Samaneh Rashidi

Postgraduate Research Student

PhD student

sr01640@surrey.ac.uk

Academic and research departments

School of Psychology, Brain and Behaviour section.

About

My research project

Investigating the Effects of Brain stimulation on Language Abilities

My project aims to develop a non-invasive and relatively safe neuromodulating technique for improving language learning. In this project, I will examine how brain stimulation could enhance our language abilities. I will use a novel artificial intelligence approach to personalise these brain-based interventions, that have been shown to improve other cognitive functions, in order to maximise their benefit on language abilities in healthy individuals. I believe my project will pave the way using psychological and neuroscientific knowledge, together with methods from AI, to improve language performance.

This project has great promise for millions of individuals who try to learn new languages and many who struggle with the acquisition of such new skill due to atypical development, healthy aging, or an acquired brain-based disease. My project has the potential to develop a non-invasive neuromodulating technique for improving the performance of translator. This approach has a high chance of filing patent to be developed as a commercial device for non-invasive cognitive enhancement in language learning.

Supervisors

Roi Cohen Kadosh

Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad

My qualifications

2017

MSc - Medical Physics

Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Research

Research interests

I love research. I am interested in human study, neurological disorders and mental health. Since the start of my MSc I have been working on the topics of system and quantitative neuroscience and working on multidisciplinary approaches for treatment of neurodegenerative and cognitive disorders.

I participated in conducting several clinical trials in using different brain-based interventions techniques including transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), Neurofeedback training (NFT), transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs) in combination with EEG and behavioural assessment tools in diseases like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), tinnitus, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), depression, and patients with chronic pains.

Publications

() Samaneh Rashidi and Ali Yadollahpour. Three weeks bilateral tDCS over auditory cortex significantly improves tinnitus: A double blinded randomized controlled clinical trial. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation 16, no. 1 (2023): 403.

() Rashidi, Samaneh, Myles Jones, Eric Murillo-Rodriguez, Sergio Machado, Youguo Hao, and Ali Yadollahpour. "Transcranial direct current stimulation for auditory verbal hallucinations: a systematic review of clinical trials." Neural regeneration research 16, no. 4 (2021): 666.

() Samaneh Rashidi, Myles Jones, Eric Murillo-Rodriguez, Sergio Machado, Youguo Hao, Ali Yadollahpour. Transcranial direct current stimulation for auditory verbal hallucinations: a systematic review of clinical trials. 2020;16(4): 666-671.

() Yadollahpour A, Rashidi S, Jaberzade S. Single session anodal, cathodal and placebo bifrontal tDCS for treatment of intractable chronic tinnitus: A randomized controlled clinical trial. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation. 2019 Mar 1;12(2):406.

() Samaneh Rashidi, Ali Yadollahpour, Saad Ahmed Alkahtani, Pramod Singh kunwar, Daniel Robles-Camarillo, Arturo Meneses-Flores, Francisco Trejo-Macotela. The Effects of Acute Multisession Bifrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Intractable Tinnitus and comorbid depression and anxiety: A Study Protocol for Randomized Controlled Trial. International Tinnitus Journal. 2018;22(2):181-187.

() Ali Yadollahpour, Arash Bayat, Miguel Mayo, Samaneh Rashidi, Nader Saki. Repeated sessions of bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation on intractable tinnitus: A study protocol for a double-blind randomized controlled trial. F1000Research., 2018, 7, 317.

() Samaneh Rashidi, Maryam Mirzaiyan, Pramod S Kunwar, Rosette Uzayisenga. Transcranial direct current stimulation for treatment of ADHD: A review of the mechanisms of action. Current psychiatry Reviews. 2018 Dec 1;14(4):215-20.

() Yadollahpour A, Mayo M, Saki N, Rashidi S, Bayat A. A chronic protocol of bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation over auditory cortex for tinnitus treatment: Dataset from a double-blinded randomized controlled trial. F1000Research 2018 vol: 7 pp: 733.

() Yadollahpour A., Mirzaiyan, M. & Rashidi, S. Quantitative EEG for Early and Differential Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorders: a Comprehensive Review of the Literature. Int J Ment Health Addiction. April 2017. 15(2), pp. 387-393. doi:10.1007/s11469-017-9739-x.

() Ali Yadollahpour, Arash Bayat, Samaneh Rashidi, Nader Saki, Majid Karimi. Dataset of acute repeated sessions of bifrontal transcranial direct current stimulation for treatment of intractable tinnitus: A randomized controlled trial. Data in Brief. Volume 15, December 2017, Pages 40-46.

() Yadollahpour A, Asl HM, Rashidi S. Transcranial direct current stimulation as a non-medication modality for attention enhancement: A review of the literature. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology. 2017;10(1):311.

() Yadollahpour A., Jalilifar, M. & Rashidi, S. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for the Treatment of Depression: a Comprehensive Review of the Recent Advances. Int J Ment Health Addiction. April 2017. 15(2), pp. 434-443. doi:10.1007/s11469-017-9741-3.

() Acute multisession bifrontal tDCS for treatment of intractable tinnitus: a double blinded randomized controlled trial (The 26th Congress of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA 2018) in Nice, France)

() Repeated sessions of bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation for tinnitus treatment: a double blinded randomized controlled clinical trial (20th Euro Congress on Psychiatrists and Psychologists)

() Repeated Sessions of Bifrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Treatment of Intractable Tinnitus: A Randomized Controlled Trial (47th European Brain & Behaviour Society Meeting held in Bilbao, Spain)

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