Email

zakir.mridha@bcm.edu

Positions

Instructor

Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

Postdoctoral Training at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

PhD from Tokyo Medical University

04/2001 - Tokyo, Japan

Internship at Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital

Mymensingh, Bangladesh

MBBS from Dhaka University School of Medicine

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Professional Interests

• Epilepsy
• Neuromodulation

Selected Publications

• de Gee JW, Mridha Z, Hudson M, Shi Y, Ramsaywak H, Smith S, Karediya N, Thompson M, Jaspe K, Jiang H, Zhang W, McGinley MJ "Strategic stabilization of arousal boosts sustained attention." Curr Biol. 2024;34(18):4114-28.e6. Pubmed PMID: 39151432
• Neyhart E, Zhou N, Munn BR, Law RG, Smith C, Mridha ZH, Blanco FA, Li G, Li Y, Hu M, McGinley MJ, Shine JM, Reimer J "Cortical acetylcholine dynamics are predicted by cholinergic axon activity and behavior state." Cell Rep. 2024;43(10):114808. Pubmed PMID: 39383037
• Zou J, de Gee JW, Mridha Z, Trinh S, Erskine A, Jing M, Yao J, Walker S, Li Y, McGinley M, Hires SA "Goal-directed motor actions drive acetylcholine dynamics in sensory cortex." eLife. 2024;13:RP96931.
• Mridha Z, de Gee JW, Shi Y, Alkashgari R, Williams J, Suminski A, Ward MP, Zhang W, McGinley MJ "Graded recruitment of pupil-linked neuromodulation by parametric stimulation of the vagus nerve." Nat Commun. 2021;12(1):1539. Pubmed PMID: 33750784