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Nicole Provenza

Provenza

Nicole Provenza, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Positions

Assistant Professor
Neurosurgery
ÌÇÐÄÊÓÆµ of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
McNair Scholar
ÌÇÐÄÊÓÆµ of Medicine

Education

BS from Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Biomedical Engineering
MS from Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Biomedical Engineering
PhD from Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Biomedical Engineering
Postdoctoral Fellowship at ÌÇÐÄÊÓÆµ of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Websites

The Provenza laboratory uses an engineering approach to investigate ethologically relevant brain-behavior relationships underlying psychiatric symptoms to develop personalized neuromodulation strategies that will improve outcomes for psychiatric disorders.

Videos

DBS Lead Placement for OCD: 360 degree view of deep brain stimulation (DBS) lead placement in one participant that underwent DBS surgery for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). By: Nicole Provenza, Raissa Mathura, Noam Peled, Evan Dastin-van Rijn, Kelly Bijanki, Sameer Sheth, David Borton, Wayne Goodman, Brown University, ÌÇÐÄÊÓÆµ of Medicine.

Selected Publications

  • Dang HQ, Provenza NR, Banks GP, Giridharan N, Avendano-Ortega M, McKay SA, Devara E, Shofty B, Storch EA, Sheth SA, Goodman WK. " " Brain Stimul. 2023 Mar 20; 16 (2) : 650-652.
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  • Xiao J, Adkinson JA, Myers J, Allawala AB, Mathura RK, Pirtle V, Najera R, Provenza NR, Bartoli E, Watrous AJ, Oswalt D, Gadot R, Anand A, Shofty B, Mathew SJ, Goodman WK, Pouratian N, Pitkow X, Bijanki KR, Hayden B, Sheth SA. " " Nat Commun. 2024 Jul 15; 15 (1) : 5528.
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  • Xiao J, Provenza NR, Asfouri J, Myers J, Mathura RK, Metzger B, Adkinson JA, Allawala AB, Pirtle V, Oswalt D, Shofty B, Robinson ME, Mathew SJ, Goodman WK, Pouratian N, Schrater PR, Patel AB, Tolias AS, Bijanki KR, Pitkow X, Sheth SA. " " Biol Psychiatry. 2023 Sep 15; 94 (6) : 445-453.
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  • Provenza NR, Paulk AC, Peled N, Restrepo MI, Cash SS, Dougherty DD, Eskandar EN, Borton DA, Widge AS. " " J Neural Eng. 2019 Aug 16; 16 (5) : 056015.
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Intellectual Property

Product Patent #US11612748B2 (Approved)
In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms (which can, for example, include systems, methods, and media) for detecting an effortful mental state providing real-time deep brain stimulation to enhance performance of effortful mental tasks are provided.
Co Inventors: David Borton, Alik Widge, Darin Dougherty, Emad Eskandar
Product Patent #US20220338786A1 (Approved)
Methods and systems for improved removal of deep brain stimulation artifacts from electrical measurements of brain activity.
Co Inventors: David A. Borton, Evan M. Dastin-van Rijn, Matthew T. Harrison, Paula Chen, Taewoo Kim, Jerome Darbon

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