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Helen Schwerdt

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering Department

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Amjad, U., Choi, J., Gibson, D.J., Murray, R., Graybiel, A.M., & Schwerdt, H.N. (2023). Synchronous Measurements of Extracellular Action Potentials and Neurochemical Activity with Carbon Fiber Electrodes in Nonhuman Primates. bioRxiv.Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. doi: 10.1101/2023.12.23.573130.

Xia, M., Agca, B.N., Yoshida, T., Choi, J., Amjad, U., Bose, K., Keren, N., Zukerman, S., Cima, M.J., Graybiel, A.M., & Schwerdt, H.N. (2023). Scalable, flexible carbon fiber electrode thread arrays for three-dimensional spatial profiling of neurochemical activity in deep brain structures of rodents. bioRxiv.Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. doi: 10.1101/2023.04.15.537033.

Xia, M., Agca, B.N., Yoshida, T., Choi, J., Amjad, U., Bose, K., Keren, N., Zukerman, S., Cima, M.J., Graybiel, A.M., & Schwerdt, H.N. (2023). Scalable, flexible carbon fiber electrode thread arrays for three-dimensional probing of neurochemical activity in deep brain structures of rodents. Biosens Bioelectron, 241, 115625.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2023.115625.

Schwerdt, H.N., Graybiel, A.M., & Cima, M.J. (2021). Carbon Fiber Probes for Real-Time Monitoring of Dopamine. In The Brain Reward System. (pp. 125-144).Humana, New York, NY.

Schwerdt, H.N., Amemori, K., Gibson, D.J., Stanwicks, L.L., Yoshida, T., Bichot, N.P., Amemori, S., Desimone, R., Langer, R., Cima, M.J., & Graybiel, A.M. (2020). Dopamine and beta-band oscillations differentially link to striatal value and motor control. Sci Adv, 6(39), eabb9226.American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abb9226.

Schwerdt, H.N., Kim, M.J., Amemori, S., Homma, D., Yoshida, T., Shimazu, H., Yerramreddy, H., Karasan, E., Langer, R., Graybiel, A.M., & Cima, M.J. (2017). Subcellular probes for neurochemical recording from multiple brain sites. Lab Chip, 17(6), 1104-1115.Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). doi: 10.1039/c6lc01398h.

Schwerdt, H.N., Shimazu, H., Amemori, K.I., Amemori, S., Tierney, P.L., Gibson, D.J., Hong, S., Yoshida, T., Langer, R., Cima, M.J., & Graybiel, A.M. (2017). Long-term dopamine neurochemical monitoring in primates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114(50), 13260-13265.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1713756114.

Liang, L., Zimmermann Rollin, I., Alikaya, A., Ho, J.C., Santini, T., Bostan, A.C., Schwerdt, H.N., Stauffer, W.R., Ibrahim, T.S., Pirondini, E., & Schaeffer, D.J. An open-source MRI compatible frame for multimodal presurgical mapping in macaque and capuchin monkeys. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.17.580767.

Schwerdt, H.N., Gibson, D.J., Amemori, K., Stanwicks, L.L., Yoshida, T., Cima, M.J., & Graybiel, A.M. (2021). Chronic multi-modal monitoring of neural activity in rodents and primates. In Integrated Sensors for Biological and Neural Sensing, 11663, (p. 1166308).International Society for Optics and Photonics.

Research interests

Neural Engineering