Matthew Banks

Dr. Banks is Professor of Anesthesiology and Affiliate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and trained as a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist with an emphasis on neural signal processing. Dr. Banks investigates the neural correlates of perception, cognition, and affect in human research participants using electrophysiology, neuroimaging, and computational models.

Dr. Banks is a co-investigator on the RECAP and ENHANCE projects, with a focus on EEG and MRI data collection and analysis, and the features linking brain activity and connectivity to long-term behavioral effects of serotonergic psychedelics.

Dr. Banks’ lab (https://anesthesia.wisc.edu/research/researchers/banks-laboratory/) focuses on neural correlates of changes in consciousness during sleep and anesthesia and during delirium, an acute disorder of consciousness. Current research efforts are centered on the neural correlates of the sense of self, with an emphasis on the disassembly and reassembly of self during sleep and anesthesia and the link between affect and interoception. Funding for these projects is provided by NIH, with R01 awards from NIGMS, NIDCD, and NIA.

A full list of Dr. Banks’ publications is available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1DaPfpNZikn/bibliography/public/.