Holden Bentley, B.S.

I am a third-year medical student and I intend to pursue a career in Neurosurgery. I received a BS in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2021. I am currently a student attending McGovern Medical School and am participating in a research year under the guidance of Dr. Nicole Provenza and Dr. Sameer Sheth.

I am primarily interested in the application of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders and developing a deeper understanding of human brain function in such patients. My work currently involves the collection and processing of neuronal data collected from OCD patients with DBS implants. My goal is to improve the application of DBS to these patients, and to discover novel ways to characterize OCD from neural data. Ultimately, this could allow for adaptive DBS (aDBS) systems to be created, which could revolutionize neuropsychiatric care.