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 | A.1 Optimizing TMS for Depression | 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 | A.2 Marking Response to Clinical TMS | Moderator: Valerie Voon, PhD |
| Yvette I. Sheline, MD - Resting fMRI-guided TMS evokes subgenual anterior cingulate response in depression | |
| Noah Philip, MD - Network mechanisms of clinical response to transcranial magnetic stimulation in PTSD and MDD | |
| Jing Jiang, PhD - Signatures of response to TMS | A.3 TMS: New Equipment for Better Outcomes | Moderator: Elisa Kallioniemi, PhD |
| Alexander Opitz, PhD - Four dimensions of individualization in brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders: context, target, dose, and timing | |
| Matias Di Martino, PhD - TMS Neuronavigation with a Consumer-Grade Depth Camera | |
| Valerie Voon, MD, PhD - Dual-site accelerated rTMS | |
| Angel Peterchev, PhD - New Directions (and Directionality) in TMS Technology | |
| Sessions Track B: New Biomarkers of Brain Stimulation | B.1 Chasing Biomarkers of Disease 1 | 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 | |
| Katherine Scangos, MD, PhD - Closed-loop neuromodulation in an individual with treatment-resistant depression | B.2 Chasing Biomarkers of Disease 2 | Moderator: Allison Waters, PhD |
| 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.3 Waves And Resonance Brain Stimulation 1 | 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 | B.4 Waves And Resonance Brain Stimulation 2 | 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 | B.5 Deep Evoked Signature of Stimulation | 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 | |
| Qi Xiu Fu - Subtherapeutic subcallosal cingulate stimulation modulates mood and learning during decision-making in treatment-resistant depression Highlight talk | |
| Sessions Track C: Technology of the Next 5 Years of Brain Stimulation | C.1 New Biophysics (and vistas) of Neuromodulation | 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 | C.2 Advanced Ultrasound Neuromodulation 1 | 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 deep brain stimulation | C.3 Advanced Ultrasound Neuromodulation 2 | 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 | C.4 Going Home | 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 | C.5 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 | |
| Angel Peterchev, PhD - Kilohertz TMS | |
| Alexander Opitz, PhD - From desynchronization to entrainment: Rethinking tACS mechanisms | |
| Adam Williamson, PhD - Nightly Epilepsy Suppression with Temporal Interference Stimulation equals Sleep Enhancement Highlight talk | |
| Omid Yaghmazadeh, PhD - Transcranial radio frequency stimulation (trfs): a novel non-invasive bimodal platform for deep brain neuromodulation Highlight talk | |
| Skylar E. Stolte - GATOR-JMAPS: A Fully Automated tDCS Modeling Tool for Older Adults Highlight talk | C.6 Adaptive Neromodulation | 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 | |
| Sessions Track D: New Mechanisms to Optimize Brain Stimulation | D.1 Neuromodulation of Synapse and Metabolism | Moderator: Marom Bikson, PhD |
| Giuseppina Pilloni, PhD - Unveiling 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 | D.2 From Circuits to Behavior | Moderator: Marom Bikson, PhD |
| Cristin Welle, PhD - Vagus nerve stimulation drives selective circuit modulation through cholinergic reinforcement | |
| Valerie Voon, MD, PhD - To Stay or Go: Brain Stimulation Modules Decision Making Circuits | D.3 Workshop: Advanced Electrode Technology | 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 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 - Scalable Nanowire Array Microelectrodes | |
| Robert Gaunt, PhD - Chronic intracortical microstimulation and the electrode–tissue interface | D.4 When does Invasive Brain Stimulation Improve Memory or Impair |
| 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? | |
| Sessions Track E: Clinical Advances to Get Excited About | E.1 Major Advances in Home-Based Simulation for Depression | Moderator: Mark George, MD |
| 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 | |
| Andre Brunoni, PhD - FDA approved: tDCS for depression | E.2 New Indications / New Directions | Moderator: Linda Carpenter, MD |
| Hamed Ekhtiari, MD, PhD - Where are we in addiction neuromodulation? | |
| Nir Grossman, PhD - Non-invasive temporal interference stimulation of the hippocampus in early Alzheimer's disease | |
| Lais Razza, PhD - Improving tDCS for depression | E.3 New Neuromodulation for Parkinson's Disease | 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 | |
| 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 | E.4 Rehabilitation Brain Stimulation |
| 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 | E.5 Neurotechnology for Women’s Health | 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 - Sexual-Function Outcomes in Women With SCI Using Epidural SCS: Evidence for Population-Specific Assessment Tools Highlight talk | |
| Sessions Track F: Bidirectional BCI and Technology for Adaptive DBS | F.1 Technology for Adaptive DBS 1 |
| Cynthia Steinhardt, PhD - Learning to control the brain through adaptive closed-loop patterned stimulation | |
| Andrea A. Kühn, PhD* - Deep Brain Stimulation Responsive Networks | |
| Ziad Nahas, MD - Personalized and Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) for treatment resistant depression | |
| Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD* - Closing the loop in DBS: A data-driven approach | F.2 Technology for Adaptive DBS 2 |
| 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 | F.3 Bidirectional BCI 1: Decoding Technology and Why Closed-Loop Matters | 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 | F.4 Bidirectional BCI 2: At Scale | 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 | F.5 Debate: What is the Value of Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation | Moderator: Michael Fox, MD |
| Timothy Denison, PhD - Towards adaptive neuromodulation | |
| Cameron McIntyre, PhD - Closed Loop DBS: Is the juice worth the squeeze? | |
| Debate: Timothy Denison, Cameron McIntyre, Coralie de Hemptinne | |
| Sessions Track G: Getting Down to Business | |
| G.1 Bringing new brain interface technology to market | |
| Amaza Reitmeier, MBA - Medtronic | |
| Renata Saha, PhD - DuPont R&D | |
| Timothy Denison, PhD - University of Oxford and Amber Therapeutics | |
| Cameron McIntyre, PhD - Duke University | |
| Jacob T. Robinson, PhD - Motif Neurotech and Rice University | |
| Lisa Shafer, PhD* - Biogen | |
| G.2 Frontline tDCS | |
| Emilė Radytė, PhD - Samphire Neuroscience | |
| Andre Brunoni, MD, PhD - University of São Paulo | |
| Abhishek Datta, PhD - Soterix Medical |
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