Late post from #AES2025, as always it was amazing to catch up with the friends, mentors and to learn the latest in the epilepsy field 🤓 also presented our case study, wait for the full results 😁

My rough attempt at sorting people on this spectrum of epiphenomenal to causal...

Just posted, "The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them" a follow-up to our previous essay on the "tiling tree" method for thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem, by Claire Wang, Nina Khera, and myself. engineeringx.substack.com/p/the-tiling...

Recently discovered @kerrymuzzey.bsky.social's post-rock project Candlepark Stars and I'm loving it. Been a while since I heard something like this. Much like Mono (Japan), @hammockmusic.bsky.social's "Departure Songs" or @explosionsinthesky.bsky.social! Thank you! open.spotify.com/artist/2o532...

Very interesting! #iEEG

📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta! "Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings" We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta! "Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings" We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings" Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025 #iEEG www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12 people had intracranial electrodes & listened to natural speech oscillatory -> speech edge induced activity persisted after evoked responses thus ...neural entrainment?

Timely review of the HFA based functional mapping of cortical functions. There some more stuff to do: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Conversation Mapping in Action! scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/new-method-s... #HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology

As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

It feels like the introductions of new papers became a long abstract. There is background. There is method and results in the last paragraph. I guess the scientific writing is evolving..

Juggling 3 manuscript submissions/revisions, doing analyses and writing manuscript on another project, writing an abstract for a case report... All the while not missing the clinical duties. I feel welcomed to the #physician-scientist life 😮‍💨 Is this how it'll be the rest of my career? 🫣 I hope so 😁

Amazing resource ⚡️ 🧠 Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re happy to present @zspald.bsky.social 's work on shared neural representations of speech production across individuals! We find that patient-specific data can be aligned to a shared space that preserves speech information, enabling cross-patient speech BCIs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Quite thoughtful questions and answers on the way to AGI. For AGI to be "general", it needs to be grounded in physical systems and to interact with environment. And this will not always give results we want. Just like raising a child. @barbarikon.bsky.social aliminai.substack.com/p/bounded-al...

A summary of NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's comments during his visit to UAB today for a town hall style presentation: -Important for scientific work addressing our nation's health problems to be done in the same communities where those problems are concentrated

Words of wisdom from Dr. Kimford Meador on changing landscape of research and education in the academic centers! "Time for Education and Research in Academic Neurology" www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects By Cyr et al. *** Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES? A: Yes! 🧵:

🔥Damn. Tour de force.

How does the human brain process the continuous world around us and transform it into distinct memories? Our latest research, recently published in Science Advances @science.org, uncovers how brain waves called high frequency oscillations (HFOs) may support this amazing feat! (1/n)

Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639

🧠 ⚡️ Preprint alert ⚡️ 🧠 I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why. Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes www.researchgate.net/publication/...

www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/... "Number of vital checks to result in one urgent action was 730. If vitals were normal during the day, this number was 1856." 😱 Commentary from Dr. Jobst on Ellis et al.

🎉 Congrats to the 2025 AES Early Career Fellowship Awardees! We're proud to support 26 rising stars in epilepsy research with $1.53M in funding across basic, translational, and clinical science. Learn how AES supports the future of epilepsy research: aesnet.org/research-fun...

🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415... What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)? led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️

Once upon a time I couldn't replicate a published finding...and decided to do something about it. Little did I know how long it would take to finish 😭...but here we are. I'm super proud of this paper and grateful to the other 68 (!) authors. ❤️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Evidence in support of the "Brain from the inside out": Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies. Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Very nice interaction and reflection on what it means to say "I'm aware!" hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

🧠 Newly out: Paper-with-a-way-too-long-name-for-social-media! How does the brain turn words into sentences? We tracked words in participants' brains while they produced sentences, and found some unexpectedly neat patterns. 🧵1/9 rdcu.be/epA1J in @commspsychol.nature.com

Super proud of this! Thread to come soon…

Here's a couple celebrating some recent accomplishments! @ezgisari.bsky.social had a paper accepted, got 2 travel awards, has a platform presentation coming up and got her 100th citation for her 8 papers 🎉🥳😊 and I matched at Duke Epilepsy. We wish everyone achieve what they long for. 🙏😇

It's not too late to register for the FND Society "Functional Seizures and Epilepsy" course - Jun 13-14. In-person and online places available. www.fndsociety.org/fnd-educatio.... FNDS members - $170 Trainee members - $50 Trainee members (virtual) - $0!

NEW FND FILM !- 'Recognising Functional Seizures'🎥 neurosymptoms.org/en/media/fnd... This 7-minute film was designed to help doctors and other health professionals, especially in emergency medical settings, learn about functional seizures and how to tell them apart from epileptic seizures. 1/

Happy news! I matched at the Duke Epilepsy program for my fellowship! Looking forward to working with amazing group of people. #epilepsy #fellowship

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲? As argued by John Krakauer et al. most of the time we use "filler" verbs, promissory notes that we hope to "fill with substance" at some later time.

Excited to share our new paper published today in @natcomms.nature.com! Nodose ganglia neurons encode immune information in the form of specific neural activity. This enables real-time communication of immune signals from the body to the brain Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excellent dissertation presentation from Elmezzi Graduate School PhD student and neurosurgeon Santhoshi Poonacha Palandira! She presented on efferent vagal nuclei and the celiac-superior mesenteric ganglion complex in the regulation of cytokines and inflammation. @northwellhealth.bsky.social

"Hippocampal and cortical high-frequency oscillations orchestrate human semantic networks during word list memory" New #iEEG work by Stephan Bickel and team, out now in #iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

In @elife.bsky.social: Human single-neuron activity is modulated by intracranial theta burst stimulation of the basolateral amygdala doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Just presented our work using #ECoG to decode words during sentence production at #HSP2025. Really grateful for all the great feedback. I got more clever ideas for future directions than I can possibly follow up on. Love this conference! doi.org/10.1101/2024...

New paper! 🚨 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kqF72VHYF... "Corollary discharge signals during production are domain general: an intracerebral EEG case study with a professional musician." 🧵👇