The 2025 Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Think Tank meeting takes place in Gainesville, FL on September 2-4, 2025 with a theme of “The Evolving Landscape of DBS: New Indications, New Goals”
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Tuesday, September 2 , 2025
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Networking Snacks & Lunch
11:30 – 12:45pm
Stanley Prusiner, MD
Special pre-recorded talk for the DBS Think Tank
1-1:15PM DBS Think Tank Opening
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Next Generation Neuromodulation for Gait
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Brain Networks and Neuromodulation
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Dinner & Industry Blitz
Session Moderator: Michele Tagliati, MD
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Breakfast & Networking
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Neuroscience & Society
Amanda Merner, PhD
Harvard Medical School
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Networking Break
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Interventional Psychiatry & Behavior
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Lunch & Networking
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Devices for Closing the Loop
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Transport to the Fixel Institute
7:00 PM
Dinner & Keynote: Kamil Ugurbil
Kamil was one of the first to demonstrate the feasibility of imaging human brain function using MRI, helping to launch the field of fMRI in the early 1990s. He was instrumental in pushing the boundaries of MRI technology to higher magnetic field strengths (e.g., 7 Tesla and above), and this enabled more detailed imaging of the brain’s structure and function. Ugurbil also was a principal investigator in the NIH-funded human brain mapping project that mapped the human brain’s structural and functional connectivity.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Networking Breakfast
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Physiology & Closing the Loop
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM
A Roadmap for Genetics & Neuromodulation
12:15 PM – 2:00 PM Networking Lunch & Departures for the Airport
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