Yuhao Huang

Neurosurgery Resident / Department of Neurosurgery
Stanford Health Care
453 Quarry Road, Palo Alto, CA
yhhuang@stanford.edu
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I am a resident and post-doctorate researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. As a physician-scientist with a focus on signal processing and neural electrophysiology, I am interested in building network-based brain computer interface (BCI) for neuropsychiatric disorders including epilepsy, pain and mood disorders. To do so, I work on causal human paradigms to understand 1) brain networks underlying naturalistic behaviors, 2) latent space models of disease states and 3) network plasticity after targeted brain stimulation. I received my BSc at University of Alberta and my MD at Stanford University.

Brain networks underlying naturalistic behaviors

• Huang Y, Gopal J, Kakusa B, Li AH, Huang W, Wang JB, Persad A, Ramayya A, Parvizi J, Buch VP, Keller CJ. “Naturalistic acute pain states decoded from neural and facial dynamics” BioRxiv 2024.
• Huang Y*, Wang J*, Parker JJ, Schivacharan RS, Rayhan L, Halpern CH. “Spectro-spatial features in distributed human intracranial activity proactively encode peripheral metabolic activity” Nature Communications April, 2023. *Co-First Author
• Huang Y, Kakusa B, Feng A, Gattas S, Schivacharan RS, Lee EB, Parker JJ, Kuijper FM, Barbosa DAN, Keller CJ, Bohon C, Mikhail A, Halpern CH. “The insulo-opercular cortex encodes food-specific content under controlled and naturalistic conditions” Nature Communications June 6, 2021.
• Kakusa B, Huang Y, Barbosa DAN, Feng A, Gattas S, Schivacharan RS, Lee EB, Kuijper FM, Saluja S, Parker JJ, Miller KJ, Keller CJ, Bohon C, Halpern CH. “Anticipatory human subthalamic area beta-band power responses to dissociable tastes correlate with weight gain” Neurobiology of Disease July 1, 2021.
• Parker JJ, Rolle C, Schivacharan RS, Barbosa DAN, Feng A, Huang Y, Kakusa B, Prieto T, Jaffe R, Williams N, Halpern CH. “Appetitive Mapping of the Human Nucleus Accumbens” Biological Psychiatry December 9, 2022.

Brain network plasticity after brain stimulation

• Huang Y, Zelmann R, Hadar P, Dezha-Peralta J, Richardson M, Williams ZM, Cash SS, Keller CJ, Paulk AC. “ Theta-burst direct electrical stimulation remodels human brain networks” Nature Communications August 14, 2024.
• Huang Y, Hajnal B, Entz L, Fabo D, Herrero J, Mehta A, Keller C. “ Intracortical dynamics underlying repetitive stimulation predicts changes in network connectivity” Journal of Neuroscience July 31, 2019.
• Keller C*, Huang Y*, Herrero J, Fini M, Du V, Lado F, Honey C, Mehta A. “Induction and quantification of excitability changes in human cortical networks” Journal of Neuroscience June 6, 2018. *Co-First Author

Outcomes in Neurosurgery

• Huang Y, Sadeghzadeh S, Li AH, Schonfeld E, Ramayya AG, Buch VP. “Rates and Predictors of Pain Reduction With Intracranial Stimulation for Intractable Pain Disorders” Neurosurgery June 3 2024.
• Huang Y, Leung S, Parker JJ, Ho A, Wintermark M, Sohil P, Kim-Butts P, Kakusa B, Beres S, Henderson J, Grant G, Halpern C. “ Anatomic and Thermometric Analysis of Cranial Nerve Palsy after Laser Amygdalohippocampotomy for Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy” Operative Neurosurgery June, 2020.
• Huang Y, Yecies D, Bruckert L, Parker JJ, Ho A, Kim L, Fornoff L, Wintermark M, Porter B, Yeom K, Halpern C, Grant G. “ Stereotactic laser ablation for completion corpus callosotomy” Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics August 2, 2019.
• Huang Y, Singer T, Iv M, Lanzman B, Nair S, Stadler III J, Wang J, Edwards M, Grant G, Chesier S, Yeom K. “ Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI for surveillance of pediatric cerebral arteriovenous malformations” Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics July 19, 2019.
• Huang Y, Chow K, Aredo J, Padda S, Han S, Kakusa B, Hayden-Gephart, M. “ Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutation Status Confers Survival Benefit in Patients with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Undergoing Surgical Resection of Brain Metastases: A Retrospective Cohort Study” World Neurosurgery May, 2019.
• Azad T, Pendharkar A, Pan J, Huang Y, Li A, Esparza R, Mehta S, Connolly I, Veeravagu A, Campen C, Cheshier S, Edwards M, Fisher P, Grant G. “ Surgical outcomes of pediatric spinal cord astrocytomas: systematic review and meta-analysis” Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics July 20, 2018.
• Pan J, Jabarkheel R, Huang Y, Ho A, Chang S. “Stereotactic radiosurgery for central nervous system hemangioblastoma: systematic review and meta-analysis” Journal of Neuro-Oncology November 11, 2018.

A complete list of publications is available at Google Scholar