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Applied neuroscience lab studying ways to accelerate learning, improve performance and make the world a better place.

San Diego, CA
Joined January 2019
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Neuroplasticity is everything. It is how we learn and acquire skills, but also at the root of many psychiatric disorders. Excited to share our new review on the neuroplasticity of mental health authored with @Zafirisj, @StolzLouise, & Ali Shenasa nature.com/articles/s41386-0…
I learned so much at the NYC Neuromodulation conference this weekend #NNN2022. Thank you for organizing @MaromBikson. So many inspiring talks. Looking forward to next year's conference!
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Hi Twiterverse... please help me spread the word that we are looking to hire a Clinical Research Coordinator to contribute to our #neuroscience studies using #TMS, #fMRI, and #EEG to study treatments for mood disorders. LMK if you are interested ... optilab.net/jobs.html
Fantastic! Marom has done it again. He explains such a big ideas in such intuitive ways and here within has provided us the blueprint for making human machine interface everything we want it to be. This is required reading for my lab
My essay "What Silicon Valley needs to know about the brain, and what it doesn't" in @neuromodec They want to plug into your brain, literally. But proposed devices look like productized versions of academic R&D. So whats the secret sauce for breakthroughs?neuromodec.org/2021/11/what-…
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Join us for the 48th Annual Louis B. Flexner Lecture as part of the “Year of Neuromodulation” Seminar Series, sponsored by the Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences and the brainSTIM Center, on Wednesday, November 3rd at 4:00 pm (Virtual) bluejeans.com/9789833127
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Excited to have Louise Nicosa speak @ ISVA Conference (2/20-21 LIVE; On Demand to 4/10), courtesy of @FitLight. Louisa is a Sydney U. trained clinical neuroscientist who works 1 on 1 with pro NBA, MLS & NHL players to enhance peak brain performance. isva2021.com
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Call for papers -- Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise in Elite Performers frontiersin.org/research-top… If you do neuroscience research with expert athletes, surgeons, pilots, soldiers or others, consider submitting here. Deadline 4/31/21
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In a first-of-its-kind study co-authored by Duke Psychiatry's @GregAppelbaum a concerted training regimen for the eyes showed potential to help athletes and others improve coordination skills: ow.ly/wNTJ50AF64R @DukeHealth @DukeATHLETICS @DukeBASE @MLB
Excited to share our new paper reporting a first-of-kind, pre-registered, placebo-controlled trial showing vision training improves baseball performance. Small win for showing improved batting. Big win for applying rigorous clinical trial methodology. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Excited to share this new article showing that pre-season vision evaluations are able to predict batting propensities in pro ballers. @DukeOptiLab Visual and oculomotor abilities predict professional baseball batting performance tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Thrilled to have been a guest on the P&A podcast! Thanks for the invite and the stimulating conversation, Rob.
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P&A Podcast #183 – Interview with @GregAppelbaum Duke University, Sports Vision Testing and Training, Brain & Behavior buff.ly/2wGKxPT
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