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Nanthia Suthana

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Professor @ Duke U • Fascinated by the 🧠 • Studying Memory using Mobile Neurotechnologies & Wearables • SuthanaLab.com

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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Mar 10

🚨 New lab paper!🚨

A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social

We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

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Humza Zubair @humzazubair.bsky.social · May 13

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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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · May 5

Thanks! 😊

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · May 5

Thank you!

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · May 5

😊 Thank you! Can’t wait 🤩

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · May 5

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!

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Dr. Jan Zimmermann @janzimmermann.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

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Jean-Paul Noel @jpnoel.bsky.social · Apr 24

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!
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/367...

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · Apr 24

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

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · Apr 24

Delighted to see our new collaboration on ecological neuroscience 🧩🌿🧠 announced today! A huge ❤️🙏🏼 to @simonsfoundation.org

I’m so excited by this theory-driven question. It’s core to our research on adaptive intelligence & sensorimotor systems 🙌 #SCENE

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

Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience

The mission of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological NEuroscience (SCENE) is to understand how affordances offered by the world shape representations in the mind and the brain.

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you!

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

That is a great idea! I think it could work!

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you!

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks Marc! Excited to be here!

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks Mara! 🙏

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Haha yep! 🤩

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks Nicole! 🙏

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you, excited to be here!

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks Anne!

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you!

Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Apr 1

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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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Mar 21

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! 👏

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

By @avaskham.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-...

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.

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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Mar 12

Links 2 example research programs👇

www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/working-grou...

And example clinical trials👇

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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Mar 12

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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Nanthia Suthana @suthanalab.bsky.social · Mar 12

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.

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