Serdar Akkol, MD PhD

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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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.

https://ow.ly/aNU450XZJsJ

#EpilepsyDay #AEDRegistry #FindingAnswers #pregnancy

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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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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!

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.

YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club George Mashour - Consciousness and the Dying Brain

The recording of George Mashour's talk "Consciousness and the dying brain" is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7o....

:( sad.

We're trying to honor the data as much as we can.

ripple researchers probably open this article with sweaty palms, because ripple detection with 77% false positives for standard processing sounds pretty bad... 😨

We have an interesting case of cardiac arrest brain death during intracranial EEG. Working on the last analysis, very interesting stuff. But we don't see this gamma surge.

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...

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...

This is fun! 🤓

Each patient is different and has to be approached individually!

@es

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 😁

My rough attempt at sorting people on this spectrum of epiphenomenal to causal...

The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them How to really think of every way of solving a problem

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...

Would love to listen to you live in the USA! 👍

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That's lovely. Curious to hear how you say CPS and your style were different and merged. Thank you again! Wondering if you have a post rock playlist you listen?

Thank you for sharing your passion! It's thoughtful and really a joy to listen. It has been a while since hearing post rock in this way. Please continue CPS for us to feel deep and endless happiness of the world on days of darkness. 😌 Would love to hear your post rock playlist as well!

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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Very interesting! #iEEG

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…

📢 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...

Learned a lot thanks to my wonderful co-authors, @akashmishra.bsky.social, Noah Markowitz, Elizabeth Espinal, Menoua Keshishian, Charles Schroeder, @nimail.bsky.social and my PhD advisors @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta. Happy to discuss more! Here's the free access link:

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We believe our findings support the neural entrainment of oscillations during speech perception by acoustic edges. This is just another drop in the bucket of the vast literature on the neural oscillations. There is more to look and much to debate.