ACB Seminar Series: Dr. Muhammed Adeel Parvaz

Please join us for an ACB Seminar featuring guest speaker Dr. Muhammed Adeel Parvaz joining us from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Seminar Details
Date: Monday, April 15th, 2024
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm  
Location: MSB 282
Zoom: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/98192652430

Speaker: : Muhammed Adeel Parvaz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Talk Title: “Neurophysiological phenotyping of reward processing and its modulation with abstinence in stimulant addiction”

Bio: Dr. Parvaz's lab focuses on studying cognitive-affective interactions underlying deficits in motivation, reinforcement learning and inhibitory control in neuropsychiatric conditions, specifically in substance use and psychotic disorders, using behavioral, computational, psychophysiological and neuroimaging techniques. As a cognitive neuroscientist with a background in biomedical engineering, he places special emphasis on understanding disease mechanisms with an eye towards developing and validating clinically useful biomarkers to accelerate bench-to-bedside translation of lab-based assessments. Currently, his research involves tracking neurobehavioral plasticity during the onset of as well as remission from substance use disorders. At the clinical translation side of this work, he is developing robust neurophysiological and neuroimaging assays to test pharmacological, behavioral, and neuromodulatory interventions for craving reduction. For these studies, his lab uses a comprehensive multimodal approach with multiscale modeling of environmental (socio-economic and latent external ), clinical (interviews and questionnaires), behavioral (cognitive tasks, speech, facial expressions), neurophysiological (EEG) and circuit-level (fMRI) biomarkers to more precisely track and/or predict individualized outcomes (e.g., treatment response, and/or relapse in treatment seeking addicted individuals).