Previous Presenters

2025

January - Nicholas Trapp, MD (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics)

February - Nicholas Trapp, MD (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) presents a clinical case for group discussion.

March - Zhuoran Li, PhD (Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) presents his recent TMS-iEEG work entitled, "Causal Evidence of Hippocampal Engagement by Resting-State Functional Connectivity-Guided Parietal Stimulation."

April - Hazal Arpaci, M.S. (Department of Psychology, University of Iowa) presents her proposed summer project with the Trapp Lab entitled, "Sleep as a marker of neuromodulation treatment response."

May - no meeting

June - James Lopez (Department of Psychology, University of Iowa) presents on auditory oddball and how it will be implemented in his summer rotation in the Trapp Lab.

July - Webinar on TMS in children and adolescents

August - Hazal Arpaci, M.S. (Department of Psychology, University of Iowa) & Erin Golden, B.S. (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) preview their posters for the upcoming NNDC Annual Conference.

2024

January - Mark Niciu, MD, PhD (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) presents the study design of the psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy vs. ketamine-assisted psychotherapy study.

February - no meeting

March - Nan Zhao, MD (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) presents outcomes of TMS for OCD from the IPSY TMS Clinic.

April - Nicholas Trapp, MD (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) presents on TMS for OCD, as well as some other updates from the lab.

May - no meeting

June - Anthony Purgianto, MD, PhD (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) present s updates in ECT research from the ISEN 33rd Annual Meeting.

July - Neuromodulation Boot Camp Planning Session

August - Sahil Chawla (Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa) presents a literature review of Cognitive Behavior Therapy mobile applications.

September - 4th Annual Interventional Psychiatry Bootcamp

October - no meeting

November - Madaline Mocchi, BA (Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine) introduces pupillometry and its data collection/analysis.

December - no meeting

2023

January - Kayla Howerton, AuD (Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa) & Inyong Choi, PhD (Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa) present "Neuromodulation of auditory attention."

February - Kumar Narayanan, MD, PhD (Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) present his lab's work on Timing and Dopamine.

March - no meeting

April - Alexandra Alario, BS (Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa) discusses her work on rTMS-induced heart rate decelerations, & Benjamin Pace, MS (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) presents a poster destined for the Annual Meeting of the Clinical TMS Society.

May - Arnaud Falchier, PhD (Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research) present his work on TMS in nonhuman primates.

June - Christopher Kovach, PhD (Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) walks through the organization of HBRL's labwiki and the data contained therein.

July - Alexandra Alario, BS (Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa) present the proposed Specific Aims of her upcoming F31 application.

August - Kanchna Ramchandran, PhD (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) presents results from her recent trial of accelerated iTBS for chemotherapy induced cognitive deficits.

September - George Kehner (Senior Director of Medical Affairs, LivaNova) provides an update on the RECOVER clinical trial.

October - no meeting

November - no meeting

December - Nour Alsabbagh (Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa) presents her work entitled, "Applications of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) in translational neuroscience."

2022

February - Nathen Spitz, BS (Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa)

March - Víctoria A Müller-Ewald, PhD (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics)

April - Thorsten Rudroff, PhD (Department of Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa)

May - Thomas Nickl-Jockschat, MD (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics)

June - Daniel A N Barbosa (Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)

July - Desmond Oathes, PhD (Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)

August - Yassine Filali (Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Iowa) presents his work in "electomics" from the Hultman Lab. The talk is entitled, "Multimodal Neuroimaging: Application of In-Vivo Electrophysiology and Resting-State fMRI to Elucidate Latent Brain-Wide Networks Reflective Stress Vulnerability."

September - Víctor E. Olalde-Mathieu, PhD(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Neurobiología, Querétaro, Mexico) presents their work entitled, “Neural substrates related to components of the empathic response in psychotherapists.”

October - Mark Niciu, MD, PhD (Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics) discusses esketamine in clinical practice.