Bingham, Clayton, PhD

Mentor: Cameron McIntyre, PhD

Lab: Neuromodulation Center

The McIntyre Laboratory hopes to improve deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment
of movement disorders and provide the fundamental technology necessary for the effective
application of DBS to new clinical arenas.

RESEARCH

Clayton is a postdoctoral fellow who joined the FES Center in 2019. Originally from Utah,
he received his B.S. in Biology at Utah State University and M.S. in BME at University of
Southern California. Clayton began his professional career as a data scientist in
information services and private equity consulting. Clayton then continued his graduate
training (Ph.D., 2019) at the University of Southern California, where he studied potential
hippocampal prostheses for the treatment of temporal lobe disorders. In his Ph.D.
dissertation he demonstrated how multi-scale models can predict how hippocampal behavior
is modulated by micro-electroceutical devices. Ultimately, he was able to predict
hippocampal evoked potentials under varying stimulating conditions. This effort involved
integrating numerical electromagnetics, complex neural modeling, computer visualization,
and parallel computing. His current work focuses on understanding the level of biological
realism in neural modeling required to accurately predict the therapeutic efficacy of
subthalamic deep brain stimulation to treat essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease.
Specifically, he aims to study the influence of STN-DBS mediated activation of the
hyperdirect pathway on spatiotemporal patterns of primary motor cortical activity.

EDUCATION

University of Southern California
PhD, Biomedical / Mechanical Engineering, 2019