CNE Seminar Series
September 3, 2025 @ 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm
W-306 Millennium Science Complex, University Park, PA 16802, USA
University Park
Featuring:
Xiaoxiao Sun
Assistant Research Professor Biomedical Engineering, Penn State
Toward Precision Medicine: Brain Rhythms-Guided Brain–Computer Interfaces for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders
Brain rhythms offer new opportunities to improve how we understand and treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. In depression, we developed a closed-loop brain stimulation approach that uses EEG and fMRI to personalize transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). By timing stimulation to each person’s brain rhythms, we observed stronger and longer-lasting clinical benefits, along with clear neural markers of treatment response. In Parkinson’s disease, EEG-based brain connectivity patterns distinguished patients from healthy individuals more reliably than behavior alone. Together, these studies show how brain rhythms can guide next-generation brain-computer interfaces for precision medicine.
Contact
Rebecca Benson
rle4@psu.edu