Our Team

Samiksha graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019 with a BS in Neuroscience. Her research avenues thus far have centered on Major Depressive Disorder, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's Disease, and electrophysiology. Future interests include but are not limited to neurodevelopment, epilepsy, substance use disorders, and the circuitry of addiction.

I was trained in clinical neurology, electrophysiology, and molecular biology. I have always been interested in combining clinical practice with a better understanding of disease concepts and pathomechanisms from basic research. This multidisciplinary approach allows me to investigate topics such as the application of real-time processing of brain biosignals to the analysis of epileptiform phenomena that can lead to transient impairment of behavior and cognition. My second area of focus is epilepsy genetics and the study of how epilepsy and drug resistance develop. I am currently working part-time as head of an interdisciplinary epilepsy unit of adult and pediatric neurology at the Cantonal Hospital Winterthur in Switzerland (https://www.ksw.ch/team/heinz-krestel/). In my remaining hours of work, I am conducting research at the Yale Comprehensive Epilepsy Center (see "Research"), together with Prof. Hal Blumenfeld, Prof. Lawrence J Hirsch, and Dr. Margaret Gopaul.