Howard L. Weiner

Perspectives in conducting task-based research in pediatric surgical epilepsy patients

The paper examines factors influencing task-based research participation in pediatric epilepsy patients undergoing sEEG, finding that comorbidities do not typically prevent participation.

Human auditory cortex preferentially tracks speech over music without explicit attention

The paper shows that human auditory cortex preferentially tracks speech over music in children and adolescents without explicit attention, with speech-bias strengthening in the superior temporal gyrus with age.

Common AAV gene therapy vectors show indiscriminate transduction of living human brain cell types

This study shows common AAV vectors transduce multiple human brain cell types in organotypic slices, with astrocytes showing the most protein expression, and introduces a pipeline for optimizing AAV vectors.

Cell type transcriptional identities are maintained in cultured ex vivo human brain tissue

The paper evaluates the transcriptional stability of cell types in ex vivo human brain tissue cultures over 14 days using single-nucleus RNA sequencing.

Processing of auditory feedback in perisylvian and insular cortex

The paper investigates how auditory responses are modulated during speech production by analyzing intracranial EEG data from patients with epilepsy.