Itzhak Fried

Itzhak Fried is a Professor-in-Residence in Neurosurgery and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. His work bridges epilepsy surgery and cognitive neuroscience, focusing on single-neuron activity during memory, navigation, and consciousness studies.

• Key research areas: neural coding of memory, theta oscillations, epileptic network analysis, and brain-computer interfaces.
• Current NIH-funded projects: Decoding and modulating human memory via deep brain stimulation (U01NS123128), sleep-dependent memory consolidation (U01NS108930), and mechanisms of memory enhancement (R01NS084017).
• Recent publications analyze fast ripple networks in epilepsy, neural dynamics of navigation, and modulation of speech-related neurons in Parkinson's disease.

His team develops wearable neurostimulation platforms and machine learning tools for seizure detection, while exploring consciousness and volition through intracranial recordings.