Kelly Bijanki, Ph.D.

Kelly Bijanki

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bijanki@bcm.edu

Associate Professor: Neurosurgery (Primary), Psychiatry (Joint), Neuroscience (Joint)
Director of Intracranial Monitoring Research
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Houston, TX US

Main Baylor (Office)
: BCM-Smith Medical Research Bldg
Room: BCMS-S101D
Houston, TX 77030
United States
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Postdoctoral Fellowship at Emory University: 03/2016 - Atlanta, Georgia United States; Neuromodulation/Neurobiology

PhD from University of Iowa: 12/2011 - Iowa City, Iowa United States; Cognitive Neuroscience/Neuroimaging

Graduate Certificate at Emory University: 05/2018 - Atlanta; Clinical and Translational Research, Biostatistics

Bijanki, K.R., Manns, J.R., ... Mayberg, H.S., Willie, J.T. "." Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2018; Pubmed PMID:
Bijanki, K.R., Matsui, J.T., Mayberg, H.S., Magnotta, V.A., Arndt, S., Johnson, H.J., Nopoulos, P., Paradiso, S., McCormick, L., Fiedorowicz, J.G., Epping, E.A., Moser, D.J. "." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.; Pubmed PMID:
Bijanki, K.R., Hodis, B., Brumm, M., Harlynn, E, McCormick, L.M. "." PLoS ONE.; Pubmed PMID:
Bijanki, K.R., Kovach, C., McCormick, L.M., Kawasaki, H., Dlouhy, B., Feinstein, J., Jones, R.D., Howard, M. "." Brain Stimulation.; Pubmed PMID:

Inman, C.S.*, Manns, J.R.*, Bijanki, K.R., Bass, D.I., Hamann, S., Drane, D.L., Fasano, R., Kovach, C.K., Gross, R.E., Willie, J.T. "." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A..; Pubmed PMID:
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Novel strategies for mapping the emotional neural circuitry using human brain stimulation. - #NIH R21-A1-NS104953: $429,000.00 Grant funding from NINDS; This research seeks to gain a better understanding of the emotional correlates to limbic brain stimulation. We aim to use this information to help develop better methods to anticipate and prevent neuropsychiatric complications following brain surgery for epilepsy.

The human amygdala in social processing: circuits, physiology, behavior, and neuromodulation. - #NIH K01-A1 MH116364: $696,000.00 Grant funding from NIMH; The goal of this project is to provide critical training in electrophysiology, and to test the scientific premise that the amygdala is directly and causally involved in depression and social processing.

Mapping and modulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of socio-affective processing. - #NIH R01 MH127006: $3,602,360.00 (08/01/2021 - 05/31/2026); Socio-affective dysfunction underlies myriad neuropsychiatric diseases; prior efforts to develop neuromodulation paradigms for treatment-resistant cases of neuropsychiatric diseases characterized by socio-affective dysfunction have fallen short, in part due to an absence of defined neural dysfunctional-state signals. The overall goal of this R01 proposal is to map the spatiotemporal dynamics of social affective processing and to examine selective modulation of these dynamics in humans undergoing invasive intracranial monitoring for treatment-resistant epilepsy and depression. We leverage first-in-human intracranial neural recording opportunities created by a novel therapeutic platform termed “stereotactic electroencephalography-informed deep brain stimulation” (stereo-EEG-informed DBS; Parent Study UH3-NS103549), as well as the powerful platform of intracranial stereotactic recording and stimulation in patients undergoing epilepsy surgical evaluation to establish the precise structural, functional, and causal properties of the affective salience network as a circuit substrate underlying social processing.

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