Metropolitan State University
Mentor: Oscar Miranda-Dominquez, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics
Sponsored by the Medical Discovery Team on Addiction
Salma Abdulrahman is a student at Metropolitan State University. She is pursuing a major in Biology. After she graduates, she plans to apply to medical schools or Ph.D. research programs. She hopes to learn and expand her knowledge during this internship. She is most excited about how her virtual experience would be in the summer. As well as the new experiences she will gain by this opportunity.
She will learn about non-invasive neuromodulation, such as TMS, and how it is utilized experimentally to treat several mental health conditions. Clinical use is limited because of the variability of the effectiveness. A reason for its high variability in effectiveness is because application often ignores individualized functional neuroanatomy. She will learn about functional precision mapping and how it can potentially fill this gap by identifying with clinical precision individualized brain networks.
