Scientific Program Agenda

Program at a Glance



Featured Sessions Tracks

Final program content may be distributed across multiple sessions / workshops


Sessions Track: If (and how) to personalize TMS
Nolan Williams, MD - Stanford Accelerated TMS protocol (SAINT): What’s next?
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 Phillips, PhD - Network mechanisms of clinical response to transcranial magnetic stimulation in PTSD and MDD
Corey Keller, MD, PhD - Stimulation mapping and whole-brain modeling reveal gradients of excitability and recurrence in cortical networks
Jing Jang, PhD - Signatures of response to TMS
Sessions Track: New Biomarkers of Brain Stimulation
Helen Mayberg, MD - The next 5 years of DBS for depression
Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD - Deep Brain Stimulation for Pain with Biomarkers
Michael Fox, MD, PhD - Evoked response signatures explain deep brain stimulation outcomes
Allison Waters, PhD - Brain-Based biomarkers for the neuromodulation of depression
Nicole Provenza, PhD - Decoding and modulating circuits of depression and OCD
Ghazaleh Darmani, PhD - Subthalamic local field potential dynamics during motor cortex and basal ganglia transcranial ultrasound stimulation
Nanditha Rajamani, PhD - Deep brain stimulation of symptom-specific networks
Dora Hermes, PhD - Signatures of electrical stimulation driven network interactions
Katherine Scangos, MD, PhD - Closed-loop neuromodulation in an individual with treatment-resistant depression
Renée Hartig, PhD - Context-dependent modulation of the body-brain axis
Timothy Denison, PhD - Towards adaptive neuromodulation
Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD - Closing the loop in DBS: A data-driven approach
Stavros Zanos, MD - Precision vagal neuromodulation driven by functional nerve anatomy, physiologic and immunologic biomarkers and therapy personalization
Cynthia Steinhardt, PhD - Learning to control the brain through adaptive closed-loop patterned stimulation
Andrea A. Kühn, PhD - Deep Brain Stimulation Responsive Networks
Sessions Track: Technology of the Next 5 Years of Brain Stimulation
Aman Aberra, PhD - Neuromodulation of synapses
Angel Peterchev, PhD - New Directions (and Directionality) in TMS Technology
Nir Grossman, PhD - Advances in Noninvasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields
Cameron McIntyre, PhD - The prospects and challenges of DBS as a field
Warren Grill, PhD - Computational tools for highly efficient neuromodulation using multi-modal imaging
Christopher Rozell, PhD - Explainable AI to advanced DBS for depression
Ines Violante, PhD - Non-Invasive temporal interference stimulation in motor skill learning and in Alzheimer’s disease
Leigh Charvet, PhD - Home-based tDCS
Renata Saha, PhD - From micro-magnetic particles to wearables: manufacturing scalable neural interfaces
Marom Bikson, PhD - Wearable disposable brain stimulation
Kim Butts Pauly, PhD - Transcranial direct current stimulation neuromodulates intracranial cognitive evoked activity in humans
Sessions Track: New Mechanisms to Optimize Brain Stimulation
Marco Capogrosso, PhD - Biophysics of epidural spinal cord stimulation for pain and degenerative disease
Xue “Shu” Han, PhD - Large-scale neuronal images of ultrasound and deep brain stimulation
Erin Purcell, PhD - Spatial transcriptomics at the neural-electrode interface
Giussepinna Pilloni, PhD - Unveiling Metabolic and Hemodynamic Mechanisms of tDCS
Duygu Kuzum, PhD - High-density transparent microelectrode technologies for multimodal experiments combining e-phys with optical imaging and stimulation
Cristin Welle, PhD - Vagus nerve stimulation drives selective circuit modulation through cholinergic reinforcement
Irene Rembado, PhD - Brain state (and thalamic feedback) shapes responses to cortical and vagus nerve stimulation
Jeffrey R. Capadona, PhD - Bacteria invade the brain following electrode implantation, inducing gut-brain axis and electrode performance disruption
Laurent Koessler, PhD - Transcranial direct current stimulation neuromodulates intracranial cognitive evoked activity in humans
Sessions Track: Clinical Advances to Get Excited About
Andre Brunoni, PhD - How to make tDCS work for depression treatment
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
Lais Razza, PhD - Improving tDCS for depression
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 - Clinical Advances to Get Excited About Adaptive and Image Guided DBS for Parkinson
Sessions Track: Getting Down to Business
Amaza Reitmeier
Timothy Denison, PhD
Lisa Shafer, PhD
Cameron McIntyre, PhD
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