Manish Saggar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,

Faculty Member, Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design (aka d.school),

Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305.

Email: saggar@stanford.edu

Lab Website: Brain Dynamics Lab @ Stanford

Education

Degree Department University Dates
Postdoc Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine 2011-2014
Ph.D. Computer Science University of Texas at Austin
Thesis title: A computational analysis of meditation [PDF]
2005-2011
M.S. Computer Science University of Texas at Austin 2005-2009
B.S. Information Technology Indian Institute of Information Technology 2001-2005

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Teaching

Course Description Quarter Enroll
ME379 Fail Faster: How to navigate, bounce back, and even flourish from failure Spring 2015 Link
PSY250 Neuroimaging Research Methods: How to do neuroimaging analysis using FSL Winter 2015 Link

Projects

Resting brain Despite the burgeoning literature showing group-based differences in brain activity at rest, its specific association to any particular disorder is still lacking, making it an ineffective biomarker. We also lack applicable translation of group-based results to personalized clinical care. We are doing research that will be particularly focused on developing individualized metrics to capture and computationally model the dynamics of brain activity at rest, so that specific biomarkers can be developed for early detection and treatment of mental illness.

Papers:
Citation Links
Saggar, M., et al. Quantifying the fluctuations of intrinsic brain activity in healthy brains and patient populations . (in-preparation).
Funding:
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NIH Pathway to Independence Career Development Award (K99/R00), 3/5/2015-2/28/2020
Role : Principal Investigator
Creativity We are doing a series of studies to better understand (1) how creativity is manifested in the brain; (2) can we enhance creativity using design-thinking based training; (3) how the neural activity changes with creative capacity enhancement; (4) how creative brain develops (esp. why creativity slumps in the 4th grade); and (5) the neural correlates of team-creativity.

Papers:
Citation Links
Saggar, M., Quintin E-M, Kienitz E., Bott, N., et al. Pictionary-based fMRI paradigm to study the neural correlates of spontaneous improvisation and figural creativity . Scientific Reports (in press).
Bott, N., Quintin, E.-M., Saggar, M. , Kienitz, E., Royalty, A., Hong, D. W.-C., et al. (2014). Creativity training enhances goal-directed attention and information processing . Thinking Skills and Creativity , 13, 120–128.
Kienitz, E., Quintin, E.-M., Saggar, M. , Bott, N. T., Royalty, A., Hong, D. W.-C., et al. (2014). Targeted intervention to increase creative capacity and performance: A randomized controlled pilot study . Thinking Skills and Creativity, 13(0), 57–66.
Funding:
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Child Health Research Institute (CHRI) Grant from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Childrens Health (LPFCH) and Stanfords Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), 9/1/2013- 2/28/2015.
Role : Principal Investigator
Hasso-Plattner Design Thinking Research Award (PI: Allan L. Reiss): Impact and sustainability of creative capacity building. Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking, University of Potsdam, Germany, 9/1/2011-8/31/2015.
Role : Significant contribution to the proposals, Postdoctoral Scholar and Project Lead.
MediaX Research Grant (PI: Allan L. Reiss): Finding the neural correlates of team-creativity us- ing hyperscanning. mediaX Industry Affiliate Program at Stanford, 6/1/2014-12/31/2014.
Role : Significant contribution to the proposal, Postdoctoral Scholar and Project Lead.
Seed-grant award for collecting pilot fMRI data (PI: Allan L. Reiss) from Stanfords Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging (2013-14).
Role : Significant contribution to the proposal, Postdoctoral Scholar and Project Lead
Meditation In this project we aimed to understand and computationally model the longitudinal changes in neural activity (EEG) associated with intensive meditation training (~6 hrs/d for 3 months). This project was done as a part of a larger project whose goal was to study the effects of intensive meditation practice on attention, emotional regulation, and the associated neural correlates (more info here the Shamatha Project ).

Papers:
Citation Links
Saggar, M., Zanesco, A. P., King, B. G., Bridwell, D. A., MacLean, K. A., Aichele, S. R., et al. (2015). Mean-field thalamocortical modeling of longitudinal EEG acquired during intensive meditation training. NeuroImage
Saggar, M., King, B. G., Zanesco, A. P., MacLean, K. A., Aichele, S. R., Jacobs, T. L., et al. (2012). Intensive training induces longitudinal changes in meditation state-related EEG oscillatory activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , 6, 256.
Funding:
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Francisco J. Varela Memorial Grant Award from Mind and Life Institute for developing a formal theory of meditation, 12/31/2006-9/1/2011.
Role: Principal Investigator.
The Fetzer Institute Research Grant (subcontract of University of California at Davis grant, PI Clifford Saron) (PI at UT Austin: Risto Miikkulainen): A Formal Theory of Meditation. , 9/1/2008-5/31/2011.
Role: Significant contribution to the proposal, Graduate Research Assistant and Project Lead.

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