Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank XII
12th Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Think Tank

The 2024 Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Think Tank meeting takes place in Gainesville, FL on August 21-23, 2024 with a theme of “Emerging indications and novel applications of DBS”.

Select recordings will be available for some sessions following the event.


Wednesday, August 21, 2024

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Session: Movement Disorders

Session Moderator: Simon Little

Session Speaker

Simon Little

From the Lab to the Home – towards naturalistic adaptive DBS for Parkinson’s disease.

Simon Little

Session Speaker

Huiling Tan

Evoked resonant neural activity outperforms spectral markers in decoding sleep from the subthalamic nucleus.

huiling tan

Session Speaker

Dennis Turner

Novel Approaches to Adaptive DBS for Parkinson Disease.

Dennis Turner

Coffee Break 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM


3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Session: Stroke, TBI and Sleep

Session Moderator: Andre Machado

Session Speaker

Coralie de Hemptinne

Chronic intracranial recordings to study circadian rhythms in movement disorders

CHemptinne

Session Speaker

Andre Machado

DBS for Post Stroke Rehabilitation: A Translational Project.

Andre Machado

Session Speaker

Nicholas Schiff

Central thalamic deep brain stimulation improves chronical impaired executive function in moderate to severe traumatic brain injury

Nicholas Schiff

Pre-dinner Break 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM


6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Session: Dinner and Industry Blitz

Session Moderator: Adolfo Ramirez

Participants:

  • Medtronic
  • Boston Scientific
  • Abbott
  • Neuropace
  • Newronika
  • Motif

Thursday, August 22, 2024

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Session: Emerging MEG-DBS Research

Session Moderator: Abbas Babajani-Feremi

Session Speaker

Bahne Bahners

DBS- Evoked Potentials:
From Cortical Signatures to 
Clinical Programming.

Bahne Bahners

Session Speaker

Vladimir Litvak

Using Meg to Study Cortico-Subcortical Oscillatory Connectivity.

Vladimir Litvak

Session Speaker

Luka Milosevic

Using Meg to Investigate Networks and Settings in Emerging DBS Indications.

Luka Milosevic

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch and Networking


1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Session: Epilepsy

Session Moderator: Saadi Ghatan

Session Speaker

Saadi Ghatan

Neuromodulation of Thalamocortical Circuits for the Underserved Epilepsy Population

Saadi Ghatan

Session Speaker

Michael Fox

Mapping a brain network target for epilepsy neuromodulation

michael fox

Session Speaker

Nicholas Gregg

Thalamic stimulation induced changes in effective connectivity: Insights from thalamic sEEG.

Nicholas Gregg

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Session: Neuroethics in Neuromodulation

Session Moderator: Cynthia Kubu

Session Speaker

Cynthia Kubu

Translational Neuroethics.

Cynthia Kubu

Session Speaker

Michael Okun

The growing worry about abandonment in deep brain stimulation therapy.

michael okun

Session speaker

James Giordano

The Untriviality of Non-Diagnostic Brain Biopsy during DBS: Issues, Implications, and Imperatives for Clinical Practice.

Dr. James Giordano Headshot

Dinner Break and Networking 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM


Christopher Rozell

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Keynote: Christopher Rozell

Looking for latent variables: Lessons from NeuroAI to advance neuromodulation.


Friday, August 23, 2024


7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast


8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Session: Mood and Neuropsychiatric disorders

Session Moderator: Helen Mayberg

Session Speaker

Nicola Cascella

Deep Brain Stimulation for chronic hallucinations in treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

Nicola Cascella

Session Speaker

Casey Halpern

Capturing mesocorticolimbic electrophysiologic correlates of obsessive-compulsive symptoms to guide a circuit-based deep brain stimulation strategy.

Halpern Casey

Session Speaker

Helen Mayberg

Might DBS do more than tune a Circuit?  
Evidence of stimulation induced repair.

helen mayberg

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Coffee Break


10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Session: Emerging Techniques and DBS

Session Moderator: Nico Dosenbach

Session Speaker

Nico Dosenbach

Parkinson’s is a somato-cognitive action network disorder

Nico Dosenbach

Session Speaker

Lorraine Kalia

Delivery of biologic drugs with MR-guided focused ultrasound in Parkinson’s disease

Lorraine Kalia

Session Speaker

Sarah-Anna Hescham

Neuromodulation using magnetic nanomaterials.

Sarah-Anna Hescham

12:30PM – 2:00 PM Adjourn and box lunches for those leaving and staying to network