Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I first saw the color panel and thought this must be @lauragwilliams.bsky.social 👌 120
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDCogan Lab @coganlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026How 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... 1/5doi.orgDistinct neural processes link speech planning and execution - Nature Human BehaviourDirect 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. 12914
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDGregory B. Cogan @gcogan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Check out two new papers from the lab led by Kumar Duraivel and @zspald.bsky.social ! 011
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026New profile picture, your Duke Epilepsy Fellow 020
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDAdam Morgan @adumbmoron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026New 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.orgdoi.orgHybrid spatial organization and evidence for magnitude-independent neural coding of linguistic information during sentence productionBrain recordings during speech reveal complex linguistic information throughout cortex, independent of neural activity levels. 1399
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDSteph Bickel @stephanbickel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026New 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! 245
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This is the first study revealing ASMs affect seizure network and healthy networks differently with high spatial and temporal resolution that has implications on understanding how seizures are controlled and how cognitive side effects occur. 010
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 03/06/2026We found that ASMs preferentially modulated excitability within epileptic network, with the highest rates of significant CCEP amplitude changes observed for seizure network. We also found that the RMS based connectivity and functional connectivity were altered more often outside of seizure network. 100
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 03/06/2026We used these unique situation to compare effective connectivity. We also used resting state recordings from a set of overlapping five patients to understand the functional connectivity changes on vs off ASMs. 100
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 03/06/2026As part of ongoing projects, patients with intracranial depth electrodes had single pulse electrical stimulations to record cortico-cortical evoked potentials (CCEPs) while on ASMs. 5 patients did not have typical seizures, thus clinical team recorded another session to induce seizures off of ASMs. 100
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Happy 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... 121
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDLaura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 16/05/2026check 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... 05412
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDPierre 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...nature.comReal-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments - Nature NeuroscienceThis 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... 1113
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDElliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Transformed reactivation of latent working memory enables hierarchical language processing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 021
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDandrea 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… 0143
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Interesting that this work also came out around the same time: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 010
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDspeechpapers.bsky.social @speechpapers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Dynamic, minimally invasive electrical brain stimulation improves speech perception pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42044621 011
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDSerdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Paper 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... 132
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDLars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social · 28/04/2026You may now download for free The Rhythms of Speech and Language: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...cambridge.orgRhythms of Speech and LanguageCambridge Core - Cognition - Rhythms of Speech and Language 0208
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This was a long journey with a lot of learning thanks to my wonderful co-authors, Jose L. Herrero, Noah Markowitz, Elizabeth Espinal, and Timir Datta-Chaudhuri along with my PhD advisors Stephan Bickel (@stephanbickel.bsky.social) and Ashesh Mehta. 021
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Despite no significant group-level behavioral effect, this study establishes proof-of-concept for a clinically viable stimulation approach that could transform treatment of hearing impairment and other neuropsychiatric conditions. 110
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Safety and feasibility of using epicranial electrodes and bolts as electrical stimulation contacts were shown with no side effects or subjective perception. Additionally, this new electrical stimulation method was used in a speech-in-noise task to improve perception. 110
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Accuracy in the task improved in 5 of 6 sessions while not reaching significance across sessions possibly limited due to the limited number of sessions and trials (p=0.087 and 0.068 for 50 ms and 200 ms delay, linear mixed-effects model) 110
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026They monaurally listened matrix sentence speech-in-noise task in 3 conditions: no-stimulation, 50 ms, or 200 ms stimulation lag relative to sentence onset. Stim was 100 Hz, biphasic, amplitude-balanced, square-wave pulses where the amplitude (1-6 mA) was modulated by the ongoing speech envelope. 110
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Paper 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... 132
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDbioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Temporal Dynamics of BOLD fMRI Predict Intracranially-Confirmed Seizure Onset Zones in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 044
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDBenjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026new 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.socialdoi.orgSpeech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex 0166
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDEarl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Join 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... 0193
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The best and the most ideal podcast to discuss this topic!! 👌🧠 020
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Today 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! 🧠 040
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDSteph Bickel @stephanbickel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026We 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! 005
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDElliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Toward 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...arxiv.orgToward Robust, Reproducible, and Widely Accessible Intracranial Language Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Comprehensive Review of Neural Mechanisms, Hardware, Algorithms, Evaluation, Clinical Pathways and... 031
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDElliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026All spectral frequencies of neural activity reveal semantic representation in the human anterior ventral temporal cortex direct.mit.edu/imag/article...direct.mit.eduAll spectral frequencies of neural activity reveal semantic representation in the human anterior ventral temporal cortexAbstract. 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 ... 081
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDClara Sava-Segal @csavasegal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026So glad to *finally* have this out!! Major thanks to both Clare and Emily 1296
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDMark Bowren @markbowrenjr.bsky.social · 13/03/2026My 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.jobs.uiowa.eduPostdoctoral Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of IowaJobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa. 143
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDUAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center @uabneuro.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Ready 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! 📖 022
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDThe North American AED Pregnancy Registry @aedregistry.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Every 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 041
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDTheo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026I 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 detailbluesky-map.theo.ioBluesky MapInteractive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern. 66472482152
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDNanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026We’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! 25540
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDPierre Mégevand @vanmedge.bsky.social · 30/01/2026New 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. 12818
Reposted by Serdar Akkol, MD PhDMatthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026The recording of George Mashour's talk "Consciousness and the dying brain" is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7o....youtube.comGeorge Mashour - Consciousness and the Dying BrainYouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club 0278
Serdar Akkol, MD PhD @sakkol.bsky.social · 23/01/2026We're trying to honor the data as much as we can. 020