Nanthia Suthana
@suthanalab.bsky.social
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
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...
www.nature.com
🚨 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...
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...
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Yes! Let's have more discussion about the big things holding back neurosci so we can rally to find solutions.
I agree with @suthanalab.bsky.social that silos across species in both measures and the uptake of results into theories is on the "big problems" short list.
What do you see as solutions?
I agree with @suthanalab.bsky.social that silos across species in both measures and the uptake of results into theories is on the "big problems" short list.
What do you see as solutions?
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 this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Neuroscience has a species problem
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 18, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Yes! Let's have more discussion about the big things holding back neurosci so we can rally to find solutions.
I agree with @suthanalab.bsky.social that silos across species in both measures and the uptake of results into theories is on the "big problems" short list.
What do you see as solutions?
I agree with @suthanalab.bsky.social that silos across species in both measures and the uptake of results into theories is on the "big problems" short list.
What do you see as solutions?
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If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Neuroscience has a species problem
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 16, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought, writes @suthanalab.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
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 this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Neuroscience has a species problem
If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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 this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
It’s fragmentation across species. I wrote this to hopefully spark discussion around an issue that can only be solved as a community👇
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings.
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
February 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings.
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...
You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!
Was a honor to give this SfN Special Lecture & share 10 yrs of work from the lab on its 10th anniversary! Thankful to the incredible lab members, collaborators & participant volunteers who made this work possible. Link to video recording here👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhD...
Nanthia Suthana- From Foraging to Flashbacks-The Neural Basis of Spatial Memory & Mental Time Travel
YouTube video by Suthana Lab
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January 13, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Was a honor to give this SfN Special Lecture & share 10 yrs of work from the lab on its 10th anniversary! Thankful to the incredible lab members, collaborators & participant volunteers who made this work possible. Link to video recording here👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhD...
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Meet us in Berlin for the 6th International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) Conference, taking place August 25–28, 2026, at the historic Hotel Oderberger in the heart of Berlin, Germany.
#MoBI2026 #MoBI #mobileEEG #mobileNIRS
#MoBI2026 #MoBI #mobileEEG #mobileNIRS
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October 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Meet us in Berlin for the 6th International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) Conference, taking place August 25–28, 2026, at the historic Hotel Oderberger in the heart of Berlin, Germany.
#MoBI2026 #MoBI #mobileEEG #mobileNIRS
#MoBI2026 #MoBI #mobileEEG #mobileNIRS
Excited to give a Special Lecture at #SfN2025 in San Diego (Nov 15-19)!
Proud of our current & former lab members presenting so posters and talks this year 🧠 ✨ See our schedule below! #Neuroscience #SuthanaLab
Proud of our current & former lab members presenting so posters and talks this year 🧠 ✨ See our schedule below! #Neuroscience #SuthanaLab
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Excited to give a Special Lecture at #SfN2025 in San Diego (Nov 15-19)!
Proud of our current & former lab members presenting so posters and talks this year 🧠 ✨ See our schedule below! #Neuroscience #SuthanaLab
Proud of our current & former lab members presenting so posters and talks this year 🧠 ✨ See our schedule below! #Neuroscience #SuthanaLab
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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!
Special thanks to mentors @suthanalab.bsky.social, Dr Ausaf Bari, and the @dgsomucla.bsky.social
for support and guidance!
May 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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!
Special thanks to mentors @suthanalab.bsky.social, Dr Ausaf Bari, and the @dgsomucla.bsky.social
for support and guidance!
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!
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!
May 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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!
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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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...
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
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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...
Team NHP will use @anamanea.bsky.social tetris task across multiple labs. Stay tuned !
www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/04/24/s...
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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...
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
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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...
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...
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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
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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
🤩 So excited to work with this amazing team & @simonsfoundation.org to further Ecological Neuroscience #SCENE
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...
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
April 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🤩 So excited to work with this amazing team & @simonsfoundation.org to further Ecological Neuroscience #SCENE
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.
April 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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.
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! 👏
March 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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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"This is a massive loss for neuroscience,” says Cory Miller.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-...
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.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"This is a massive loss for neuroscience,” says Cory Miller.
By @avaskham.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-...
By @avaskham.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-...
I recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
https://braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/bl…
March 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
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Suthana et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. They show that neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly. @suthanalab.bsky.social @seeber.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Suthana et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. They show that neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly. @suthanalab.bsky.social @seeber.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧠 Our new (NIH funded!) paper reveals how the brain creates internal dynamics during both real- and imagined navigation. We recorded directly from the human hippocampus as participants moved through physical space and when they mentally navigated imagined routes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🧠 Our new (NIH funded!) paper reveals how the brain creates internal dynamics during both real- and imagined navigation. We recorded directly from the human hippocampus as participants moved through physical space and when they mentally navigated imagined routes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 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...
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...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🚨 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...
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...
Reposted by Nanthia Suthana
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
March 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
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I'm pleased to report that the board has now heard from NIH that the appointments of these three investigators and similarly situated folks are being extended. Thank you NIH! Delighted that the stellar work there will be continuing!
Compelling pushback from @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH) regarding termination of tenure-track investigators driven by DOGE.
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March 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'm pleased to report that the board has now heard from NIH that the appointments of these three investigators and similarly situated folks are being extended. Thank you NIH! Delighted that the stellar work there will be continuing!
My research wouldn’t be possible without NIH & 🧠 Initiative funding.
I will be sharing this at an upcoming congressional briefing alongside Adam, a combat veteran with PTSD, who hugely benefitted from our NIH-funded clinical trial. Everyone is welcome. For more on Adam’s story👇 & to Register here:
I will be sharing this at an upcoming congressional briefing alongside Adam, a combat veteran with PTSD, who hugely benefitted from our NIH-funded clinical trial. Everyone is welcome. For more on Adam’s story👇 & to Register here:
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Future of the BRAIN Initiative: Sustaining Global Leadership in Neuroscience Research After a Decade of Discovery. After registering, you will receive a...
Join the American Brain Coalition, American Academy of Neurology, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and Society for Neuroscience, in cooperation with the Congressional Neuroscience for a vi...
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February 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
My research wouldn’t be possible without NIH & 🧠 Initiative funding.
I will be sharing this at an upcoming congressional briefing alongside Adam, a combat veteran with PTSD, who hugely benefitted from our NIH-funded clinical trial. Everyone is welcome. For more on Adam’s story👇 & to Register here:
I will be sharing this at an upcoming congressional briefing alongside Adam, a combat veteran with PTSD, who hugely benefitted from our NIH-funded clinical trial. Everyone is welcome. For more on Adam’s story👇 & to Register here:
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Please join us at our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 2025 Workshop on Navigation under Uncertainty, organized by Máté Lengyel (Cambridge & CEU) and myself, and taking place on March 31 in the Fairmont Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant, Canada. #neuroskyence 🧠
February 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Please join us at our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social 2025 Workshop on Navigation under Uncertainty, organized by Máté Lengyel (Cambridge & CEU) and myself, and taking place on March 31 in the Fairmont Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant, Canada. #neuroskyence 🧠
Proud to be one of many who contributed to this important article.
With typical postdocs joining labs in their 30s & staying 6 yrs, combined with low pay, the impact on women wanting to start a family is real. No wonder I waited to have my first child as a new PI. #Postdocs #WomenInScience
With typical postdocs joining labs in their 30s & staying 6 yrs, combined with low pay, the impact on women wanting to start a family is real. No wonder I waited to have my first child as a new PI. #Postdocs #WomenInScience
Static pay, shrinking prospects fuel neuroscience postdoc decline
Postdoctoral researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health now toil longer than ever before, for less money. They are responding accordingly.
www.thetransmitter.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Proud to be one of many who contributed to this important article.
With typical postdocs joining labs in their 30s & staying 6 yrs, combined with low pay, the impact on women wanting to start a family is real. No wonder I waited to have my first child as a new PI. #Postdocs #WomenInScience
With typical postdocs joining labs in their 30s & staying 6 yrs, combined with low pay, the impact on women wanting to start a family is real. No wonder I waited to have my first child as a new PI. #Postdocs #WomenInScience