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Nanthia Suthana

@suthanalab.bsky.social

Professor @ Duke U • Fascinated by the 🧠 • Studying Memory using Mobile Neurotechnologies & Wearables • SuthanaLab.com

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Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New lab paper! 🧠 Human hippocampal & MTL theta activity is linked to eye movements, but only during memory-guided navigation. Theta is also strongest during longer, more exploratory eye movements. plos.io/4dwJhR8 Huge congrats to Humza & team! 👏

Eye movements reflect memory-related theta activity in the human brain

Theta oscillations in the medial temporal lobe support memory, but how they relate to eye and body movements during human navigation is unclear. This study shows that theta power increases during sacc...

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PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 5mo ago

How do MTL theta oscillations relate to eye & body movements during navigation? @suthanalab.bsky.social &co show that #theta power increases during #saccades under memory demands, linking exploratory gaze & planning to memory‑related dynamics during #navigation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dwJhR8

Experimental design and task. Top left: Intracranial electroencephalographic activity, eye and body movements were recorded as participants freely walked around the room. Wall-mounted motion-tracking cameras recorded the position of on-body reflective markers. Participants also wore an eye-tracking headset to monitor saccadic eye movements. A snapshot from the eye-facing camera is shown in the bottom right. For illustrative purposes, an experimenter is shown wearing the full setup. Top right: MRI of an example participant with an implanted RNS System. Purple dots indicate the location of four electrode contacts in the left medial temporal lobe (MTL). The top left inset shows an X-ray used to localize electrode positions. Bottom left: The environment contained 20 visible wall-mounted signs and three invisible circular target locations (0.7 m diameter). At the start of the task, participants freely explored the room to locate the invisible targets; each time a target was reached, an auditory tone signaled success, allowing them to gradually learn and remember these locations through experience. The task then alternated between two conditions: “visually-cued” navigation, during which participants navigated to a wall-mounted sign (e.g., “Blue 3”), and “memory-cued” navigation, during which they recalled and navigated to the previously learned invisible targets (e.g., “T”).
Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Yes! Let's have more discussion about the big things holding back neurosci so we can rally to find solutions. I agree with @suthanalab.bsky.social that silos across species in both measures and the uptake of results into theories is on the "big problems" short list. What do you see as solutions?

Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative. It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇 www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Neuroscience has a species problem

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

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Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative. It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇 www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

Neuroscience has a species problem

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

thetransmitter.org

Simons Foundation@simonsfoundation.org · last yr.

We are excited to announce our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)! This program will unite experts in experimental and computational #neuroscience approaches to investigate how the brain represents sensorimotor interactions. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #science

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

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Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · last yr.

🤩 So excited to work with this amazing team & @simonsfoundation.org to further Ecological Neuroscience #SCENE

Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis@trackingactions.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to see our new collaboration on ecological neuroscience 🧩🌿🧠 announced today! A huge ❤️🙏🏼 to @simonsfoundation.org I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · last yr.

Woah, huge congrats to Jay (Neurosurgery) and Sabrina (Head & Neck Surgery), former PhD students and lab members, on matching at Stanford! 🎉 What are the odds?! 🤯Stanford is incredibly lucky to have these two brilliant minds! 👏

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Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · last yr.

Suthana et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. They show that neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly. @suthanalab.bsky.social @seeber.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour

Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

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Martin Seeber@seeber.bsky.social · last yr.

🧠 Our new (NIH funded!) paper reveals how the brain creates internal dynamics during both real- and imagined navigation. We recorded directly from the human hippocampus as participants moved through physical space and when they mentally navigated imagined routes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour

Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

nature.com

Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New lab paper!🚨 A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour

Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

nature.com

Jennifer Groh@jmgrohneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm pleased to report that the board has now heard from NIH that the appointments of these three investigators and similarly situated folks are being extended. Thank you NIH! Delighted that the stellar work there will be continuing!

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE. 1/2

Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · last yr.

My research wouldn’t be possible without NIH & 🧠 Initiative funding. I will be sharing this at an upcoming congressional briefing alongside Adam, a combat veteran with PTSD, who hugely benefitted from our NIH-funded clinical trial. Everyone is welcome. For more on Adam’s story👇 & to Register here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Future of the BRAIN Initiative: Sustaining Global Leadership in Neuroscience Research After a Decade of Discovery. After registering, you will receive a...

Join the American Brain Coalition, American Academy of Neurology, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and Society for Neuroscience, in cooperation with the Congressional Neuroscience for a vi...

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Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Proud to be one of many who contributed to this important article. With typical postdocs joining labs in their 30s & staying 6 yrs, combined with low pay, the impact on women wanting to start a family is real. No wonder I waited to have my first child as a new PI. #Postdocs #WomenInScience

Static pay, shrinking prospects fuel neuroscience postdoc decline

Postdoctoral researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health now toil longer than ever before, for less money. They are responding accordingly.

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Nanthia Suthana@suthanalab.bsky.social · 2y ago

👋 Bluesky friends! I’m Nanthia Suthana, an Associate Prof @ UCLA, soon moving my lab to Duke U in 2025. My research focuses on human memory using mobile neurotech & wearables to study real-world behavior. 🧠✨ Bonus news - new lab paper accepted today! 🥳 Excited to share details with you here soon! 🦋