 Bradley Voytek, PhD
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| Title | Postdoctoral Scholar |
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| School | UCSF School of Medicine |
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| Department | Neurology |
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 Biography | Forbes | 2011 | | "Edge Thinker" | | Society for Neuroscience | 2009
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| 2012 | Neuroscience Scholar | | Time Magazine | 2006 | | Person of the Year (split prize) | | University of California, Berkeley | 2005 | | Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor | | University of Southern California | 1998 | | Physics scholarship | | University of Southern California | 1998
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| 2000 | Presidential Scholarship | | University of Southern California | 1998 | | Resident Honors Program (early college admittance) |
Overview Biography: Brad is an NIH-funded neuroscience researcher making use of big data, mapping, and mathematics to figure out how brain regions work together to give rise to cognition. He earned his PhD in neuroscience from Berkeley in 2010 where he studied the role that neuroplasticity plays in human cognition. He applies this research to problems in cognitive neuroscience, recovery from brain injury, brain-computer interfacing, and other domains.
He has a strong interest in methods and meta-science, and he as published several papers on electrophysiological analytic techniques. He also created brainSCANr, an online resource for researchers that scans PubMed for the probability of relationships between neuroscientific topics and displays these relationships for a quick meta-analytic overview.
His research has appeared in peer-reviewed scientific publications such as PNAS, Neuron, the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and others. His research in cognition, brain-computer interfaces, and data analysis has been featured in The Washington Post, Wired, and The New York Times.
He's interested in leveraging data to modernize cognitive neuroscientific research, the majority of which is conducted using techniques from 1960s psychological experimentation (only with bigger, more expensive toys). To that end he's created several research tools, most notably the neuroscience literature meta-analytic resource brainSCANr with his wife, Jessica Bolger Voytek.
His public science writing has been featured in Forbes, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Scientific American, as well as being featured on BoingBoing, Metafilter, MindHacks, and other sites. His non-academic… uh... interests, include explaining the zombie brain with the Zombie Research Society. Really. He has been interview by National Geographic, Wired, and the American Academy of Neurology because of this “research”.
He’s an avid science teacher and outreach advocate and he’s spoken at events ranging from elementary schools to venues such as TEDxBerkeley, @GoogleTalks, and SciFoo. He runs the blog Oscillatory Thoughts (blog.ketyov.com) and occasionally writes for the Scientific American blog.
In 2006 he split the Time Person of the Year award.
Bibliographic
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Voytek B, Gazzaley A. Stimulating the aging brain. Ann Neurol. 2013 Jan; 73(1):1-3.
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Ritaccio A, Beauchamp M, Bosman C, Brunner P, Chang E, Crone N, Gunduz A, Gupta D, Knight R, Leuthardt E, Litt B, Moran D, Ojemann J, Parvizi J, Ramsey N, Rieger J, Viventi J, Voytek B, Williams J, Schalk G. Proceedings of the third international workshop on advances in electrocorticography. Epilepsy Behav. 2012 Dec; 25(4):605-13.
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Funderud I, Lindgren M, Løvstad M, Endestad T, Voytek B, Knight RT, Solbakk AK. Differential Go/NoGo Activity in Both Contingent Negative Variation and Spectral Power. PLoS One. 2012; 7(10):e48504.
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Voytek B, D'Esposito M, Crone N, Knight RT. A method for event-related phase/amplitude coupling. Neuroimage. 2013 Jan 1; 64:416-24.
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Voytek JB, Voytek B. Automated cognome construction and semi-automated hypothesis generation. J Neurosci Methods. 2012 Jun 30; 208(1):92-100.
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Voytek B, Soltani M, Pickard N, Kishiyama MM, Knight RT. Prefrontal cortex lesions impair object-spatial integration. PLoS One. 2012; 7(4):e34937.
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Løvstad M, Funderud I, Lindgren M, Endestad T, Due-Tønnessen P, Meling T, Voytek B, Knight RT, Solbakk AK. Contribution of subregions of human frontal cortex to novelty processing. J Cogn Neurosci. 2012 Feb; 24(2):378-95.
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Voytek B, Davis M, Yago E, Barceló F, Vogel EK, Knight RT. Dynamic neuroplasticity after human prefrontal cortex damage. Neuron. 2010 Nov 4; 68(3):401-8.
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Voytek B, Secundo L, Bidet-Caulet A, Scabini D, Stiver SI, Gean AD, Manley GT, Knight RT. Hemicraniectomy: a new model for human electrophysiology with high spatio-temporal resolution. J Cogn Neurosci. 2010 Nov; 22(11):2491-502.
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Voytek B, Canolty RT, Shestyuk A, Crone NE, Parvizi J, Knight RT. Shifts in gamma phase-amplitude coupling frequency from theta to alpha over posterior cortex during visual tasks. Front Hum Neurosci. 2010; 4:191.
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Voytek B, Knight RT. Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia contributions to visual working memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Oct 19; 107(42):18167-72.
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Bauer M, Berman SM, Schlagenhauf F, Voytek B, Rasgon N, Mandelkern MA, Whybrow PC, London ED. Regional cerebral glucose metabolism and anxiety symptoms in bipolar depression: effects of levothyroxine. Psychiatry Res. 2010 Jan 30; 181(1):71-6.
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Voytek B. Emergent basal ganglia pathology within computational models. J Neurosci. 2006 Jul 12; 26(28):7317-8.
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London ED, Berman SM, Voytek B, Simon SL, Mandelkern MA, Monterosso J, Thompson PM, Brody AL, Geaga JA, Hong MS, Hayashi KM, Rawson RA, Ling W. Cerebral metabolic dysfunction and impaired vigilance in recently abstinent methamphetamine abusers. Biol Psychiatry. 2005 Nov 15; 58(10):770-8.
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Voytek B, Berman SM, Hassid BD, Simon SL, Mandelkern MA, Brody AL, Monterosso J, Ling W, London ED. Differences in regional brain metabolism associated with marijuana abuse in methamphetamine abusers. Synapse. 2005 Aug; 57(2):113-5.
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