Soha Farboud | So
PhD candidate @DondersInstitute 🧠 | Studying decision-making and ultrasonic stimulation in humans | Always happy when the sun is shining ☀️
- 👀 Look to your left! Look to your right! I just 'stimulated' your frontal eye fields (FEFs)! 🧠 In our latest study, we developed a temporally precise Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation (TUS) protocol to modulate the human FEFs & uncover new insights into brain function!👇 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- 🧠 A challenge in neuroscience: How do we establish causal brain-function relationships with spatial and temporal precision? We already know that TUS can target very focally, but now we show it’s also great for studying fast brain dynamics by developing a protocol to explore these effects. 🚀
- 🔑 Our key finding: TUS over the FEF excites saccadic behavior, effectively biasing saccades towards the contralateral side. 👀 This confirms that TUS can modulate decision-making circuits in humans in real time. 🔊🧠 More on that soon!
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View full threadThis was, of course, a team effort! A huge thank you to all the collaborators: @ben-kop.bsky.social, @reneecabbage.bsky.social, Solenn Walstra, José Marques, @achetverikov.bsky.social, @pmedendorp.bsky.social, @lennartverhagen.bsky.social, and Hanneke den Ouden 💛
