As part of the IEEE Brain Webinar Series I presented a talk on entitled “Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation: Investigational System Development at the Edge of Clinical Brain Computer Interfacing” providing an overview on the development and latest research in the field of adaptive DBS.

The talk is freely available for the next month here, the talk abstract is below:
Over the last few decades, the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to improve the treatment of those with neurological movement disorders represents a critical success story in the development of invasive neurotechnology and the promise of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) to improve the lives of those suffering from incurable neurological disorders. In the last decade, investigational devices capable of recording and streaming neural activity from chronically implanted therapeutic electrodes has supercharged research into clinical applications of BCI, enabling in-human studies investigating the use of adaptive stimulation algorithms to further enhance therapeutic outcomes and improve future device performance. In this talk, Dr. Herron will review ongoing clinical research efforts in the field of adaptive DBS systems and algorithms. This will include an overview of DBS in current clinical practice, the development of bidirectional clinical-use research platforms, ongoing algorithm evaluation efforts, a discussion of current adoption barriers to be addressed in future work.

A recent UW #BeBoundless article has publicized an ongoing collaboration with the Sara Goering, Eran Klein, and Tim Brown of the UW Department of Philosophy. This collaboration has been focused on the examination of potential ethical questions related to the development of closed-loop deep brain stimulation methods through interviews with patients enrolled in our ongoing feasibility study for improving the treatment of essential tremor. Check out the full article here.

The UW Center for Neurotechnology posted a new article discussing ongoing work using the Activa PC+S in collaboration with Medtronic. Check it out here

EE Department version available here

The University of Washington’s Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) interviewed me to profile my work. It’s finally been posted here: CNT Profile

Many thanks to Aleenah Ansari for the write-up!

Hey all, I am the latest addition to the University of Washington’s Department of Neurosurgery. Here I’ll be posting the latest developments in my ongoing work to advance the state of the art in biomedical devices to aid in the treatment of those with neurological disorders, diseases, and injury. Stay tuned