Address
NeuroImaging Center (NIC)
Johannes-Gutenberg University Medical Center
Langenbeckstr. 1, Bldg. 308c, 55131 Mainz, Germany
Contact
Folasewa Maryam Abdulsalamr
I am an EMJM Master’s student in Brain and Data Science with a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics. My research interests lie in brain signal analysis and neuromodulation, particularly in applications for neural rehabilitation and therapeutic intervention.
I am conducting my Master’s thesis at the TOBergmann Lab, where I am involved in the TUNeS (Thalamic Ultrasound Neuromodulation during Sleep) project. The goal of the TUNeS project is to investigate whether transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) targeting the thalamus during Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep can modulate or induce sleep spindles, and to provide compelling evidence that sleep spindles play a crucial role in memory consolidation.
Within this project, my work focuses on developing a predictive tool that estimates whether delivering TUS to specific thalamic subregions will induce sleep spindles, using participants’ MRI data, ultrasound stimulation parameters, and acoustic simulations within established safety limits.