OptoDBS 2022
June 15-17, 2022Speakers & Program
Introduction by Christian Lüscher
Session 1 : New Methods and Developments
Mackenzie Mathis – Markerless Pose Estimation
Tommaso Patriarchi – Genetically encoded neuromodulator sensors
Ofer Yizhar – A new generation of bistable GPCR-rhodopsins for pathway-specific modulation of neural circuits
Adam Packer – All-optical interrogation of neuronal excitability during acute focal seizures
Maximilian Scherer – SCG-DBS discrupts pathophysiological network dynamics in TRD
Philip Starr – Mechanisms of DBS in movement disorders : Lesson from chronic invasive brain recording
Session 2 : DBS in Movement Disorders
Grégoire Courtine & Jocelyne Bloch – Optogenetically-inspired neuromodulation therapies for spinal cord injury
Wolf-Julian Neumann – Segregating Direct, Indirect and Hyperdirect Pathways by means of DBS
Gerd Thinkhauser – From temporal dynamics of neurophysiological manifestations toward implementation of adaptive DBS
Alexandra Nelson – Circuit Mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease in DBS
Nadine Gogolla – Face Expression in Mice
Birte Forstmann – Toward a mechanistic understanding of the human subcortex
Session 3 : DBS of the Basal Ganglia : From Bench to Bedside
Carola Haas – DBS for seizure inference in experimental epilepsy
Andreas Lüthi – Fear Circuits of the Amygdala
Meaghan Creed – Arkypallidal Neurons in Reward
Aryn Gittis – GPe neuromodulation
Asa Mackenzie – Heterogeneity of the subthalamic nucleus (STN)
Roxanne Lofredi – The role of the STN in motor control – DBS
Debora Masini -Targeted activation of midbrain neurons restores locomotor function in mouse models of parkinsonism
Leon Steiner – Synaptic subcortical circuit activations by subthalamic DBS
Nadine Gut – Challenges of DBS for correcting gait and postural deficits – A look into the heterogeneity of midbrain motor circuits
Session 4 : DBS in Clinical & Systems Neuroscience
Esther Florin – Investigating remote DBS effects by MEG
Robert Jech – Investigating remote DBS effects by fMRi
Andreas Horn – Multi-Site Connectomic DBS Modeling in Neurology & Psychiatry
Valerie Voon – Cognitive Models for Neuromodulation in OCD : From Lesions to DBS and Back
Charlotte Piette – Opto-activation of cortical somatostatin interneurons as an alternative therapy in Parkinson’s disease
Olexiy Kochubey – Small changes with large consequences: closely related channelrhodopsin variants in a GABAergic circuit produce different behavioral outcomes
Joshua Gordon – Optogenetic approaches to enhancing connectivity
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