My research asks what it means to modify the brain — and what those modifications do to the person inside it. I work across neurostimulation, memory systems, and the ethics of intervention, with a commitment to both mechanistic rigor and clinical relevance.
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01 — Systematic Review · 2024
Neuromodulation & Memory: A Systematic Review
Status: Active · In preparation
Evaluating the evidence base for neurostimulation interventions — TMS, tDCS, DBS — in modifying declarative and episodic memory across neurological and psychiatric populations. Structured around MDS-UPDRS and RAVLT outcome measures, this review maps a rapidly evolving field at the frontier of therapeutic intervention in Parkinson's disease, depression, and aging-related memory decline. Particular attention is paid to individual variability in response and the implications for personalized stimulation protocols.
02 — Clinical Research
Interventional Psychiatry: The Emerging Frontier
How neuromodulation is reshaping treatment-resistant depression, OCD, and PTSD — and what circuit-based therapies look like next. A clinical synthesis examining patient selection, protocol optimization, and biomarker-guided approaches.
03 — Theory & Ethics
The Relational Brain: Psychoanalysis Meets Neuroscience
How attachment theory and relational psychoanalysis interface with neurobiological accounts of interpersonal regulation and therapeutic change. An attempt to bridge disparate epistemologies of mind.
04 — Structural Biology
Molecular Targets in Psychiatric Disease
Doctoral research examining structural mechanisms of ion channel and receptor complexes relevant to mood, cognition, and the pharmacological substrates of psychiatric intervention.
05 — In Development
Biomarker-Guided TMS: From Population to Person
A conceptual framework for individualized brain stimulation using resting-state fMRI connectivity, EEG signatures, and structural imaging to inform target selection and protocol parameters.