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Teddy J. Akiki, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Akiki's research focuses on advancing precision psychiatry through computational neuroscience approaches. His work centers on developing transformer-based foundation models for functional neuroimaging that can predict treatment responses and symptom trajectories in psychiatric disorders. Using multimodal connectomics (combining structural, functional, and diffusion MRI), he maps neural circuits underlying stress-related conditions, with particular emphasis on identifying dysconnectivity patterns in PTSD and depression. Dr. Akiki develops novel analytical methods for neuroimaging data, including network-restricted metrics and community detection frameworks optimized for functional time series. His translational work includes neuroimaging-augmented clinical trials of novel therapeutics for treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders, with the goal of implementing data-driven, personalized interventions based on individual neurobiological profiles.
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Martijn Arns
Affiliate, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Visiting Scholar, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences IncubatorBioMartijn Arns, PhD, is an applied neuroscientist and entrepreneur with a longstanding focus on brain stimulation, neurofeedback/BCI, and medtech innovation. He is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, affiliated with the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab and the Psychedelics and Consciousness Lab headed by Dr. Nolan Williams, dividing his time between Palo Alto and Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
In 2001, he founded the Brainclinics Foundation, a non-profit research institute dedicated to applied neuroscience from the clinic, to the clinic. His research and clinical work span interventional psychiatry, precision and stratified psychiatry, and novel interventions including rTMS for depression and OCD, TMS-induced Heart–Brain Coupling, neurofeedback, and psychedelics.
Dr. Arns has published over 190 scientific papers and holds four patents. He has successfully translated research into practice through multiple spin-off ventures. Beyond research and entrepreneurship, Dr. Arns contributes to the scientific community as associate editor for leading journals, organizer of international conferences, and board member of several professional organizations. He also advises medtech and AI start-ups and established companies, helping to advance translation and implementation in applied neuroscience. -
Nicholas Bassano
Adm Svcs Admstr 1, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Current Role at StanfordClinical Research Coordinator-2
Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
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Helen M. Blau
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor, Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProf. Helen Blau's research area is regenerative medicine with a focus on stem cells. Her research on nuclear reprogramming and demonstrating the plasticity of cell fate using cell fusion is well known and her laboratory has also pioneered the design of biomaterials to mimic the in vivo microenvironment and direct stem cell fate. Current findings are leading to more efficient iPS generation, cell based therapies by dedifferentiation a la newts, and discovery of novel molecules and therapies.
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Zaeda Blotner
Immigrant Child Health Program Administrator, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Current Role at StanfordImmigrant Child Health Program Administrator
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Nicholas Branigan
Casual - Non-Exempt, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
BioMy research interests are at the intersection of neuroscience, statistics, and machine learning. In my current work, I develop and apply state-space models and drift-diffusion models to study large-scale brain networks with human fMRI and rodent fiber photometry.
