Shahid Bashir
Visiting Faculty
Harvard Medical School
USA
I graduated from the University of Punjab with a degree in Biology in 2000, from the University of Fribourg with a PhD. I am working with Alvaro Pascual-Leone at Harvard Medical School from 2008.
My main research focus is in establishing cortical plasticity biomarkers using noninvasive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in combination with electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG). Currently my research revolves around enhancing the concepts of synaptic plasticity in normal individuals either with or without pharmacological interventions with the aim of establishing robust biomarkers that can potentially measure disease phenomenon along the causal pathway and predict disease trajectory. The use of such biomarkers holds special promise for better understanding the pathophysiology behind diseases like Traumatic Brain Injury and Ageing, to name a few. I am also interested in combining navigated TMS with brain imaging to explore cross-modal plasticity following brain lesions.
