Philip Cho

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Nico U.F. Dosenbach, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Duke University, 2022

Enrollment year: 2023

Research summary
Automated identification of the somato-cognitive action network in individuals

The somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) of the human motor cortex subserves the integration of physiology, movement, and behavioral goals, and its functionally connected regions in the subcortex are linked with neuromodulatory targets for the treatment of conditions such as epilepsy, chronic pain, and Parkinson’s disease. I aim to develop an automated system that utilizes resting-state functional MRI scans to define individual-specific SCAN regions, which will be used to identify optimal targets for clinical neuromodulation and to further characterize the network’s connectivity profile across the brain.

Graduate publications
Van AN, Montez DF, Laumann TO, Cho PN, Suljic V, Madison T, Baden NJ, Ramirez-Perez N, Scheidter KM, Monk JS, Whiting FI, Adeyemo B, Chauvin RJ, Krimmel SR, Metoki A, Rajesh A, Roland JL, Salo T, Wang A, Weldon KB, Sotiras A, Shimony JS, Kay BP, Nelson SM, Tervo-Clemmens B, Marek SA, Vizioli L, Yacoub E, Satterthwaite TD, Gordon EM, Fair DA, Tisdall MD, Dosenbach NUF. 2026 Frame-wise multi-echo distortion correction for superior functional MRI. Imaging Neurosci (Camb), IMAG.a.1262():. PMCID: PMC13224312