New results! Despite their varied molecular actions, anesthetics alter brain wave alignment in the same way. Convergent effects of different anesthetics are due to changes in phase alignment of cortical oscillations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...#neuroscience

Thanks as always to my co-authors, and you for reading this! 4/4

Ultimately, we hope that by clarifying the specific roles of various brain regions in tinnitus, we can start to work towards considering novel treatment approaches that might better account for differences in symptoms and treatment response across individuals. 3/4

The idea is to re-focus the specific role of this brain structure in tinnitus. In most other literature outside of tinnitus, the hippocampus being involved in maintaining memories is pretty uncontroversial, while in tinnitus it's most often referred to in an "emotional" role. 2/4

Our new paper on tinnitus and the hippocampus is out now in Human Brain Mapping: doi.org/10.1002/hbm....#PsychSciSky

Our study examining intracranial responses to vocoded speech, relevant to cochlear implants, is out now ( www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... ), led by Kirill Nourski & Mitch Steinschneider. Some very interesting dorsal/ventral stream differences dependent on task performance.

Intracranial electrophysiology of spectrally degraded speech in the human cortex

Cochlear implants (CIs) are the treatment choice for severe to profound hearing loss. Variability in CI outcomes remains despite advances in technology and is attributed in part to differences in cort...

I'll be presenting the poster below at APAN this afternoon and SfN on Tuesday afternoon, based on the intracranial local field potential and unit data we collect at Iowa. Come and say hi! Thank you to my lovely colleagues and our patients 🧠🟦

Our work on decoding speech using high-density micro-scale recordings was published today in Nature Communications! We demonstrate the potential of high-spatial sampling technology for future neural speech prostheses. nature.com/articles/s4146… The thread below outlines our main findings.

Have you heard that PLOS Mental Health is now open for submissions? Learn more about this new global, multidisciplinary #OpenAccessplos.io/MHOpen

We publish today with @alexwiesman.bsky.social in Progress in Neurobiology another advance in the fight against Parkinson’s disease. Slowing of 🧠 activity is not systematically an adverse effect of pathology: it can also be a sign of compensatory activity that preserves cognitive functions.

Adverse and compensatory neurophysiological slowing in Parkinson’s disease

Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) exhibit multifaceted changes in neurophysiological brain activity, hypothesized to represent a global cortical …