John Sakon, Ph.D.

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A Short Biography:

Dr. Sakon is a Project Scientist with Itzhak Fried in UCLA Neurosurgery. His research interests include: 1.) uncovering how high frequency ripples and neurons relate to human memory and 2.) using interventional stimulation techniques to ameliorate memory dysfunction. Please visit our lab's website for more: https://friedcnl.ucla.edu/

Work Titles
UCLA Project Scientist, Neurobiology
Education:
Degrees:
Ph.D., North Carolina State University (Physics)
Academic Experience:
University of Pennsylvania, Michael J. Kahana
New York University, Roozbeh Kiani
New York University, Wendy A. Suzuki

Contact Information:

Email Address:

JSakon@mednet.ucla.edu


Publications:

A selected list of publications:

Sakon John J, Halpern David J, Schonhaut Daniel R, Kahana Michael J   Human hippocampal ripples signal encoding of episodic memories Journal of Neuroscience (accepted), 2024; .
Sakon John J, Kahana Michael J   Hippocampal ripples signal contextually mediated episodic recall Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022; 119(40): e2201657119.
Sakon John J, Kiani Roozbeh   Differences in memory for what, where, and when components of recently formed episodes Journal of Neurophysiology, 2022; 128(2): .
Liu Anli A, Henin Simon... Sakon John J...Buzsáki György   A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations Nature Communications, 2022; 13(1): .
Sakon John J, Suzuki Wendy A   Neural evidence for recognition of naturalistic videos in monkey hippocampus Hippocampus, 2021; 31(8): .
Sakon John J, Suzuki Wendy A   A neural signature of pattern separation in the monkey hippocampus Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019; 116(19): .
Sakon John J, Naya Yuji, Wirth Sylvia, Suzuki Wendy A   Context-dependent incremental timing cells in the primate hippocampus Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014; 111(51): .
Sakon John J, Weninger Keith R   Detecting the conformation of individual proteins in live cells Nature Methods, 2010; 7(3): .
Larsen Jannik B...Sakon John J...Stamou Dimitrios   How Membrane Geometry Regulates Protein Sorting Independently of Mean Curvature ACS Central Science, 2020; 6(7): .
Lim Shuang Fang, Karpusenko Alena, Sakon John J, Hook Joseph A, Lamar Tyra A, Riehn Robert   DNA methylation profiling in nanochannels Biomicrofluidics, 2011; 5(3): .

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