Hernan G. Rey, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

Locations

Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
Neurosurgery
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Contact Information

hgrey@mcw.edu

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2015, MRC Special Training Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics

PhD in Engineering, 2009, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Degree in Electronics Engineering, 2002, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Learn more about the Rey Laboratory

Biography

Hernan Rey, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Marquette-MCW Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, where he also obtained his PhD. He joined the University of Leicester (UK) in 2010 to perform his postdoctoral studies, and in 2012 he was awarded a Special Training Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics from the Medical Research Council (UK). In 2014 he was recognized as a Rising Star by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK). He worked as assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX) from 2020 until July of 2022, when he joined the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Under Dr. Rey's direction, the ReyLab records single-neuron activity and captures intracranial electroencephalograms from electrodes implanted in the brain of patients with epilepsy. This data is used to pursue several lines of inquiry, including understanding human episodic memory, improving epilepsy diagnosis and treatment, and developing new tools for data acquisition and analysis of electrophysiological data in the human brain.

Honors and Awards

Rising Star Award, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom, 2014

Research Areas of Interest

Anterior Temporal Lobectomy
Drug Resistant Epilepsy
Electroencephalography
Electrophysiology
Hippocampus
Machine Learning
Memory, Episodic
Neurosciences
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted

Single neuron responses underlying face recognition in the human midfusiform face-selective cortex.

(Quian Quiroga R, Boscaglia M, Jonas J, Rey HG, Yan X, Maillard L, Colnat-Coulbois S, Koessler L, Rossion B.) Nat Commun. 2023 Sep 13;14(1):5661 PMID: 37704636 PMCID: PMC10499913 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85170830231 09/14/2023
Distinct population and single-neuron selectivity for executive and episodic processing in human dorsal posterior cingulate.

(Aponik-Gremillion L, Chen YY, Bartoli E, Koslov SR, Rey HG, Weiner KS, Yoshor D, Hayden BY, Sheth SA, Foster BL.) Elife. 2022 Sep 28;11 PMID: 36169132 PMCID: PMC9519147 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85138859591 09/29/2022
Single Neuron Coding of Identity in the Human Hippocampal Formation.

(Rey HG, Gori B, Chaure FJ, Collavini S, Blenkmann AO, Seoane P, Seoane E, Kochen S, Quian Quiroga R.) Curr Biol. 2020 Mar 23;30(6):1152-1159.e3 PMID: 32142694 PMCID: PMC7103760 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85081668717 03/07/2020
Encoding of long-term associations through neural unitization in the human medial temporal lobe.

(Rey HG, De Falco E, Ison MJ, Valentin A, Alarcon G, Selway R, Richardson MP, Quian Quiroga R.) Nat Commun. 2018 Oct 22;9(1):4372 PMID: 30348996 PMCID: PMC6197188 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85055171855 10/24/2018
A novel and fully automatic spike-sorting implementation with variable number of features.

(Chaure FJ, Rey HG, Quian Quiroga R.) J Neurophysiol. 2018 Oct 01;120(4):1859-1871 PMID: 29995603 PMCID: PMC6230803 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85054468707 07/12/2018
Extracting information from the shape and spatial distribution of evoked potentials.

(Lopes-Dos-Santos V, Rey HG, Navajas J, Quian Quiroga R.) J Neurosci Methods. 2018 Feb 15;296:12-22 PMID: 29277720 PMCID: PMC5840508 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85039751518 12/27/2017
A novel unsupervised spike sorting implementation with variable number of features

(Chaure FJ, Quian QR, Kochen SS, Rey HG.) 2017 17th Workshop on Information Processing and Control, RPIC 2017. 14 December 2017;2017-January:1-6 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85046439066 12/14/2017
Where is the ball? Behavioral and neural responses elicited by a magic trick.

(Caffaratti H, Navajas J, Rey HG, Quian Quiroga R.) Psychophysiology. 2016 Sep;53(9):1441-8 PMID: 27356507 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85028269917 07/01/2016
Differences in globus pallidus neuronal firing rates and patterns relate to different disease biology in children with dystonia.

(McClelland VM, Valentin A, Rey HG, Lumsden DE, Elze MC, Selway R, Alarcon G, Lin JP.) J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2016 Sep;87(9):958-67 PMID: 26848170 PMCID: PMC5013118 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84958093532 02/06/2016
Past, present and future of spike sorting techniques.

(Rey HG, Pedreira C, Quian Quiroga R.) Brain Res Bull. 2015 Oct;119(Pt B):106-17 PMID: 25931392 PMCID: PMC4674014 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84948384754 05/02/2015
Single trial analysis of field potentials in perception, learning and memory.

(Rey HG, Ahmadi M, Quian Quiroga R.) Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2015 Apr;31:148-55 PMID: 25460071 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84909957499 12/03/2014
Perceptual and contextual awareness: methodological considerations in the search for the neural correlates of consciousness.

(Navajas J, Rey HG, Quian Quiroga R.) Front Psychol. 2014;5:959 PMID: 25221537 PMCID: PMC4148639 09/16/2014