I’ll be attending the annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting in Washington DC this coming weekend to present our group’s ongoing development progress with the CorTec Brain Interchange to support our upcoming stroke study. The poster is accessible via this link. Also check out the OpenMind Consortium’s poster detailing the impact of our ongoing technological dissemination efforts!

My Bioengineering PhD Student Raphael Bechtold and collaborators from Baylor College of Medicine are all heading to Nashville for the 2024 American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Meeting to present our ongoing work studying the use of neuromodulation therapies for neuropsychiatric disorders! Check out their work –

• Bechtold, N. Provenza, N. Giridharan, A. Allam, S. Rajesh, A. Gandhi, G. Reyes, S. Reddy, E. Storch, S. A. Sheth, W. K. Goodman, and J. Herron, “Offline simulation of adaptive deep brain stimulation algorithm classification for performance characterization during provocation of OCD symptoms”
• Giridharan, N. Provenza, A. Allam, R. Bechtold, N. Diab, S. Rajesh, S. Reddy, G. Reyes, E. Dastin-van Rijn, A. Gandhi, S. Hirani, H. Dang, G. Banks, M. Avendano-Ortega, S. McKay, D. Borton, E. Storch, J. Herron, W. Goodman, S. Sheth “Low-Frequency Power in The Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum and Orbitofrontal Cortex: A Neural Biomarker of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Severity”
• Provenza, G. Reyes, K, Katlowitz, R. Bechtold, N. Diab, S. Reddy, A. Allam, A. Gandhi, S. Hirani, N. Giridharan, G. Banks, M. Hasen, B. Shofty, B. Hayden, J. Cohn, E. Storch, J. Herron, M. Phillips, W. Goodman, S. Sheth “Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule and Ventral Striatum Drives Approach Behavior and High Beta Power in Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex”
• Provenza, S. Reddy, A. Allam, S. Rajesh, N. Diab, R. Caston, K. Katlowitz, A. Gandhi, H. Dang, R. Najera, N. Giridharan, F. Momin, M. Hasen, G. Banks, B. Shofty, B. Hayden, J. Herron, E. Storch, A. Patel, W. Goodman, S. Sheth “DBS Disruption of Neural Rhythms Predicts Shifts in Clinical Response in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”
• Kang, W. Mahaphanit, N. Provenza, M. Nassar, A. Allam, R. Bechtold, N. Diab, S. Rajesh, S. Reddy, G. Reyes, E. Dastin-van Rijn, A. Gandhi, S. Hirani, G. Banks, H. Dang, M. Avendano-Ortega, S. McKay, D. Borton, M. Frank, E. Storch, J. Herron, W. Goodman, B. Hayden, S. Sheth “The Effect of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Cognitive Self-Control Under Uncertainty”

I’m an invited panelist at the upcoming 2024 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) to discuss my work in the fields of Brain Computer Interfaces and Neuromodulation!

The session has an exciting lineup which also includes:

• Shadi Dayeh, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Roman Genov, University of Toronto, Canada
• Minkyu Je, KAIST, South Korea
• Mahsa Shoaran, EPFL, Switzerland

Looking forward to seeing you all there and having a great discussion!

While I won’t be able to attend SFN 2023 in Washington DC later this year, I am sending several students from the lab to present their latest results. PhD student Hanbin Cho’s poster is detailing the latest results of her phasic-stimulation system with the CorTec Brain Interchange and PhD student Raphael Bechtold’s poster addresses artifacts in adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation applications where patients are implanted with multiple devices. Make sure you swing by and check out their work!

I also want to give a big shout-out to my collaborators who are also presenting results that I’ve been involved in! Please swing by these posters as well:

• N. Giridharan, N. Provenza, S. Rajesh, N. Diab, R. Bechtold, E.M. Dastin-van Rijn, A. Allam, G. Reyes, S. Reddy, M. Avendano-Ortega, S. McKay, G. Banks, D.A. Borton, E. Storch, J. Herron, W.K. Goodman, S.A. Sheth “Low-frequency power in the ventral capsule/ventral striatum and orbitofrontal cortex: a neural biomarker of obsessive-compulsive symptom severity”
• K. Wilkins, E. Lambert, J. Melbourne, M. Petrucci, A. Gala, P. Akella, L. Parisi, S. Aditham, G. Orthlieb, J. Herron, H. Bronte-Stewart, “Beta Burst Driven Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease”
• Akella, R. Crockett, K. Wilkins, J. Herron, H. Bronte-Stewart, “Know your limit, rest within it: investigating the effectiveness of neural adaptive deep brain stimulation for rest tremor.”
• Parisi, P. Akella, E. Lambert, J. Melbourne, A. Gala, C. Cui, Y. Kehnemouyi, J. O’Day, K. Wilkins, M. Petrucci, S. Aditham, G. Orthlieb, J. Herron, H. Bronte-Stewart, “Closed loop deep brain stimulation using real-time kinematic inputs for gait impairment and freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease”
• M.E. Alarie: Other; Funded by NSF GRFP. N.R. Provenza, J. Herron, W.F. Asaad, “Automated neural-behavioral data alignment for fully implantable DBS platforms”