Email

bijanki@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Neurosurgery (Primary), Psychiatry (Joint), Neuroscience (Joint)
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Addresses

Main Baylor (Office)

BCM-Smith Medical Research Bldg
Room: BCMS-S101B
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Emory University

03/2016 - Atlanta, Georgia United States

Neuromodulation/Neurobiology

PhD from University of Iowa

12/2011 - Iowa City, Iowa United States

Cognitive Neuroscience/Neuroimaging

Graduate Certificate at Emory University

05/2018 - Atlanta

Clinical and Translational Research, Biostatistics

Selected Publications

• Bijanki, K.R., Manns, J.R., ... Mayberg, H.S., Willie, J.T. "Cingulum stimulation enhances positive affect and anxiolysis to facilitate awake craniotomy." Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2018 : Pubmed PMID: 30589643
• Bijanki, K.R., Matsui, J.T., Mayberg, H.S., Magnotta, V.A., Arndt, S., Johnson, H.J., Nopoulos, P., Paradiso, S., McCormick, L., Fiedorowicz, J.G., Epping, E.A., Moser, D.J. "Depressive symptoms related to low fractional anisotropy in the right ventral anterior cingulate in older adults with atherosclerotic vascular disease." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. : Pubmed PMID: 26236221
• Bijanki, K.R., Hodis, B., Brumm, M., Harlynn, E, McCormick, L.M. "Hippocampal and subcallosal cingulate atrophy in psychotic depression.." PLoS ONE. : Pubmed PMID: 25338068
• Bijanki, K.R., Kovach, C., McCormick, L.M., Kawasaki, H., Dlouhy, B., Feinstein, J., Jones, R.D., Howard, M. "Case report: Stimulation of the right amygdala produces transient changes in affective bias." Brain Stimulation. : Pubmed PMID: 24972588

Funding

Novel strategies for mapping the emotional neural circuitry using human brain stimulation. - #NIH R21-A1-NS104953

$429,000.00 Grant funding from NINDS

This research seeks to gain a better understanding of the emotional correlates to limbic brain stimulation. We aim to use this information to help develop better methods to anticipate and prevent neuropsychiatric complications following brain surgery for epilepsy.

The human amygdala in social processing: circuits, physiology, behavior, and neuromodulation. - #NIH K01-A1 MH116364

$696,000.00 Grant funding from NIMH

The goal of this project is to provide critical training in electrophysiology, and to test the scientific premise that the amygdala is directly and causally involved in depression and social processing.

Languages

American Sign Language, Spanish