Humza Zubair

Excited to announce that I’ve been awarded an NRSA F30 grant from @NIMHgov ! To study neural mechanisms of avoidance/pursuit during human ambulatory navigation. Special thanks to mentors @SuthanaLab @ausaf and all with the @uclacaltechmstp @dgsomucla for support and guidance!

Stress can either forge resilience or trigger depression. A captivating @Nature study reveals that a hippocampal-amygdala pathway encodes the resilience trait, and stimulating this circuit can even reverse stress-induced depression.

🚨 New lab paper!🚨 Dream study of mine for 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @m_seeber We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4156…

The LA fires hit the Caltech community pretty hard, including my brilliant MD/PhD student George Daghlian, whose family lost their home. 🥹 I'm glad to be able to help, and grateful to so many friends assisting however they can! 💪 gofundme.com/f/daghlian-fam…

New lab preprint! "Human Neural Dynamics of Real-World & Imagined Navigation” Theta oscillations in the human medial temporal lobe occur in short, critically timed bouts during walking. What about during imagined walking? Find out here: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… 🧵

So Cal friends: UCLA’s BRI is hosting a free, day-long learning and memory symposium on Monday 3/11. I’m excited to speak alongside a list of amazing scientists! 🤓🧠👩🏼‍🔬 Hope to see you there! bri.ucla.edu/iclm-home/even…

A paper from my PhD is officially out today at @NatureNeuro where @SumnerLN and I demonstrate a closed-loop ultrasound-based brain-machine interface (BMI)!! Link to paper - nature.com/articles/s4159… A #tweetprint. 🧵1/12

Come see what the @InmanLab has been up to at SfN Sunday and Monday! You'll hear about direct brain stimulation, memory, eye tracking, and hippocampal recordings in humans during real-world navigation!

Thank you @BUCollegeofENG, I can't wait to join! Also, I will be hiring at all levels: please get in touch if you are interested in human cognition, multimodal neuroimaging, and neurotechnology! Find out more about the lab's focus and methods here: spr.ly/6019PFv7J

Had a great time with the grad school panel at the Amgen Scholar program! #amgenscholars

Our team is working on a novel option for #PTSD patients who didn’t respond to current treatments. We describe our approach in this post in time for our recent paper and #PTSDAwarenessMonth. neurosciencecommunity.nature.com/posts/explorin…

I’ll be presenting my work on eye movements and memory processing with the @SuthanaLab from 1-3PM @LEARNMEM. Stop by if you’re at the conference!

Suthana lab will be @LEARNMEM this week! Check out our posters by @sabrinalevymaoz @MatStangl & @humza_n_zubair related to intracranial recordings in freely moving humans & a talk by @IM_Inman on real-world navigation. Looking forward to seeing everyone! #LEARNMEM2023

Having a phenomenal experience at #MyFirstAANS

Excited to share our new article in @NatRevNeurosci on novel methods to record brain activity of freely moving humans in the 'real world', and how these methods could transform cognitive neuroscience in the years to come. nature.com/articles/s4158… @SuthanaLab & @sabrinalevymaoz

New development from our lab. Looking forward to seeing this in use!

Thrilled to share our latest work on @biorxivpreprint demonstrating the first real-time closed-loop ultrasonic brain-machine interface (#BMI)! 🔊🧠-->🎮🖥️ Paper link - biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A #tweetprint. 🧵1/n

Always good to run into home colleagues @ausaf @humza_n_zubair at @SfNtweets @dgsomucla @uclacaltechmstp #MedTwitter

Watch the magic of deep brain stimulation that inspired me to be a neurosurgeon. It’s like a light switch…and here you see the before and after side by side.