Nicole Provenza, Ph.D.
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Nicole Provenza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Neurosurgery
草榴社区入口
Houston, Texas United States
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 草榴社区入口
- 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, 草榴社区入口.
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. Pubmed PMID:
- 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. Pubmed PMID:
- 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. Pubmed PMID:
- 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. Pubmed PMID:
- Provenza NR, Sheth SA "." Nat Med. 2024 Jul 19; Pubmed PMID:
- Provenza NR, Reddy S, Allam AK, Rajesh SV, Diab N, Reyes G, Caston RM, Katlowitz KA, Gandhi AD, Bechtold RA, Dang HQ, Najera RA, Giridharan N, Kabotyanski KE, Momin F, Hasen M, Banks GP, Mickey BJ, Kious BM, Shofty B, Hayden BY, Herron JA, ..., Sheth SA "." Nat Med. 2024 Jul 12; Pubmed PMID:
- Najera RA, Provenza N, Dang H, Katlowitz KA, Hertz A, Reddy S, Shofty B, Bellows ST, Storch EA, Goodman WK, Sheth SA "." Biol Psychiatry. 2023 Jun 1;93(11):e53-e55. Pubmed PMID:
- Provenza NR, Gelin LFF, Mahaphanit W, McGrath MC, Dastin-van Rijn EM, Fan Y, Dhar R, Frank MJ, Restrepo MI, Goodman WK, Borton DA "." Braz J Psychiatry. 2022;44(2):147-155. Pubmed PMID:
- Provenza NR, Sheth SA, Dastin-van Rijn EM, Mathura RK, Ding Y, Vogt GS, Avendano-Ortega M, Ramakrishnan N, Peled N, Gelin LFF, Xing D, Jeni LA, Ertugrul IO, Barrios-Anderson A, Matteson E, Wiese AD, Xu J, Viswanathan A, Harrison MT, ..., Borton DA "." Nat Med. 2021 Dec 9;27(12):2154-2164. Pubmed PMID:
- Provenza NR, Matteson ER, Allawala AB, Barrios-Anderson A, Sheth SA, Viswanathan A, McIngvale E, Storch EA, Frank MJ, McLaughlin NCR, Cohn JF, Goodman WK, Borton DA "." Front Neurosci. 2019 Feb 26;13:152. Pubmed PMID:
- Dastin-van Rijn EM, Provenza NR, Calvert JS, Gilron R, Allawala AB, Darie R, Syed S, Matteson E, Vogt GS, Avendano-Ortega M, Vasquez AC, Ramakrishnan N, Oswalt DN, Bijanki KR, Wilt R, Starr PA, Sheth SA, Goodman WK, Harrison MT, Borton DA "." Cell Rep Methods. 2021 Jun 21;1(2):100010. Pubmed PMID:
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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