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- “Be Still my Beating Heart – Slowing an Over-excited Heart Rate with Epidural Anesthesia” (Video) – featured by the journal Anesthesiology as part of the article “Effect of Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia on Ventricular Excitability in a Porcine Model”
- “Role of GABA in Neuromodulation and Arrhythmias” (Featured Author Podcast) – Dr. Aman Mahajan discusses the article “GABAergic Signaling During Spinal Cord Stimulation Reduces Cardiac Arrhythmias in a Porcine Model” (Anesthesiology, April 2023)
- “Pain Research Challenge 2022 Award: Neuropeptide-Y” (video) – Collaborators from the Taylor and Mahajan labs were awarded a 2022 Virginia Kaufman Pain Research Challenge Award for their project “A Non-Invasive Nasal Spray to Treat Neuropathic Pain.”
- “CALM HEART – PInCh 2023” (video) – Dr. Siamak Salavatian discusses the Calm Heart project – a programmable, AI-driven stimulation therapy to treat heart failure that targets both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.