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Melissa Hernandez

Stanford University

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An age-preserving neuronal iSpheroid platform for modeling human aging and Alzheimer disease

Samhan Alsolami, Meiyan Wang, Thaís S. Sabedot, Upendra Singh, Brian Kirk, Lisa E. Mitchell, Melissa Hernandez, Nicholas J. Skvir, Chynna Bowman, Kotaro Oiwa, Ravi Agarwal, Marjan Mahmoudi, Michael S. Cuoco, Elise MacDonald, Samuel Cranston, , Fred H. Gage

This paper introduces an age-preserving neuronal iSpheroid platform that models human aging and Alzheimer's disease, revealing disease-associated metabolic changes and potential therapeutic targets.

bioRxiv · Oct 1, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Intrinsic space-time couplings governing multi-scale cortical dynamics

Alexander D. White, Yu Wang, John Kochalka, Yukun Alex Hao, Chelsea Li, Melissa Hernandez, Nadya Andini, Ki Eun Pyo, Wendy Wenderski, Anish Mitra, Barsin Eshaghi Gharagoz, Chandan S. Kadur, Surya Ganguli, Thomas R. Clandinin, Michael Z. Lin, Karl A. Deisseroth

This study introduces a new microscopy technique to track neocortical activity with high spatial and temporal resolution, revealing fundamental dynamical elements and their properties across different neural activity regimes.

bioRxiv · May 28, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Causal and directional elements of global brain dynamics

John Kochalka, Anish Mitra, Alexander D. White, Yu Wang, Kaiwen Sheng, Yukun Alex Hao, Chandan S. Kadur, Charu Ramakrishnan, Melissa Hernandez, Wendy Wenderski, Ki Eun Po, Nadya Andini, Thomas R. Clandinin, Michael Z. Lin, Shaul Druckmann, Karl A. Deisseroth

The paper identifies directional elements in brain dynamics that encode causal control hierarchies and show robustness to neural state manipulations.

bioRxiv · May 28, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience