New research assistant position available in our human intracranial EEG lab in NY (hbmlab-nyc.com). DM or email me if you're interested to learn more!
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD
@sakkol.bsky.social
PGY4 @uabneurores, PhD'22 @NorthwellHealth, postdoc'19 @StanfordMed, MD'18 Cerrahpaşa, @lindaunobel'18, neurology-neuroscience, epilepsy, iEEG
Happy to share my latest research on how anti-seizure medications affects effective and functional connectivity measured with intracranial EEG #ieeg. My first research article at UAB with Dr. Benjamin Cox and Dr. Rachel J Smith @uabneuro.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/brb3...
check out our latest preprint led by the one and only @mdhk.net !! using intracranial EEG, we find that distinct neural populations within the temporal lobe encode preceding context, and future context, during naturalistic speech comprehension! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments" in @natureportfolio.nature.com #NatNeurosci What a Dream Team of authors! #iEEG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments - Nature Neuroscience
This study shows that brain signals can identify and amplify the voice a person wants to hear in a crowded scene. Choudhari et al. provide evidence that brain-controlled hearing can improve speech per...
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Transformed reactivation of latent working memory enables hierarchical language processing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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“we demonstrate that informal support structures are significantly associated with citation impact, creating gaps in who benefits from these connections.” I wish Bluesky would let me emphasize that last clause…
hakwan lau@hakwan.bsky.social · 3mo agothe ppl we thank in acknowledgement sections are "a more relevant predictor of publication success than formal collaborations (i.e., coauthorship), even after matching for gender, seniority, methodological orientation, geographical location, and institutional prestige." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Dynamic, minimally invasive electrical brain stimulation improves speech perception https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42044621/
Paper in Hearing Research: Dynamic, minimally invasive electrical brain stimulation improves speech perception We utilized already-implanted bolts and epicranial electrodes to apply electrical stimulation during a speech perception task in patients undergoing #iEEG monitoring doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
You may now download for free The Rhythms of Speech and Language: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Rhythms of Speech and Language
Cambridge Core - Cognition - Rhythms of Speech and Language
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Paper in Hearing Research: Dynamic, minimally invasive electrical brain stimulation improves speech perception We utilized already-implanted bolts and epicranial electrodes to apply electrical stimulation during a speech perception task in patients undergoing #iEEG monitoring doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
Temporal Dynamics of BOLD fMRI Predict Intracranially-Confirmed Seizure Onset Zones in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.15.718821v1
new collaborative paper! Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @luc-arnal.bsky.social @brungio.bsky.social @jremygiroud.bsky.social @ilcb.bsky.social
Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex
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Join us, if you will, at the MIT Consciousness Club on Thursday April 16 at 12pm (EDT) "Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain" Nadine Dijkstra (Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL) Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Today marks the last day of all of my inpatient service in neurology residency. Until I start my epilepsy fellowship at Duke, I will focus on my research projects at UAB. I'm lucky to be given the opportunity to continue the research I love here. Exciting days ahead! 🧠
We are looking to hire a postdoc and a lab manager / research assistant for our human intracranial EEG lab in NY (hbmlab-nyc.com). DM or email me if you're interested to learn more!
Toward Robust, Reproducible, and Widely Accessible Intracranial Language Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Comprehensive Review of Neural Mechanisms, Hardware, Algorithms, Evaluation, Clinical Pathways and Future Directions arxiv.org/html/2603.12...
Toward Robust, Reproducible, and Widely Accessible Intracranial Language Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Comprehensive Review of Neural Mechanisms, Hardware, Algorithms, Evaluation, Clinical Pathways and...
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All spectral frequencies of neural activity reveal semantic representation in the human anterior ventral temporal cortex direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
All spectral frequencies of neural activity reveal semantic representation in the human anterior ventral temporal cortex
Abstract. Intracranial electrophysiology offers a unique insight into the nature of information representation in the brain – it can be used to disentangle information encoded in gamma and high gamma ...
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So glad to *finally* have this out!! Major thanks to both Clare and Emily
Emily Finn@esfinn.bsky.social · 5mo agoVery happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7
My lab is officially recruiting a postdoctoral research scholar: jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view... We are seeking someone who can help advance our research on predicting cognitive/behavioral/emotional outcomes after neurosurgerical lesions in patients with epilepsy using multimodal neuroimaging data.
Postdoctoral Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.
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Ready for another round of Brain Chats?! Join us on March 14th at 11AM at Hoover Public Library for a discussion on “Using electrical stimulation to understand brain networks” presented by Dr. Rachel June Smith. The meeting is free, educational and open for anyone to attend! 📖
Every year on the second Monday of February people join together to acknowledge and highlight the problems faced by people with epilepsy, their families and care givers. https://ow.ly/aNU450XZJsJ #EpilepsyDay #AEDRegistry #FindingAnswers #pregnancy
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details in the job offer below.
The recording of George Mashour's talk "Consciousness and the dying brain" is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7o....
George Mashour - Consciousness and the Dying Brain
YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club
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ripple researchers probably open this article with sweaty palms, because ripple detection with 77% false positives for standard processing sounds pretty bad... 😨
Randolph Helfrich@randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 7mo agoRipple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
Really cool stuff! "Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms" by the @earlkmiller.bsky.social lab, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms
Han et al. show that frontal theta oscillations rhythmically control access to working memory. The theta rhythm sweeps across the mental image, shaping behavior by coordinating spikes and beta oscilla...
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