Evan Brady

Clinical Researcher

Epilepsy surgery and neuromodulation research. Atlanta, Georgia.

• Designed and executed non-invasive temporal interference (TI) stimulation protocols targeting the hippocampus in epilepsy patients undergoing intracranial monitoring, contributing to the first human study, published in Brain Stimulation, showing suppression of epileptic biomarkers.
• Recorded high-fidelity subcortical iEEG activity during stimulation sessions, applying filtering algorithms to reduce electrical artifact, and built the data analysis pipelines in Python and MATLAB.
• Administered clinical neuropsychological evaluations across a high volume of study visits with pre- and post-surgical epilepsy patients and patients with brain masses.
• Created three novel cognitive assessment tasks independently (ELAT, TRT, CDT) and co-developed the Emory Multimodal Learning Test, a gamified memory paradigm that won Best Poster at the CTSA Program Meeting 2025.
• Used patient-driven models of neural activity and neuroimaging to optimise subcortical stimulation parameters, bridging computational modelling with clinical application.
• Modulated hippocampal and temporal lobe activity via subcortical electrodes during spatial memory and word recall paradigms, demonstrating improved verbal memory encoding through targeted neuromodulation.
• Applied an LLM-based sentiment analysis model to quantify valence and arousal of words in a socioemotional task.
• Operated wearable and sensor-based devices on participants, including intracranial electrode arrays, EEG systems, and TI stimulation hardware.
• Performed mouse perfusion and brain slice immunostaining to visualise TI stimulation effects in hippocampal tissue, providing histological validation for the human neuromodulation study.
• Contributed to IRB protocol preparation and maintained scientific documentation of experimental methods, data collection procedures, and analytical approaches.
• Collaborated with neurosurgeons, neurologists, software and hardware engineers, and computational neuroscientists across multiple concurrent research protocols.

Research Assistant, Social Cognitive Emotive Neuroscience (SCEN) Lab

• Administered EEG protocols and operated wearable sensor equipment on participants to assess frontal lobe asymmetry effects on attention.
• Analysed brain activity patterns using signal processing techniques to identify attention-based neural signatures.

Research Assistant, Psychopathy and Substance Abuse Lab

• Collected and compiled data for a meta-analysis on substance abuse and psychopathy.
• Surveyed legal professionals to investigate the interplay between eyewitness testimony confidence and accuracy.

B.A., Psychology, University of Alabama

Minor in Neuroscience.

Emory Multimodal Learning Test, CTSA Program Meeting

Co-developed a gamified memory paradigm assessing rarely explored aspects of memory in epilepsy surgery evaluation. Won best conference poster.

Chronoception in Temporal Lobe Dysfunction

A novel investigation of time perception as an underexplored cognitive domain in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Lateralization of the Epileptic Network's Influence on Emotional Perception

Characterised seizure onset zone laterality effects on emotional perception, using LLM-based sentiment analysis for valence and arousal quantification.

Letter Alternation Task: a novel frontal versus temporal lobe measure

Developed the Electronic Letter Alternation Task (ELAT) to distinguish frontal from temporal lobe cognitive deficits in epilepsy surgery evaluation.

Best Poster, CTSA Program Meeting

For the Emory Multimodal Learning Test.