top of page
Search

Hezekiah Branch awarded at MIT Prize for Open Data
Hezekiah Branch, Data Scientist for the Brain Modulation Laboratory, was a recipient of the 2024 MIT Prize for Open Data. Hezekiah earned...
Hezekiah Branch
Nov 12, 2024
0 comments


Fairwell Caroline – good luck in California!
After 3 years in Boston, Caroline and her partner are relocating to San Francisco, CA where they are starting new positions as managing...
Hezekiah Branch
Jul 19, 2024
0 comments


Congratulations, Zach!
This summer, Zach will begin his graduate studies as an MD-PhD student at the UF MD-PhD Training Program. He has been involved in a wide...
Hezekiah Branch
Jun 3, 2024
0 comments
![Brain Modulation Lab and Speech Neuroscience Lab [Boston University] publish review paper covering the brain basis of speech deficits in Parkinson’s disease](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e34ef_ff95cc4d498b4a89a225e4e2b5bc0a96~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_avif,quality_auto/7e34ef_ff95cc4d498b4a89a225e4e2b5bc0a96~mv2.webp)
Brain Modulation Lab and Speech Neuroscience Lab [Boston University] publish review paper covering the brain basis of speech deficits in Parkinson’s disease
People with Parkinson’s disease often experience unwelcome changes in their voice and speech. For example, some patients speak at a low...
Hezekiah Branch
May 25, 2024
0 comments


Congratulations to Brain Modulation Lab’s new Co-Director, Dr. Alan Bush!
Dr. Alan Bush has been a pillar of the lab since we moved to Mass General Hospital in 2019. During these years, he has supported and...
Hezekiah Branch
Apr 11, 2024
0 comments
PhD student Latané Bullock is awarded NIH training grant
Latané, a 3rd-year Ph.D. student, applied for a National Institute of Health (NIH) F31 training grant last fall. As of today, he has...
Hezekiah Branch
Apr 4, 2024
0 comments


Mapping dysfunctional circuits in the frontal cortex using deep brain stimulation (DBS) published in Nature Neuroscience
In a massive collaborative effort involving 39 coauthors from 16 institutions, our collaborators demonstrate the use of deep brain...
Hezekiah Branch
Feb 22, 2024
0 comments
Ali Tafreshi speaks at Massachusetts General Hospital/Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Trainee Symposium
Ali Tafreshi presented at the collaborative MGH/MEEI educational symposium, presenting preliminary data in the search for a reliable,...
Hezekiah Branch
Jan 17, 2024
0 comments
PhD student Latané Bullock presents his work at Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
This week Latané is presenting his project ‘Basal ganglia recordings and speech gain control’ at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in...
Hezekiah Branch
Nov 15, 2023
0 comments
Ali Tafreshi awarded Henry Hood Award for Outstanding Neurosurgical Research
Ali Tafreshi presented preliminary data and workflow for optimization of deep brain stimulation parameters based on a neural biomarker...
Hezekiah Branch
Oct 10, 2023
0 comments
Ali Tafreshi speaks at Geisinger Neuroscience Institute Grand Rounds
Ali Tafreshi from the Brain Modulation Lab was chosen as the speaker for the Geisinger Health System Neuroscience Institute Grand Rounds,...
Hezekiah Branch
Oct 6, 2023
0 comments


Brain Modulation Lab welcomes Ali Tafreshi, MD
Funded by a generous grant from the International Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Foundation, Ali R. Tafreshi, MD, PGY-4 neurosurgery...
Hezekiah Branch
Jul 1, 2023
0 comments
Vissani and Tafreshi receive the IOCDF Michael A. Jenike Young Investigator Award
Ali Tafreshi and Matteo Vissani have been officially awarded the IOCDF Michael A. Jenike Young Investigator Award sponsored by the...
Hezekiah Branch
Jun 22, 2023
0 comments
PhD candidate Yanming Zhu presents his work at the 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting
This week, Yanming presented his project ‘Characterization of the subthalamic nucleus activity during auditory processing’ at the 9th...
Hezekiah Branch
Jun 15, 2023
0 comments
R61 NINDS-NIH Award
Our project entitled “Electrographic Seizure Pattern Modulation Biomarkers in Responsive Neurostimulation for Epilepsy” was awarded by...
Hezekiah Branch
Jun 9, 2023
0 comments


Welcome Soumya Peri!
Soumya Peri is joining the Brain Modulation Lab as our newest Clinical Research Coordinator. Soumya graduated from Skidmore College in...
Hezekiah Branch
Jun 5, 2023
0 comments
Review article published in Neuromodulation: Biophysical Principles and Computational Modeling of Deep Brain Stimulation
Computational models are important in silico tools for elucidating these underlying principles and potentially for personalizing Deep...
Hezekiah Branch
May 19, 2023
0 comments

iESPnet published on Epilepsia
Check out our deep learning approach for the identification and onset prediction of electrographic seizure patterns (ESPs) in brain data...
Hezekiah Branch
May 10, 2023
0 comments
PhD candidate Yanming Zhu presents his work at the 2023 SHBT Mid-Winter Forum
This week, Yanming presented his project ‘Characterization of the subthalamic nucleus activity during auditory processing’ at Harvard...
Hezekiah Branch
Feb 4, 2023
0 comments


Movement decoding based on spatial filtering in invasive recordings
Interest in decoding movement with invasive recordings? In our last manuscript we show how we can serve from the spatial filtering...
Hezekiah Branch
Jan 25, 2023
0 comments
bottom of page