OptoDBS 2015

May 7-9, 2015

Speakers & Program

Opening remarks by
Bertrand Levrat, Director of University Hospital
Henry Bounameaux, Dean of Medical Faculty

Anatol Kreitzer – Insights into basal ganglia function from optogenetics

Rui Costa – Shaping actions with basal ganglia circuits

Susanne Ahmari – Understanding the OCD brain : using new technologies to build bridges between humans and mice

Oded Klavir – Controlling fear associations through optogenetic modulation of amygdala to prefrontal connectivity

Arto Nurmikko – Optoelectronic Toolkit for DBS

Cheng Xiao – Tonic activity of pedunculopontine cholinergic neurons governs locomotion and reward

Christian Lüscher – An optogenetic model of addiction

André Zacharia – Effect of STN-DBS frequency on cortical excitability and motor performance in Parkinson’s disease

Suzanne Haber – Neuroanatomy of deep brain structure

Ann Graybiel – Selective effects of optogenetic manipulation of the medial prefrontal cortex

Cameron McIntyre – Biophysics of optogenetic and electrical stimulation

Damien Benis – Electrophysiological correlates of emotional prosody recognition in the nucleus accumbens of patients with depression

Lydia Kerkerian – Neuroadaptive changes under prolonged subthalamic nucleus DBS

Abdelhamid Benazzouz – Effects of DBS on the basal ganglia function

Hagai Bergman – Closed loop DBS

Christelle Baunez – DBS and optogenetic manipulation of STN on motivational processes and addiction

Meaghan Creed – Optogenetically inspired DBS for addiction

Jens Kuhn – First clinical results of DBS of the Nucleus accumbens in severe addiction

Sina Kohl – Effects of DBS on prepulse inhibition in obsessive compulsive disorder

Alister Rogers – Deep brain stimulation of the internal pallidum for patients with Huntington disease

Paul Krack – From neurological to psychiatric disorders

Damiaan Denys – DBS in OCD

Huiling Tan – Physiological functions of beta oscillations in cortico-basal ganglia network in motor error evaluation

Daniel Côté – Optimal illumination and collection with microoptical fiber‐based devices

Peter Brown – Closed loop stimulation in patients

Claudio Pollo – Directional DBS improves therapeutic window : from computer model to human application

Maria Fiorella Contarino – Directional stimulation : recording possibilities and clinical implications

Léonie Asboth – Uncovering and enhancing cortical contribution to motor recovery after spinal cord injury

Helen Bronte-Stewart – Electrical recordings under DBS

Pierre Pollak – The many ways to stimulate deeply in the brain : lessons from the PPN