Alexander Herman, M.D., Ph.D.

E-MAIL: [email protected]

Research Interests:

I am an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a member of the Medical Discovery Team on Addiction. My human neuroscience lab studies neural mechanisms of decision-making that are impaired in addiction and amenable to treatment with neuromodulation. My lab combines invasive and non-invasive methods including intracranial electrophysiology, direct brain stimulation, magnetoencephalography, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Clinically, I am developing a specialty practice in refractory mood and anxiety co-morbid with addiction and chronic pain disorders.

Recent Publications:

• König SD, Ramadan A, Sullivan D, Goel V, Stayner S, Schultz D, Herman AB, Netoff TI, Darrow DP. Feature extraction and prediction of spinal cord stimulation evoked compound action potentials in humans. J Neural Eng. 2025; Mar 12. doi:10/1088/1741-2552/adbfbe.
• Yan X, Ebitz RB, Grissom N, Darrow DP, Herman AB. Distinct computational mechanisms of uncertainty processing explain opposing exploratory behaviors in anxiety and apathy. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging 2025;Jan 11:S2451-9022(25)00027-8.
• Herman AB, Smith EH, Schevon CA, Yates MJ, McKhann GM, Botvinick M, Hayden BY, Sheth SA. Pretrial predictors of conflict response efficacy in the human prefrontal cortex. iScience 2023;26(11)108047.