News Archive

09/2025 - Isabel Wilson joins the lab as a SSHRC Scholar! Isabel will be studying how brain signaling varies across different timescales, supported by a prestigious SSHRC CGRS-M Scholarship - congrats and welcome Isabel!

09/2025 - Undergraduate research assistant Matthew Eng accepted into med school! Matthew will be pursuing his MD in UBC's prestigious Faculty of Medicine - congrats Matthew, you'll be missed!

09/2025 - New paper in Movement Disorders: Cortical effects of dopamine replacement account for clinical response variability in Parkinson's disease

06/2025 - Sean Kriwokon awarded Undergraduate Student Research Award! Sean's research linking peripheral mitochondrial energetics to cortical signaling in Alzheimer's disease will be supported by NSERC - congrats Sean!

03/2025 - Dr. Wiesman is named the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Neurophysiology of Aging and Neurodegeneration!

02/2025 - New commentary in Brain Communications:  Tracking the neurophysiological effects of proteinopathy into the pre-clinical stage of Alzheimer’s disease .

01/2025 - Ako Sotiroff and Parham Fathi Naz join the lab to co-lead the development of a 3D printing pipeline for anatomical MRI data. Welcome Ako and Parham! 

01/2025 - Welcome Matthew Eng, who joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant to study circadian effects on neurophysiology! 

01/2025 - New review paper in npj Parkinson's Disease: Electrophysiological approaches to informing therapeutic interventions with deep brain stimulation.

01/2025 - New paper in Human Brain Mapping: Human auditory–motor networks show frequency-specific phase-based coupling in resting-state MEG.

11/2024 - New pre-print in bioRxiv: The lifespan evolution of individualized neurophysiological traits.

11/2024 - New pre-print in medRxiv: Cortical effects of dopamine replacement account for clinical response variability in Parkinson’s disease.

11/2024 - New paper published in npj Aging: Aging modulates the impact of cognitive interference subtypes on dynamic connectivity across a distributed motor network.

11/2024 - Ansley Wong joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant to study how brain variability changes over different timescales - welcome aboard Ansley!

11/2024 - Welcome Abdallah Abujamous, who joins the lab as a postgraduate research assistant to help develop a clinical consent-to-contact process! 

11/2024 - New pre-print in medRxiv: Reduced cortical excitability is associated with cognitive symptoms in concussed adolescent football players.

11/2024 - Dr. Wiesman receives a Planning & Dissemination Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to travel to Stockholm to plan new research!

10/2024 - Santiago Isaac Flores Alonso joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Santiago will use ML to study neurophysiological aging - welcome!

09/2024 - Sean Kriwokon joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant to study how mitochondrial energetics shape brain activity in Alzheimer's disease. Welcome Sean!

09/2024 - New paper published in Nature Neuroscience: Synergistic association of amyloid and tau pathology with cortical neurophysiology and cognitive decline in asymptomatic older adults.

09/2024 - New paper published in Brain:  Associations between neuromelanin depletion and cortical rhythmic activity in Parkinson’s disease. 

07/2024 - New paper published in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Neurochemical organization of cortical proteinopathy and neurophysiology along the Alzheimer's disease continuum.

07/2024 - The lab officially opens! Whoa!