Attending #CCN2026 in NYC? Be sure to visit Gelana Tostaeva's poster on Thursday! Gelana will be presenting our recent work exploring how the human hippocampus can track locations in abstract social space 🧠 Read her full abstract here: 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=y...
Ignacio Saez, PhD
@ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. | Harnessing neurotechnology to explore human brain states & advance neurotherapies for mental health. thesaezlab.com
Beyond their ability to restore function, brain-computer interfaces provide a window into the neural signals that underlie decision-making, speech and other cognitive processes. #neuroskyence By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @rebeccasky.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/brain-comput...
Future BCIs could provide treatment for widespread disorders like depression, anxiety, PTSD, and OCD. Thanks to @neurosciencenews.bsky.social for covering the key takeaways and open questions from my recent review on the emerging field of cognitive BCIs. neurosciencenews.com/bci-depressi...
How Closed-Loop BCIs Will Treat Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD - Neuroscience News
A new study outlines closed-loop cognitive BCIs for depression, PTSD, and OCD.
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What’s holding us back from developing a clinical BCI for mental health? My new review in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social outlines a roadmap to overcome the unique hurdles facing cognitive BCIs by integrating & expanding on existing neurotech methods. Read here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nSLK4sIRv...
Where does cognition end & communication begin? 🧠 By mapping multi-region brain activity, we can see the complex circuitry behind speech and the thoughts that precede it. The next milestone? BCIs that restore cognition itself. Full video here: www.thetransmitter.org/brain-comput...
Thanks to @bipolardiscoveries.org for supporting our work on the circuit-level basis of bipolar disorder! By uniting neurosurgery, neuroscience, and psychiatry, our unique multidisciplinary team is unlocking vital new insights into how the human brain works. More to come soon!
🧠 BD² PI @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social and his team are using deep brain stimulation and epilepsy-based brain recordings to better understand the circuits that drive mood changes in bipolar disorder. The more we learn about these circuits, the closer we get to treatments tailored to brain biology.
Thoughtful insights from Michael Mager of @precisionneuro.bsky.social on what finally made commercial neural interfaces viable, and the potential future impact of BCIs on mental health. Read the interview at Rebellion Research: www.rebellionresearch.com/precision-ne...
Precision Neuroscience Co-Founder & CEO Michael Mager Sits Down With Rebellion Research
Precision Neuroscience Co-Founder & CEO Michael Mager Sits Down With Rebellion Research
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Our understanding of depression is incomplete, leaving millions without effective treatment. I joined @hmarusak.bsky.social on her BrainSTEM podcast to discuss how my lab maps the mechanisms underlying the disease to develop better therapies. Listen here ⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/2nX3...
How does your brain filter out the noise and focus enough to learn efficiently? In our newest preprint, we use intracranial recordings + computational modeling to explore how selective attention shapes learning and state representations in the human brain 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/🧵
“What the technology allows us to do… is to decouple the invasiveness of the surgery from the total amount of information that you can exchange with the brain.” Full conversation with Ben Rapoport of @precisionneuro.bsky.social on the Juan Benet Podcast >>> bit.ly/49puuoC
So happy to see @christinamaher.bsky.social recognized by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with the Award for Outstanding Research in Neuroscience AND the Hausfeld Award honoring an exceptional PhD student! 🎉 Read more about Christina’s journey & all the 2026 awardees: icahnhonors.com
How do scientists measure memory? Unlike mood, memory has objective “ground truth” - you either saw it before or you didn’t. Nicole Rust explains why that makes memory easier to study across species. linktr.ee/neuroscience... #Memory #Neuroscience
Congratulations to the Icahn Mount Sinai Class of 2026! 🎓🥳 A special shout-out to Drs. Qi Xiu Fu and Christina Maher on their hooding. Watching Qi Xiu and Christina grow into exceptional researchers and mentors has been a joy.
Excited to share new work now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social Using single-neuron recordings in humans, we show that dopamine neurons encode reward expectations derived from past experience––giving us a new look into how reward learning unfolds in the human brain 🧵👇
Excited to be attending #SOBP2026 with my incredible team of trainees. Join us on the poster floor to learn about our current projects!
Excited to launch a new podcast on the future of neurotech, computing, intelligence, and more. First guest: @maxhodak.bsky.social founder & CEO of @science.xyz building PRIMA, a retinal prosthetic restoring meaningful vision for patients with AMD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24CM...
Max Hodak — Restoring Sight, Growing Neurons on Silicon, and Expanding Human Intelligence
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We are bridging the gap between real-time brain function and the molecular mechanisms that drive it. Molecular insights into neurotransmission offer a major step toward precision treatments for psychiatric and neurological conditions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks to @onemindorg.bsky.social for consistently championing the importance of community. Whether in the lab or through the arts, the power of connection is vital to transforming mental health care.
Last week, I spent an incredible evening full of music at @onemindorg.bsky.social's 'Apollo & Psyche' celebration 🎶 Thank you for highlighting the healing power of music, One Mind. Music is such a valuable tool for mental health! Read about the event here: onemind.org/news/one-min...
Grateful for the opportunity to start two new collaborations through the #FBIScholars awards. These projects use a cross-species approach to explore mechanisms underlying human brain states and cognition. Thank you to the Nash and Friedman families for empowering boundary pushing neuroscience! 🧠✨
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to the 2026 #FBIScholars Awardees! The FBI Scholars Award gives both young & established investigators the freedom & flexibility to explore the most audacious ideas in brain science. THANK YOU to our amazing donors w/o whom this award would not be possible!
Massive congratulations to Dr. @christinamaher.bsky.social on a brilliant defense! 👏 Christina is a force of nature, and her work is incredibly exciting. It’s been a true joy to co-mentor her alongside @angelaradulescu.bsky.social. Stay tuned for Christina’s papers dropping soon! 🎓🚀
Ethics isn't a "side-project," it's the foundation of responsible neurotech. Congratulations to Fundación Tatiana for hosting the inaugural CINET neurotech conference and facilitating these critical conversations. I’m proud to center these considerations in my work.
💡The neural mechanisms behind "aha!" moments are revealed in @natcomms.nature.com. Bridging computational neuroscience and AI, this approach offers insights into learning in biological and artificial systems. Congrats to @biyuhe.bsky.social and team! Proud to be part of this work. Learn more 👇
Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works? The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI. Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks to Ladan Jiracek for having me on the Neural Implant Podcast! We discussed how clinical neuroscience is combining high-resolution brain recordings with sophisticated behavioral studies to provide a truly comprehensive characterization of the human brain. 🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/yx47525v
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions: Ignacio Sáez - Neurotechnology for Cognition: Recording and Modulating the Human Brain
In this episode of the Neural Implant Podcast, host Dr. Ladan Jiracek sits down with Dr. , , whose lab uses intracranial brain recordings to study the biology of human cognition. Ignacio shares how cu...
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📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
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This conversation between @davideagleman.bsky.social & Sergey Stavisky––two influential voices in the field––is a great primer on where #BCI is headed and what breakthroughs can mean for patients. Well worth a listen for anyone following the future of Neurotech👇🏽 tinyurl.com/4nfr8e47
What happens when we marry brains to machines? with Sergey Stavisky
What is a brain-computer interface? How can a paralyzed person use her brain to control a robotic arm? How can someone who’s lost the gift of speech use brain signals to broadcast his voice a…
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Exciting to see this paper out! Data shows episodic memory is dependent on a small number of precisely timed, transient, internally-generated states. Understanding these precise spatial and temporal dynamics is key to developing accurate and effective memory enhancement strategies 🧠
Another example of the role of oscillations in brain function. In this case, interactions between theta and higher frequencies. Episodic memory involves transient and sparse connectivity aligned to both internal and external events doi.org/10.1371/jour... #neuroscience
✨ Program Manager Job Alert ✨ Join our Mount Sinai team in NYC to steer a multi-institutional neuroscience initiative aimed at understanding Bipolar Disorder. If you’re passionate about science, data & impact we’d love to hear from you! Learn More & Apply 👇 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032351...
Research Project Manager I (Dr Saez's Lab) - Neurosciences in New York, NY | Mount Sinai Health Systems
Mount Sinai is hiring a Research Project Manager I (Dr Saez's Lab) - Neurosciences in New York, NY. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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What does "Human-centered neural engineering and AI" mean? It means prioritizing the patient across the entire pipeline: Discovery, Design, and Delivery of neuro-engineering treatments for psychiatric disorders. Join me to discuss at @embs.org #NER25 hosted by @onemindaccelerator.bsky.social
We are proud to award $18M to four new Discovery Research teams exploring neuromodulation and brain circuits in #Bipolar 🧠📈 🔗bit.ly/48M1TKP 🎙️ Hear from Daniel Pham, PhD, and the teams about their innovative projects 👇