Danielle DeSouza

Neuroscientist | 🧠 MRI, pain, migraine, brain stimulation, depression, digital health | Cat&dog mom | She/her.

[JAMA Neurology @JAMANeuro]

A novel cortical biomarker can accurately distinguish high and low pain-sensitive individuals and may predict the transition from acute to chronic pain. https://t.co/0TvfbSodaV

[Sharena Rice, PhD @sharenarice]

🧠 There are so many innovations in innervation!

Steven Veld, @naveen101, and I brought an accessible article on neuromodulation techniques to life in NEUROTECH FUTURES!

Nods of Neuromod: Neuromodulation Techniques: https://t.co/YSgSufOLbW

Here, we discuss various neuromodulation technologies, as well as companies producing them.

Thank you, @NeuroDanielle, Victor Pikov, and @JoshuaAlanCain, for sharing your insights through stimulating conversations.

⚡️ Neuromodulation goes beyond electrifying!
🧲 Some forms use magnets.
✨ Some modes use photonics.
🤝 Some techniques even shake things up!

#neuromodulation #neurotech #neuroscience #neurotechnology #brainhealth

[Dave Seminowicz @daspainbrain.bsky.social @daspainbrain]

new postdoc position available with me and Siobhan Schabrun on an NIH funded study validated brain based biomarkers in chronic pain. contact me with informal inquiries.

https://t.co/0U4KTnAjLC

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

Thanks for joining us!
@sharenarice 🌳

[Sharena Rice, PhD @sharenarice]

☀️🏡 Last week's Open House at @AcaciaClinics in Sunnyvale, CA made for truly stimulating discussions!

🧠 Discussions on brain stimulations that do not involve surgery nor drugs, yet are treatment options for treatment-resistant depression.

Noah DeGaetano, MD and David Carreon gave tours of the facility!
They discussed and demonstrated how their machines worked.
With accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), treatment-resistant depression can be over with five days of treatment -- in 77% of people!

Danielle DeSouza MSc, PhD discussed the research at Acacia!
Nathan Meng modeled the device used for the focused ultrasound neuromodulation research, demonstrating how the ultrasound beam could be targeted for deep brain structures as a potential treatment for anxiety. The company I work for is the sponsor of the ultrasound research.

To see more about the open house, here is a video created by David Ling!: https://t.co/goBKJZrGMx

To join a future open house at Acacia: https://t.co/3gb8ZScxc0

To learn more about focused ultrasound for anxiety: https://t.co/tq9GzVczF1

Acacia gave me a box of chocolates, which I am holding in this photo!
🐇🪺 It contained a chocolate Easter bunny with chocolate Easter eggs.
🔁 It had me wondering: which came first, the bunny or the eggs?
As my father says, "Box is like a life of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get backwards."
I think either way you consider the loop, you get chocolates.

#tms #mentalhealth #neuromodulation #depression #anxiety #tfus #psychiatry

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

@STANGlab @ACNPorg @zhhresearch Will stop by!

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

@iaahmed123 Awesome news- looking foward!

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

Honored to part of this brilliant line-up!

Join us for our study group at #ACNP2023. Excited to talk about real-world clinical results from accelerated fMRI-guided #TMS therapy.

[Desmond Oathes 🧲🧠⚡️👨🏻‍💻 @DesmondOathes]

Come see us @ACNPorg #ACNP2023 for imaging + neuromodulation panel. My talk will show fMRI-guided rTMS> scalp target treating PTSD+MDD. Hope to see you there (w/ @AndrewMosesLee1 , @Tremblay_Sara1 , @SarahLisanbyMD , @NeuroDanielle , @Martijn_Figee_ , @EkhtiariHamed.

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

Our new editorial highlights the fantastic work of women in #headache science is part of an #OpenAccess special issue in @FrontPain

🔗 Link to editorial: https://t.co/0COVbjrIre

📖 Find all the original articles here: https://t.co/Nw5RZ6nTQX

[Frontiers in Pain Research @FrontPain]

New Research: Editorial: Women in science: headache https://t.co/2lYjesil5G #pain

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

Congratulations @DesmondOathes and group! Looking forward to being part of this exciting 2023 ACNP lineup 🎉

[Desmond Oathes 🧲🧠⚡️👨🏻‍💻 @DesmondOathes]

2023 ACNP symposium (study grp) accepted "Hopes and Challenges for Using Brain Imaging to Inform Neuromod Therapies" w/ awesome panel @SarahLisanbyMD @EkhtiariHamed @Martijn_Figee_ @AndrewMosesLee1 @Tremblay_Sara1 @NeuroDanielle Anita Bajaj. Thank you @ACNPorg ! Can't wait.

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

@doc_becca Lol 88lol I p

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

@cashmachine15 @Kav_Fernando @SareThompson @AFornito @ProfYucel @NigelRogasch Exciting work - congrats @cashmachine15 and team!

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

@HarperOfScience @LCHeathcote Congrats, Lauren!

[Stanford Neurology & Neurological Sciences @Stanford_Neuro]

Researchers Rob Cowan & @NeuroDanielle with colleagues at Univ of Maryland, published a study in @SfNJournals identifying distinct subgroups within the migraine population which may lead to novel biomarkers & more patient-centered treatment strategies. https://t.co/7gnlHwVefA

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

Congratulations to @SamKrimmel, @daspainbrain, and team on the fantastic new work identifying 4 #migraine biotypes across 3 dimensions of association! 🎉

https://t.co/cXP7CRv8aA

See thread below for details:

[Dave Seminowicz @daspainbrain.bsky.social @daspainbrain]

new paper led by @SamKrimmel with big implications for migraine!

🧵

Three Dimensions of Association Link Migraine Symptoms and Functional Connectivity https://t.co/zI4zN24jB7

@NeuroDanielle @fMRIstats & lots of twitter-ve co-authors

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

@massihmoayedi @daspainbrain @kren27 Amazing- congrats @kren27!

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

Graph representations of action-predication in #speech relate to psychopathological dimensions of psychosis.
Exciting work from @amirhnikzad, @STANGlab and collaborators, now published in #Schizophrenia. Congrats to the team! #openaccess

https://t.co/DoQj7g6y18

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

Fantastic experience working with @STANGlab and @MarlonDanMD to write about the burgeoning role of #speech and language assessment in #schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Read more about this topic and future directions for the field here #NLP:
https://t.co/uN33B1Rxvl

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

@STANGlab @stellacong1 @MiezelKat @cho_sunghye @mark_liberman @LDCSystems @winterlightlabs @akmalhotramd @ZHHPsychiatry 🙌 Amazing!

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

Congrats Amir Nikzad, Sunny Tang, and collaborators on exciting new research to characterize #language disturbances related to #psychosis using semantic graphs!

Thanks for the opportunity to be part of this fantastic collaboration. More details in thread below 👇
#speech

[Sunny Tang @STANGlab]

Excited to share new work by our visiting scholar Amir Nikzad - using graph analysis and action-predication semantic relationships to quantify language disturbances related to #psychosis. #NLP #AcademicTwitter #psychtwitter (Unreviewed) preprint here: https://t.co/MGuaksrcM6 1/5

[Danielle DeSouza @NeuroDanielle]

Closed-loop optimization of transcranial magnetic stimulation with EEG feedback. New #OpenAcess article in @brainstimj
https://t.co/RvKU6lDWQD