News
Lab announcements, publications, awards, and events.
| Apr 27, 2026 | Congratulations to Carol Chen and Shraddha Dwivedi for winning first place at the Honors Pinnacle Conference in the Exploratory Mini Grant category! Special thanks to Mark Sundman for his outstanding mentorship and support of their work. |
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| Apr 24, 2026 | Congratulations to Carol Chen on her acceptance to the University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson! A very well-deserved achievement. |
| Apr 19, 2026 | We are excited to share that our project, “Targeting Sleep to Preserve Memory: Accelerated Theta Burst Stimulation and At-Home Sleep EEG to Enhance Cognitive Health in Aging,” has been funded by the McKnight CAMI Core Pilot Program (MPIs: Ying-hui Chou and Christian Agudelo). |
| Apr 18, 2026 | Congratulations to Hangbin for being selected to receive the Graduate Summer Fellowship! |
| Apr 11, 2026 | Our AAC grant, “Sleep as a Therapeutic Gateway: rTMS Enhancement of CSF Dynamics and Alzheimer’s Biomarkers in MCI,” has been funded. |
| Apr 04, 2026 | Congratulations to Hangbin for being selected for the Galileo Circle Scholarship for the 2026–2027 academic year. This is extremely well deserved. |
| Mar 28, 2026 | Congratulations to Hangbin and JD. Our manuscript, “Spatially Resolved EEG Reveals Theta-Band Network Modulation Following iTBS in Aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment,” co-authored with Dr. Mark Bondi and Dr. Larry Frank, has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Brain Imaging and Stimulation section). |
| Mar 21, 2026 | Yilin’s application to the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium (AAC) Developmental Project, “Precision Neuromodulation for Cognitive Aging: Leveraging BrainAGE to Predict and Personalize rTMS Response,” has been selected for funding beginning July 1, 2026. |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Shraddha and Carol have been awarded a W. A. Franke Honors College Exploratory Mini-Grant for their project, “Investigating the Potential of Ketone Supplementation as a Primer for Neural Plasticity.” Special thanks to Mark for his outstanding mentorship and guidance during the grant preparation process. |
| Mar 07, 2026 | Congratulations to Hangbin, Jake, and Shraddha. Their meta-analysis, “Domain-Specific Efficacy of Accelerated Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” has been accepted for publication in Biological Psychiatry (impact factor: 9.0). |
| Feb 28, 2026 | Congratulations to JD for successfully defending his dissertation. We are so proud of you! |
| Feb 21, 2026 | Reyna has been selected to receive donor funding to support her research on aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Very well deserved, Reyna! |
| Feb 14, 2026 | A donor who was impressed by Mark at the Galileo Awards Dinner has chosen to direct $5,000 toward his research. Congratulations to Mark! |
| Feb 07, 2026 | Congratulations to Hangbin for receiving the Master’s Poster Presentation Award. |
| Jan 31, 2026 | Congratulations, Gavin, on being selected as a 2025 Charles Y. F. Hoyt Undergraduate Scholar. |
| Jan 24, 2026 | Congratulations to Kaitlyn for being selected as a Galileo Circle Scholar. |
| Jan 17, 2026 | Congratulations, Gavin, on being selected as a 2025 Galileo Circle Scholar. |
| Jan 10, 2026 | Congratulations, Gavin, on receiving the 2025 Biochemistry Outstanding Junior Award. |
| Aug 15, 2024 | New publications in 2024! Sundman et al. (Aging Brain) and Hall et al. (GeroScience) on TMS-derived biomarkers and TMS-EEG approaches to MCI and Alzheimer’s. |
| Jun 13, 2024 | I’m happy to share that Yilin successfully defended her dissertation on June 13, 2024—congratulations to her on this wonderful achievement! 🎉 |
| Nov 01, 2023 | Congratulations to Dr. Yu-Chin Allison Chen for successfully defending her dissertation! 🎓 |
| Sep 18, 2023 | Our manuscript “The (hyper)excitable brain: What can a ubiquitous TMS measure reveal about cognitive aging?” has been accepted by Neurobiology of Aging! |
| Sep 18, 2023 | Our manuscript “Transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of chemo brain” has been accepted for publication in Sensors! |
| Sep 01, 2023 | Welcoming new members to the lab! 🎉 |
| Nov 15, 2022 | Congratulations to Dr. Mark Sundman for successfully defending his dissertation! 🎓 |
| Aug 15, 2022 | Our meta-analysis “Cortical excitability and plasticity in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment” was published in Ageing Research Reviews! |
| Jun 01, 2022 | “Association Between Responsiveness to TMS and Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity of Sensorimotor Cortex in Older Adults” is now published in Brain Connectivity! |
| May 18, 2022 | Chen, Ton That, Ugonna, Liu, Nadel, and Chou’s manuscript “Theta Burst Stimulation Enhances Memory and Functional Connectivity along Inferior Longitudinal Fasciculus in Mild Cognitive Impairment” is accepted by PNAS! 🎉 |
| Apr 15, 2022 | Kielar, Patterson, and Chou’s “Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in treating stroke aphasia” is accepted for publication in Clinical Neurophysiology! |
| Apr 02, 2022 | New grant! Our R21 project “Interleaved TMS-fMRI for Hippocampal Stimulation: Modeling Dose-Response Relationship in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment” is funded by NIH/NIA! |
| Jan 25, 2022 | Congratulations to Green, Sundman, and Chou! Their review “Opioid-induced microglia reactivity modulates opioid reward, analgesia, and behavior” is published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews! |
| Oct 01, 2021 | Congratulations to Sundman, Chen, and Liu for receiving UArizona GSPC Travel Awards to support their trip to the 4th International Brain Stimulation Conference in Charleston, SC! |
| Jul 27, 2021 | New equipment! Our MRI-compatible TMS and Navigation Systems were delivered today. |
| Jul 26, 2021 | Congratulations to Mark Sundman for receiving the Galileo Circle Graduate Scholars Award! 🏆 |
| May 03, 2021 | Rudolph Rodriguez’s manuscript “Chemobrain: The Unspoken Reality of Life After Cancer” is accepted for publication by Harvard Brain! Great work, Rudy! |
| Apr 17, 2021 | Dr. Ying-hui Chou has been awarded an Enhancement of Equipment Fund by the University of Arizona for the MRI-compatible Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation System! |
| Feb 12, 2021 | New equipment! The TMS-compatible EEG system is delivered. |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Our manuscript “Dual-task performance is associated with brain MRI Morphometry in individuals with mild cognitive impairment” is published in the Journal of Neuroimaging! |
| Nov 18, 2020 | Congratulations to Dr. Ying-hui Chou, who has been awarded a Faculty Seed Grant by the University of Arizona! |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Our manuscript “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reveals Diminished Homeostatic Metaplasticity in Cognitively Impaired Adults” is accepted by Brain Communications! Congratulations to Mark Sundman, Koeun Lim, Viet Ton That, Rudy Rodriguez, Yilin Liu, and Ying-hui Chou! |
| May 22, 2020 | New grant! Our R01 project “Enhancement of Hippocampal Plasticity Using Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation” is funded by NIH/NIA! Featured in UANews, BIO5 News, and the Phoenix Business Journal. |
| May 21, 2020 | Congratulations to Rudolph Rodriguez for receiving the College of Science Galileo Circle Scholarship, and for winning Third Place in the Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation at the 2020 WAESO Student Research Conference! 🏆 |
| Feb 21, 2020 | Three new publications! (Chou et al. 2020, Clin. Neurophysiol. on TMS-induced seizure cases, Warren et al. 2020, Brain Connect. on amygdala resting-state fMRI, and Chou et al. 2020, Neurobiol. Aging — a meta-analysis of rTMS effects on MCI and AD). |