Congratulations to Drs. Alfonso Enrique Martinez-Nunez, Joshua K. Wong, Justin D. Hilliard, Kelly D. Foote and Michael S. Okun on the publication of a Deep Brain Stimulation Case Files “Preventing Shift from Pneumocephalus During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery: Don’t Give Up the ‘Fork in the Brain’,” which appears in Tremor…
Congratulations to Drs. Michael S. Okun, Kelly D. Foote, and Aysegul Gunduz, on the publication of ” Neuromodulation for the treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome – A systematic review,” which appears in the April edition of Neurotherapeutics. Abstract Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex, genetic disorder characterized by multisystem involvement, including hyperphagia, maladaptive behaviors and endocrinological derangements.
Congratulations to Drs. Alfonso E. Martinez-Nunez, Filipe Sarmento, Vyshak Chandra, Christopher W. Hess, Justin D. Hilliard, Michael S. Okun, and Joshua K. Wong on the publication of “Management of Essential Tremor Deep Brain Stimulation-Induced Side Effects,” which appears in the February 22, 2024 edition of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Deep…
Congratulations to Drs. Alfonso Enrique Martinez-Nunez, and Michael Okun, on the publication of “Emerging therapies for neuromodulation in Parkinson’s disease,” which appears in the December 28th issue of Neurotherapeutics. Abstract Parkinson’s disease is characterized by its cardinal motor symptoms: bradykinesia, rigidity, tremor, and postural instability. The underlying physiological dysfunction includes basal…
Congratulations to Drs. Leonardo Almeida, Kelly Foot, and Michael Okun, on the publication of “WarpDrive: Improving spatial normalization using manual refinements,” which will appear in the January 2024 issue of Medical Image Analysis. Abstract Spatial normalization—the process of mapping subject brain images to an average template brain—has evolved over…
Congratulations Drs. Okun, Foote, Ramirez-Zamora, and Gunduz on the publication of “Weight and survival after deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease,” which appears in the August 17th issue of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. Abstract Background Weight loss in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is common and associated with increased mortality. The…
Congratulations to Drs. Aysegul Gundu, Kelly D. Foote and Michael S. Okun on the publication of “Participant perceptions of changes in psychosocial domains following participation in an adaptive deep brain stimulation trial,” which appears in the June 15, 2023 issue of Brain Stimulation. Abstract Background There has been…
Congratulations to Drs. Michael Okun, Kelly Foote and Aysegul Gunduz on the publication of “Future directions in psychiatric neurosurgery: Proceedings of the 2022 American society for stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery meeting on surgical neuromodulation for psychiatric disorders,” which was published in the May 2023 edition of Brain Stimulation. Abstract…
Congratulations to Drs. Jackson N. Cagle, Kara A. Johnson, Leonardo Almeida. Joshua K. Wong, Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora, Michael S. Okun, Kelly D. Foote, and Coralie de Hemptinne, on the publication of ” Brain Recording Analysis and Visualization Online (BRAVO): An open-source visualization tool for deep brain stimulation data.” This research…
Congratulations Drs. Joshua Wong and Michael Okun on the publication of “Optimal deep brain stimulation connectivity to treat Holmes tremor,” in the January edition of Brain Stimulation. Abstract Holmes tremor is a particular type of tremor that results from focal brain lesions. Dual-hit lesions affecting the cerbello-thalamo-cortical as well as…
