Deborah Barany, PhD
Deborah Barany, PhD
Deborah Barany, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine
Pound Hall 216
105 Foster Road
Athens, GA 30602
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Georgia, 2018 – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University, 2016 – 2018
PhD, Dynamical Neuroscience, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016
MA, Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013
BA, Neuroscience; Mathematics, Hamilton College, 2011
Honors / Awards / Achievements
Interdisciplinary Grant Proposal Incentive Program Award, University of Georgia, 2022
Training in Grantsmanship for Rehabilitation Research Award, American Society of Neurorehabilitation, 2021
Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015
Capital One Academic All-American Second Team, 2011
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation, 2010
Selected Publications
Barany, D. A., Lacey, S., Matthews, K. L., Nygaard, L. C., & Sathian, K. (2023). Neural basis of sound-symbolic pseudoword-shape correspondences. Neuropsychologia, 108657.
Gómez-Granados, A.M, Kurtzer, I., Gordon, S., *Barany, D.A., & *Singh, T. (2023). Object motion influences feedforward motor responses during mechanical stopping of virtual projectiles: A preliminary study. Experimental Brain Research. Advance online publication, doi:10.1007/s00221-023-06576-y
*joint senior authorship
*Gómez-Granados, A.M, *Barany, D. A., Schrayer, M., Kurtzer, I., Bonnet, C., & Singh, T. (2021). Age-related deficits in rapid visuomotor decision-making. Journal of Neurophysiology. 126(5):1592-1603. doi: 10.1152/jn.00073.2021
*equal contribution
Barany, D. A., Revill, K. P., Caliban, A., Vernon, I., Shukla, A., Sathian, K., & Buetefisch, C. M. (2020). Primary motor cortical activity during unimanual movements with increasing demand on precision. Journal of Neurophysiology. doi: 10.1152/jn.00546.2019
Latchoumane, C.V.,* Barany, D.A.,* Karumbaiah, L., & Singh, T. (2020). Neurostimulation and reach-to-grasp function recovery following acquired brain injury: insight from pre-clinical rodent models and human applications. Frontiers in Neurology, 11, 835. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00835.
*equal contribution
Barany, D. A., Gómez-Granados, A., Schrayer, M., Cutts, S. A., & Singh, T. (2020). Perceptual decisions about object shape bias visuomotor coordination during rapid interception movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 123(6):2235-2248. doi: 10.1152/jn.00098.2020
Barany, D.A., Della-Maggiore, V., Viswanathan, S., Cieslak, M., & Grafton, S. T. (2014). Feature interactions enable decoding of sensorimotor transformations for goal-directed movement. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(20), 6860-6873.
Grant Support
National Center of Neuromodulation for Rehabilitation Pilot Grant (PI), 2023 – 2024
Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (CTSA) Pilot Grants Project (Co-I), 2022 – 2023
Oregon Health & Science University Medical Research Foundation Grant (Consultant), 2022 – 2023
American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018 – 2020
NIH Georgia StrokeNet Fellow for Emory University, 2017
NIH T32 Postdoctoral Training Grant, Translational Research in Neurology, Emory University, 2016
Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research, 2014
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2011-2014
Elihu Root Fellowship for Graduate Study, Hamilton College, 2011
Educational Activities
M1 small group facilitator and Large Group Instructor for M1 Brain & Behavior
Scholarship & Research
Neural mechanisms of goal-directed movement
Motor control
Functional neuroimaging
Non-invasive brain stimulation
Neurorehabilitation
