Attending Society for Neuroscience 2024 in Chicago!

Posted on October 1, 2024October 18, 2024 by Jeff Herron

Once again I’ll be making the trip out to the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting! Come check out the posters with my students and collaborators!

Oct. 5, 2024, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
PSTR017.04 – Neural adaptive deep brain stimulation for gait impairment and freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease
*C. CUI¹, J. CHOI¹, S. KARJAGI¹, K. B. WILKINS¹, A. S. GALA¹, C. CASSELTON¹, A. NEGI¹, P. AKELLA¹, T. HOWARD¹, L. PARISI¹, A. ABAY¹, J. A. HERRON³, H. BRONTE-STEWART¹^,2;
¹Neurol. & Neurolog. Sci., ²Dept. of Neurosurg., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; ³Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Oct. 5, 2024, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
PSTR017.08 – Kinematic adaptive deep brain stimulation for gait impairment and freezing of gait in Parkinson’s Disease
*S. KARJAGI¹, Y. KEHNEMOUYI², L. PARISI³, P. AKELLA³, E. LAMBERT³, J. MELBOURNE⁴, A. S. GALA³, C. CUI⁵, J. O’DAY², K. B. WILKINS³, M. N. PETRUCCI², S. ADITHAM³, G. ORTHLIEB³, J. A. HERRON⁷, H. BRONTE-STEWART⁶;
¹Neurol., Stanford Sch. of Med., Stanford, CA; ²Bioengineering, ³Neurol., ⁴Stanford, ⁵Dept. of Neurol. and Neurolog. Sci., ⁶Neurol. and Neurolog. Sci., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; ⁷Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Oct. 5, 2024, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
PSTR017.09 – Sixty-hertz beta-burst driven adaptive deep brain stimulation for freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease
*A. S. NEGI¹, K. B. WILKINS¹, C. CUI¹, E. LAMBERT¹, J. MELBOURNE¹, M. N. PETRUCCI¹, S. ADITHAM¹, G. ORTHLIEB¹, A. S. GALA¹, P. AKELLA¹, L. PARISI¹, J. A. HERRON², H. BRONTE-STEWART¹;
¹Neurol. and Neurolog. Sci., Stanford Sch. of Med., Palo Alto, CA; ²Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Oct. 7, 2024, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
PSTR175.14 – Contributions of basal ganglia and cerebellar circuits in speech auditory-motor adaptation: DBS ON/OFF comparisons in patients with Parkinson’s disease vs essential tremor
H. WANG¹, J. A. HERRON², G. CLER¹, A. KO², *L. MAX¹;
¹Dept. of Speech and Hearing Sci., ²Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Oct. 8, 2024, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
LBA007.052 – Chronic ambulatory DBS recordings reveal neural patterns during sleep that predict OCD symptom severity
*T. KUTCHER¹, G. REYES², Z. NAQVI², V. ALLAM², T. B.-L. LIU³, T. FRACZEK⁴, Y. ZHOU², A. DENG², J. A. HERRON⁶, E. STORCH², W. K. GOODMAN⁵, S. A. SHETH³, N. R. PROVENZA³;
¹Rice Univ., Houston, TX; ³Neurosurg., ²Baylor Col. of Med., Houston, TX; ⁴Baylor Col. of Med., Seattle, WA; ⁵Psychiatry, Baylor Col. of Med., Houston, TX; ⁶Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Oct. 8, 2024, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
PSTR289.18 – Characterization and demonstration of the evoked potential functionality of the CorTec Brain Interchange
*H. CHO¹, A. GKOGKIDIS³, M. BUCHHEIT³, S. C. CRAMER⁴, J. G. OJEMANN², T. DENISON⁵, J. A. HERRON²;
¹Electrical and Computer Engin., ²Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; ³CorTec GmbH, Freiburg, Germany; ⁴Dept. of Neurol., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ⁵Dept. of Engin. Sci., Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Oct. 8, 2024, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
PSTR289.24 – Report from a long-term study with the Brain Interchange in a healthy sheep model – ECoG-based recording and stimulation
*A. GKOGKIDIS¹, M. BUCHHEIT¹, H. CHO², J. A. HERRON³, M. SCHUETTLER¹;
¹CorTec GmbH, Freiburg, Germany; ²Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engin., ³Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Oct. 8, 2024, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
PSTR330.02 – Characterization of Automated Alignment Onboard Fully Implanted Neuromodulation Systems
*M. O. GOLDSMITH¹, M. E. ALARIE², N. R. PROVENZA⁴, J. A. HERRON⁵, W. F. ASAAD³;
¹Sch. of Engin., ²Biomed. Engin., ³Neurosurg., Brown Univ., Providence, RI; ⁴Neurosurg., Baylor Col. of Med., Houston, TX; ⁵Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Oct. 8, 2024, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
PSTR330.14 – Benchtop environment for assessing artifacts generated during current injection
*J. MORROW¹, S. MILLER², J. A. HERRON³, A. S. WIDGE²;
²Psychiatry, ¹Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ³Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Oct. 9, 2024, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
PSTR418.22 – Investigating Approach-Avoidance Behavior in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Patients Undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation
*R. BECHTOLD¹, A. GANDHI³, J. KANG⁴, T. B.-L. LIU⁷, Z. NAQVI⁵, E. STORCH⁵, W. K. GOODMAN⁸, S. A. SHETH⁶, N. R. PROVENZA⁶, J. A. HERRON²;
²Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, ¹Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; ³Rutgers New Jersey medical school, Newark, NJ; ⁴Neurosci., ⁶Neurosurg., ⁵Baylor Col. of Med., Houston, TX; ⁷Univ. of Texas at Austin, Houston, TX; ⁸Psychiatry, NIMH, Bethesda, MD
Oct. 9, 2024, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
PSTR481.07 – Enabling chronic neuromodulation research with a robust distributed data framework
*T. M. FRACZEK¹, P. J. STEFFAN¹, R. A. BECHTOLD⁴, Y. ZHOU¹, J. ADKINSON², K. KABOTYANSKI², E. BARTOLI³, B. Y. HAYDEN⁶, A. WATROUS², N. VANEGAS¹, W. K. GOODMAN⁷, S. A. SHETH², J. A. HERRON⁵, N. R. PROVENZA²;
²Neurosurg., ³Dept. of Neurosurg., ¹Baylor Col. of Med., Houston, TX; ⁴Bioengineering, ⁵Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; ⁶Duke Univ., Durham, NC; ⁷Psychiatry, NIMH, Bethesda, MD

Attending the 10th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting and presenting a development update with the CorTec Brain Interchange

Posted on June 10, 2024June 24, 2024 by Jeff Herron

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!

Research progress being presented at 2024 American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Meeting

Posted on May 28, 2024June 24, 2024 by Jeff Herron

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”

Panel member for the “Cognitive Connections: Exploring Brain-Computer-Interfaces through Systems and Experiments” session at the 2024 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Posted on April 14, 2024June 24, 2024 by Jeff Herron

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!

Research progress being presented at 2023 Society for Neuroscience this November

Posted on October 9, 2023October 9, 2023 by Jeff Herron

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:

Mentored student work at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium

Posted on May 19, 2023June 24, 2024 by Jeff Herron

GridLab-affiliated undergraduate students Iman Tanumihardja and Medha Gupta presented their work with recent PhD graduate Courtnie Paschall and post-bacc/research analyst Sophia Lowe-Hines on using virtual reality to induce the rubber hand illusion at the University of Washington’s annual undergraduate research symposium! Great work team!

2023 IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER)

Posted on April 28, 2023October 9, 2023 by Jeff Herron

Two of my PhD students and I travelled to Baltimore this week to present our latest work at the IEEE NER Conference. It was a great conference with fascinating talks and a wonderful opportunity to get back together with the field in-person again.

CSE PhD Student Ellie Strandquist presented her Weill-Neurohub funded work developing tools to collect extensive video and patient data from study participant’s homes who are enrolled in an adaptive deep brain stimulation study. This work was performed in collaboration with Simon Little of UCSF, Jack Gallant at UC Berkeley, as well as students and research staff distributed amongst the three Universities. Her work can be read in more detail here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10123851

ECE PhD student Hanbin Cho presented her work developing software interfaces for use with the CorTec Brain Interchange and demonstrated the use of closed-loop stimulation with the platform. Her work can be read in more detail here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10123808

Upcoming research papers to be presented at the IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering in Baltimore this April

Posted on March 15, 2023July 11, 2023 by Jeff Herron

I and several of my students will be attending the upcoming IEEE EMBCS Conference on Neural Engineering in Baltimore in a little over a month! We have two papers accepted, come check out our posters at the Thursday poster sessions!

Second year ECE PhD student Hanbin Cho will be presenting her ongoing work developing a gRPC-enabled microservice to enable flexible use of the CorTec Brain Interchange in upcoming clinical studies. Her paper, ID# 1570869464, is titled “Open Mind Neuromodulation Interface for the CorTec Brain Interchange (OMNI-BIC): an investigational distributed research platform for next-generation clinical neuromodulation research” and there is a preprint available here.

Third year CSE PhD student Gabrielle Strandquist will be presenting her ongoing work developing methods for video-based bradykinesia symptom assessment from remote monitoring platforms. Her paper, ID# 1570869723, is titled “In-Home Video and IMU Kinematics of Self Guided Tasks Correlate with Clinical Bradykinesia Scores” and there is a preprint available here.

2022 Society for Neuroscience

Posted on November 7, 2022December 1, 2022 by Jeff Herron

Congratulations to all the students and collaborators who have had their work accepted for presentations at the 2022 Annual Meeting for the Society of Neuroscience!

059.04 – Kinematic Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease
G. C. L. ORTHLIEB¹, Y. KEHNEMOUYI¹, H. DORRIS¹, J. O’DAY¹, K. B. WILKINS¹, S. ADITHAM¹, M. N. PETRUCCI¹, E. LAMBERT¹, J. MELBOURNE¹, C. DIEP¹, S. HOFFMAN¹, J. PARKER¹, J. A. HERRON², *H. BRONTE-STEWART¹;
¹Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA; ²Univ. of Washington, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nov. 12, 2022, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
059.05 – Calibration of closed loop deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease
J. A. MELBOURNE¹, *K. B. WILKINS¹, E. F. LAMBERT¹, M. N. PETRUCCI¹, Y. M. KEHNEMOUYI¹, G. C. L. ORTHLIEB¹, H. DORRIS¹, C. DIEP¹, S. ADITHAM¹, J. A. HERRON², H. M. BRONTE-STEWART¹;
¹Stanford Univ., Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA; ²Univ. of Washington, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nov. 12, 2022, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
059.06 – Closed Loop Deep Brain Stimulation Using Beta Bursts for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease
*S. ADITHAM¹, M. N. PETRUCCI¹, K. B. WILKINS¹, E. LAMBERT¹, J. MELBOURNE¹, S. L. HOFFMAN¹, Y. M. KEHNEMOUYI¹, G. C. L. ORTHLIEB¹, J. E. PARKER¹, H. DORRIS¹, C. DIEP¹, R. W. ANDERSON¹, J. A. HERRON², H. M. BRONTE-STEWART¹;
¹Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; ²Univ. of Washington, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nov. 14, 2022, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
389.01 – Rapid offline identification of neural triggers for a virtual reality brain computer interface (VR-BCI) with intracranial electrodes in humans
*C. PASCHALL¹, E. TANUMIHARDJA², K. E. WEAVER³, B. L. GRANNAN⁴, A. KO⁵, J. S. HAUPTMAN⁴, J. G. OJEMANN⁴, R. P. RAO², J. A. HERRON⁴;
¹Bioengineering Dept., ²Paul G. Allen Sch. for Computer Sci. and Engin., ³Radiology, ⁴Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, ⁵Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nov. 14, 2022, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
401.12 – The rubber hand illusion in virtual reality
*S. LOWE-HINES¹, E. TANUMIHARDJA², C. PASCHALL³, B. L. GRANNAN¹, A. KO¹, J. S. HAUPTMAN¹, J. G. OJEMANN¹, R. P. RAO², J. A. HERRON¹;
¹Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, ²Paul G. Allen Sch. for Computer Sci. and Engin., ³Dept. of Bioengineering, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nov. 14, 2022, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
414.01 – Artifact characterization and mitigation techniques during concurrent sensing and stimulation using bidirectional deep brain stimulation platforms
*M. E. ALARIE¹, N. R. PROVENZA², M. AVENDANO-ORTEGA³, S. MCKAY³, A. S. WAITE¹, R. K. MATHURA², J. A. HERRON⁴, S. A. SHETH², D. A. BORTON¹, W. K. GOODMAN³;
¹Engin., Brown Univ., Providence, RI; ²Neurosurg., ³Menninger Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sci., Baylor Col. of Med., Houston, TX; ⁴Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nov. 14, 2022, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
414.07 – Stability and sensitivity of cortical evoked potential measures in human stereoencephalography
*L. H. LEVINSON¹, S. SUN², C. J. PASCHALL², K. E. WEAVER³, J. A. HERRON⁴, A. L. KO⁴, S. I. PERLMUTTER⁵, J. G. OJEMANN⁴;
¹Neurosci., ²Bioengineering, ³Radiology, ⁴Neurolog. Surgery, ⁵Dept Physiol. & Biophysics, Washington Natl. Primate Res. Ctr., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nov. 14, 2022, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
414.09 – Comparison of human local field potential dynamics during different electrical stimulation conditions
*S. H. SUN¹, L. LEVINSON², C. J. PASCHALL¹, K. E. WEAVER³, J. S. HAUPTMAN⁶, A. KO⁴, J. A. HERRON⁴, J. G. OJEMANN⁴, R. P. RAO⁵;
¹Bioengineering, ²Neurosci., ³Radiology, ⁴Neurolog. Surgery, ⁵Paul G. Allen Sch. for Computer Sci. and Engin., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; ⁶Neurosurg., Seattle Children’s Hosp., Seattle, WA

Nov. 15, 2022, 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
432.11 – Identification of candidate neural biomarkers of obsessive-compulsive symptom intensity and response to deep brain stimulation
*N. R. PROVENZA¹, C. PRAKASH SWAMY², L. BRANCO², E. DASTIN-VAN RIJN³, S. HINDUJA⁴, M. ALARIE⁵, A. S. WAITE⁵, M. AVENDANO-ORTEGA¹, S. MCKAY¹, G. S. VOGT⁶, H. DANG¹, R. MATHURA¹, B. ROARR⁵, A. D. WIESE¹, J. XU¹, A. VISWANATHAN¹, B. SHOFTY¹, J. A. HERRON⁷, M. T. HARRISON⁵, K. R. BIJANKI¹, E. A. STORCH¹, J. F. COHN⁴, D. A. BORTON⁵, N. F. INCE², W. K. GOODMAN¹, S. A. SHETH¹;
¹Baylor Col. of Med., Houston, TX; ²Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; ³Biomed. Engin., Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; ⁴Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ⁵Brown Univ., Providence, RI; ⁶Psychological and Brain Sci., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; ⁷Dept. of Neurolog. Surgery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Nov. 16, 2022, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
710.09 – Decoding subjective pain experience from multi-day intracranial electroencephalography in humans
*T. V. PHAM¹, S. H. SUN¹, K. E. WEAVER², J. A. HERRON^3,4, A. L. KO³, J. G. OJEMANN³, R. P. N. RAO^5,6,4;
¹Bioengineering, ²Radiology, ³Neurolog. Surgery, ⁴Electrical and Computer Engin., ⁵Paul G. Allen Sch. for Computer Sci. and Engin., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; ⁶Ctr. for Neurotechnology, Seattle, WA

Presenting at the IEEE Brain Discovery Neurotechnology Workshop

Posted on November 1, 2022December 1, 2022 by Jeff Herron

I will be a presenting ongoing developments in the field of adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation at the IEEE Brain Discovery Neurotechnology Workshop – Brain, Mind, and Body Symposium (BMB 2022) this November. The workshop is a satellite event for the 2022 Society for Neuroscience (SFN) conference that will be held in San Diego.

Registration to the workshop is free, so come by and see my talk at 9AM on Thursday November 10th. Thank you very much to the organizers of the event for inviting me to give this plenary talk! The rest of the agenda is available here.

Herron Lab @ UW

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