the EEG markers of anxiolytic effects reported in previous studies.
Concordant dynamic changes of global network properties in the frontoparietal and limbic compartments: an EEG study
Introduction: Despite its complexity, deciphering nodal interaction is imperative to understanding a neural network. Network interaction is an even more complicated topic that must be addressed. This study aimed to examine the relationship between the brain waves of two canonical brain structures, i.e., the frontoparietal and limbic compartments, during a resting state. Methods: Electroencephalography (EEG) of 51 subjects in eye-closed condition was analyzed, and the eLORETA method was applied to convert the signals from the scalp to the brain. By way of community detection, representative neural nodes and the associated mean activities were retrieved. Total and lagged coherences were computed to indicate functional connectivity between those neural nodes. Two global network properties were elucidated based on the connectivity measures, i.e., global efficiency and mean functional connectivity strength.
QEEG Testing Can Discern Reason for Cognitive Disorder : Digital EEG Recordings of Brainwaves Can Determine TBI Etiology
Automatic parcellation of resting-state cortical dynamics by iterative community detection and similarity measurements
AIMS Neuroscience, 2021
Integrating Various Neural Features Based on Mechanism of Intricate Balance and Ongoing Activity: Unified Neural Account Underlying and Correspondent to Mental Phenomena
World Journal of Neuroscience, 2021
Speed of Information Processing in Traumatic Brain Injury: Modality-Specific Factors
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 2000
Tripod transcranial alternating current stimulation at 5-Hz to alleviate anxiety symptoms: a preliminary report
Regional spectral ratios as potential neural markers to identify mild cognitive impairment related to Alzheimer’s disease Tien-Wen Lee and Gerald Tramontano https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/acta-neuropsychiatrica/article/abs/regional-spectral-ratios-as-potential-neural-markers-to-identify-mild-cognitive-impairment-related-to-alzheimers-disease/D43A4F93BD112AC534189168B12B3C5C Integrating Various Neural Features Based on Mechanism of Intricate Balance and Ongoing Activity: Unified Neural Account Underlying and Correspondent to Mental Phenomena Tien-Wen Lee1,2, Gerald Tramontano1 1The NeuroCognitive Institute (NCI) Clinical Research Foundation, New Jersey, US. 2Department of Psychiatry, Dajia Lee’s General Hospital, Lee’s Medical Corporation, Taichung, Chinese Taipei. https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=109609 Speed of Information Processing in Traumatic Brain Injury: Modality-Specific Factors Madigan, Nancy K. PhD; DeLuca, John PhD; Diamond, Bruce J. MEd, PhD; Tramontano, Gerald; Averill, Allison The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation: June 2000 – Volume 15 – Issue 3 – p 943–956 Focus on Clinical Research and Practice, Part 1 QEEG Testing Can Discern Reason for Cognitive Disorder: Digital EEG Recordings of Brainwaves Can Determine TBI Etiology by Gerald Tramontano Ph.D. http://neuroci.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/QEEG_Testing.pdf Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Poses Different Set of Rules, Part 1-2 by Gerald Tramontano http://neuroci.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/MedMal_PartOne.pdf http://neuroci.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/MedMal_PartTwo.pdf Realities: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Gerald Tramontano http://neuroci.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/MildTraumInj.pdf Tramontano, G. Dissertation (1993) Mentor: Rafael A. Javier, Ph.D. Discriminating Among Subtypes of Borderline Personality Disorder: An Assessment of Object Representations. Tramontano, G. (1998). Brain Plasticity and Cognitive Remediation in Adulthood: Is there a connection? North East Medical Bulletin. March, 20-22. Tramontano, G. Applied Psychophysiology, 1998, Vol.6 No. 3; pg. 16, “EEG Neurofeedback, Treatments for ADHD, Stroke and Brain Injury.” Papers of Dr. Tramontano that have been submitted for publication Negative relationship between inter-regional interaction and regional power: a resting fMRI study Preprint February 2024 Tien-Wen Lee, Gerald Tramontano Background Regional neural response and network property used to be treated separately. However, evidence has suggested an intimate relationship between the regional and inter-regional profiles. This research aimed to investigate the influence of functional connectivity on regional spontaneous activity. Concordant dynamic changes of global network properties in the frontoparietal and limbic compartments: An EEG study Article December 2023 Biosystems Tien-Wen Lee, Gerald Tramontano, Clay Hinrichs Tripod transcranial alternating current stimulation at 5-Hz to alleviate anxiety symptoms: a preliminary report Preprint October 2023 Tien-Wen Lee, Chiang-Shan Lee, Gerald Tramontano Connectivity changes following transcranial alternating current stimulation at 5-Hz: an EEG study Preprint October 2023 Tien-Wen Lee, Chiang-shan Ray Li, Gerald Tramontano Neural consequences of 5-Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation over right hemisphere: an eLORETA EEG study Preprint October 2023 Tien-Wen Lee, Chiang-Shan Lee, Gerald Tramontano Concordant dynamic changes of global network properties in the frontoparietal and limbic compartments: an EEG study Preprint October 2023 Tien-Wen Lee, Gerald Tramontano, Clay Hinrichs Regional spectral ratios as potential neural markers to identify mild cognitive impairment related to Alzheimer’s disease Article May 2022 Acta Neuropsychiatrica Tien-Wen Lee, Gerald Tramontano Automatic parcellation of resting-state cortical dynamics by iterative community detection and similarity measurements Article Full-text available September 2021 AIMS Neuroscience Tien-Wen Lee, Gerald Tramontano Integrating Various Neural Features Based on Mechanism of Intricate Balance and Ongoing Activity: Unified Neural Account Underlying and Correspondent to Mental Phenomena Article Full-text available January 2021 World Journal of Neuroscience Tien-Wen Lee, Gerald Tramontano Full list at https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Gerald-Tramontano-2195500673 Dr. Tramontano’s Webinar Series and Powerpoint Presentations
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