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…
Congratulation to Drs. Christopher W. Hess, Aparna Wagle Shukla, Kelly D. Foote, David E. Vaillancourt, and Michael S. Okun on the publication of “Suppression of Axial Tremor by Deep Brain Stimulation in Patients with Essential Tremor: Effects on Gait and Balance Measures,” in Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic…
Congratulations to Drs. Ramirez-Zamora and Okun on the publication of the editorial: “Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank: Updates in Neurotechnology and Neuromodulation, Volume II,” which was published in the June issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Introduction The introduction of ever-newer technologies, improved software, and an increasing understanding of the…
Congratulations to Drs. Joshua Wong and Michael Okun on the publication of “Connectomic imaging to predict and prevent cognitive decline after subthalamic DBS: next steps,” in the April issue of Brain. This scientific commentary refers to ‘A brain network for deep brain stimulation induced cognitive decline in Parkinson’s…
An advanced deep brain stimulation system that can more precisely target motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders has been implanted in a patient by University of Florida Health neurosurgeons and neurologists. It’s a first in the United States for the newly FDA-approved technology. Read more……
