This month we’ll talk about the NMDA-mediated plasticity hypothesis of brain stimulation. We’ve been speculating for a long time that neuromodulation affects neuroplasticity, but this has been something of a holy grail that had not been proven – until recently. Our speaker on 6/16/22 will be Alex McGirr from the University of Calgary, who will …

Paralleling our topic in March (invasive stimulation and recording), this month we’ll talk about the noninvasive approach to the same thing. Our speaker on 5/26/22 will be Desmond Oathes, Associate Director of the Center for Neuromodulation in Depression and Stress at the University of Pennsylvania. Our journal club on 5/19/22 will be on his excellent …

Our speaker for April 14 will be Aaron Boes, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology, and Psychiatry at the University of Iowa. Dr. Boes has done some fascinating work on intracranial recording of TMS effects. On Monday April 7, we will be doing a journal club on this impressive preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.18.476811v1

Our speaker for March 10 will be Josef Parvizi, Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Parvizi is one of the world’s leading experts on using invasive stimulation and recording to understand causal brain mapping. On Monday March 3, we will be doing a journal club on this excellent review …

Our speaker for February 1 7 will be Corey Keller, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Laboratory for Personalized Neurotherapeutics. Dr. Keller is an up-and-coming authority on using electrophysiology to tailor brain stimulation treatments. Here’s some background reading for those who are interested: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4150303/

Our speaker for January will be Andreas Horn, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and the BWH Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics. Dr. Horn is among the founders of the rapidly growing field of connectomic deep brain stimulation. Here’s some background reading for those who are …

Our speaker for November will be Joel Voss, Professor of Neurology and director of Center Noir (Neurocognitive Outcomes Improvement Research) at the University of Chicago. Dr. Voss is arguably the world’s leading expert in targeted enhancement of memory via brain circuit modulation. Our journal club (November 4) will be focused on his group’s seminal paper …

I’m excited to announce that our speaker for October will be Nolan Williams, inventor of SAINT (Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy). He will be speaking to us about how to apply spaced learning theory to harness neuroplasticity using advanced TMS protocols. Our journal club (the first Thursday of October) will be focused on the following …

Our inaugural speaker was Konrad Kording, one of the world’s leading experts in causality and human neuroscience! If you missed it – Konrad spoke extensively about how the word “cause” is commonly misused and really impossible to identify in the human brain. Instead, we can estimate the causes of things by using techniques such as …