The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Wael Asaad

My lab is interested in how the frontal cortex and basal ganglia work together to enable rapid learning and highly-contingent decision making. Our methods involve multi-electrode neuronal recordings as well as neurostimulation in human and nonhuman subjects, in both the operative and laboratory settings. We're interested in developing ways to foster or augment learning to improve recovery from neurologic illness or injury.

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Wael Asaad received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College, and then went on to earn a PhD in Systems Neuroscience from MIT, followed by an MD from Yale University. He completed a general surgery internship and neurosurgical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He joined Brown University in 2011.

His lab seeks to improve our understanding of the basic neural mechanisms of learning, and to apply this knowledge to alleviate the cognitive and motor sequelae of human neurological illness and injury.

WAEL ASAAD, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Bio Med Neurosurgery

Wael Asaad's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Wael_Asaad

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Asaad Lab
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