The scientific program for the 2026 NYC Neuromodulation Conference spans 3 days with 32+ curated sessions. Your registration includes access to the scientific program, posters, exhibits, and social events intended to encourage new connections and collaborations. For 1 day before and after the scientific program, hands-on practicals are available. See Pre- & Post-Conference Workshops >> This program is in development with additional sessions and talks posted shortly.
| 8:00 AM | Venue Opens / Breakfast / Registration Open |
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| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Addiction Neuromodulation Trials: How To Optimize Design And Outcomes Hamed Ekhtiari, MD, PhD; Colleen Hanlon, PhD; Edward Nunes, MD; Diana Martinez, MD; Andre Brunoni, MD, PhD; Travis Baker, PhD; Greg Sahlem, MD; Rita Z Goldstein, PhD; Claudia Padula, PhD; Yihong Yang, PhD; Marom Bikson, PhD; Will Aklin, PhD; Carmela Reichel, PhD; Abraham Zangen, PhD; Abhishek Datta, PhD; Alejandro Covalin, PhD; Joshua Brown, MD, PhD; Manish Jha, MD; Kelvin Lim, MD; Daniel McCalley, PhD; Ghazaleh Soleimani, PhD; Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD; Brian Mickey, MD, PhD; Casey Halpern, MD; Venkat Bhat, MD; Navid Khodaparast, PhD; Heather Ward, MD; Gopalkumar Rakesh, MD; Victor Tang, MD, MSc; Leigh Charvet, PhD; Vaughn Steele, PhD |
| 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Computational Neuromodulation Workshop: Modeling Brain Stimulation Fundamental And Applications
Aman Aberra, PhD; Sergey Makaroff, PhD; Boshuo Wang, PhD; Alexander Opitz, PhD; Esra Neufeld, PhD; Nicole Pelot, PhD; Cameron McIntyre, PhD; Costas Anastassiou, PhD; Konstantin Weise, PhD; Luis Gomez, PhD |
| 12:30 - 5:00 PM | Fundamental And Application Of tDCS Hands-on Workshop |
| 5 - 7 PM | Post-Workshop / Pre-Conference Al Fresco Social (Open to all delegates) Details >> |
| 7:00 AM | Venue Opens / Registration Open |
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| 7:30 AM | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 8:00 AM | Sponsored Morning Workshop with Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks - Marom Bikson, PhD; Allison Waters, PhD |
| 9:05 - 10:20 AM | Waves And Resonance Brain Stimulation 1 Session 1 Great Hall Moderator: Nicole Provenza, PhD |
| Tay Netoff, PhD - Chaos And Resonance As Therapeutic Mechanisms Of Deep Brain Stimulation | |
| Uma Mohan, PhD - Traveling Waves, Brain Stimulation, And Memory | |
| Alexander Opitz, PhD - TMS, tACS, EEG And Traveling Waves Of Neural Oscillations | |
| Dora Hermes, PhD - Signatures Of Electrical Stimulation Driven Network Interactions | |
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| 10:20 AM | Coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:55 AM | Adaptive Neuromodulation 1: Better Outcomes Session 2 Great Hall Katherine Scangos, MD, PhD |
| Cynthia Steinhardt, PhD - Learning To Control The Brain Through Adaptive Closed-loop Patterned Stimulation | |
| Ziad Nahas, MD - Personalized And Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) For Treatment Resistant Depression | |
| Katherine Scangos, MD, PhD - Closed-loop neuromodulation in an individual with treatment-resistant depression | |
| Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD* - Closing The Loop In DBS: A Data-driven Approach | |
| Andrea A. Kühn, PhD* - Deep Brain Stimulation Responsive Networks | |
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| 10:40 - 11:55 AM | Brain Stimulation of Brain Clearance: Mechanisms and Applications in Dementia Session 3 Shepard 250 |
| Li-Huei Tsai, PhD - Neural substrate responding to gamma frequency response and light and sound stimulation to mitigate dementia | |
| Marom Bikson, PhD - tDCS of brain interstitial water flux | |
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| 11:55 AM | Boxed lunch on the lawn |
| 1:25 - 2:40 PM | Optimizing TMS For Depression Session 4 Great Hall Moderator: Linda Carpenter, MD |
| Mark George, MD - Establishing Optimal Dose And Objective Outcome Indicators For TMS | |
| Michael Fox, MD - To Target Or Not To Target TMS | |
| Corey Keller, MD, PhD - Personalized Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation For Depression | |
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| 1:25 - 2:40 PM | New Biophysics (And Vistas) Of Neuromodulation Session 5 Shepard 250 Moderator: Ines Violante, PhD |
| Warren Grill, PhD - Computational Tools For Highly Efficient Neuromodulation Using Multi-modal Imaging | |
| Christopher Rozell, PhD - Explainable AI To Advanced DBS For Depression | |
| Esra Neufeld, PhD - The New Biophysics Of TI | |
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| 1:25 - 2:40 PM | Workshop: Bayesian Optimization of Neuromodulation Therapies Session W1 Shepard 207 Moderator: Tay Netoff, PhD; Babak Mahmoudi, PhD |
| 2:40 - 3:55 PM | Quantifying Response To Clinical TMS Session 6 Great Hall Moderator: Valerie Voon, PhD |
| Yvette I. Sheline, MD - Resting fMRI-guided TMS Evokes Subgenual Anterior Cingulate Response | |
| Noah Philip, MD - Network Mechanisms Of Clinical Response To TMS In PTSD And MDD | |
| Jing Jiang, PhD - Signatures Of Response To TMS | |
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| 2:40 - 3:55 PM | New Neuromodulation For Parkinson's Disease Session 7 Shepard 250 Moderator: Cameron McIntyre, PhD |
| Marie-Laure Welter, MD, PhD - From DBS to tACS to Video Games For Parkinson's Disease | |
| Doris D. Wang, MD, PhD - Understanding and enhancing deep brain stimulation outcomes in Parkinson’s disease | |
| Sudiksha Sridhar - Theta-Burst DBS Reduces Tremor in Parkinson’s Disease but Not Essential Tremor Highlight talk | |
| Sara Parmigiani - Circuit Decoding Across Scales: DBS and EEG Integration in Parkinson's Disease for Motor and Non-Motor Symptoms Highlight talk | |
| Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD* - Long-Term Personalized Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson Disease | |
| Andrea A. Kühn, PhD* - Adaptive and Image Guided DBS for Parkinson | |
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| 3:55 PM | Coffee break |
| 4:15 - 5:30 PM | Chasing Biomarkers Of Disease 1 Session 8 Great Hall Moderator: Allison Waters, PhD |
| Allison Waters, PhD - Opening Remarks: Brain Based Biomarkers For Neuromodulation | |
| Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD - Deep Brain Stimulation For Pain With Biomarkers | |
| Nicole Provenza, PhD - Decoding And Modulating Circuits Of Depression And OCD | |
| Valerie Voon, MD, PhD - Physiological and neuropsychological biomarkers predict neuromodulation outcomes in depression | |
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| 4:15 - 5:30 PM | Major Advances in Home-Based Simulation for Depression Session 9 Shepard 250 Moderator: Mark George, MD |
| Andre Brunoni, PhD - FDA approved: tDCS for depression | |
| Linda Carpenter, MD - FDA Approved: Home-based, combined occipital and trigeminal afferent stimulation therapy for depression | |
| Miron, Jean-Philippe, PhD, MD - Stepwise depression interventions From accelerated tDCS, to TMS, to Ketamine | |
| 5:30 PM | Conference Cocktail Reception (free to all conference attendees) Details >> |
| 7 PM | Venue Closes |
| 7:00 AM | Venue Opens / Registration Open |
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| 7:30 AM | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 8:00 AM | Sponsored Morning Workshop with Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:15 AM | Chasing Biomarkers Of Disease 2 Session 10 Great Hall Moderator: Allison Waters, PhD |
| Nanditha Rajamani, PhD - Deep Brain Stimulation Of Symptom-specific Networks | |
| Stavros Zanos, MD - Precision vagal neuromodulation driven by functional nerve anatomy, physiologic and immunologic biomarkers and therapy personalization | |
| Renée Hartig, PhD - Context-dependent Modulation Of The Body-brain Axis | |
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| 9:00 - 10:15 AM | Surprising Things with Low-Intensity tES Session 11 Shepard 250 Moderator: Ines Violante, PhD |
| Ines Violante, PhD - Non-Invasive temporal interference stimulation in motor skill learning and in Alzheimer’s disease | |
| Laurent Koessler, PhD - Transcranial direct current stimulation neuromodulates intracranial cognitive evoked activity in humans | |
| Alexander Opitz, PhD - From desynchronization to entrainment: Rethinking tACS mechanisms | |
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| 10:15 AM | Coffee break / Poster Session A |
| 10:35 - 11:50 AM | Deep Evoked Signature of Stimulation Session 12 Great Hall Moderator: Corey Keller, PhD |
| Michael Fox, MD, PhD - Evoked response signatures explain deep brain stimulation outcomes | |
| Ghazaleh Darmani, PhD - Subthalamic local field potential dynamics during motor cortex and basal ganglia transcranial ultrasound stimulation | |
| Irene Rembado, PhD - Brain state (and thalamic feedback) shapes responses to cortical and vagus nerve stimulation | |
| Charlotte Stagg, PhD* - Transcranial focused ultrasound-mediated neurochemical and functional connectivity changes in deep cortical regions in humans | |
| Qi Xiu Fu - Subtherapeutic subcallosal cingulate stimulation modulates mood and learning during decision-making in treatment-resistant depression Highlight talk | |
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| 10:35 - 11:50 AM | TMS: New Equipment for Better Outcomes Session 13 Shepard 250 Moderator: Elisa Kallioniemi, PhD |
| Angel Peterchev, PhD - Kilohertz and Pulse Shape Controlled TMS | |
| Alexander Opitz, PhD - Four dimensions of individualization in brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders: context, target, dose, and timing | |
| Valerie Voon, MD, PhD - Dual-site Accelerated rTMS | |
| Matias Di Martino, PhD - TMS Neuronavigation With A Depth Camera Highlight talk | |
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| 11:50 - 12:20 PM | Frontline tDCS Session 14 Shepard 250 Moderator: Leigh Charvet, PhD |
| Emilė Radytė, PhD - Samphire Neuroscience | |
| Lais Razza, PhD - Improving tDCS For Depression | |
| Mark George, MD - High-Current and Accelerated tDCS for Depression | |
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| 11:50 - 12:20 PM | Oral Highlights Session O1 Great Hall Moderator: Allison Waters, PhD |
| Nasser Bouhalassa - Personalised connectome-guided TMS normalises abnormal connectivity in anxiety and correlates with clinical improvement | |
| Kofi A. Agyeman - Responsive neurostimulation and surgical resection of epileptogenic tissue modulates interictal markers in a similar manner, in the human brain from functional ultrasound imaging | |
| Maayan Harel - Electrophysiological correlates of the clinical benefit induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation for alcohol use disorder | |
| Zhuoran Li - Multimodal Evidence for Hippocampal Engagement and Modulation by Functional Connectivity-Guided Parietal TMS | |
| Yi-Ling Kuo - Longitudinal Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Persistent Post-traumatic Headaches and Post-concussion Symptoms in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury | |
| 11:50 - 12:20 PM | Bringing new brain interface technology to market: Part 1 Session 15 Shepard 250 Moderator: Timothy Denison, PhD |
| Cameron McIntyre, PhD (Duke) | |
| Jacob T. Robinson, PhD (Motif Neurotech) | |
| Kiran Patel, MD (Northwell Health) | |
| Abhishek Datta, PhD (Soterix Medical) | |
| Lisa Shafer, PhD* (Biogen) | |
| Q&A | |
| 12:20 AM | Boxed lunch on the lawn / Poster Session A |
| 1:40 - 2:55 PM | Advanced Ultrasound Neuromodulation 1 Session 16 Great Hall Moderator: Elsa Fouragnan, PhD |
| Kim Butts Pauly, PhD - Optimized ultrasound neuromodulation for non-invasive control of behavior and physiology | |
| Shy Shoham, PhD - Holographic Transcranial Ultrasound Neuromodulation | |
| Xue Han, PhD - Large-scale Neuronal Images Of Ultrasound And DBS | |
| Charlotte Stagg, PhD* - Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits | |
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| 1:40 - 2:55 PM | Bidirectional BCI 1: Decoding Technology and Why Closed-Loop Matters Session 17 Shepard 250 Moderator: Cynthia Steinhardt, PhD |
| Emily Graczyk, PhD - First-in-human implementation of a bidirectional somatosensory neuroprosthetic system with wireless communication | |
| Julian Neumann, MD - Whole brain connectromics, “sweet spots”, and closed-loop neuromodulation | |
| Coralie de Hemptinne, PhD - Long-term wireless streaming of neural recordings for circuit discovery and adaptive stimulation | |
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| 2:55 - 4:10 PM | Advanced Ultrasound Neuromodulation 2 Session 18 Great Hall Moderator: Kim Butts Pauly, PhD |
| Jean-Francois Aubry, PhD - Deep transcranial ultrasound stimulation with personalized acoustic metamaterials for treatment-resistant depression: from single-site single-frequency stimulation to multi-site and muli-frequency stimulation | |
| Elsa Fouragnan, PhD - Non-invasive ultrasonic neuromodulation: From Networks to Behaviour | |
| Huiliang Wang, PhD - Rapid deep brain chemogenetics: Minimally invasive, genetically targeted deep brain stimulation is achieved using ultrasound-activated nanocrystals | |
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| 2:55 - 4:10 PM | Debate: What is the Value of Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation Session 19 Shepard 250 Moderator: Michael Fox, MD |
| Timothy Denison, PhD - Towards Adaptive Neuromodulation | |
| Cameron McIntyre, PhD - Is The Juice Worth The Squeeze? | |
| Debate: Timothy Denison, PhD; Cameron McIntyre, PhD; Coralie de Hemptinne, PhD | |
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| 4:10 PM | Coffee break / Poster Session A |
| 4:25 - 5:40 PM | Neurotechnology for Women's Health Session 20 Great Hall Moderator: Allison Waters, PhD |
| Emilė Radytė, PhD - Home-based tDCS for primary dysmenorrhea | |
| Navid Khodaparast, PhD - Transcutaneous auricular neurostimulation to reduce heavy menstrual bleeding in women with and without von Willebrand disease | |
| Belen Lafon, PhD - Wearables for Women’s Health | |
| Alexandra Haessler, MD* - Vaginally-inserted, wearable neuromodulation device for overactive bladder (OAB) | |
| Catarina Ferraz - Using TMS to Modulate GnRH-Driven LH Secretion Highlight talk | |
| Elizabeth C Bottorff, PhD - Sexual-Function Outcomes in Women With SCI Using Epidural SCS: Evidence for Population-Specific Assessment Tools Highlight talk | |
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| 4:25 - 5:40 PM | Bidirectional BCI 2: At Scale Session 21 Shepard 250 Moderator: Nicole Provenza, PhD |
| Shadi A. Dayeh, PhD - Multi-thousand Channel Bidirectional BCI | |
| Jacob T. Robinson, PhD - Battery-free BCI at the skull with efficient network power transfer via magnetoelectrics | |
| Robert Gaunt, PhD - Making Bidirectional BCI Last 10 Years | |
| Kenneth Shepard, PhD* - A subdural chip with 65,000 channels | |
| 4:25 - 5:40 PM | Making Good Decisions with Brain Stimulation Session 22 Shepard 207 Moderator: Roy Hamilton, MD |
| Valerie Voon, PhD - To Stay or Go: Brain Stimulation Modules Decision Making Circuits | |
| Hamed Ekhtiari, MD, PhD - Reinforcing Good Decision Where are we in Addiction Neuromodulation? | |
| Elsa Forougan, PhD - Ultrasound Neuromodulation of Decision Making | |
| Q&A | |
| 5:40 - 6:30 PM | Poster Session A / Exhibits / Networking |
| 5:40 - 6:30 PM | Women in Neurotech Shepard 250 |
| 7 PM | Venue Closes |
| 7 PM | Young Scientist Social (open to all delegates) |
| 7:00 AM | Venue Opens / Registration Open |
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| 7:30 AM | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 8:00 AM | Sponsored Morning Workshop with Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:15 AM | When does Brain Stimulation Improve Memory or Impair Session 23 Great Hall Moderator: Roy Hamilton, MD |
| Dan Rizzuto, PhD - When closed-loop temporal cortex stimulation improves and when it disrupts memory | |
| Adam Williamson, PhD - Temporal Interference Stimulation Can Enhance or Disrupt Human Memory Encoding as a Function of Brain Location and Frequency | |
| Uma Mohan, PhD - Why does invasive brain stimulation sometimes improve memory and sometimes impair it? | |
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| 9:00 - 10:15 AM | Going Home Session 24 Shepard 250 Moderator: Andre Brunoni, PhD |
| Leigh Charvet, PhD - Home-based tDCS | |
| Mohamad FallahRad, PhD - Wearable disposable brain stimulation | |
| Huiliang Wang, PhD - Bioadhesive hydrogel-coupled and miniaturized ultrasound transducer system for long-term, wearable neuromodulation | |
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| 9:00 - 11:50 PM | Workshop: Advanced Electrode Technology Session W2 Shepard 207 Moderator: Cristin Welle, PhD; Shadi Dayeh, MD |
| Jeffrey R. Capadona, PhD - Bacteria invade the brain following electrode implantation, inducing gut-brain axis and electrode performance disruption | |
| Erin Purcell, PhD - Spatial transcriptomics and glial responses at the implanted electrode | |
| Duygu Kuzum, PhD - High-density transparent microelectrode technologies for multimodal experiments combining e-phys with optical imaging and stimulation | |
| Shadi A. Dayeh, PhD - Scalable Nanowire Array Microelectrodes | |
| Robert Gaunt, PhD - Chronic intracortical microstimulation and the electrode–tissue interface | |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee break / Poster Session B |
| 10:35 - 11:50 AM | Vagus Nerve Stimulation Session 25 Great Hall Moderator: Marom Bikson, PhD |
| Cristin Welle, PhD - Vagus nerve stimulation drives selective circuit modulation through cholinergic reinforcement | |
| Kevin Tracey, MD - Neuromodulation of the Great Nerve | |
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| 10:35 - 11:50 AM | Rehabilitation Brain Stimulation Session 26 Shepard 250 Moderator: Tay Netoff, PhD |
| Nicholas D. Schiff, MD - Thalamic DBS for traumatic brain injuries | |
| Marco Capogrosso, PhD - Biophysics of epidural spinal cord stimulation for pain and degenerative disease | |
| Elvira Pirondini, PhD - Spinal and Deep Brain Stimulation Restores Movement and Speech | |
| Q&A | |
| 11:50 - 12:20 PM | Oral Highlights Session O2 Great Hall Moderator: Allison Waters, PhD |
| Adam Williamson, PhD - Nightly Epilepsy Suppression with Temporal Interference Stimulation equals Sleep Enhancement | |
| Omid Yaghmazadeh, PhD - Transcranial radio frequency stimulation (trfs): a novel non-invasive bimodal platform for deep brain neuromodulation | |
| Skylar E. Stolte - GATOR-JMAPS: A Fully Automated tDCS Modeling Tool for Older Adults | |
| Isabel Danstrom - Reshaping evoked potentials: How tuning pulse width impacts neural responses | |
| 12:20 AM | Boxed lunch on the lawn / Poster Session B |
| 1:20 - 2:35 PM | Waves And Resonance Brain Stimulation 2 Session 27 Great Hall Moderator: Uma Mohan, PhD |
| Corey Keller, MD, PhD - Stimulation mapping and whole-brain modeling reveal gradients of excitability and recurrence in cortical networks | |
| Nicole Provenza, PhD - Disruption of Neural Periodicity Predicts Clinical Response After Deep Brain Stimulation | |
| Kara Johnson, PhD - Evoked resonant neural activity to guide deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and depression | |
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| 1:20 - 2:35 PM | Neuromodulation of Synapse and Metabolism Session 28 Shepard 250 Moderator: Marom Bikson, PhD |
| Giuseppina Pilloni, PhD - Metabolic And Hemodynamic Mechanisms Of tDCS | |
| Aman Aberra, PhD - Neuromodulation Of Synapses | |
| Lucas Parra, PhD - tDCS from cellular plasticity to human motor learning: or Not | |
| Zachary Rosenthal, MD, PhD - Electroconvulsive therapy generates a postictal wave of spreading depolarization in mice and humans | |
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| 2:35 - 3:50 PM | New Indications / New Directions Session 29 Great Hall Moderator: Linda Carpenter, MD |
| Nir Grossman, PhD - Non-invasive temporal interference stimulation of the hippocampus in early Alzheimer's disease | |
| Lais Razza, PhD - Improving tDCS For Depression | |
| Q&A | |
| 2:35 - 3:50 PM | Adaptive Neuromodulation 2: Closing the Loop on Circuits Session 30 Shepard 250 Moderator: Warren Grill, PhD |
| Julian Neumann, MD - From adaptive deep brain stimulation to adaptive circuit targeting | |
| Hubert Lim, PhD - Making the case for non-invasive closed-loop autonomic neuromodulation | |
| Michael P. Kilgard, PhD - Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation aids recovery from spinal cord injury | |
| Q&A | |
| 3:50 PM | Coffee break / Poster Session B |
| 4:15 - 5:30 PM | Bringing new brain interface technology to market: Part 2 Session 31 Shepard 250 Moderator: Cameron McIntyre, PhD |
| Amaza Reitmeier, MBA (Medtronic) | |
| Renata Saha, PhD (DuPont) | |
| Timothy Denison, PhD (Oxford) | |
| Helen Mayberg, MD (Mount Sinai) | |
| Q&A | |
| 4:15 - 5:30 PM | Adaptive Neuromodulation 3: Mapping and Control Session 32 Great Hall Moderator: Allison Waters, PhD |
| Tay Netoff, PhD - Bayesian Adaptive Control of Deep Brain Stimulation | |
| Coralie de Hemptinne, PhD - Physiology Guided Deep Brain Stimulation | |
| Barbara Hollunder, PhD - Mapping and modulating dysfunctional brain circuits across disorders using DBS | |
| Q&A | |
| 5:30 - 5:40 PM | Conference Awards Ceremony |
| 5:40 - 6:40 PM | Poster Session B / Exhibits / Networking |
| 7 PM | Venue Closes |