Stephanie R Jones
Professor of Neuroscience Brown University
My research integrates human brain imaging and computational neuroscience methods to study brain dynamics in health and disease. I work closely with animal neurophysiologist and clinicians to develop data constrained neural models that are functionally and translationally relevant. A main theme of my lab’s research is to develop biophysically principled models of neural circuits that bridge the critical gap between human brain imaging signals (MEG/EEG) and their underlying cellular and network level generators. Current projects apply such interdisciplinary techniques to study the mechanisms and functions of neural dynamics, including brain rhythms, in healthy functions such as perception, attention and decision making, and in neural pathologies such depression, autisms spectrum disordesr, aging, Alzheimer’s, and schizophrenia. We also study the impact of brain stimulation (e.g. TMS), and mind-body practices, on brain dynamics with an ultimate goal of improving treatments for neuropatholgy.
Seminars
- Explaining how biophysically grounded neural models link EEG signals to underlying cell‑ and circuit‑level mechanisms in health and neuropsychiatric disease
- Demonstrating how commonly used EEG biomarkers can be mechanistically interpreted to assess whether neurotherapeutics are acting on intended brain circuits
- Showing how EEG‑based circuit modeling can build earlier, translational evidence of target engagement and dosing before human clinical trials
