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 work with multimodal datasets to understand how brain signals correlate with human behavior. I am interested in using computer vision and machine learning to parse neural correlates of behavior under naturalistic settings. Another area of interest involves building robust neuro-modulatory treatments for functional disorders and epilepsy. I received my BSc at University of Alberta and my MD at Stanford University.

Intracranial Correlates of Food Reward and Metabolism

• 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.

Mechanism of Intracranial Neurostimulation

• 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, 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