Brain and Mind Electrophysiology Lab

05/09/2025

Maciej Jankowski - the founder of our 'sister' Deep Brain Lab at Gdansk Tech - will be the next invited speaker on the NeuroGda series this coming Thursday. Join to hear about the rat model of our electrophysiological studies!

29/08/2025

✨ Annual BME Lab Day Out ✨

This year we spent our traditional lab getaway at the Summer Resort of Gdańsk University of Technology in Kashubian Wdzydze. 🌲🏞️

Even though part of our team was away on vacation, we still had a fantastic time together — full of basketball games 🏀, tennis doubles 🎾, watersports 🚤 and long chats at the lake and around the table.

Moments like these remind us how important it is to step outside the lab, recharge, and enjoy each other’s company beyond research. 💡🤝

📸 A few snapshots from our day out ⬇️

12/08/2025

⏳ Last days to apply! ⏳
Do you want to explore how the brain creates images, predicts reality, and makes decisions? Are you fascinated by the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive science, and cutting-edge technologies?

📅 Applications are open only until 21 August 2025!
Don’t wait — join our Brainmindlab team and work on groundbreaking research projects using EEG, VR, eye-tracking, and cognitive modeling.

🔹 PhD position: https://www.euraxess.pl/jobs/360270
🔹 Postdoc position: https://www.euraxess.pl/jobs/360514

💡 Questions? Send us a message! And if you know someone who should see this — share it!

06/08/2025

🚨 We’re hiring! Join Brainmindlab! 🧠🧪

Are you fascinated by how the human brain constructs visual imagery, predicts reality, and makes decisions? Want to work at the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive science, and cutting-edge technologies? Great — we’re looking for you! 💥

👉 We’re currently recruiting a PhD student and a Postdoctoral researcher to join our team as part of two research projects:
🔹 PhD position: https://lnkd.in/eWQFmGv6
🔹 Postdoc position: https://lnkd.in/e2U9c8gX

What we offer:
✔️ participation in cutting-edge research on predictive coding and cognitive representations,
✔️ collaboration with international research teams,
✔️ strong support for scientific development and publishing,
✔️ access to modern research technologies (EEG, VR, eyetracking, cognitive modeling).

📍 Location: Gdańsk, Poland
📅 Apply by: 21 August 2025

Got questions? Message us! And if you know someone who should see this — share it! 🙌

31/07/2025

🚀 We’ve got fantastic news!
Our application for the Opus LAP grant has just been accepted by the National Science Centre (NCN)!

Together with our collaborators at St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno, we are launching the international ElectroDNA project, aiming to decode the electrical language of human memory using cutting-edge implanted neurotechnologies.

📍 What’s the plan?
We’ll study verbal and spatial memory in patients with epilepsy undergoing implantation of next-generation brain devices. These patients, in Poland (Medical University of Gdańsk) and the Czech Republic (St. Anne's University Hospital), will participate in immersive memory tasks — including with Augmented Reality goggles — while we monitor their brain's fast (ripple) and slow (theta) wave discharges in real time.

🧠 This research could redefine how we understand and treat memory disorders, opening new doors for personalized neuromodulation directly from the patient's home.

🌍 We are building on a strong international collaboration of neuroscientists, engineers and clinicians — and we’re expanding our team!

🔍 We are hiring!
Come work with us on this exciting journey. We’re currently recruiting:

a Postdoctoral Researcher - apply here: https://lnkd.in/eWQFmGv6
a PhD Student - apply here: https://lnkd.in/e2U9c8gX

Politechnika Gdańska Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny

11/06/2025

A follow-up to our last post about publishing the unique human intracranial recordings from our research projects. This popular-science post is suitable for a wider audience - not just neuroscientists :)

Intracranial recordings from epilepsy patients performing memory tasks reveal brain activity from single neurons to system-level dynamics. Our multilingual, multiscale and multimodal BIDS-formatted dataset enables studies of memory, cognition, and brain-computer interfaces across cultural contexts.

23/05/2025

🧠 A glimpse into the human mind – quite literally.

What happens in your brain the moment you recall the word “table”? What’s going on before you even say it out loud? Thanks to rare and extraordinary recordings from inside the living human brain, we’re starting to uncover the answers.

In patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, electrodes are sometimes implanted to locate seizure origins. This clinical necessity creates a unique opportunity to record brain activity during everyday mental functions – like memory formation and recall. The very same electrodes used for diagnosis can also capture neural spikes from single neurons and brain-wide oscillations from larger networks.

In this study, patients from the U.S., Poland, and the Czech Republic performed the same cognitive tasks using simple nouns like car, hill, or table – in English, Polish, Slovak, and Czech. We’re now able to trace how these universal concepts are encoded and recalled across different languages and cultures.

⚡ The data reveals something remarkable: a burst of high-frequency activity a few hundred milliseconds before a recalled word is spoken. This may signal the moment a concept forms in the mind – even before speech begins.

🖼️ The graphics we share here illustrate just that:

– The first shows brain signals recorded at different scales – micro and macroelectrodes.
– The second shows neural activity in visual areas just before a memory is recalled – even without visual input.

Together, they reveal how the brain prepares to speak what’s on the mind.

📊 The full dataset is publicly available on EBRAINS. It includes:
– Intracranial EEG (micro & macro)
– Eye-tracking and pupil size
– Audio recordings
– 3D anatomical maps of electrode positions

All organized in BIDS format for reproducibility and ease of use.

This rich resource can support diverse applications:
🧩 memory engram tracking
🧠 decoding thoughts before speech
💬 brain-computer interface development
🔁 closed-loop memory enhancement

We invite neuroscientists, engineers and curious minds to explore this unique dataset – and help unravel how brainwaves become thoughts.

06/05/2025

🔬 Intracranial EEG Research at the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław 🧠

Between April 11th and 14th, we conducted a series of intracranial EEG recordings at the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław (Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny im. Jana Mikulicza-Radeckiego). The data were collected from a patient diagnosed with epilepsy during the performance of memory-related cognitive tasks.

These recordings provide invaluable insights into the workings of the human brain and bring us closer to understanding the neural basis of memory.

💙 We are deeply grateful to our exceptional patient – for their courage, commitment, and willingness to take part in this research. Without individuals like them, scientific progress would not be possible.

👥 Patients play a fundamental role in neuroscience research – their participation enables the development of advanced diagnostic tools and more effective treatments. Every contribution brings us one step closer to better understanding and managing neurological conditions.

14/04/2025

It's today at 2:30pm at the Medical University of Gdansk!

Great presentations coming soon on Apr 14th in the NeuroGDA series! Invited guest speaker David Quiroga-Martinez doing intracranial task recordings with patients in Copenhagen (originally from Colombia) - like our recordings in Poland, Czech Republic and the USA. See you there!

11/04/2025

🧠✨ Are we getting closer to mind reading?

A great paper has just been published from Nanthia Suthana’s lab, demonstrating bouts of theta oscillations occurring just before making a turn in either a real or imagined environment. These bursts of oscillatory activity were recorded in epilepsy patients implanted with a chronic device capable of both recording and stimulating activity in the hippocampus — a key brain structure involved in navigation and memory.

These short-lived discharges of brain waves were used to reconstruct the navigational path taken by the patients — in essence, decoding the internal decision to turn. 🧠🗺️

Interestingly, we are seeing similar discharges of high-frequency activity that precede the act of word recall in the human brain (link to our preprint below). See also the commentary by Dr. Michal Kucewicz from our lab in the accompanying editorial.

🧩 More on decoding concepts and reading the mind coming soon...

🔗 Link in comments

03/04/2025

Great presentations coming soon on Apr 14th in the NeuroGDA series! Invited guest speaker David Quiroga-Martinez doing intracranial task recordings with patients in Copenhagen (originally from Colombia) - like our recordings in Poland, Czech Republic and the USA. See you there!

25/03/2025

🎉 Exciting News from BrainMindLab! 🎉

We’re proud to share that three members of our team – Marina Galanina, Tomasz Piernicki, and Sahar Seifzadeh – have been awarded a scholarship from Amazon Development Center Poland Center Poland for their project: an innovative AI-based speech transcription tool designed to support patients with epilepsy. 🧠💬

This recognition highlights the impact of combining cutting-edge technology with neuroscience and healthcare to improve lives.

A big thank you to Politechnika Gdańska and Amazon Home for the support and trust – we’re more motivated than ever to keep pushing forward!



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