Stimulating Brains
@stimulatingbrains.org
A podcast & talk series about brain stimulation and stimulating brains. Home at the @netstim.org
Loading...the Oct edition of the Talk series!
When --> Thurs, Oct 30th, 2025/ 12:00 PM EST / 6:30 PM CET
Ft. Alessia Cavallo & Svjetlana Miocinovic who will deep dive into all things electrophysiology - from state dependent effects to optimization!
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When --> Thurs, Oct 30th, 2025/ 12:00 PM EST / 6:30 PM CET
Ft. Alessia Cavallo & Svjetlana Miocinovic who will deep dive into all things electrophysiology - from state dependent effects to optimization!
Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Loading...the Oct edition of the Talk series!
When --> Thurs, Oct 30th, 2025/ 12:00 PM EST / 6:30 PM CET
Ft. Alessia Cavallo & Svjetlana Miocinovic who will deep dive into all things electrophysiology - from state dependent effects to optimization!
Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
When --> Thurs, Oct 30th, 2025/ 12:00 PM EST / 6:30 PM CET
Ft. Alessia Cavallo & Svjetlana Miocinovic who will deep dive into all things electrophysiology - from state dependent effects to optimization!
Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🧠✨Join us Thurs, Sept 25 — 12 PM EST / 6 PM CET to explore how fronto-basal ganglia circuits drive goal-directed behavior in Parkinson’s & how adaptive DBS moves from pathophysiology to clinical care, with @colinwhoy.bsky.social & Andrea Kühn!
👉 Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
👉 Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
🧠✨Join us Thurs, Sept 25 — 12 PM EST / 6 PM CET to explore how fronto-basal ganglia circuits drive goal-directed behavior in Parkinson’s & how adaptive DBS moves from pathophysiology to clinical care, with @colinwhoy.bsky.social & Andrea Kühn!
👉 Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
👉 Register here: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Next steps ahead for DBS! 👇👇
In #DeepBrainStimulation
the two major developments across the last decade have been
1. Adaptive DBS and
2. Connectomic DBS
In a @natrevneurol.nature.com article with @julianneumann.bsky.social, we ask:
Could the two be united into a common framework?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A 🧵
the two major developments across the last decade have been
1. Adaptive DBS and
2. Connectomic DBS
In a @natrevneurol.nature.com article with @julianneumann.bsky.social, we ask:
Could the two be united into a common framework?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A 🧵
September 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Next steps ahead for DBS! 👇👇
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Konstantin Butenko compares four methods for mapping structural network activations in deep brain stimulation—two simple, two complex; some deterministic, some probabilistic—into @lead-dbs.org for direct use in the Fiber Filtering Explorer. See the methods paper below 👇👇
How should we best model recruitment of axons by deep brain stimulation?
Various concepts have been introduced and Konstantin Butenko just introduced a few more in a new publication at Brain Communications:
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
Various concepts have been introduced and Konstantin Butenko just introduced a few more in a new publication at Brain Communications:
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
August 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Konstantin Butenko compares four methods for mapping structural network activations in deep brain stimulation—two simple, two complex; some deterministic, some probabilistic—into @lead-dbs.org for direct use in the Fiber Filtering Explorer. See the methods paper below 👇👇
Reposted by Stimulating Brains
How should we best model recruitment of axons by deep brain stimulation?
Various concepts have been introduced and Konstantin Butenko just introduced a few more in a new publication at Brain Communications:
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
Various concepts have been introduced and Konstantin Butenko just introduced a few more in a new publication at Brain Communications:
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
How should we best model recruitment of axons by deep brain stimulation?
Various concepts have been introduced and Konstantin Butenko just introduced a few more in a new publication at Brain Communications:
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
Various concepts have been introduced and Konstantin Butenko just introduced a few more in a new publication at Brain Communications:
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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New Institute paper out 👇👇
How should we best model recruitment of axons by deep brain stimulation?
Various concepts have been introduced and Konstantin Butenko just introduced a few more in a new publication at Brain Communications:
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
Various concepts have been introduced and Konstantin Butenko just introduced a few more in a new publication at Brain Communications:
academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
August 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
New Institute paper out 👇👇
The talk series is back after a summer break! 🌞 Join us Aug 28 at noon ET / 6 PM CET for a fascinating session with the academic power duo @dorahermes.bsky.social & Kai Miller! 🧠✨ They’ll explore how single-pulse signals reveal biomarkers and map brain connectivity. Don’t miss it!
August 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The talk series is back after a summer break! 🌞 Join us Aug 28 at noon ET / 6 PM CET for a fascinating session with the academic power duo @dorahermes.bsky.social & Kai Miller! 🧠✨ They’ll explore how single-pulse signals reveal biomarkers and map brain connectivity. Don’t miss it!
We had a wonderful time talking to @rolstonjohn.bsky.social, the Director of Epilepsy Surgery at Brigham & Women's Hospital. We talk about RNS for epilepsy, DBS for coma, traveling waves in the brain, stem cell therapy, closed loop DBS & more! Tune in 👇
stimulatingbrains.org/72-john-rols...
stimulatingbrains.org/72-john-rols...
August 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We had a wonderful time talking to @rolstonjohn.bsky.social, the Director of Epilepsy Surgery at Brigham & Women's Hospital. We talk about RNS for epilepsy, DBS for coma, traveling waves in the brain, stem cell therapy, closed loop DBS & more! Tune in 👇
stimulatingbrains.org/72-john-rols...
stimulatingbrains.org/72-john-rols...
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🧠 ⚡️ Preprint alert ⚡️ 🧠
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
June 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🧠 ⚡️ Preprint alert ⚡️ 🧠
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Reposted by Stimulating Brains
Massive, Herculanean work by @laurenahart.bsky.social and Garance Meyer to compile and integrate findings from DBS for epilepsy (20 targets!) including meta-analytical evidence for optimal stimulation sites for the two main targets (ANT & CM). Preprint out now 👇👇
🧠 ⚡️ Preprint alert ⚡️ 🧠
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I️n the most comprehensive review of DBS in epilepsy, with 124 studies, 1,210 patients, and 20 anatomical targets we map where stimulation works best and why.
Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy: Optimal Targeting and Clinical Outcomes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
June 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Massive, Herculanean work by @laurenahart.bsky.social and Garance Meyer to compile and integrate findings from DBS for epilepsy (20 targets!) including meta-analytical evidence for optimal stimulation sites for the two main targets (ANT & CM). Preprint out now 👇👇
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We are actively looking for an administrative position to help lead the newly founded @netstim.org at the University of Cologne – please spread the word and/or let us know if you know somebody that could be interested!
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June 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
We are actively looking for an administrative position to help lead the newly founded @netstim.org at the University of Cologne – please spread the word and/or let us know if you know somebody that could be interested!
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Excited to be featured as one of the best neuroscience podcasts on millionpodcasts: www.millionpodcasts.com/neuroscience...
June 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Excited to be featured as one of the best neuroscience podcasts on millionpodcasts: www.millionpodcasts.com/neuroscience...
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@foxmdphd.bsky.social's legendary anticorrelation paper has now been cited over 10.000 times and this was reason for a dedicated PNAS cake. Congratulations again, Mike, for this unbelievable pioneering effort that opened up the then novel field of resting-state fMRI!
@braincircuits.bsky.social
@braincircuits.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
@foxmdphd.bsky.social's legendary anticorrelation paper has now been cited over 10.000 times and this was reason for a dedicated PNAS cake. Congratulations again, Mike, for this unbelievable pioneering effort that opened up the then novel field of resting-state fMRI!
@braincircuits.bsky.social
@braincircuits.bsky.social
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Hard to keep track about all the great things our labmembers have achieved recently:
May 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Hard to keep track about all the great things our labmembers have achieved recently:
Happening today! We have two amazing speakers, Nicole Provenza and Martijn Figee who will share their thoughts on engineering for Neuromodulation and circuit based DBS for OCD respectively.
Be sure to tune in on May 29th, 12 noon EST/6:00 PM CET
Register here: partners.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Be sure to tune in on May 29th, 12 noon EST/6:00 PM CET
Register here: partners.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Happening today! We have two amazing speakers, Nicole Provenza and Martijn Figee who will share their thoughts on engineering for Neuromodulation and circuit based DBS for OCD respectively.
Be sure to tune in on May 29th, 12 noon EST/6:00 PM CET
Register here: partners.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Be sure to tune in on May 29th, 12 noon EST/6:00 PM CET
Register here: partners.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Are we on the cusp of moving beyond the levodopa challenge test to predict the best candidates and response to DBS in Parkinson's disease? We’ve long relied on the levodopa challenge to decide who’s a good candidate for deep brain stimulation but what if that test is only part of the story?
May 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Are we on the cusp of moving beyond the levodopa challenge test to predict the best candidates and response to DBS in Parkinson's disease? We’ve long relied on the levodopa challenge to decide who’s a good candidate for deep brain stimulation but what if that test is only part of the story?
Reposted by Stimulating Brains
Is there a shared brain circuit target for tremor that transcends diagnosis and DBS site? New work by @lukasgoede.bsky.social @andreashorn.org @braincircuits.bsky.social says YES
Tremor is a common symptom across many neurological disorders.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
May 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Is there a shared brain circuit target for tremor that transcends diagnosis and DBS site? New work by @lukasgoede.bsky.social @andreashorn.org @braincircuits.bsky.social says YES
Reposted by Stimulating Brains
Can brain injury cause the loss of visual imagination?
We studied #aphantasia due to brain injury. Lesions were in many different regions but 100% were connected to the fusiform imagery node - a region active during visual mental imagery @braincircuits.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We studied #aphantasia due to brain injury. Lesions were in many different regions but 100% were connected to the fusiform imagery node - a region active during visual mental imagery @braincircuits.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Can brain injury cause the loss of visual imagination?
We studied #aphantasia due to brain injury. Lesions were in many different regions but 100% were connected to the fusiform imagery node - a region active during visual mental imagery @braincircuits.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We studied #aphantasia due to brain injury. Lesions were in many different regions but 100% were connected to the fusiform imagery node - a region active during visual mental imagery @braincircuits.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Curious in an update on networks involved in treating tremor using neuromodulation? New study from the lab spearheaded by the one and only @lukasgoede.bsky.social out now at nature comms - nice summary thread below 👇👇
Tremor is a common symptom across many neurological disorders.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
May 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Curious in an update on networks involved in treating tremor using neuromodulation? New study from the lab spearheaded by the one and only @lukasgoede.bsky.social out now at nature comms - nice summary thread below 👇👇
Reposted by Stimulating Brains
Tremor is a common symptom across many neurological disorders.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
May 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Tremor is a common symptom across many neurological disorders.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis?
We think: yes.
Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com:
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 A thread.
Reposted by Stimulating Brains
New research from @lukasgoede.bsky.social @andreashorn.org & colleagues provides a robust, cross-condition tremor network that may guide both invasive & noninvasive neuromodulation strategies for #Parkinsons & essential tremor
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
New research from @lukasgoede.bsky.social @andreashorn.org & colleagues provides a robust, cross-condition tremor network that may guide both invasive & noninvasive neuromodulation strategies for #Parkinsons & essential tremor
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Is there a role for noninvasive "network" stimulation (multifocal tDCS) to evaluate candidates for deep brain stimulation?
@lukasgoede.bsky.social says yes – new study here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A 🧵
@netstim.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @lead-dbs.org
@lukasgoede.bsky.social says yes – new study here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A 🧵
@netstim.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @lead-dbs.org
May 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Is there a role for noninvasive "network" stimulation (multifocal tDCS) to evaluate candidates for deep brain stimulation?
@lukasgoede.bsky.social says yes – new study here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A 🧵
@netstim.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @lead-dbs.org
@lukasgoede.bsky.social says yes – new study here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A 🧵
@netstim.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @lead-dbs.org
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Patient selection for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is crucial.
Are there ways to improve it?
In our new study, we found hints that non-invasive brain stimulation might enhance the levodopa response
- and serve as an additional marker for DBS outcomes.
doi.org/10.1002/acn3...
A thread. 🧵
Are there ways to improve it?
In our new study, we found hints that non-invasive brain stimulation might enhance the levodopa response
- and serve as an additional marker for DBS outcomes.
doi.org/10.1002/acn3...
A thread. 🧵
Patient Selection in Deep Brain Stimulation: A Role for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Enhance the Levodopa Challenge?
Dopaminergic medication and deep brain stimulation (DBS) improve motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD), but levodopa response alone may not predict DBS outcomes. We retrospectively analyzed 19 P...
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Patient selection for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is crucial.
Are there ways to improve it?
In our new study, we found hints that non-invasive brain stimulation might enhance the levodopa response
- and serve as an additional marker for DBS outcomes.
doi.org/10.1002/acn3...
A thread. 🧵
Are there ways to improve it?
In our new study, we found hints that non-invasive brain stimulation might enhance the levodopa response
- and serve as an additional marker for DBS outcomes.
doi.org/10.1002/acn3...
A thread. 🧵
Reposted by Stimulating Brains
New insights on tremor therapeutic sweetspot and tract this time in FUS thalamotomy, congrats @andreashorn.org and team
MR guided focused ultrasound surgery is an effective and uprising treatment option for Essential tremor. But where is the optimal site to sonicate? Which spots to avoid due to side-effects?
@science.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @netstim.org
– a thread🧵!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @netstim.org
– a thread🧵!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New insights on tremor therapeutic sweetspot and tract this time in FUS thalamotomy, congrats @andreashorn.org and team
Reposted by Stimulating Brains
First Fiber Filtering study using MRgFUS lesions (instead of DBS Stimulation Volumes)! 👇👇
MR guided focused ultrasound surgery is an effective and uprising treatment option for Essential tremor. But where is the optimal site to sonicate? Which spots to avoid due to side-effects?
@science.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @netstim.org
– a thread🧵!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @netstim.org
– a thread🧵!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
First Fiber Filtering study using MRgFUS lesions (instead of DBS Stimulation Volumes)! 👇👇