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Muhammad Furqan Afzal

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiORCID 0000-0002-8476-4539Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1 Assay:electronic health records· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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Helen S. MaybergiD· 2 shared Kanaka RajaniD· 2 shared Anthony F. LacagninaiD· 1 shared Aurélie Menigoz· 1 shared Barbara JuareziD· 1 shared Carole MoreliD· 1 shared Christian D. MártoniD· 1 shared Donald G. RainnieiD· 1 shared

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Stress History Modulates CRF Neurons to Establish Resilience

Sherod E. Haynes, Anthony F. Lacagnina, Hyun Seong Seo, Li Fang, Xiao Yang, Muhammad Furqan Afzal, Carole Morel, Aurélie Menigoz, Kanaka Rajan, Roger L. Clem, Barbara Juarez, Helen S. Mayberg, Donald G. Rainnie, Larry J. Young, Ming‐Hu Han

The paper identifies a critical stress exposure period that drives neurophysiological changes in CRF neurons, leading to resilience in mice exposed to repeated social defeat stress.

Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science · Nov 20, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Reservoir-based Tracking (TRAKR) For One-shot Classification Of Neural Time-series Patterns

Muhammad Furqan Afzal, Christian D. Márton, Erin L. Rich, Helen S. Mayberg, Kanaka Rajan

TRAKR classifies neural time-series patterns with high accuracy using one-shot learning, outperforming distance metrics and matching deep supervised methods.

bioRxiv · Oct 13, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience