For many bilingual people, switching between languages feels effortless. Now, scientists have figured out how bilingual brains accomplish this feat at the single neuron level. spkl.io/633297EUXJ Xinyuan Yan, Benjamin, Y. Hayden, @sameershethmd.bsky.social & colleagues @cp-cell.bsky.social

New lab paper ! "Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons" led by @xinyuanyan.bsky.social. 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#NEWS: A team at @bcmhouston.bsky.social & #RiceUniversity, which includes #BCMNeurosurgery's @sameershethmd.bsky.social & @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social, has joined #BrainGate, a consortium of universities and academic medical centers working on creating brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies 🧠

Excited to share our team @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social and I and @bhaishahster.bsky.social will be joining the BrainGate consortium! This clinical trial focuses on developing assistive robotic technologies for individuals with paralysis to help improve quality of life www.bcm.edu/news/clinica...

“The brain has developed such amazing, sophisticated mechanisms for doing all these complex [language processing] tasks all day long, that it can do some of these things even without us being aware.” @sameershethmd.bsky.social explains more in a recent @nature.com article: tinyurl.com/2hf7jyn2

Baylor College of Medicine recognizes #research excellence with #DeBakey Awards. @bcmhouston.bsky.social S. Hartig, Z. Liu, R. Kommagani, A. Lee and @sameershethmd.bsky.social @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social blogs.bcm.edu/2026/05/19/f...

#ICYMI: #BCMNeurosurgery's @sameershethmd.bsky.social and @benhayden.bsky.social are featured in Time, discussing their recent findings which suggest that the #brain is still capable of complex language processing, even while unconscious 🧠 Read more: tinyurl.com/mrxr753z

Baylor @bcmhouston.bsky.social, @riceuniversity.bsky.social join #BrainGateTeam to create #brainComputerInterface technologies that assist people with impaired #movement. @sameershethmd.bsky.social @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social N. Shah @neuroleigh.bsky.social M. Norton www.bcm.edu/news/clinica...

Please welcome Marie Vallens, our new PhD student in QCB at BCM! Her BS in Physics (Biomedical) from Portland State, MS in Bioinformatics (Neuroinformatics) from JHU, and prior computational clinical neurotech experience inform her work in our lab on semantic encoding in the PFC.

Welcoming BCM QCB PhD student Minye Zhou to the lab! She earned her B.S. in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego and M.S. in Computational Biology & Quantitative Genetics from Harvard. Her research focuses on how the brain integrates multimodal inputs to support natural behavior.

New paper from the lab! "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The #humanBrain is capable of sophisticated #language processing while in an unconscious state from general #anesthesia. @sameershethmd.bsky.social, B Hayden et al explain their findings. @nature.com @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social www.bcm.edu/news/researc...

#NEWS: Motif Neurotech, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company co-founded by @sameershethmd.bsky.social, has received FDA approval for a first-in-human study to evaluate its Motif XCS System, offering hope for individuals living with treatment-resistant depression 🧠 → tinyurl.com/2v7txufr

#NEWS: @sameershethmd.bsky.social has been named as one of this year's recipients of the prestigious @bcmhouston.bsky.social Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., Excellence in Research Award! The honor recognizes outstanding scientific contributions over the past three years. #BCMNeurosurgery

Proud to share funding for our R01 (MH137102) as part of an outstanding MPI team, alongside Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and Parag Patil. Looking forward to advancing this important work at the intersection of neuroscience, ethics, and innovation. @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social

Excited to be posting updates from Brown today at this INCREDIBLE symposium organized by @wael-asaad.bsky.social+, focused on therapies for the most formidable conditions: depression, OCD, severe autism, disorders of consciousness & memory.

Congratulations to this outstanding team—our project on reward sensitivity through a cross-species circadian lens has been selected for funding. @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social

Congratulations to these med students who did a research year in our BCM Neuromodulation group and matched today! Very proud of all of you!! Wishing you great success in your training! Gabriel Reyes, Anthony Allam, Zain Naqvi, Kasra Mansourian, Davin Devara, Holden Bentley.

Excited to share our latest work in Operative Neurosurgery on using a combination procedure of open resection and responsive neurostimulation (RNS) for epilepsy. journals.lww.com/onsonline/fu... @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social

Great presentation today with neurosurgeon Jon Willie from @uthealthaustin.bsky.social at the @riceneuro.bsky.social Engineering Minds seminar, highlighting exciting work on amygdala neuromodulation for memory enhancement and PTSD.

What a pleasure to welcome Flip Sabes to BCM last week for a fascinating look at next-gen neuromodulation and the interface of academia and neurotech! @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social

1/3: What happens in the #brain when moving your eyes? Using closed-loop #EyeTracking with simultaneous intracranial #EEG in humans, we found that: *Saccades boost visual responses but reduce network connectivity. *Excitability changes and visual features are coded along the saccade–fixation cycle.

1/7 New preprint on the role of insular traveling waves in memory and behavior, using depth recordings from neurosurgical patients, with @chenwumd.bsky.social, Sameer Sheth, and Josh Jacobs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...