Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, Ph.D.

Post-Doc at U Penn (Contreras Lab).
Synaptic integration in corticothalamic networks.

Contact Information:
msarvestani@gmail.com

Education:
Harvey Mudd College B.S. in Engineering, May 2005.
Penn State University Ph.D. in Engineering Science (Neural Egnineering Specialization), Aug 2013.

Experience:
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, November 2007- August 2008
BioSTAR West, Claremont, CA, October 2005- October 2007

Awards:
-NIH/NINDS National Research Service Award (2010-2013): 'Active Probing and Sleep State Modeling for Seizure Prediction'
-4th International Seizure Prediction Workshop (2009): Best Clinical Poster

Publications:
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep and Hippocampal Theta Oscillations Precede Seizure Onset in the Tetanus Toxin Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Sedigh-Sarvestani et al. J Neurosci 34(4): 1105-1114, 2014.

Observing the sleep-wake regulatory system to improve prediction of seizures. M. Sedigh-Sarvestani, B.J. Gluckman. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Seizure Prediction. World Scientific, 2013.

Reconstructing mammalian sleep dynamics with data assimilation. M. Sedigh-Sarvestani, S.J. Schiff, B.J. Gluckman. PLoS Comp Biol 8(11):e1002788, 2012.

Data assimilation of glucose dynamics for use in the intensive care unit. M. Sedigh- Sarvestani, D.J. Albers, B.J. Gluckman. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2012.

Analyzing large data sets acquired through telemetry from rats exposed to organophosphorous compoundsy. M. De Araujo Furtado, A. Zheng, M. Sedigh-Sarvestani,L. Lumley, S. Lichtenstein,D. Yourick. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 184(1):176-83, 2009.