Excited to share a new discovery from @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social about the effects of neurostimulation on brain activity. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... With our colleagues at the University of Iowa, we explored how intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) changes neural excitability. A 🧵

iTBS induces a suppression-rebound pattern in human cortical excitability

Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) is a widely used form of brain stimulation, developed on the premise that it promotes long-term potentiation (LTP) and neural excitation. However, this is n...

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We are hiring a data engineer! If you are interested in working with human intracranial data, processing pipelines, and an awesome team, please apply! neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39840/sc...

Another preprint! This one from my postdoc with @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social and @xiaosigu.bsky.social. Here we asked how the reward outcomes driving trial-by-error learning leave a lasting imprint on memory strength in the human brain. We used iEEG/computational models of cognition to find:

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hippocampal-cingulate dynamics in the human brain link reinforcement-learning and memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.10.750374v1

Another postdoc piece out today in @natneuro.nature.com! 🧠💤 In unimpaired older adults, frontal tau pathology tracked with lonely NREM slow waves that fail to travel — and these waves predicted worse overnight memory. full-text: rdcu.be/jDcgH2sK8VZa @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 🧵👇

Human tau pathology is associated with lonely, nontraveling slow waves linked to memory impairment - Nature Neuroscience

Frontal cortical tau pathology in aging humans is associated with reduced slow-wave travel during sleep. This reduced propagation is associated with poorer overnight memory retention, supporting a lin...

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First preprint from the lab from postdoc Carlo Cerquetella! Demonstrating that neuronal spiking in the human medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex cohere into a redundant, low-dimensional neural correlate of visual attention (captured mostly by saccades) during naturalistic movie viewing.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3w ago

Human single-neuron recordings reveal population coding of attentional dynamics during naturalistic movie viewing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.08.748346v1

Fall wave club resumes tomorrow!

WaveClub@waveclubseminar.bsky.social · 4w ago

We can't wait to hear from Drs. Sangjun Lee and Alexander Opitz tomorrow! Join us tomorrow, Sept 2nd at 12p EDT (11a CDT) DM for zoom link

Check out our new review on insights from single-neuron responses for epilepsy! ⚡️out now in Neurotherapeutics

Elliot H Smith, PhD@neurosmith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New review paper from the lab around the potential for single neuron responses to brain stimulation for diagnosing and treating drug-resistant epilepsy. Led by @rhiannon-cowan.bsky.social, who just joined bluesky! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We can't wait to kick off the fall season with Drs. Sangjun Lee and Alexander Opitz in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves. Join us on Wednesday, September 2nd at 12pm ET! And check out their recent publication: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Check out our new preprint! Using agents and single-neuron recordings in humans to help understand risky decision making. Fantastic work by Alex Price in @neurosmith.bsky.social lab!

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Low-dimensional factorized neural computations underlie risk-adaptive choices https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.12.744223v1

Excited to share our lab's recent paper showing that direct electrical stimulation of the human amygdala enhances recognition memory for objects but not scenes. The article is open-access, and we'd love to hear your thoughts! Please share! TY to everyone involved! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples

Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....

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We can't wait to hear from Dr. Roberto Budzinski this week in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves. Join us on July 1st at 12pm ET!

🔔 Our new preprint is out! Here we asked whether sleep spindles - a hallmark NREM rhythm linked to plasticity and memory - changes how well latent working memory representations can be accessed after a nap.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sleep spindles enhance latent working memory representations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734777v1

Finally putting this work out as a preprint :) Thanks to Emery Brown and @earlkmiller.bsky.social for helping conceptualize this work! Code: github.com/Bowen-Zheng-... and a tutorial notebook on the key ideas: github.com/Bowen-Zheng-... A 3-min overview below: (1/)

Earl K. Miller@earlkmiller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New results! A new method that analyzes brain waves and spike timing together. This lets us pinpoint exactly which rhythms neurons are locking to. BAYESIAN STATE-SPACE MODEL FOR JOINT INFERENCE OF OSCILLATORY DYNAMICS AND POINT-PROCESS COUPLING doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroscience

Neuropixels + Optogenetics = Neuropixels Opto Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics. 960 sites, 28 emitters, 2 colors. Today in @natmethods.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social, @alleninstitute.org, @hhmijanelia.bsky.social & team.

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/🧵

We can't wait to hear from Dr. Yanliang Shi this week in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves. @shiyanliang.bsky.social Join us on June 3rd at 12pm ET! Please note the change in day and time.

Mental illness needs visibility more urgently than almost any other area of medicine and health care. A new award from Wellcome and Nature aims to raise its prominence go.nature.com/4dtLr2t

Mental-health research is too often invisible — it is time to change that

Mental illness needs visibility more urgently than almost any other area of medicine and health care. A new award from Wellcome and Nature aims to raise its prominence.

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Amazing work ⚡️ 🧠 “Laminar organization of cellular microcircuits modulating human interictal epileptiform discharges” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Laminar organization of cellular microcircuits modulating human interictal epileptiform discharges - Nature Neuroscience

High-density single-neuron recordings in patients with epilepsy revealed interictal discharges are generated by structured laminar circuits. These circuits overlapped with cognitive circuits and could...

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

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature

In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.

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New preprint alert! This one led by @neurozarr.bsky.social. Veronica wanted to know how neural traveling waves change during general anesthesia, so we dug back into some of the Utah array data that my PhD advisor collected back in the mid aughts. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We can't wait to hear from Dr. Zhe Sage Chen today! Join us today, May 4th at 11a EST DM for zoom link

WaveClub@waveclubseminar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We can't wait to hear from Dr. Zhe Sage Chen next week in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves. Join us on May 4th at 11am ET! Please note the change in day and time.

We can't wait to hear from Dr. Zhe Sage Chen next week in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves. Join us on May 4th at 11am ET! Please note the change in day and time.

Have I mentioned that cognition is rhythmic? Planar, spiral, and concentric traveling waves distinguish behavioral states in human memory www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

🚨New preprint🚨 Very excited about the last work led by Dugué Lab PhD student Yue Kong on TMS-induced #traveling_waves. @erc.europa.eu @upcite.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We can't wait to hear from Dr. Dominik Koller tomorrow in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves. @dominikyuss.bsky.social Join us tomorrow, April 7th at 11a EST!

Save the bandwidth! On Friday, I’ll be posting updates from this event on Cognitive and Affective Neuromodulation at Brown, organized by @wael-asaad.bsky.social +. These are among the most formidable conditions 💔. But a lot is happening in this space! I’m looking forward to passing details along.

Structural and Functional Connectivity Predict the Effects of Direct Brain Stimulation on Memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.17.712408v1

Transcranial magnetic stimulation to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates single-neuron activity in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.15.711839v1