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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD

@sakkol.bsky.social
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PGY5 Epilepsy fellow @duke, Neurology residency'26 @uabneurores, PhD'22 @NorthwellHealth, postdoc'19 @StanfordMed, MD'18 Cerrahpaşa, @lindaunobel'18, neurology-neuroscience, epilepsy, iEEG

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Cogan Lab @coganlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How does a speech plan become fluent movement? In Nature Human Behaviour, led by Kumar Duraivel: Intracranial recordings reveal how hierarchical speech plans become continuous motor sequences across planning, articulation, and monitoring networks. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/5
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Distinct neural processes link speech planning and execution - Nature Human Behaviour
Direct recordings from the human brain reveal a hierarchy in planning to speak, with neural activity organizing whole syllables before the individual sounds that compose them are sequenced.
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Gregory B. Cogan @gcogan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Check out two new papers from the lab led by Kumar Duraivel and @zspald.bsky.social !
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New profile picture, your Duke Epilepsy Fellow
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Adam Morgan @adumbmoron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New paper in #ScienceAdvances! 10 ECoG patients performed 3 language production tasks: word, word list, and sentence production. We found surprising dissociations between how active cortical sites were and whether they encoded linguistic information: 🧵 [1/9] doi.org/10.1126/scia... @science.org
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Hybrid spatial organization and evidence for magnitude-independent neural coding of linguistic information during sentence production
Brain recordings during speech reveal complex linguistic information throughout cortex, independent of neural activity levels.
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Steph Bickel @stephanbickel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New research assistant position available in our human intracranial EEG lab in NY (hbmlab-nyc.com). DM or email me if you're interested to learn more!
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Happy to share my latest research on how anti-seizure medications affects effective and functional connectivity measured with intracranial EEG #ieeg. My first research article at UAB with Dr. Benjamin Cox and Dr. Rachel J Smith @uabneuro.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/brb3...
Graphical abstract summarizing the article: ASMs altered the effective connectivity within the seizure network more than within non-involved regions, whereas functional connectivity was altered more often within non-involved regions.
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
check out our latest preprint led by the one and only @mdhk.net !! using intracranial EEG, we find that distinct neural populations within the temporal lobe encode preceding context, and future context, during naturalistic speech comprehension! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Pierre Mégevand @vanmedge.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments" in @natureportfolio.nature.com #NatNeurosci What a Dream Team of authors! #iEEG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments - Nature Neuroscience
This study shows that brain signals can identify and amplify the voice a person wants to hear in a crowded scene. Choudhari et al. provide evidence that brain-controlled hearing can improve speech per...
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Transformed reactivation of latent working memory enables hierarchical language processing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026
“we demonstrate that informal support structures are significantly associated with citation impact, creating gaps in who benefits from these connections.” I wish Bluesky would let me emphasize that last clause…
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speechpapers.bsky.social @speechpapers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Dynamic, minimally invasive electrical brain stimulation improves speech perception pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42044621
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Paper in Hearing Research: Dynamic, minimally invasive electrical brain stimulation improves speech perception We utilized already-implanted bolts and epicranial electrodes to apply electrical stimulation during a speech perception task in patients undergoing #iEEG monitoring doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
Locations of already-implanted bolts and epicranial electrodes in layers in skull
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Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
You may now download for free The Rhythms of Speech and Language: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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Rhythms of Speech and Language
Cambridge Core - Cognition - Rhythms of Speech and Language
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Paper in Hearing Research: Dynamic, minimally invasive electrical brain stimulation improves speech perception We utilized already-implanted bolts and epicranial electrodes to apply electrical stimulation during a speech perception task in patients undergoing #iEEG monitoring doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
Locations of already-implanted bolts and epicranial electrodes in layers in skull
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Temporal Dynamics of BOLD fMRI Predict Intracranially-Confirmed Seizure Onset Zones in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
new collaborative paper! Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @luc-arnal.bsky.social @brungio.bsky.social @jremygiroud.bsky.social @ilcb.bsky.social
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Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Join us, if you will, at the MIT Consciousness Club on Thursday April 16 at 12pm (EDT) "Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain" Nadine Dijkstra (Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL) Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Today marks the last day of all of my inpatient service in neurology residency. Until I start my epilepsy fellowship at Duke, I will focus on my research projects at UAB. I'm lucky to be given the opportunity to continue the research I love here. Exciting days ahead! 🧠
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Steph Bickel @stephanbickel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We are looking to hire a postdoc and a lab manager / research assistant for our human intracranial EEG lab in NY (hbmlab-nyc.com). DM or email me if you're interested to learn more!
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Toward Robust, Reproducible, and Widely Accessible Intracranial Language Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Comprehensive Review of Neural Mechanisms, Hardware, Algorithms, Evaluation, Clinical Pathways and Future Directions arxiv.org/html/2603.12...
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Toward Robust, Reproducible, and Widely Accessible Intracranial Language Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Comprehensive Review of Neural Mechanisms, Hardware, Algorithms, Evaluation, Clinical Pathways and...
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
All spectral frequencies of neural activity reveal semantic representation in the human anterior ventral temporal cortex direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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All spectral frequencies of neural activity reveal semantic representation in the human anterior ventral temporal cortex
Abstract. Intracranial electrophysiology offers a unique insight into the nature of information representation in the brain – it can be used to disentangle information encoded in gamma and high gamma ...
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Clara Sava-Segal @csavasegal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
So glad to *finally* have this out!! Major thanks to both Clare and Emily
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Mark Bowren @markbowrenjr.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
My lab is officially recruiting a postdoctoral research scholar: jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view... We are seeking someone who can help advance our research on predicting cognitive/behavioral/emotional outcomes after neurosurgerical lesions in patients with epilepsy using multimodal neuroimaging data.
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Postdoctoral Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.
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UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center @uabneuro.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Ready for another round of Brain Chats?! Join us on March 14th at 11AM at Hoover Public Library for a discussion on “Using electrical stimulation to understand brain networks” presented by Dr. Rachel June Smith. The meeting is free, educational and open for anyone to attend! 📖
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
#neurojobs
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The North American AED Pregnancy Registry @aedregistry.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Every year on the second Monday of February people join together to acknowledge and highlight the problems faced by people with epilepsy, their families and care givers. ow.ly/aNU450XZJsJ #EpilepsyDay #AEDRegistry #FindingAnswers #pregnancy
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
#neurojobs
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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
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Pierre Mégevand @vanmedge.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
New PhD and post-doc job openings! Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG). Full details in the job offer below.
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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The recording of George Mashour's talk "Consciousness and the dying brain" is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7o....
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George Mashour - Consciousness and the Dying Brain
YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
ripple researchers probably open this article with sweaty palms, because ripple detection with 77% false positives for standard processing sounds pretty bad... 😨
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Pierre Mégevand @vanmedge.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Really cool stuff! "Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms" by the @earlkmiller.bsky.social lab, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
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Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms
Han et al. show that frontal theta oscillations rhythmically control access to working memory. The theta rhythm sweeps across the mental image, shaping behavior by coordinating spikes and beta oscilla...
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is fun! 🤓
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Late post from #AES2025, as always it was amazing to catch up with the friends, mentors and to learn the latest in the epilepsy field 🤓 also presented our case study, wait for the full results 😁
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
My rough attempt at sorting people on this spectrum of epiphenomenal to causal...
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Ed Boyden @eboyden3.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Just posted, "The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them" a follow-up to our previous essay on the "tiling tree" method for thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem, by Claire Wang, Nina Khera, and myself. engineeringx.substack.com/p/the-tiling...
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The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them
How to really think of every way of solving a problem
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Recently discovered @kerrymuzzey.bsky.social's post-rock project Candlepark Stars and I'm loving it. Been a while since I heard something like this. Much like Mono (Japan), @hammockmusic.bsky.social's "Departure Songs" or @explosionsinthesky.bsky.social! Thank you! open.spotify.com/artist/2o532...
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Spotify – Web Player
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Very interesting! #iEEG
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta! "Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings" We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta! "Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings" We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
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Pierre Mégevand @vanmedge.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings" Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025 #iEEG www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12 people had intracranial electrodes & listened to natural speech oscillatory -> speech edge induced activity persisted after evoked responses thus ...neural entrainment?
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Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Timely review of the HFA based functional mapping of cortical functions. There some more stuff to do: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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A critical review of high‐frequency activity for functional mapping in SEEG
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Brian Ervin, PhD @brianervin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Conversation Mapping in Action! scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/new-method-s... #HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology
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New Method Simplifies Brain Evaluations for Planning Epilepsy Surgery - Research Horizons
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Oscar Woolnough @owoolnough.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social · 03/09/2025
Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
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Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It feels like the introductions of new papers became a long abstract. There is background. There is method and results in the last paragraph. I guess the scientific writing is evolving..
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Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Juggling 3 manuscript submissions/revisions, doing analyses and writing manuscript on another project, writing an abstract for a case report... All the while not missing the clinical duties. I feel welcomed to the #physician-scientist life 😮‍💨 Is this how it'll be the rest of my career? 🫣 I hope so 😁
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a man in a suit and tie says all i can do right now is put on a brave face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says all i can do right now is put on a brave face .
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Amazing resource ⚡️ 🧠 Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
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