{"id":71216,"date":"2021-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/07\/13\/new-faculty-spotlight-valia-gumenyuk-phd\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:11:16","slug":"new-faculty-spotlight-valia-gumenyuk-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/07\/13\/new-faculty-spotlight-valia-gumenyuk-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"New faculty spotlight: Valia Gumenyuk, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><P>Valia Gumenyuk, PhD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><B>Name:<\/b> Valia Gumenyuk, PhD\n<li><B>Hometown:<\/b> Odessa, Ukraine\n<li><b>Title and department at UNMC:<\/b> Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences; research scientist, MEG Lab<\/ul>\n<p><P><B>Research interests:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neurophysiology (EEG, MEG modalities)\n<li>Cognitive science\n<li>Epilepsy\n<li>Sleep disorders\n<li>Imaging<\/ul>\n<p><P><B>How I fell in love with neuroscience:<\/b> Children with learning disabilities did trigger my research interest in cognitive neuroscience field, while I was teaching biology and chemistry.  Later on, my work with talented scientists from sleep medicine and imaging fields inspired me to learn more about the brain physiology during sleep and wake states, and how we can use imaging modalities to understand the normal and abnormal brain functions and potentially improve the abnormalities. 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