Scientific Program Agenda

Program at a Glance



Featured Sessions Tracks

Final program content may be distributed across multiple sessions / workshops


Sessions Track A: If (and how) to personalize TMS
Mark George, MD - Establishing optimal dose and objective outcome indicators for TMS
Michael Fox, MD - To Target or Not to Target TMS
Alexander Opitz, PhD - Four dimensions of individualization in brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders: context, target, dose, and timing
Noah Philip, MD - Network mechanisms of clinical response to transcranial magnetic stimulation in PTSD and MDD
Corey Keller, MD, PhD - Personalized repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression
Jing Jang, PhD - Signatures of response to TMS
Matias Di Martino, PhD - TMS Neuronavigation with a Consumer-Grade Depth Camera
Valerie Voon, MD, PhD - Dual-site accelerated rTMS
Yvette I. Sheline, MD - Resting fMRI-guided TMS evokes subgenual anterior cingulate response in depression
Sessions Track B: New Biomarkers of Brain Stimulation
B.1 Technology for Adaptive DBS
Timothy Denison, PhD - Towards adaptive neuromodulation
Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD - Closing the loop in DBS: A data-driven approach
Cynthia Steinhardt, PhD - Learning to control the brain through adaptive closed-loop patterned stimulation
Andrea A. Kühn, PhD - Deep Brain Stimulation Responsive Networks
B.2 Chasing Biomarkers of Disease 1
Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD - Deep Brain Stimulation for Pain with Biomarkers
Nicole Provenza, PhD - Decoding and modulating circuits of depression and OCD
Katherine Scangos, MD, PhD - Closed-loop neuromodulation in an individual with treatment-resistant depression
Yvette I. Sheline, MD - Accelerated targeted TMS decreases DMN intra-connectivity in depression: A new treatment biomarker
B.3 Chasing Biomarkers of Disease 2
Allison Waters, PhD - Brain-Based biomarkers for the neuromodulation of depression
Nanditha Rajamani, PhD - Deep brain stimulation of symptom-specific networks
Renée Hartig, PhD - Context-dependent modulation of the body-brain axis
Stavros Zanos, MD - Precision vagal neuromodulation driven by functional nerve anatomy, physiologic and immunologic biomarkers and therapy personalization
B.4 Traveling Waves 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
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
B.5 Deep Evoked Signature of Stimulation
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
Sessions Track C: Technology of the Next 5 Years of Brain Stimulation
C.1 Making Neuromodulation Intelligent
Angel Peterchev, PhD - New Directions (and Directionality) in TMS Technology
Warren Grill, PhD - Computational tools for highly efficient neuromodulation using multi-modal imaging
Christopher Rozell, PhD - Explainable AI to advanced DBS for depression
Kim Butts Pauly, PhD - Optimized ultrasound neuromodulation for non-invasive control of behavior and physiology
Julian Neumann, MD - From adaptive deep brain stimulation to adaptive circuit targeting
C.2 What Was Once Impossible 1
Nir Grossman, PhD - Advances in Noninvasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields
Renata Saha, PhD - From micro-magnetic particles to wearables: manufacturing scalable neural interfaces
Jacob T. Robinson, PhD - Distributed battery-free bioelectronic implants with improved network power transfer efficiency via magnetoelectrics
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
C.2 What Was Once Impossible 2
Shy Shoham, PhD - Holographic transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation
Huiliang Wang, PhD - Rapid deep brain chemogenetics: Minimally invasive, genetically targeted deep brain stimulation is achieved using ultrasound-activated nanocrystals
Jacob T. Robinson, PhD - Distributed battery-free bioelectronic implants with improved network power transfer efficiency via magnetoelectrics
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
C.3 Going Home
Leigh Charvet, PhD - Home-based tDCS
Marom Bikson, PhD - Wearable disposable brain stimulation
Huiliang Wang, PhD - Bioadhesive hydrogel-coupled and miniaturized ultrasound transducer system for long-term, wearable neuromodulation
C.4 Surprising Things with Low-Intensity tES
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
Sessions Track D: New Mechanisms to Optimize Brain Stimulation
D.1 It's the Neurotransmitters (in a circuit) Of Course
Giussepinna Pilloni, PhD - Unveiling Metabolic and Hemodynamic Mechanisms of tDCS
Aman Aberra, PhD - Neuromodulation of synapses
Charlotte Stagg, PhD - Transcranial focused ultrasound-mediated neurochemical (and functional connectivity) changes in deep cortical regions in humans
Lucas Parra, PhD - tDCS from cellular plasticity to human motor learning
D.2 It's the Circuits (of Neurotransmitters) Of Course
Marco Capogrosso, PhD - Biophysics of epidural spinal cord stimulation for pain and degenerative disease
Cristin Welle, PhD - Vagus nerve stimulation drives selective circuit modulation through cholinergic reinforcement
Xue “Shu” Han, PhD - Large-scale neuronal images of ultrasound and deep brain stimulation
Valerie Voon, MD, PhD - To Stay or Go: Brain Stimulation Modules Decision Making Circuits
D.3 At the Electrode | Moderator: Cristin Welle, PhD
Jeffrey R. Capadona, PhD - Bacteria invade the brain following electrode implantation, inducing gut-brain axis and electrode performance disruption
Erin Purcell, PhD - Spatial transcriptomics at the neural-electrode interface
Duygu Kuzum, PhD - High-density transparent microelectrode technologies for multimodal experiments combining e-phys with optical imaging and stimulation
Shadi A. Dayeh, PhD - Nanowires
Sessions Track E: Clinical Advances to Get Excited About
E.1 Major Advances in tDCS for Major Depression
Miron, Jean-Philippe, PhD, MD - Stepwise depression interventions From accelerated tDCS, to TMS, to Ketamine
Andre Brunoni, PhD - How to make tDCS work for depression treatment
Lais Razza, PhD - Improving tDCS for depression
E.2 New Indications / New Directions
Uma Mohan, PhD - Why does invasive brain stimulation sometimes improve memory and sometimes impair it?
Kiran Patel, MD - Neuromodulation for painful diabetic neuropathy
Hamed Ekhtiari, MD, PhD - Where are we in addiction neuromodulation?
Linda Carpenter, PhD - Improvements in TMS and home-based neuromodulation for depression
Hubert Lim, PhD - Biomodal Neuromodulaiton: Combining sound with tongue stimulation for the treatment of tinnitus
E.3 Getting Personal With DBS and SCS
Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD - Long-Term Personalized Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson Disease
Nicholas D. Schiff, MD - Thalamic DBS for traumatic brain injuries
Doris D. Wang, MD, PhD - Understanding and enhancing deep brain stimulation outcomes in Parkinson’s disease
Andrea A. Kühn, PhD - Adaptive and Image Guided DBS for Parkinson
Marie-Laure Welter, MD, PhD - From DBS to tACS to Video Games For Parkinson's Disease
Helen Mayberg, MD - The next 5 years of DBS for depression
Elvira Pirondini, PhD - Spinal and Deep Brain Stimulation Restores Movement and Speech
Sessions Track F: Bidirectional BCI
Julian Neumann, MD - Invasive neurophysiology and whole brain connectomics for neural decoding in patients with brain implants
Cynthia Steinhardt, PhD - Learning to control the brain through adaptive closed-loop patterned stimulation
Shadi A. Dayeh, PhD - Multi-thousand Channel Bidirectional; BCI
Jacob T. Robinson, PhD - Bidirectional BCI in the Skull
Sessions Track G: Getting Down to Business
G.1 Bringing new brain interface technology to market
Amaza Reitmeier, MBA - Medtronic
Timothy Denison, PhD - Amber Therapeutics
Cameron McIntyre, PhD - Duke University
Jacob T. Robinson, PhD - Motif Neurotech
G.2 Frontline tDCS
Emilė Radytė, PhD - Samphire Neuroscience
Lisa Shafer, PhD - Cerebral Therapeutics, Inc.
Andre Brunoni, MD, PhD - University of São Paulo
Abhishek Datta, PhD - Soterix Medical
G.3 Expanding the Reach of SCS
Warren Grill, PhD - Duke University
Kiran Patel, MD - Northwell Health
Sayed E. Wahezi, MD - Montefiore Einstein
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