Nicole Provenza
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Assistant Professor and @McNairFdn Scholar @BCMNeurosurgery . @BrownBME Alum. Using #neurotechnology to develop more effective treatments for mental illness.
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I’m thrilled to announce that this week I started as a tenure track assistant professor and
@McNairFdn
Scholar in
@BCMNeurosurgery
with an adjunct appointment in
@RiceECE
! (1/3)
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I’m thrilled to share our paper out now in
@NatureMedicine
: Long-term ecological assessment of intracranial
#electrophysiology
synchronized to behavioral markers in obsessive-compulsive disorder. 🧵below!
@BrownUResearch
@BCMFromTheLabs
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Stoked to announce that today is my first day as a
@BCMNeurosurgery
postdoc with
@SameerShethMD
. I feel so lucky to join such a welcoming and vibrant group!
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New firepower for neural and video data preprocessing and analysis 💪 (AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16 Core CPU w/ 128GB of DDR5 RAM🤤💥)… can’t wait to put this beauty to work!
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I had the BEST DAY EVER yesterday and successfully defended my PhD at
@BrownUniversity
! Thanks to
@brainmappinglab
for serving as my external reader and to everyone that showed up to virtually to support me (all 100 of you 😱🤯🥳)!
@BortonLab
@Brown_BME
❤️
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I’m honored to be among the many accomplished early-career neuroscientists that received the
#OSNAP
! Looking forward to meeting everyone at
#NIH
this fall!
NIMH congratulates 27 early-career neuroscientists who were recognized as 2022
@NIH
Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP) recipients.
View recipients:
Learn more about OSNAP:
#neuroscience
#research
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It was wonderful to be in Lisbon, Portugal for the International Brain Stimulation Conference! Loved catching up with old/new friends
@ACPaulk
@ZelmannRina
@uma_r_mohan
@DanMccalley
@halpernc
@HelenMaybergMD
@smithandrewh
! If only a stomach bug hadn’t thwarted my talk 💔
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Excited to share our publication out today in
@CellRepMethods
on a new method for removing DBS artifacts: PARRM. PARRM is fast, effective at low/high sample rates, and leaves the signal of interest intact! Congrats to co-first author
@evandvr
!
#DreamTeam
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Having a great meeting at
#ASSFN2022
in Atlanta! I presented my work yesterday as part of the controversies in neuromodulation session with
@Nicole_McL_PhD
,
@drashwinv
, and many other experts 🧠⚡️
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Happy international day of women and girls in science. A little belated as I was busy running experiments in the EMU 🧠 I’m lucky to do science with these brilliant women!
@neuronush
,
@KBijanki
,
@raissamathura
, Denise Oswalt, Michelle Armenta,
@nithya_ram89
,
@alarie_michaela
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Thank you
@BCMNeurosurgery
for the feature!!! I’m lucky to be a part of such a supportive department 🧠
ICYMI: Earlier this year, Dr.
@NicoleProvenza
officially joined the
#BCMNeurosurgery
#research
faculty as one of the newest
@McNairFdn
Scholars.
Learn more about Dr. Provenza and her area of focus:
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Excited to defend my PhD thesis TODAY at 1pm EST! 🥳
BME PhD Thesis Defense by Nicole Provenza
#phd
#research
#brownuniversity
#biomedicalengineering
#defense
Link:
Meeting ID: 930 1071 4268
Passcode: 664388
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I’m very excited to be in Singapore to speak at the Eastern DBS Think Tank!
Excited about tomorrows Eastern Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank! Hybrid, Nov 3-5, Singapore. Register for free Zoom link - limited space available.
The latest in DBS technological and clinical updates for neurology and psychiatry highlighting the APAC
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As a Brown grad x3, I’m delighted that our paper was covered by
@the_herald
!
@SameerShethMD
@BortonLab
@brownengin
Nice writeup on our
@NatureMedicine
paper on DBS for OCD physiological biomarkers by
@BrownUniversity
.
@NicoleProvenza
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Congrats to our team on first prize video at the NIH BRAINs competition 🎥 🧠⚡️!
@raissamathura
,
@pelednoam
,
@KBijanki
,
@evandvr
,
@SameerShethMD
,
@BortonLab
,
@bcm_ocd
,
@brownengin
,
@USBrainAlliance
,
@MGHMartinos
We won the first prize for the 2021 Show Us Your BRAINs NIH competition!!!
@NicoleProvenza
@MGHMartinos
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Excited to share our new method for accurately reconstructing time series neural data impacted by packet loss during DBS⚡️. Great work by lead author
@evandvr
and team:
@SameerShethMD
, David Borton, Matt Harrison, and Wayne Goodman.
@BCMFromtheLabs
@UMNBME
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Perfect day for a run around the Rice University loop. Loving my new neighborhood!🏃♀️💨
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It’s not every day that you get to watch your mentor give a brilliant keynote! 🤩
#SOBP2023
Outstanding and thought-provoking talk by
@SameerShethMD
“Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders: Are We Ready?” Especially liked historical perspective and debate format ⭐️
@SOBP
#SOBP2023
@bcmhouston
#OCD
#MDD
@NicoleProvenza
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The Provenza Lab will be located at the Neurosensory Center, which is a short walk from both Rice and Main BCM. The lab will be opening up this spring after renovations are complete! 🛠️ (2/3)
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For groups interested in synchronizing Percept LFPs with task behavior, check out our new paper! Congrats
@michaela_alarie
🧠⚡️
(1/9) Excited to share that our paper, Automated artifact injection into sensing-capable brain modulation devices for neural-behavioral synchronization and the influence of device state, is out now ,
@BrownUResearch
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I'm excited to see our publication out ahead of print! Honeycomb is a software template for creating behavioral tasks with flexible deployment options: with/without EEG triggers or online. Congrats to our team:
@BortonLab
,
@bcm_ocd
,
@LnccBrown
,
@Brown_CCV
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Join us at in Geneva, June 12-14 to discuss cutting edge research at the intersection of optogenetics and DBS! I'll be speaking about our ambulatory on-device DBS recordings in OCD💥
@andreashorn_
@HelenMaybergMD
@drpouratian
@valvoon
@LUSCHERC
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Still on a high after the inspiring talks and discussions at
@DBSThinkTank
! The highlight was the keynote by the indomitable
@HMayberg
. I’m so thankful I got to attend, and can’t wait for the next one 🤗
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Exciting preprint on using intracranial neural activity to predict desperation severity by BCM graduate student
@Jiayang_Xiao
and team!
@BCMNeurosurgery
1/9 Our new preprint is hot off the press! Here we decoded
#depression
severity from intracranial neural activity in 3 patients with severe treatment-resistant depression.
@KBijanki
,
@drpouratian
,
@xaqlab
, Wayne Goodman,
@Jiayang_Xiao
,
@NicoleProvenza
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Thanks to the awesome team that made this happen!
@raissamathura
@pelednoam
@evandvr
@KBijanki
@SameerShethMD
@BortonLab
, and Wayne Goodman 💥
.
@NIH
Director's Blog featured today the winners of the 2021
#BRAINInitiative
Show Us Your BRAINs
#Video
Contest!
@bcmhouston
Drs. W Goodman,
@SameerShethMD
@raissamathura
@NicoleProvenza
@KBijanki
Evan Dastin-van Rijn, David Borton,
@pelednoam
@bcm_ocd
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I’m so excited to have been a part of the 8th annual DBS Think Tank! Watch my talk with Wayne Goodman MD on our strategy for developing adaptive DBS for OCD here! 👇
@Brown_BME
@brownengin
@BrownUResearch
You can watch the recorded talks of the 8th annual DBS Think Tank here:
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🤠 yeehaw! BCM’s finest 👢👢
One of our favorite
#Houston
traditions:
@RODEOHOUSTON
🤠
Yesterday, members of the
#BCMNeurosurgery
administrative and research teams — including the labs of Drs.
@SameerShethMD
,
@NicoleProvenza
, Kelly Bijanki and Ben Hayden — celebrated
#GoTexanDay
👢👢
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Great psychiatric DBS session at NANS 2023 with
@AlikWidge
@drpouratian
@KBijanki
@SameerShethMD
and
@JSweetMD
! 🧠⚡️
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Sad to miss
@AlikWidge
,
@SameerShethMD
,
@HBSlab
and many other great
@DBSThinkTank
talks today. I promise I have a good excuse… I was climbing Cadillac Mountain in Acadia on my bicycle! 🚴🏼♀️ At 1,529’ it’s the highest point along the entire east coast 💪 Loving the post-PhD life!
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Fantastic new perspective paper by
@neuronush
,
@drpouratian
,
@KBijanki
,
@SameerShethMD
et al on a network-targeted strategy for improving and personalizing DBS⚡️🧠 for treatment resistant depression, adapted from the epilepsy monitoring experience 🚀
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Awesome session yesterday with incredible speakers
@SRHeilbronner
and
@JimCav
, and awesome discussion! My first panel 🥹
Starting soon
@NicoleProvenza
chairing a session on DBS candidacy: the next frontier in emerging therapies!
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Parkinson’s foundation spin class fundraiser with my favorite PD neurologist,
@Vanegas4Nora
💕💪 What an awesome event!
@bcmneurology
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It was an absolute honor to participate in this neurotech panel for the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus starring one of our amazing OCD-DBS study participants, alongside Jennifer French, Ed Lein,
@jngai58
, and
@KafuiDzirasa
!!!
@AmericanBrainCo
Eloquent panel on the progress and promise of neurotech, supported by the
@NIH
#BRAINInitiative
. Thanks to
@AmericanBrainCo
& Congressional Neuroscience Caucus for organizing.
#studyBRAIN
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New paper 💥🧠 on artifact characterization and implications for sense configurations onboard sensing-capable DBS platforms! Very proud of first au
@michaela_alarie
for leading this effort.
@BCMFromtheLabs
@BrownUResearch
(1/11) Thrilled that our paper (my first, first author paper!), Artifact characterization and mitigation techniques during concurrent sensing and stimulation using bidirectional deep brain stimulation platforms, is out now ,
@BCMFromtheLabs
@BrownUResearch
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It was an amazing opportunity to be a part of this congressional briefing. Hopefully this event and others like it will increase awareness of the need for access and funding for DBS in psychiatry.
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Excellent new work by fellow undergrad
@Brown_BME
alum
@nicki_driscoll
! I hope to use MXtrodes in the future 😊. The ECoG/microstimulation application is very exciting! Congrats to Nicki and her team.
@ScienceTM
Very excited to share our work published in
@ScienceTM
this week (and featured on the cover!), describing a new class of bioelectronic interfaces, “MXtrodes”, we developed using the nanomaterial Ti3C2 MXene. What’s so special about MXtrodes? Thread below...
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Looking forward to hearing the talks and discussions next week on how to take brain-behavior quantification to the next level. It’s a great group. Look out for my talk!
I've been charged with giving a provocative 8-10 minute talk at next week's NIH Brain Behavior Quantification & Synchronization Workshop about integrate fields with an exciting group of speaker and discussants including
@BOlveczky
@icouzin
@NicoleProvenza
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Excited to see our team's paper on identifying cognitive task engagement brain networks out in
@IEEEXplore
. Congrats to first author, Sandeep Avvaru, and team,
@pelednoam
,
@AlikWidge
, and Keshab Parhi.
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Congratulations
@neuronush
🧠⚡️💥!
Science friends, I will be defending on April 19th at 3 pm ET, talking about my work on DBS for depression (ft. all things stimulation, mood and cognitive control).
If you'd like a zoom link, DM me - would love to see ya there!
@CarneyInstitute
@NINDSDiversity
@Brown_BME
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Check out my new paper with David Borton and
@AlikWidge
in the Journal of Neural Engineering on detecting mental states related to task engagement. This work was part of the
@DARPA
SUBNETS program!
@BrownUResearch
@brownengin
#neuroscience
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Thanks to the
@McNairFdn
for their generous support, and my wonderful colleagues at
@bcmhouston
and
@RiceNeuro
for providing the amazing environment that made this possible. Let’s go!💥 (3/3)
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Yesterday was my 22nd first day of school, 9th first day of school at Brown, 5th first day of grad school, and 3rd first day of my PhD program... should I stop counting?
#gradstudentlife
feat. wall art by twitter-less Elaina Atherton!
@CarneyInstitute
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Check out my flash talk tomorrow during the Trainee Highlight Awards session (11:15-12:45 EST) at the BRAIN Initiative meeting! I’ll be at my virtual poster beforehand (
#821
). Full agenda here:
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Check out our new preprint on a new method for neurostimulation artifact removal: PARRM. PARRM is fast, lightweight, effective, and even works for low sampling rate recordings!
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8/11: Congrats to the fantastic team: Wayne Goodman, David Borton
@BortonLab
,
@SameerShethMD
, Jeff Cohn, Eric Storch, Matt Harrison,
@KBijanki
,
@evandvr
,
@raissamathura
,
@nithya_ram89
,
@pelednoam
,
@LaszloJeni
,
@JunqianXuLab
,
@drashwinv
, …
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11/11: Lastly, we are thankful for support from the
@NIH
Brain Initiative
@USBrainAlliance
(UH3NS100549), regulatory oversight by
@US_FDA
, and our partnerships with
@Medtronic
and
@Rune_Labs
.
@NIHdirector
@NINDSdirector
@NIMHdirector
#DBS
#OCD
#neuromodulation
#psychiatry
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Check the labroots 2022 Neuroscience Virtual Event, live tomorrow! Talks by me,
@KBijanki
,
@ACPaulk
,
@DrCoreyKeller
,
@scangos
and more 😊
#LRneuro
The 2022 Neuroscience Virtual Event, with a 1-day agenda organized by the NIH BRAIN Initiative team and planning committee members, opens March 10th!
Read more about the event here:
Click here to register, free of cost:
#LRneuro
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Neuroengineering and neuroscientist trainees looking for opportunities to do amazing work in humans…
@BShofty
is the best of the best! This is an amazing opportunity!!!
Like to
#Ski
? The
#Human
#brain
?
#Creativity
? opening my
#lab
@UofUNeurosurg
soon! Will focus on
#SEEG
,
#DMN
,
#psych
and
#creativity
. Looking for
#postdocs
! Cool science, great ppl! collab with
@rshervin
@neurosmiths
@IM_Inman
@SameerShethMD
@KBijanki
!! Pls DM and retweet
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Congratulations to
@alarie_michaela
Ayan Waite for receiving the prestigious
@NSF
graduate research fellowship! 🧠⚡️
@Brown_BME
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6/11: Delta-band power in particular showed a strong negative correlation with OCD symptom intensity in both the left (R = -0.593) and right (R = -0.557) VC/VS. More investigation will be required to determine the consistency of this relationship across individuals.
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2/11: Participants were implanted in the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) region with devices capable of both recording signals and delivering electrical
#stimulation
to the
#brain
to treat
#OCD
. Brain recordings were then time synchronized with OCD-relevant behaviors.
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9/11:
@AdrielBarriosA
, Yaohan Ding, Greg Vogt, Michelle Avendano-Ortega, Fernando Gelin, David Xing, Itir Onal Ertugrul, Evan Matteson, and Andrew Wiese.
@BCMNeurosurgery
@bcm_ocd
@BrownBME
@DraperLab
@MGHMartinos
@CMU_Robotics
@CarneyInstitute
@Brown_CCV
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Congratulations
@nithya_ram89
on the SOBP award! Important work on characterizing network connectivity (via MEG) before and after DBS in patients with OCD.
Thanks
#SOBP2021
for the opportunity to present my research findings. Had a very nice virtual Mentor, Mentee Reception yesterday at gathertown and very impressed by all the work in
#Neuromodulation
in Psychiatry this year.
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Dream team! Congrats
@BShofty
Can't decide between VC/VS and BNST when doing
#DBS
for
#OCD
? It's a common problem in
#functional
#Neurosurgery
;) Our new paper from the
#OCD
#allstar
team
@BCMNeurosurgery
@SameerShethMD
@ron_gdt
@BCMStorchLab
Dr. Goodman and myself
@UofUNeurosurg
may help with this problem!
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10/11: We are grateful to have the opportunity to work with committed, smart, and fun individuals who so freely gave their time and efforts as research participants in this study.
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3/11: In the clinic, we used computer vision techniques on video of the face to estimate moment to moment changes in emotional state, time-locked with intracranial and extracranial neural recordings.
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Closed loop enhancement of cognitive control in humans! Inspiring work. Congrats to
@ishita_basu14
@ACPaulk
@AlikWidge
@DarinDougherty
and team ☺️
Proud first author
with invaluable contributions from an incredible team at MGH
@ACPaulk
@ZelmannRina
@AliYous88885250
,MIT and Boston University. Grateful for the mentoring provided by
@AlikWidge
@DarinDougherty
, Syd Cash and funding from DARPA SUBNETS
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Exciting podcast on happiness,
#neuromodulation
, and the brain featuring the amazing
@KBijanki
. Definitely worth a listen… or two 🤓
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🥰🥳💥
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEWLY MINTED DR.
@NicoleProvenza
on a FANTASTIC defense!! Can’t wait to see all the brilliant things you’ll continue to do! (Now pls excuse me while I sob at the thought of you leaving)
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Check out my flash talk today at 3:30pm ET at the BRAIN Initiative Investigators Virtual Meeting - Trainee Award Highlight Talks
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7/11: In the future, identification of robust neural
#biomarkers
could enable adaptive
#DBS
systems that are able to automatically adjust stimulation parameters in response to symptom fluctuations.
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Neuropixels in HUMANS? Amazing, revolutionary work! Congratulations
@ACPaulk
and team🔥
Really proud to share our preprint on the work, and lessons learned, in using Neuropixels to understand the human brain with an incredible team.
@EricMTrautmann
@sergeydoestweet
@MGHNeurosurg
@MGHNeurology
@shenoystanford
@RMarkRichardson
@MGH_CNTR
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1/11: We describe a platform capable of recording electrical activity from the brain both in the clinic and at home in human participants with severe
#OCD
. Our work demonstrates the utility of naturalistic brain recordings for brain biomarker discovery in psychiatric disorders.
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PARRM is one (of many) necessary building blocks toward enabling next-gen adaptive DBS efforts:
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5/11: These data were used to quantify relationships between brain activity and symptoms of
#OCD
. We analyzed neural data during a three-day continuous recording session, during which OCD symptom intensity ranged from zero to eight.
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New open source platform for closed loop intracranial stim in humans! Congrats
@ZelmannRina
@ACPaulk
@ishita_basu14
@AlikWidge
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@scernera1
@NINDSfunding
@brainmappinglab
@MichaelOkun
@littleneuro
@dmrf
@Steph_SPisto
Congratulations
@scernera1
!!!
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Grateful for the team that made this happen, including
@roeegilron
,
@neuronush
,
@nithya_ram89
,
@KBijanki
,
@SameerShethMD
, and many more twitter-less folks 👏
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@k_scheitler
@danikapaulomd
@harshybar
@TessaHarland
@ngiridh
@NANSRFS
@NANS_ION
@MelissaChuaMD
@DorianKusyk
It was great to meet you. Such an inspiring group! See you at the next one! 🤗
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@SameerShethMD
@NIHDirector
@NINDSnews
@NINDSdirector
@NIMHDirector
#ThankYouDrCollins
your support and advocacy for neuroscience and mental health research enabled this work!
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@AlikWidge
@evandvr
@AlexHermanMDPhD
@HermanDarrowLab
@daviddarrow
@TNetoff
Congrats
@evandvr
and team! Cool stuff!
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@JTRobinsonLab
@McNairFdn
@BCMNeurosurgery
@RiceECE
Houston is the place to be for neuromodulation!!! 😎⚡️🧠
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New paper out by
@nithya_ram89
et. al: “Intact Auditory Cortical Cross-Frequency Coupling in Early and Chronic Schizophrenia.” Great work, congrats!
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Great listen -
@AlikWidge
and
@LoupVentures
discuss the future of psychiatric DBS!
New podcast with
@LoupVentures
: how to move psychiatric brain stim to the next level by thinking more about networks and how we nudge them into new operating modes. Thanks for a fun interview!
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@KaraLMarshall
@McNairFdn
@BCMNeurosurgery
@RiceECE
Thanks Kara!! I’m so excited to talk about ways to work together!
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The paper describes a new method, maximal variance node merging (MVNM), for estimating region-level interactions using sEEG data. Check it out! 💥🧠
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@ChapleauMarian1
I share this fear! This seems to be a contributor to the leaky pipeline. Academic institutions should increase support for mothers (onsite daycare, supplemental funding for grants to hire technicians when a PI or postdoc takes family leave, etc).
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@Vanegas4Nora
Thank you
@Vanegas4Nora
! I’m so excited about continuing to work together!!! 😊🧠⚡️endless possibilites!
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Congrats
@_iamjay
and team, I can’t wait to read this one! Amazing work 👏
Excited to share our work examining the role of amygdala oscillations in tracking aversive experiences and how modulation using closed loop DBS can improve PTSD symptoms! Hoping that findings can play a role in meaningfully improving pt outcomes!
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And a big thanks to
@DraperLab
for making this collaboration possible through the fellowship program!
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