Assoc Prof in Neurosurgery @ BCM | Researcher - brain stimulation with advanced imaging and ephys to address refractory psychiatric illness
Houston, TX
Joined February 2019
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🧠 5 new lab publications!
📌 Hum Brain Mapping – Danstrom et al. on cingulum
asymmetry & sulcal morphology.
📌 Biol Psych CNNI – Hacker, Mocchi et al. on 1/f slope
& symptom severity in TRD.
📌 Front Hum Neurosci – Cui et al. on affective bias &
DBS outcome.
📌 Sci Reports – Mocchi et al. on 1/f slope & auditory
salience.
📌 Biol Psych CNNI – Kalva, Kanja, et al. on bias as
cognitive proxy of mood.
🎉 + VSS Travel Award to Xiaoxu Fan!
🧵 Links & highlights ⬇️
#neuroscience #neuroimaging #depressionresearch #TRD #iEEG #DTI #Neuromod
I’m incredibly proud to share that Isabel Danstrom successfully defended her PhD in Neuroscience on Friday 🎓
Her recent work in Human Brain Mapping & Brain Stimulation shows how morphology and pulse width shape brain circuit connectivity in the cingulum bundle.
Thoughtful, generous, and an outstanding mentor—congratulations, Dr. Danstrom!
doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70230
doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2026.1…
Danstrom et al., pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4052…
Hacker, Mocchi, et al.,
doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.…
Cui et al.,
doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1…
Mocchi et al.,
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Kalva, Kanja et al.,
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3903…
Shoutout to all our amazing collaborators!
Kelly Bijanki - Translational Neuromodulation Lab retweeted
we need to keep retelling the stories of our collective progress and in particular how that progress has been facilitated and sustained by the culture and funding opportunities afforded by the BRAIN Initiative. Write your elected officials!
I'm thrilled and humbled to announce our new paper, out today in Nature Mental Health! nature.com/articles/s44220-0… Huge congrats to @Xiaoxu_Fan_0512 on her beautiful work elucidating neural underpinnings of depression! [1/8]
Enormous thanks to @BCMNeurosurgery for their generous support!
This work was possible because of the tremendous contributions of amazing collaborators @bcmhouston @UTSWMedCenter @drpouratian @MaddieMocchi @Jiayang_Xiao @eleonorabartoli Joshua Adkinson, @neuronush Wayne Goodman, Sanjay Mathew, and many others! [7/8]
Big thanks to our funders and supporters!! @NIMHgov @USBrainAlliance @bcm_neurosci @BCMFromtheLabs @UTSWNeurosurg And enormous gratitude to the patients and their families, who make all this work possible. [8/8]
Kelly Bijanki - Translational Neuromodulation Lab retweeted
#BCMNeurosurgery's Dr. Kelly Bijanki reflects on her career, and pays homage to the woman who inspired her to pursue a career in a male-dominated field. #WomensHistoryMonth
ALT BCM Neurosurgery's Dr. Kelly Bijanki reflects on her career, and pays homage to the woman who inspired her to pursue a career in this field.
ALT BCM Neurosurgery's Dr. Kelly Bijanki reflects on her career, and pays homage to the woman who inspired her to pursue a career in this field.
ALT BCM Neurosurgery's Dr. Kelly Bijanki reflects on her career, and pays homage to the woman who inspired her to pursue a career in this field.
1/8 Our new paper is out today in Brain, on intracranial stimulation and sEEG features underlying emotion decoding and affective bias! @_brian_metzger_ @MaddieMocchi @raissamathura @BShofty @JTWillieMD @SameerShethMD @Brain1878
academic.oup.com/brain/advan…
7/8 To test causality of the dACC in affective biasing, we applied direct electrical stimulation to the structure at a therapeutic frequency of 130 Hz during the viewing and rating of emotional faces in N=13, and showed stimulation-induced positive bias in evaluation of faces.
8/8 Big thanks to Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, collaborators, patients, and funders (NIH K01-MH116364; NIH R01-MH127006, AFSP:YIG-0-015-13) @NIH, @NIMHgov, @NINDSnews, @afspnational, @BCM_Neurosurgery, @BCM_neurosci, @BCMFromtheLabs for the support!