- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Baylor College of Medicine
2022-2025
Stanford University
2022
Introduction Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a promising treatment for refractory depression, utilizing surgically implanted electrodes to stimulate specific anatomical targets within the brain. However, limitations of patient-reported and clinician-administered mood assessments pose obstacles in evaluating DBS efficacy. In this study, we investigated whether an affective bias task, which leverages inherent negative interpretation seen individuals with could serve as reliable measure changes...
Abstract Emotion is represented in limbic and prefrontal brain areas, herein termed the affective salience network (ASN). Within ASN, there are substantial unknowns about how valence emotional intensity processed—specifically, which nodes associated with bias (a phenomenon participants interpret emotions a manner consistent their own mood). A recently developed feature detection approach (‘specparam’) was used to select dominant spectral features from human intracranial electrophysiological...
Background Vaccine and sufficient food availability are key factors for reducing pneumonia outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods In this study, the 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Synflorix® or PCV10) was administered to a child cohort (5–7 years old, n = 237) Msambweni, Kenya, determine relationships between dietary intake, nutritional/socioeconomic status of mothers/caregivers, response. 7-day frequency questionnaire (FFQ), diversity score (DDS) single 24-h recall were used...
Abstract Emotion is represented in several limbic and prefrontal cortical brain areas herein referred to as the Affective Salience Network (ASN). Within this network, less known about how valence intensity are processed dorsal anterior cingulate (dACC), affective processes dACC compare activity other nodes within ASN. Using a novel spectral feature approach analyze intracranial electrophysiological data, we discover hemispheric specialization such that right hemisphere sensitive while left...