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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Grand Plan for brain & mind research is in terrific hands with the researchers at Baylor College of Medicine! From an excellent panel discussion across silos to many insightful conversations with PIs and trainees, I'm a bit blown away by what they are up to here. Impactful & exciting.

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Eleonora Bartoli @elebartoli.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New preprint from my lab, showing that OFC CCEPs may be able to predict antidepressants effects in DBS for depression! With @srheilbronner.bsky.social, @sameershethmd.bsky.social, @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social

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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

For many bilingual people, switching between languages feels effortless. Now, scientists have figured out how bilingual brains accomplish this feat at the single neuron level. spkl.io/633297EUXJ Xinyuan Yan, Benjamin, Y. Hayden, @sameershethmd.bsky.social & colleagues @cp-cell.bsky.social

first page of Cell paper: “Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons"

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BCM Neurosurgery @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

#NEWS: A team at @bcmhouston.bsky.social & #RiceUniversity, which includes #BCMNeurosurgery's @sameershethmd.bsky.social & @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social, has joined #BrainGate, a consortium of universities and academic medical centers working on creating brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies 🧠

“It is a momentous step for Baylor and Rice to join BrainGate and lend our expertise to this consortium’s work. The development of an implant capable of allowing people to control a robotic arm holds the power to transform the lives of people living with paralysis, restoring not only movement but also independence and hope.”

-Sameer Sheth, M.D., Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

“Our team’s rich experience decoding mood, motivation and emotion from human intracranial neural recordings will hopefully enable improved control of motor and speech effectors. We are excited to explore how fluctuations in cognitive signals may impact the ability to control neuroprotheses long-term.”

-Nicole Provenza, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

“My main research focus is building intracortical brain–computer interfaces, a rapidly expanding field, with the goal of helping people who are paralyzed and rely on care partners to restore independence in communication and activities of daily living.”

-Nishal Shah, Ph.D.

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BCM Neurosurgery @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“The brain has developed such amazing, sophisticated mechanisms for doing all these complex [language processing] tasks all day long, that it can do some of these things even without us being aware.” @sameershethmd.bsky.social explains more in a recent @nature.com article: tinyurl.com/2hf7jyn2

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From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Baylor College of Medicine recognizes #research excellence with #DeBakey Awards. @bcmhouston.bsky.social S. Hartig, Z. Liu, R. Kommagani, A. Lee and @sameershethmd.bsky.social @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social blogs.bcm.edu/2026/05/19/f...

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BCM Neurosurgery @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

#ICYMI: #BCMNeurosurgery's @sameershethmd.bsky.social and @benhayden.bsky.social are featured in Time, discussing their recent findings which suggest that the #brain is still capable of complex language processing, even while unconscious 🧠 Read more: tinyurl.com/mrxr753z

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The Brain Processes Language Even Under Anesthesia, a New Study Finds

It’s further proof that even fairly complex neural processes are not the same as consciousness.

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Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD @sameershethmd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Please welcome Marie Vallens, our new PhD student in QCB at BCM! Her BS in Physics (Biomedical) from Portland State, MS in Bioinformatics (Neuroinformatics) from JHU, and prior computational clinical neurotech experience inform her work in our lab on semantic encoding in the PFC.

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Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD @sameershethmd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Welcoming BCM QCB PhD student Minye Zhou to the lab! She earned her B.S. in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego and M.S. in Computational Biology & Quantitative Genetics from Harvard. Her research focuses on how the brain integrates multimodal inputs to support natural behavior.

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New paper from the lab! "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature

In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.

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BCM Neurosurgery @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

#NEWS: Motif Neurotech, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company co-founded by @sameershethmd.bsky.social, has received FDA approval for a first-in-human study to evaluate its Motif XCS System, offering hope for individuals living with treatment-resistant depression 🧠 → tinyurl.com/2v7txufr

“Treatment-resistant depression is one of the leading causes of disability and suicide in the U.S. and worldwide. Individuals with this condition have often tried a long list of medications and therapies and are still suffering. The RESONATE study gives us the opportunity to offer something genuinely new to people who have run out of options.”

Sameer Sheth, M.D., Ph.D.

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BCM Neurosurgery @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#NEWS: @sameershethmd.bsky.social has been named as one of this year's recipients of the prestigious @bcmhouston.bsky.social Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., Excellence in Research Award! The honor recognizes outstanding scientific contributions over the past three years. #BCMNeurosurgery

Sameer Sheth, M.D., Ph.D., has been named of the recipients of the prestigious Baylor College of Medicine Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., Excellence in Research Award.

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Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD @sameershethmd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Proud to share funding for our R01 (MH137102) as part of an outstanding MPI team, alongside Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and Parag Patil. Looking forward to advancing this important work at the intersection of neuroscience, ethics, and innovation. @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Excited to be posting updates from Brown today at this INCREDIBLE symposium organized by @wael-asaad.bsky.social+, focused on therapies for the most formidable conditions: depression, OCD, severe autism, disorders of consciousness & memory.

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Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD @sameershethmd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Congratulations to this outstanding team—our project on reward sensitivity through a cross-species circadian lens has been selected for funding. @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social

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Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD @sameershethmd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Congratulations to these med students who did a research year in our BCM Neuromodulation group and matched today! Very proud of all of you!! Wishing you great success in your training! Gabriel Reyes, Anthony Allam, Zain Naqvi, Kasra Mansourian, Davin Devara, Holden Bentley.

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Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD @sameershethmd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Excited to share our latest work in Operative Neurosurgery on using a combination procedure of open resection and responsive neurostimulation (RNS) for epilepsy. journals.lww.com/onsonline/fu... @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social

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Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD @sameershethmd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Great presentation today with neurosurgeon Jon Willie from @uthealthaustin.bsky.social at the @riceneuro.bsky.social Engineering Minds seminar, highlighting exciting work on amygdala neuromodulation for memory enhancement and PTSD.

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Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD @sameershethmd.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

What a pleasure to welcome Flip Sabes to BCM last week for a fascinating look at next-gen neuromodulation and the interface of academia and neurotech! @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social

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Marcin Leszczynski @marcin-leszcz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

1/3: What happens in the #brain when moving your eyes? Using closed-loop #EyeTracking with simultaneous intracranial #EEG in humans, we found that: *Saccades boost visual responses but reduce network connectivity. *Excitability changes and visual features are coded along the saccade–fixation cycle.

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