Javeria Azam is a researcher in the Raison Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Neuroscience and has a research background in consciousness, sleep, and meditation. She has worked with Giulio Tononi and Melanie Boly on research investigating consciousness across sleep and wakefulness, gaining experience with high-density EEG and transcranial electrical stimulation with temporal interference (TES-TI), a non-invasive neuromodulation approach that uses interacting electrical stimulation frequencies to modulate neural activity at depth while limiting stimulation of superficial cortical tissue.
Her research interests center on the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness and how different states of consciousness may influence cognition, emotion, and wellbeing. Her work with sleep and meditation has led to a broader interest in how changes in conscious experience are reflected in brain activity and how these states can be experimentally characterized.
At the Raison Lab, Javeria is expanding this background into the study of psychedelic states and their therapeutic and neuroplastic effects, while developing expertise in approaches including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS), and psychedelic research paradigms. Through these approaches, she is interested in understanding how experimentally modulating neural systems can help clarify the mechanisms underlying psychedelic experiences and their enduring effects.