Rate My Professor Arun Singh

Arun Singh, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biomedical & Translational Sciences at the University of South Dakota's Sanford School of Medicine. His specialty is motor and cognitive control. He earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2011, with doctoral research analyzing basal ganglia local field potentials from externalized deep brain stimulation electrodes and scalp EEG activities in Parkinson's disease patients during upper- and lower-limb motor performances. He holds an M.S. in Biotechnology from Devi Ahilya University in 2006 and a B.S. in Biology from Bundelkhand University in 2002. Following his doctorate, he completed postdoctoral training in Neuroscience at Emory University School of Medicine in 2016, studying striatal networks in parkinsonian animal models and patients. Prior to joining USD around 2020, he worked as a research scientist in the Neurology Department at the University of Iowa, focusing on cognitive and motor control in Parkinson's disease. At USD, he founded the Motor and Cognitive Control Laboratory (Singh Lab) in March 2020, with an additional facility established in Sioux Falls in 2023.

The Singh Lab examines the oscillatory nature of fronto-cortical regions and associated networks underlying motor and cognitive impairments in Parkinson's disease using EEG and non-invasive neuromodulation techniques such as TMS and tES. Research objectives include determining oscillatory activities during lower-limb movements like pedaling and gait; neural correlates in dual-task conditions for patients with and without freezing of gait; and effects of neuromodulation on gait, balance, and cognition. Arun Singh has received the Best Publication Award from LMU Munich (2011), DFG Research Fellowship (2008), Junior Research Fellowship from DST India (2006), Postgraduate Fellowship from DBT India (2004), and travel awards from the Movement Disorder Society (2018, 2011), World Parkinson Congress (2016, 2013), MONA2 University of Pittsburgh (2016), EFNS (2011), and World Federation of Neurology (2009). Key publications are "EEG-Based Classification of Parkinson's Disease With Freezing of Gait Using Midfrontal Beta Oscillations" (Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2025), "Modulation of Cerebellar Oscillations with Subthalamic Stimulation in Patients with Parkinson's Disease" (Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 2024), "Cerebellar oscillatory dysfunction during lower-limb movement in Parkinson's disease with freezing of gait" (Brain Research, 2023), "Functional Connectivity in Patients With Parkinson's Disease and Freezing of Gait Using Resting-State EEG and Graph Theory" (Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2022), and "Resting-State Low-Frequency Cerebellar Oscillations Can Be Abnormal in Parkinson's Disease" (Cerebellum, 2022).