Serdar Akkol, MD PhD
@sakkol.bsky.social
PGY4 @uabneurores, PhD'22 @NorthwellHealth, postdoc'19 @StanfordMed, MD'18 Cerrahpaşa, @lindaunobel'18, neurology-neuroscience, epilepsy, iEEG
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Just posted, "The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them" a follow-up to our previous essay on the "tiling tree" method for thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem, by Claire Wang, Nina Khera, and myself. engineeringx.substack.com/p/the-tiling...
The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them
How to really think of every way of solving a problem
engineeringx.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just posted, "The Tiling Tree Method, Part 2: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them" a follow-up to our previous essay on the "tiling tree" method for thinking of all the possible solutions to a problem, by Claire Wang, Nina Khera, and myself. engineeringx.substack.com/p/the-tiling...
Recently discovered @kerrymuzzey.bsky.social's post-rock project Candlepark Stars and I'm loving it. Been a while since I heard something like this. Much like Mono (Japan), @hammockmusic.bsky.social's "Departure Songs" or @explosionsinthesky.bsky.social! Thank you! open.spotify.com/artist/2o532...
Spotify – Web Player
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September 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Recently discovered @kerrymuzzey.bsky.social's post-rock project Candlepark Stars and I'm loving it. Been a while since I heard something like this. Much like Mono (Japan), @hammockmusic.bsky.social's "Departure Songs" or @explosionsinthesky.bsky.social! Thank you! open.spotify.com/artist/2o532...
Very interesting! #iEEG
New manuscript from the lab!
"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"
Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening"
Led by superstar grad student Anilu Chavez (not on Bluesky)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mirror manifolds: partially overlapping neural subspaces for speaking and listening
Participants in conversations need to associate words their speakers but also retain those words general meanings. For example, someone talking about their hand is not referring to the other speakers ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Very interesting! #iEEG
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📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta!
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta!
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta!
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
📢 Our paper published!! One of my PhD projects with @stephanbickel.bsky.social and Ashesh Mehta!
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
We tried to give a more nuanced picture of speech perception using #iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025
#iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025
#iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings"
Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025
#iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Akkol and colleagues, Progress in Neurobiology 2025
#iEEG
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12 people had intracranial electrodes & listened to natural speech oscillatory -> speech edge induced activity persisted after evoked responses thus ...neural entrainment?
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings
Humans live in an environment that contains rich auditory stimuli, which must be processed efficiently. The entrainment of neural oscillations to acou…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Neural entrainment by speech in human auditory cortex revealed by intracranial recordings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12 people had intracranial electrodes & listened to natural speech oscillatory -> speech edge induced activity persisted after evoked responses thus ...neural entrainment?
Timely review of the HFA based functional mapping of cortical functions. There some more stuff to do:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
A critical review of high‐frequency activity for functional mapping in SEEG
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September 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Timely review of the HFA based functional mapping of cortical functions. There some more stuff to do:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Conversation Mapping in Action!
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/new-method-s...
#HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology
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#HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology
New Method Simplifies Brain Evaluations for Planning Epilepsy Surgery - Research Horizons
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September 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Conversation Mapping in Action!
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/new-method-s...
#HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology
scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/new-method-s...
#HGM #Epilepsy #Neurosurgery #iEEG #Neurophysiology
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As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field.
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Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
It feels like the introductions of new papers became a long abstract. There is background. There is method and results in the last paragraph. I guess the scientific writing is evolving..
September 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It feels like the introductions of new papers became a long abstract. There is background. There is method and results in the last paragraph. I guess the scientific writing is evolving..
Juggling 3 manuscript submissions/revisions, doing analyses and writing manuscript on another project, writing an abstract for a case report... All the while not missing the clinical duties. I feel welcomed to the #physician-scientist life 😮💨 Is this how it'll be the rest of my career? 🫣
I hope so 😁
I hope so 😁
a man in a suit and tie says all i can do right now is put on a brave face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says all i can do right now is put on a brave face .
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September 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Juggling 3 manuscript submissions/revisions, doing analyses and writing manuscript on another project, writing an abstract for a case report... All the while not missing the clinical duties. I feel welcomed to the #physician-scientist life 😮💨 Is this how it'll be the rest of my career? 🫣
I hope so 😁
I hope so 😁
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Amazing resource ⚡️ 🧠
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Amazing resource ⚡️ 🧠
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-neuron datasets for linguistic and semantic processing in the human amygdala and hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We’re happy to present @zspald.bsky.social 's work on shared neural representations of speech production across individuals! We find that patient-specific data can be aligned to a shared space that preserves speech information, enabling cross-patient speech BCIs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
We’re happy to present @zspald.bsky.social 's work on shared neural representations of speech production across individuals! We find that patient-specific data can be aligned to a shared space that preserves speech information, enabling cross-patient speech BCIs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Quite thoughtful questions and answers on the way to AGI. For AGI to be "general", it needs to be grounded in physical systems and to interact with environment. And this will not always give results we want. Just like raising a child. @barbarikon.bsky.social
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aliminai.substack.com/p/bounded-al...
Bounded Alignment: What (Not) To Expect from AGI Agents
On July 2, I presented a paper entitled, “Position Paper: Bounded Alignment: What (Not) To Expect From AGI Agents” at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’2025) in Rome. Though...
aliminai.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Quite thoughtful questions and answers on the way to AGI. For AGI to be "general", it needs to be grounded in physical systems and to interact with environment. And this will not always give results we want. Just like raising a child. @barbarikon.bsky.social
aliminai.substack.com/p/bounded-al...
aliminai.substack.com/p/bounded-al...
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A summary of NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's comments during his visit to UAB today for a town hall style presentation:
-Important for scientific work addressing our nation's health problems to be done in the same communities where those problems are concentrated
-Important for scientific work addressing our nation's health problems to be done in the same communities where those problems are concentrated
August 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
A summary of NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's comments during his visit to UAB today for a town hall style presentation:
-Important for scientific work addressing our nation's health problems to be done in the same communities where those problems are concentrated
-Important for scientific work addressing our nation's health problems to be done in the same communities where those problems are concentrated
Words of wisdom from Dr. Kimford Meador on changing landscape of research and education in the academic centers!
"Time for Education and Research in Academic Neurology"
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
"Time for Education and Research in Academic Neurology"
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
Time for Education and Research in Academic Neurology | Neurology
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August 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Words of wisdom from Dr. Kimford Meador on changing landscape of research and education in the academic centers!
"Time for Education and Research in Academic Neurology"
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
"Time for Education and Research in Academic Neurology"
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
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🚨 New Preprint 🚨
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
***
Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
🧵:
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
***
Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
🧵:
August 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🚨 New Preprint 🚨
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
***
Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
🧵:
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
***
Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
🧵:
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🔥Damn. Tour de force.
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667730v1
August 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🔥Damn. Tour de force.
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How does the human brain process the continuous world around us and transform it into distinct memories? Our latest research, recently published in Science Advances @science.org, uncovers how brain waves called high frequency oscillations (HFOs) may support this amazing feat! (1/n)
August 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
How does the human brain process the continuous world around us and transform it into distinct memories? Our latest research, recently published in Science Advances @science.org, uncovers how brain waves called high frequency oscillations (HFOs) may support this amazing feat! (1/n)
🧠🤖 We're hiring! The @UCSF NeuroAI Lab @UCSFmac seeks a Data Scientist to join our interdisciplinary team developing AI Voice Agents for neurology healthcare.
Details here:
neuroailab.ucsf.edu/careers/rese...
Details here:
neuroailab.ucsf.edu/careers/rese...
Research Data Analyst - AI Voice Agents in Neurodegenerative Disease Care
neuroailab.ucsf.edu
July 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639
July 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639
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🧠 ⚡️ Preprint alert ⚡️ 🧠
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
June 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🧠 ⚡️ Preprint alert ⚡️ 🧠
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
"Number of vital checks to result in one urgent action was 730. If vitals were normal during the day, this number was 1856." 😱 Commentary from Dr. Jobst on Ellis et al.
"Number of vital checks to result in one urgent action was 730. If vitals were normal during the day, this number was 1856." 😱 Commentary from Dr. Jobst on Ellis et al.
Let Our Patients Sleep | Neurology Clinical Practice
www.neurology.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
"Number of vital checks to result in one urgent action was 730. If vitals were normal during the day, this number was 1856." 😱 Commentary from Dr. Jobst on Ellis et al.
"Number of vital checks to result in one urgent action was 730. If vitals were normal during the day, this number was 1856." 😱 Commentary from Dr. Jobst on Ellis et al.