Harsh Deshpande, Ph.D. (Contract Staff)

Dr. Deshpande has experience in both human and non human primate neuroimaging experimental design, data collection, and analysis. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2019 and a Masters from Duke University in 2011 (both in biomedical engineering). Subsequently, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at the National Institute on Drug Abuse and at the Harvard Medical School. Harsh joined the SNL/NIF as the NIF’s Scientific IT Specialist in 2023 and his role is currently divided between providing IT systems administration and support for facility staff and users and developing novel software and code for facilitating the transfer, storage and analysis of neuroimaging data. Subsequently, Harsh will be more involved in developing analysis pipelines for fMRI data.

Selected Publications

Deshpande, H. U., & Kohut, S. (2023). Age-related development in prefrontal-subcortical resting-state functional connectivity in nonhuman primates . bioRxiv, 2023-07.

Joutsa, J., Moussawi, K., Siddiqi, S. H., Abdolahi, A., Drew, W., Cohen, A. L., Deshpande H. U., … & Fox, M. D. (2022). Brain lesions disrupting addiction map to a common human brain circuit . Nature medicine, 28(6), 1249-1255. PMID: 35697842

Deshpande, H. U., Fedota, J. R., Castillo, J., Salmeron, B. J., Ross, T. J., & Stein, E. A. (2022). Not all smokers are alike: the hidden cost of sustained attention during nicotine abstinence . Neuropsychopharmacology, 47(9), 1633-1642. PMID: 35091674

Deshpande, H. U., Mellis, A. M., Lisinski, J. M., Stein, J. S., Koffarnus, M. N., Paluch, R., ... & Bickel, W. K. (2019). Reinforcer pathology: Common neural substrates for delay discounting and snack purchasing in prediabetics.  Brain and cognition, 132, 80-88. PMID: 30933707

Snider, S. E., Deshpande, H. U., Lisinski, J. M., Koffarnus, M. N., LaConte, S. M., & Bickel, W. K. (2018). Working memory training improves alcohol users’ episodic future thinking: a rate-dependent analysis . Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3(2), 160-167. PMID: 29529411

Koffarnus, M. N., Deshpande, H. U., Lisinski, J. M., Eklund, A., Bickel, W. K., & LaConte, S. M. (2017). An adaptive, individualized fMRI delay discounting procedure to increase flexibility and optimize scanner time.  NeuroImage, 161, 56-66. PMID: 28803942