Nanthia Suthana

Excited to announce that I’ve been awarded an NRSA F30 from the NIMH! I’ll be studying neural mechanisms of avoidance/pursuit during human ambulatory navigation.

Special thanks to mentors @suthanalab.bsky.social, Dr Ausaf Bari, and the @dgsomucla.bsky.social
for support and guidance!

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😊 Thank you! Can’t wait 🤩

The lab is officially up & running at Duke! 🥳

Huge thanks to @dukemedschool.bsky.social for the amazing space, & to our lab team for getting everything installed & operational within a month 😅

Excited for what’s ahead!

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

Gigantic team effort that thanks to all the amazing collaborators and @simonsfoundation.org is now official.

Team NHP will use @anamanea.bsky.social tetris task across multiple labs. Stay tuned !

www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

Very excited to be part of this. Huge thank you to the @simonsfoundation.org for their support and vision.

www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...

Also, job openings in this context! Please apply and forward to anyone who may be interested!
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Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

We are excited to announce our new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE)! This program will unite experts in experimental and computational #neuroscience approaches to investigate how the brain represents sensorimotor interactions. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s... #science

🤩 So excited to work with this amazing team & @simonsfoundation.org to further Ecological Neuroscience #SCENE

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Thanks Marc! Excited to be here!

Thanks Mara! 🙏

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Thanks Nicole! 🙏

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Thanks Anne!

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It’s official-My lab has moved to Duke University! Excited to start as a Professor of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering and for the new collaborations and discoveries ahead.

Woah, huge congrats to Jay (Neurosurgery) and Sabrina (Head & Neck Surgery), former PhD students and lab members, on matching at Stanford! 🎉 What are the odds?! 🤯Stanford is incredibly lucky to have these two brilliant minds! 👏

U.S. BRAIN Initiative set to lose $81 million this year A government spending bill, approved today by the House of Representatives, allocates 20 percent less funding for the program than last year.

"This is a massive loss for neuroscience,” says Cory Miller.

By @avaskham.bsky.social

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Links 2 example research programs👇

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And example clinical trials👇

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In just 10 yrs, BRAIN has enabled human research I never thought possible, leading to first-in-human discoveries & breakthrough treatments for PTSD, Depression, OCD, Parkinson’s & more. For many of these patients, they will tell you it’s the reason they are alive today.

Without the BRAIN Initiative my lab & others doing human neuroscience research would not exist. Before BRAIN, only a few labs could do intracranial recording & stimulation studies. Now there are many, making breakthroughs & life changing treatments. This progress is at risk.

This means a loss of $81 million for Neuroscience, putting life-saving research at risk of being shut down. Read more here:

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I recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇

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The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…

Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

Suthana et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. They show that neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly. @suthanalab.bsky.social @seeber.bsky.social
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Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

🧠 Our new (NIH funded!) paper reveals how the brain creates internal dynamics during both real- and imagined navigation. We recorded directly from the human hippocampus as participants moved through physical space and when they mentally navigated imagined routes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

8/ Memory-guided navigation engages structured hippocampal theta, which persists into imagination → Spatial memory & mental simulation share neural mechanisms.

Thank you to NIH funding, 1st author @seeber.bsky.social, amazing lab team, & collaborators who made this possible!