Amin joined the lab in 2021 as a graduate student in the BME PhD Program. He received a BS in Electronic Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, followed by an MS from Sharif. He was ranked 1st among all Sharif EE students.
Amin's research focues on the neural control of movements in marmosets, using silicon probes to record simultaneously from many neurons in the cerebellum. He played a critical role in building P-sort, an open-source tool for analysis of cerebellar neurophysiological.
Amin discovered that the mossy fiber input to the cerebellum provides two kinds of information: the goal of the movement in sensory coordinates, and the real-time state of the eyes as the brain attempts to achieve the goal. This discovery is likely to play a critical role in realtime neural decoding of the cerebellum.
E Sedaghat-Nejad, JS Pi, P Hage, MA Fakharian, R Shadmehr (2022) Synchronous spiking of cerebellar Purkinje cells during control of movements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (14), e2118954119.
E Sedaghat-Nejad, MA Fakharian, J Pi, P Hage, Y Kojima, R Soetedjo, S Ohmae, JF Medina, and R Shadmehr (2021) P-sort: an open-source software for cerebellar neurophysiology.
Journal of Neurophysiology 126 (4), 1055-1075.
Hage, Paul, In Kyu Jang, Vivian Looi, Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Simon P. Orozco, Jay S. Pi, Ehsan Sedaghat-Nejad, and Reza Shadmehr. "Effort cost of harvest affects decisions and movement vigor of marmosets during foraging." eLife, 2023.
Muller, S.Z., Pi, J.S., Hage, P., Fakharian, M.A., Sedaghat-Nejad, E. and Shadmehr, R., 2023. Complex spikes perturb movements, revealing the sensorimotor map of Purkinje cells. Current Biology, 2023.
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Amin Fakharian
Amin Fakharian