CNT at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Photo montage of CNT members who will have abstracts at the Society for Neuroscience 2025 meeting.

Center for Neurotechnology faculty and students will be well-represented at the upcoming Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego, CA (November 15-19, 2025).  Accepted abstracts include those from CNT-associated researchers Jeffrey Herron, Azadeh Shahmorad-Yazdan, Chet Moritz, Christoph Hofstetter, Kurt Weaver, Steve Perlmutter, Jeffrey Ojemann, Polina Anikeeva, Rajesh Rao, Amy Orsborn, Eric Shea-Brown, Tim Brown, Soshi Samejima, Andrew Ko and Adrienne Fairhall:

Identifying the optimal prestimulus phase from ongoing oscillations for effective intracranial stimulation of primary motor cortex
S. D’SOUZA, A. KO, J.A. HERRON, J. OJEMANN, B.L. GRANNAN, V. MARTINEZ, J.T. MILES, K.E. WEAVER

Data heterogeneity limits the scaling effect of pretraining in neural data transformers
L.P. JIANG, S. CHEN, E. TANUMIHARDJA, X. HAN, W. SHI, E.T. SHEA-BROWN, R.P. RAO

Demonstration of neural plasticity effects of neuromodulation with beta phase-specific stimulation via the Cortec brain interchange
H. CHO, B.L. GRANNAN, A.L. KO, S.C. CRAMER, J.G. OJEMANN, J.A. HERRON

Segmenting high-dimensional neural population activity into interpretable behavioral units
S. WU, R.P. RAO

Neurotest: an open-source tool for characterizing and assessing electrophysiology equipment J. MORROW, H. CHO, Y. TIWARI, T. DENISON, J.A. HERRON, A.S. WIDGE

Recording local field potentials from DBS implants with sensing capability during behavioral experiments: common artefacts and signal processing solutions
H. WANG, J.A. HERRON, G. CLER, A. KO, L. MAX

Approach-avoidance behavior modulates ventral striatum theta-alpha power in obsessive compulsive disorder
R.A. BECHTOLD, M. OCHOA, J.R. ALTMAN, K. MANSOURIAN, S. SOUBRA, T. HAMRE, T. MERK, H.P. COWLEY, R. BOSE, H. YI, E. STORCH, W.K. GOODMAN, S.A. SHETH, N.R. PROVENZA, J.A. HERRON

Increased neural variability in the ventral striatum predicts response after deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder
J. ZHOU, R.R. HANISH, A. ALLAM, R.A. BECHTOLD, K. MANSOURIAN, H. BENTLEY, S. SOUBRA, T. HAMRE, K.A. KATLOWITZ, B.J. MICKEY, B. KIOUS, B. SHOFTY, B.Y. HAYDEN, E. STORCH, W. GOODMAN, J.A. HERRON, S.A. SHETH, A. PATEL, N.R. PROVENZA

Real-world data-driven biomarker discovery in psychiatric deep brain stimulation
T.P. KUTCHER, T. FRACZEK, Y. ZHOU, K. MANSOURIAN, R.A. BECHTOLD, S. CHAMARTHI, W. K. GOODMAN, S.A. SHETH, J.A. HERRON, N.R. PROVENZA

Artifact identification and mitigation strategies for longitudinal neural data collection onboard the Medtronic Percept DBS device
R. HANISH, T.P. KUTCHER, T.M. FRACZEK, R.A. BECHTOLD, J. ZHOU, S. CHAMARTHI, G. REYES, M. LIBOWITZ, B. SHOFTY, B.J. MICKEY, B.M. KIOUS, W.K. GOODMAN, A.B. PATEL, S.A. SHETH, J.A. HERRON, N.R. PROVENZA

Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder leads to improved performance on the multi-source interference task and changes in neural activity
V.E. GOBO, M. OCHOA, S. RAJESH, N. DIAB, A.D. GANDHI, E.M. DASTIN-VAN RIJN, M. AVENDANO-ORTEGA, G.P. BANKS, B. SHOFTY, J.A. HERRON, B.Y. HAYDEN, E.A. STORCH, W.K. GOODMAN, S.A. SHETH, N.R. PROVENZA

Demonstration of a clinical monitoring platform for neuro-modulation studies
T.M. FRACZEK, Y. ZHOU, R. HANISH, J. ZHOU, T.P. KUTCHER, T. MERK, L. DIAZ, N. GUITTARI, N.E. TREGONING, R.T. HIDER, Jr., H. YI, E.C. JOHNSON, B.A. WESTER, W.K. GOODMAN, S.A. SHETH, J.A. HERRON, N.R. PROVENZA

Chemogenetic activation of convergent spinal pathways improves sensorimotor performance of forelimb in nonhuman primates
M. SUZUKI, O. YOKOYAMA, K. KOBAYASHI, S.I. PERLMUTTER, Y. NISHIMURA

Therapeutic effects of spinal stimulation on H-reflex modulation and spasticity reduction in rats with cervical spinal cord injury
A. SADEGHI, I. MAROSSA, R.L. MURPHY, R.B. ROBINSON, C.T. MORITZ, S.I. PERLMUTTER, C.P. HOFSTETTER

The effect of motor-targeted epidural spinal stimulation on spinal cord injury induced neuropathic pain
K.D. GREEN, C.M. BATISTA, R.L. MURPHY, R.B. ROBINSON, S.I. PERLMUTTER

Optogenetic spinal stimulation to treat spinal cord injury
S.E. MONDELLO, R. HENDERSON, V. DANG, C.T. MORITZ

Applications of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation after acute spinal cord injury: a case series
R. NAKAHARA, S. NASSON, E. PUTSCHE-YOUNG, E. CHUNG, L. WINSTON, S. BURNS, D. CRANE, C.T. MORITZ, S. SAMEJIMA

Region-specific neural dynamics elicited by paired cortical optogenetic stimulation
S. SHAN, G. SHVARTSMAN, A. YAZDAN-SHAHMORAD

Aβ, Tau, and FDG-PET synthesis from multi-contrast MRI using deep learning
R. IRITANI, H. JAHANIAN, A. YAZDAN-SHAHMORAD

Smart Dura: Large-scale multimodal interface for neural recording and modulation in non-human primates
N. HONG, S. MONTALVO VARGO, G. HATANAKA, Z. GONG, N. STANIS, J. ZHOU, T. BELLOIR, H. PAN, R. WANG, W. BAIR, M. CHAMANZAR, A. YAZDAN-SHAHMORAD

Acute accumulation of phosphorylated tau and oxidative stress following ischemic stroke in a non-human primate model
N. STANIS, A. NOLAN, H. JAHANIAN, A. YAZDAN-SHAHMORAD

A spatially distributed neural population facilitates motor computations through stable dynamics
R. CANFIELD, T. OUCHI, B. MACAGNO, A.L. ORSBORN

Adaptive decoders promote compaction of neural representations during long-term brain-computer interface learning
P. RAJESWARAN, A. PAYEUR, G. LAJOIE, A.L. ORSBORN

Effects of solution redundancy in a VR reaching control task
B. BORCHELT, V. PIERCE, L. R. SCHOLL, A.L. ORSBORN

Perturbation history influences learning in a novel redundant human-machine interface
V. PIERCE, B. BORCHELT, A.L. ORSBORN

Intracolonic optogenetic stimulation of vagal innervations increases exploratory behaviors in freely moving mice
K. PANG, S. SELVARAJI, R. MONDAL, M. SLOWIKOWSKI, G. EBERLY, E. VARGAS PANIAGUA, A. SAHASRABUDHE, P. ANIKEEVA

AAV-guided tissue-specific delivery platform for synthetic nanoparticles and large genes
K. NAGAO, T. OSAKI, M. SUR, R. MACFARLANE, P. ANIKEEVA

Unravelling the environmental origins of gut-to-brain propagation of Parkinson’s disease pathology
S. SELVARAJI, K. PANG, P. ANIKEEVA, R. MONDAL, J. MOSBERGER

Optical fiber fluorescence endoscopy for capturing enteric nervous system activity in vivo
T.M. CANNON, G. L. EBERLY, K. NAGAO, E. VARGAS PANIAGUA, P. ANIKEEVA

Bioelectronic gastrointestinal neurotechnology to investigate the gut-brain axis in feeding behavior
R. MONDAL, K. PANG, P. ANIKEEVA, A. SAHASRABUDHE, N. BIGLARI, E. ALWAY, D.V. BOHORQUEZ

Identification of a motor-related space in a premotor area in zebra finch
I. DIPPENAAR, A. DUFFY, J. R. SCHERRER, J. WHITE, M.S. FEE, A.I. FAIRHALL

Emergence of task-specific value representations in the primate hippocampus
S.M. LANDI, V. SHIRHATTI, D.J. FREEDMAN, A.I. FAIRHALL, E.A. BUFFALO

Semantic parsing of experience by discrete neural states in the monkey hippocampus
J.W. RUECKEMANN, Y.I. BROWNING, A. MALLORY, B. KIM, A.L. FAIRHALL, E. A. BUFFALO

Distributed belief representations support flexible inference and decision making under uncertainty
P.Q. ZHANG, M.J. JUTRAS, E.A. BUFFALO, E.Y. WALKER, A.L. FAIRHALL

Local circuit properties of pyramidal neurons in mouse primary visual cortex
S. DORKENWALD, F.C. COLLMAN, S. MIHALAS, E.T. SHEA-BROWN, D.W. TANK, A.A. WANNER

An operational framework for rapid, open-access sharing of BICAN human omics data
C. L. THOMPSON, M.E. MARTONE, S. NADENDLA, K. SMITH, S. RAMSEY, L. KRUSE, A. MAHURKAR, M. G. GIGLIO, O. WHITE, T. E. BROWN, S. S. GHOSH, L. NG, M.J. HAWRYLYCZ