Neuroscientist & Neuroengineer at Georgia Tech and Emory. Learning, memory, and memory impairment in disease, oh my.
Annabelle Singer
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"...Add soccer practice and music lessons and doctors’ appointments, and so begins a tormented dance of the privileged, to-ing and fro-ing through rush hour as any zest for life disintegrates." This one sentence eloquently tells the story of a daily parenting struggle www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
Annabelle Singer
Wait… flickering lights actually make you pay attention better?
Gamma sensory flicker has been studied for Alzheimer’s disease, but here we asked a different question:
Can it help healthy brains focus right now?
Apparently… yes. (We were surprised too.)
Paper here: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
This work was led by Matthew Attokaren and Lu Zhang @gmbcrazy.bsky.social
Check out this podcast highlighting our research and BME research more broadly. Thanks @danzigerzachary.bsky.social and Erin Buckley for making this happen
White House lifts hold on NIH research spending www.science.org/content/arti...
Our new paper shows that 40 Hz audiovisual stimulation (“gamma flicker”) improved sustained attention: people responded faster and more accurately during a vigilance task. Unexpectedly, stimulation didn’t just increase 40 Hz brain activity...
it also reduced delta activity and increased low-alpha functional connectivity.
This expands gamma sensory stimulation beyond neurodegenerative disease and suggests it may be a broader tool for modulating cognition.
Full paper is here: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
I am honored to have been inducted into the @aimbe-official.bsky.social College of Fellows. I am grateful to my lab and collaborators for their hard work discovering how neural activity shapes memory and brain health and translating those insights into new therapies. bme.gatech.edu/news/bme-fac...
Annabelle Singer
Annabelle Singer
Can flickering light and sound help in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease?
#ICYMI, BME's Holy Shift! podcast with @drannabellesinger.bsky.social explores how her early interest in theater lighting led to groundbreaking research on brain rhythms and memory.
🎧: holyshiftresearch.transistor.fm/5
Annabelle Singer
Annabelle Singer
Annabelle Singer
Annabelle Singer
Annabelle Singer
Second preprint from the lab. Collab with @dkoveal.bsky.social, with many more to come! Effort led by @xshirleyz.bsky.social with help from Brittany Addison, @ezeyulu00.bsky.social, Claire Deng (on the grad school market, better act fast, Claire’s amazing!), @ajemanuel.bsky.social, and many others!
Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society
