OptoDBS 2024

June 12-14, 2024

Speakers & Program

Introduction by Christian Lüscher & Andreas Horn

Session 1 : Preclinical ideas

Nader Pouratian & Aryn Gittis – Keynote

Manuel Mameli – Emotional contagion, serotonin and habenula in the regulation of resilience

Andrea Kühn – The role of chronic brain sensing technology for individualized deep brain stimulation therapy

Serge Picaud – From prosthetic devices to optogenetic and sonogenetic therapies for restoring vision

Alan Carleton – Improving cognitive functions in animal models of psychiatric disorders by targeting the claustrum

Session 2 : Methods development

Valerio Zerbi – Integrative Imaging : invasive and non-invasive fMRI explorations of circuits, mental states, and brain dynamics

Andreas Horn – The Connectome links Invasive and Noninvasive forms of Neuromodulation

Helen Mayberg – Decoding Multimodal Recovery Signals to Optimize DBS for Depression

Lotfi Hadjas – Excitatory inputs drive opposite responses in PDvulnerable and PD-resilient dopamine neurons

Andres Lozano – Advances in the use of DBS

Session 3 : Non invasive neuromodulation (tTDS)

Indrit Bègue – Negative symptoms of schizophrenia – looking for answers in the cerebellum with neuroimaging and brain stimulation

Friedhelm Hummel – Non-invasive deep brain stimulation : a new perspective to enhance human behavior

Chencheng Zhang – Non-invasive Temporal Interference Stimulation for Neural Circuit in Depression : A Proof-of-Concept Study

Alexander Hoyningen – Single-nuclei mRNAseq reveals distinct cell populations in the mouse subthalamic nucleus

Nir Grossman – Non-invasive temporal interference electrical stimulation of the human hippocampus

Clement Hamani – Translational Research on Deep Brain Stimulation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Tifei Yuan – A cortical substrate for accumbal deep brain stimulation

Martin Parent – Raman and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for improved guidance during DBS neurosurgery

Bechir Jarraya – Resting-state dynamics as a guide for DBS : an example of recovery of consciousness in a primate model

Session 4 : Psy DBS

Ingo Willuhn – Identifying therapeutic mechanisms of deepbrain stimulation in a mouse model for OCD

Bryan Strange – Deep-brain stimulation of the human nucleus accumbens-medial septum enhances memory formation

Nicole Provenza – Ethological neurobehavioral investigations in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Paul Johnson – Non-invasive hyper-concentrated focal drug delivery to the brain

Paulo Andrade – DBS beyond movement disorders : actual status

Sarah Ayash – Translational mouse model of resilience to socialstress

Andrew Sharrott – Towards closed-loop deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

Valerie Voon – The heterogeneity of impulsivity : insights from intracranial subthalamic stimulation

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