ANUP DAS

Neuroscientist working at the intersection of computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, brain stimulation, AI/ML and signal processing.

[ANUP DAS @NeuroAnup]

New preprint on the role of insular traveling waves in memory and behavior, using depth recordings from neurosurgical patients, with Chengyuan Wu, @SameerShethMD, and @neurojosh.

https://t.co/snnhnt1uEH

[University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute @UChicago_Brains]

#NeuroNews New research led by Professor Joshua Jacobs (Department of Neurology) on brain waves could help doctors treat cognitive decline.

https://t.co/ELcIdNORR7

[Inc. @Inc]

New research shows brain waves travel in distinct shapes—and those patterns could one day help doctors strengthen memory and treat cognitive decline. https://t.co/ZL4SkbW8jM

[University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute @UChicago_Brains]

#NeuroNews New research from UChicago and the University of Pittsburgh shows how the brain creates distinct patterns of activity as it processes memories.

https://t.co/fbDj9eUj6n

[ANUP DAS @NeuroAnup]

Spirals, sources, sinks, and planes: What brain waves can tell us about memory | Biological Sciences Division | The University of Chicago https://t.co/gkb0IarpTk

[Mohamad Bydon, M.D. @MohamadBydon]

Your brain has a memory fingerprint.

New research @UChicago in Nature Communications shows that as you form and recall memories, your brain produces distinct geometric wave patterns — spirals, concentric rings, radiating pulses — unique to each person.

Scientists could predict what someone was memorizing from wave shape alone 70% of the time.

The goal: use this to restore memory in Alzheimer’s patients via targeted brain stimulation.

https://t.co/36Xcil7FO5

#Neuroscience #Alzheimers #UChicago

[ANUP DAS @NeuroAnup]

Spirals, sources, sinks, and planes: What brain waves can tell us about memory | Biological Sciences Division | The University of Chicago https://t.co/gkb0IarpTk

[KEIO SFC 牛山潤一研究室 @Ushiyama_Lab]

Nat Comm 2026より
記憶課題中のヒト脳活動が、まっすぐ進む波だけでなく、渦巻きや同心円状の波としてtravelすることを報告。さらに、その波の形は行動状態や記憶内容とも関連していました
脳内の情報の動き方を示している可能性を示唆しています
H.S
https://t.co/y7WUd4iIxI

[CLaE @leafs_s]

Nature Communications

Planar, spiral, and concentric traveling waves distinguish behavioral states in human memory

https://t.co/3JAf4xjaE2

[Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA @GrantHBrennerMD]

Areas of the brain - like the hippocampus and cortex - have traveling waves, moving patterns which maintain a coherence over space and time.

I can imagine they have critical importance, beyond being reflective of neural activity - significance for agentic and/or functional activity on the meso level of networks, circuits, patterns. Some more large-scale, some more particular.

In a broad sense, they are very much reminiscent of ocean currents.

Naturally I am curious about the interventional psychiatry implications e.g. for TMS - hippocampal theta waves reflect one of the common theta burst stimulation patterns.

https://t.co/KT4BpxCFYN #neuroscience #memory

[Olga Budnik @hellobudnik]

Spontaneous neuronal oscillations in the human insula are hierarchically organized traveling waves #NeuroTwitter #Brain #Mind #CEMI https://t.co/61SfLOK9qz

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

Spontaneous Neuronal Oscillations in the Human Insula are Hierarchically Organized Traveling Waves https://t.co/3iFFdxJciU #bioRxiv

[Natalie Geld @NatalieGeld]

Spontaneous neuronal oscillations in the human insula are hierarchically organized traveling waves

https://t.co/biBBiEanEk

[CLaE @leafs_s]

Preprint

https://t.co/1Pbdj7VX5m

[Adalwolf @Berobreo]

distributed brain regions. Such mechanisms enable the dynamic integration required for complex cognitive functions like memory. Overall the findings establish traveling waves as a key neural substrate for behavioral state dependent coordination at the cortical level.

[Adalwolf @Berobreo]

The observed wave patterns correlate strongly with novel behavioral aspects including specific cortical processes and individual remembered items. This diversity of large scale cortical traveling wave patterns underscores their critical role in flexible coordination between

[Adalwolf @Berobreo]

memory tasks performed by human subjects. Direct intracranial recordings provided the data for detailed analysis across multiple memory experiments. A flexible analytical framework quantified the spatial patterns of wave propagation throughout the cortex.

[Adalwolf @Berobreo]

Traveling waves of neural oscillations propagate across the human cortex not only as simple plane waves but also in spiral, concentric, source, sink and more complex spatial patterns. These distinct propagation forms reliably distinguish different behavioral states in

[Adalwolf @Berobreo]

Planar, spiral, and concentric traveling waves distinguish behavioral states in human memory | Nature Communications https://t.co/0dsvRljJiL

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Have I mentioned that cognition is rhythmic?
Planar, spiral, and concentric traveling waves distinguish behavioral states in human memory
https://t.co/CFuGPUugGs
#neuroscience

[ジャーナル倶楽部 @journal_clubs]

Planar, spiral, and concentric traveling waves distinguish behavioral states in human memory
Anup Das, Erfan Zabeh, Bard Ermentrout, et al.
https://t.co/pOag4fdsnq
脳の移動波パターンが行動や記憶とどう結びついているかを解明する革新的な研究が進行中！

この研究は、脳の広範な領域がどのように相互作用して行動をサポートするのかを探るもので、特に「移動波」と呼ばれる脳波のパターンに注目しています。研究者たちは、人間が記憶実験を行う際の脳の直接的な記録を使用し、さまざまな移動波の传播パターンを分析しました。その結果、脳の皮質を移動する波は、平面波や螺旋、源と沈殿などの複雑なパターンを持ち、それぞれが特定の行動や思い出されたアイテムと関連していることがわかりました。この研究は、脳内の広範な移動波のパターンが神経活動を理解するための重要な手がかりとなることを示しています。