Humza Zubair, PhD

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! 👏

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-models/…

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!

@reemka_97 @JAMAOphth Awesome, congrats!

🖇️ Excited to share our work in @JAMAOphth! Our study highlights the early neurodevelopmental safety of anti-VEGF treatment in neonates with ROP, as well as the role of socioeconomic factors on neurodevelopmental outcomes in neonates screened for ROP. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao…

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

@QasimEtal @NIH @NIMHgov Congrats! Looking forward to more great work!

Thankful to have been awarded a K99/R00 by the @NIH @NIMHgov to study how reinforcement learning influences memory in the human brain using intracranial recordings and computational cognitive models. If you've been itching to hire someone who does these things, now's your chance!

@Avi_UCLA Congratulations!

I just got tenure at UCLA! Thank you to all lab members, our many wonderful colleagues and our funding sources!

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…

@RVillareal12 Really appreciate it! Thanks for coming by.

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