Congratulations to Dr. Michael Okun on the publication of “DBS-Induced Changes in Personality, Agency, Narrative and Identity,” which appears in Volume 14, issue 3 of AJOB Neuroscience. Substantial discussion in the neuroethical literature has addressed the possibility that deep brain stimulation (DBS) and adaptive DBS (aDBS) could result in changes…
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Farrer on the publication of “Flow cytometry for immune characterization in homogenized mouse brain: A systematic review,” which appears online as a preprint. Abstract Objective To systematically review the neuroimmunology literature to determine the average immune cell counts reported by flow cytometry in wild-type (WT)…
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Okun who was quoted in an article in the September 20, 2023 issue of Scientific American The new biomarker could improve the efficacy of the technology because it tells doctors when a person’s symptoms call for an adjustment in the stimulation and when they don’t—and,…
Department of neurology and Fixel Institute member Dr. Abbas Babajani was featured on ESPN during the Thursday night kickoff classic which set a record for viewers (3 million). Here is an amateur splice (attached) and below is a tweet of the segment featuring the MEG lab. Please congratulate Abbas, Giri,…
Congratulations to Drs. David E Vaillancourt and Steven Trent DeKosky on the publication of “Automated Hippocampus Segmentation and Volume Estimation Using a Transformer-based Deep Learning Architecture,” which appears in pre-print at Research Square. Abstract Hippocampus segmentation in brain MRI is a critical task for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatmentplanning…
TCU Harris College’s Leaders in Parkison’s Disease speaker series hosts Dr. Michael S. Okun, neurologist, neuroscientist and author; Adelaide Lackner professor of neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine and medical advisor of the Parkinson’s Foundation, to present its inaugural lecture, “Ending Parkinson’s Disease: Strategies and Research Updates.” By…
Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Heilman on the publication of “Carryover and spatial bias effects in Trail Making Test Part A sequential visual search,” which appears in the August edition of Journal of Vision. Abstract The Trail Making Test (TMT) was designed for the U.S. Army 1944 Individual Test…
Congratulations to Matthew A. Remz, Joshua K. Wong, Justin D. Hilliard, Tracy Tholanikunnel, Ashley E. Rawls and Michael S. Okun on the publication of “Identification and Management of Persistent Stimulation-Induced Dyskinesia Associated with STN DBS: The See-Saw Dilemma,” which was published in the August 28th edition of Tremor and Other…
In a study published on August 30, 2023 in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers at Duke University in North Carolina used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology to detect mitochondrial DNA damage in blood cells typically associated with Parkinson’s disease. The researchers reported that the test was able to detect the…
Congratulations to Drs. Lauren Fanty, Jun Yu, Nita Chen, Michael Okun and Josh Wong on the acceptance of your manuscript The current state, challenges, and future directions of deep brain stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder,” which appears in Taylor & Francis Online August 29, 2023. ABSTRACT Introduction Obsessive-compulsive disorder…
