{"648753":{"#nid":"648753","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sendi Wins Mini-Grant to Gather Better Data on Effects of Brain Stimulation for PTSD Patients","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D student Mohammad Sendi has \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thefnnr.org\/2021\/06\/22\/2021-grant-and-award-recipients\/\u0022\u003Ewon a grant from Bio-Medical Instruments and the Foundation for Neurofeedback and Neuromodulation Research\u003C\/a\u003E to support his work applying neuromodulation to treat brain disorders.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESpecifically, Sendi proposed adding portable EEG brain scans to an existing study looking at the effectiveness of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for patients experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The goal is to better understand the functional changes in the brain from the stimulation, which induces a small, safe electrical current in targeted areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Despite the significant impact of TMS in treating PTSD patients, an unresolved issue is that the response varies across individuals,\u0026rdquo; said Sendi, who is pursuing his doctorate in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0026ldquo;Quantifying transcranial magnetic stimulation\u0026rsquo;s functional and neurophysiological effects and their link to changes in symptom severity is an essential step towards understanding TMS\u0026rsquo;s neural mechanisms and developing more effective, and individualized, TMS therapies.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thefnnr.org\/grants-and-awards\/bio-medical-instruments-mini-grant\/\u0022\u003EThe $3,000 mini-grant\u003C\/a\u003E was designed to support projects with the potential of enhancing knowledge of basic processes involved in neuromodulation methods or understanding the clinical effects of those methods, especially in under-researched areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESendi will integrate his portable EEG approach before, during, and after brain stimulation treatments that are part of the ongoing \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/psychiatry.emory.edu\/research\/programs\/ata\/grady_trauma\/index.html\u0022\u003EGrady Trauma Project at Emory\u003C\/a\u003E. He\u0026rsquo;ll work with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.biomed.emory.edu\/academics\/faculty-detail.html?action=getFacultyDetail\u0026amp;gdbbsId=C6968EA0-1334-4604-BB0D-28257834E005\u0022\u003ESanne van Rooij\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gsu.edu\/profile\/jeffrey-malins\/\u0022\u003EJeffrey Malins\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Optimizing TMS protocol and individualizing TMS treatment parameters can substantially benefit patient-specific therapy of PTSD and restore function and induce longer-lasting results,\u0026rdquo; Sendi said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Mohmmad Sendi plans to integrate portable brain activity scans in an ongoing study in the Grady Trauma Project at Emory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ph.D. student Mohmmad Sendi plans to integrate portable brain activity scans in an ongoing study in the Grady Trauma Project at Emory"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-14 15:35:09","changed_gmt":"2021-07-14 15:35:09","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648748":{"id":"648748","type":"image","title":"Mohammad Sendi (vertical)","body":null,"created":"1626276084","gmt_created":"2021-07-14 15:21:24","changed":"1626276084","gmt_changed":"2021-07-14 15:21:24","alt":"Mohammad Sendi head shot","file":{"fid":"246258","name":"Sendi-Mohammad-bkgd-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sendi-Mohammad-bkgd-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sendi-Mohammad-bkgd-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":192625,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sendi-Mohammad-bkgd-v.jpg?itok=frNq_ExG"}}},"media_ids":["648748"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/thefnnr.org\/grants-and-awards\/bio-medical-instruments-mini-grant\/","title":"Bio-Medical Instruments-FNNR Mini-Grants"},{"url":"http:\/\/psychiatry.emory.edu\/research\/programs\/ata\/grady_trauma\/index.html","title":"Grady Trauma Project"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188255","name":"Mohammad Sendi"},{"id":"181949","name":"PTSD"},{"id":"186436","name":"deep brain stimulation therapy"},{"id":"178127","name":"transcranial magnetic stimulation"},{"id":"188167","name":"Grady Trauma Project"},{"id":"18691","name":"graduate student awards"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}