Narin Suleyman

Narin is a PhD Student funded by the ALS Association to research cognitive and motor network dysfunction in carriers of the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion. She joined the McMackin Lab as a Research Assistant in 2023, focusing on EEG and TMS-based measures to investigate subtypes of ALS. Narin holds a master’s in Speech and Language Processing from Trinity College Dublin, where she focused on the utility of speech signal analysis as a screening method for Alzheimer’s Disease, and a degree in Medicine from the University of Sulaimani. Outside of her work at the McMackin Lab, Narin works as a research registrar in the MND Clinic at Beaumont Hospital and occasionally works on a randomized control trial using TMS neurofeedback in a Brain Computer Interface for stroke rehabilitation in the Translational Brain Health Lab at Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. Previously, she collaborated in several studies of the role of ageing, neurodegeneration, and cognitive decline in speech production planning. Narin's research interests broadly lie at the intersection of technology and neurology.