Jamil's research focuses on detecting and addressing the abnormal brain activity that follows traumatic brain injuries in order to prevent long-term complications.
“As a researcher, I strive to make treatment accessible to individuals all over the world.”
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When I joined the Open Thinkers program, I didn’t expect it to fundamentally reshape how I approach my research and communication. As a PhD student focused on neurovascular function and traumatic brain injury, I was used to diving into the minutiae of experiments and data. But Open Thinkers pushed me to step back and think […]
Pioneered by a group of neurophysiologists, computer scientists and neurosurgeons, including prominent Canadian researchers, including Prof. Andres Lozano and Prof. Jonathan Dostrovsky of the University of Toronto, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has emerged in the last 30 years as an elegant way to modify brain function by delivering electrical pulses into the key regions of […]
Image adapted from: Johnson & Foster, 2028, Nature Reviews Microbiology Before the emergence of multicellular life forms, energy-dense nutrients were picked up by the simplest microorganism directly through the cell membrane, but these organisms were limited in the repertoire of small nutrients they could digest. With time, multicellular clumps formed allowing the individual cells to […]
With the increasing complexity of the data we can obtain from behaving systems, among which Homo sapiens, as a species, tends to be one of the most well studied, machine learning pipelines have now become routine for both predicting behavior by decoding physiological signals and the opposite – detecting functional abnormalities (disease) based on subtle […]
Epilepsy is a devastating disorder affecting an estimated 50-150 individuals per 100,000 people globally, with most incidence hypothesized to burden the low-income countries. While progress has been made in recent years to develop novel drug based therapeutics, roughly one third of cases is considered drug resistant, with no significant improvement rendered to the patients after […]
Warning: This topic contains a description of traumatic brain injury and could be upsetting and/or traumatizing for some readers. Throughout the day, our body generates large amounts of toxic molecules and salts that are routinely handled by the internal organs but could damage the brain tissue. The concentration of metabolites that are noxious for the […]
Warning: sensitive content. This article contains a description of brain injuries. Some readers may find the topic traumatizing or upsetting. Thousands of Canadians live with traumatic brain injury. “Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a non-discriminative event that could affect anyone.” This statement is not entirely correct. Canadian studies have consistently found higher rates of TBI […]
Have you been extremely tired after a week of arduous work, perhaps including several night shifts, when you would rather spend a lazy Sunday morning in bed? I am talking about one of those days when you take a 15-minute nap after brunch that turns into a nice 5-hour long afternoon sleep. And, when you […]
If my attentive reader clicked on the link leading to this article because they recognized this famous piece of art, drawn in 19th century Japan, or were intrigued by my article’s unusual title, there might be a deep subconscious reason for that. And it is not just for the popularity of “The Great Wave of […]
The Edwin Smith Papyrus of ancient Egypt, dated 1600 BCE, known as one of the earliest, if not the earliest, surgical treatise begins by addressing head injuries as the most common medical condition of the time. Centuries later, while many devastating infectious diseases, smallpox, polio, and hepatitis B included, are virtually eradicated, and while many […]
