@SuthanaLab

Professor @ Duke University fascinated by the 🧠. Studying memory using mobile neurotechnologies & wearables

 Durham, NC
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Joined March 2015
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Big news! 🎉 The lab will be moving to Duke University in 2025 where I will serve as a tenured Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery & Biomedical Engineering!
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Denise J. Cai, Ph.D.@denisejcai
Apr 21
We held another incredible Memory Hub meeting last week, featuring @SuthanaLab and @antferrui, who presented their creative topic "One Rhythm, Two Species? Rethinking the functional role(s) of hippocampal theta" 🧠 🤓 Thanks for coming out, everyone!
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New lab paper! 🧠 Human hippocampal & MTL theta activity is linked to eye movements, but only during memory-guided navigation. Theta is also strongest during longer, more exploratory eye movements. plos.io/4dwJhR8 Huge congrats to @humza_n_zubair & team! 👏
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May help explain cross-species differences. In rodents, hippocampal theta is more continuous & linked 2 mov’t speed, while in humans it is intermittent, possibly because it aligns with discrete, eye movement, related exploratory behavior rather than movement speed as we show here
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The biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now isn’t data or tools, thanks in large part to the BRAIN Initiative. It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote👇 to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community thetransmitter.org/animal-mo…

Neuroscience has a species problem

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

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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-…... You can also email [email protected]. Please share!
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Was a honor to give this SfN Special Lecture & share 10 yrs of work from the lab on its 10th anniversary! Thankful to the incredible lab members, collaborators & participant volunteers who made this work possible. Link to video recording here👇 youtube.com/watch?v=TVhDD2or…

Nanthia Suthana- From Foraging to Flashbacks-The Neural Basis of...

Special Lecture given at SfN 2025, San Diego, California by Nanthia...

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Nanthia Suthana studies the neural mechanisms of cognition and behavior. The @SuthanaLab at Duke Neurosurg. is using using advanced neuroimaging and electrophysiology technologies to investigate and treat neurological and psychiatric disorders. #PTSD neurosurgery.duke.edu/news/l…
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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!
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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.
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Jay Gill@_iamjay
22 Mar 2025
Absolutely thrilled to be joining @StanfordNsurg! This dream has been decades in the making, made possible by the support and sacrifices of so many. Grateful beyond words- hope to make you proud and hope to make a difference!
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Congrats to former PhD student & lab member Sabrina Maoz!! 🥳👏🎉 Stanford is lucky to have you!
Stanford Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery@StanfordOHNS
21 Mar 2025
Match Day 2025! Please help us congratulate and welcome the newest members of our Stanford OHNS family! We can't wait to welcome you to "The Farm"! Congratulations to all in the Match today! 🩺🎉🥼 ⁠ ⁠ #stanfordmatch #stanfordohns #stanfordmed
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Congrats former PhD student & lab member @_iamjay !! 🥳🎉 Stanford is so lucky to have you!
Stanford Neurosurgery@StanfordNsurg
21 Mar 2025
Today is Match Day! We are so excited to announce the newest additions to the Stanford Neurosurgery residency program! Welcome to the farm!🌲 Maria Bederson, MS Jay Gill, PhD Astrid Hengartner Pavan Shah #Match2025 #stanford #neurosurgery #stanfordneurosurgery
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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👇 braininitiative.nih.gov/news… The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…

The BRAIN Initiative

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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.
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See links to example research in human programs👇 imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/worki… And example papers from clinical trials👇 nature.com/articles/s41467-0… nature.com/articles/s41586-0… nature.com/articles/s41591-0… nature.com/articles/s41591-0… nature.com/articles/s41591-0… nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
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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 @m_seeber nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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5/ Between trials, @m_seeber had them walk on a treadmill. Sometimes they could think about anything (control trials); other times, they were explicitly told to imagine walking the same paths. 💭
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7/ Participants wore eye-tracking headsets 👀. When walking right-turn-only paths, they made more rightward eye movements, and leftward for left-turn paths. Even during imagination, their eyes still followed a similar pattern! 🤯⬅️➡️
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8/ Memory-guided navigation engages structured hippocampal theta, which persists into imagination → Spatial memory & mental simulation share neural mechanisms. Thank you NIH funding, 1st author @m_seeber, amazing lab team, collaborators, & participants who made this possible!
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