Podcasts by Stimulating Brains
Andreas Horn interviews experts in the field of deep brain stimulation, noninvasive neuromodulation, functional brain imaging and neuroanatomy.
Join us on our quest to interact with the human brain and thank you for your interest in science!
Andreas Horn, M.D., Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and associate professor for neurology at Harvard Medical School.
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#45: Mac Shine and Paul Cisek - Exploring the evolution, integration and complexities of the brain: basal ganglia, dopamine, and beyond from 2023-12-07T07:46:24
In this special episode of Stimulating Brains, we dive deep into the intricacies of the human brain with two esteemed guests, Mac Shine from Sydney University and Paul Cisek from the University ...
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#44 Jennifer Thomas & Michael Stanley - The creative spark: Switching on the inner artist in the face of Parkinson's Disease from 2023-11-24T22:33:09
In this conversation with Jennifer ('Niffy') Thomas and Dr. Michael Stanley, we talk about how Niffy became an artist after undergoing DBS surgery to treat her early onset Parkinson'...
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#43 Vanessa Milanese - Bridging Anatomy and Neurosurgery: A Deep Dive into White Matter Dissections and Legacy of Dr. Al Rhoton from 2023-10-19T23:55:56
In this conversation with Dr. Vanessa Milanese, we cover the importance of anatomy in neurosurgery and explore her intriguing work in both fields – and how they cross-informed one another. Vanes...
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#42: Kullervo Hynynen – A conversation with the inventor of MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound from 2023-10-13T15:07:48
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Kullervo Hynynen, a key figure in biomedical ultrasound and image-guided therapeutics. Starting from his academic roots at the University of Aberdeen to his...
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#41: Christelle Baunez – The role of the subthalamic nucleus in brain stimulation from 2023-10-07T17:12:17
In this intriguing dialogue with Dr. Christelle Baunez, a neurobiologist at Aix-Marseille University, we discuss a mysterious and small structure, the subthalamic nucleus. Christelle is known as...
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#40: Casey Halpern – Novel indications and approaches to invasive neuromodulation and neuroscience from 2023-09-22T19:25:23
In this engaging conversation with Casey Halpern, a functional neurosurgeon at Penn Medicine. Casey is a pioneer in both deep brain stimulation and focused ultrasound and with his lab has recent...
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#39: Nico Dosenbach – A BOLD Challenge to Penfield’s Homunculus based on resting-state fMRI from 2023-09-18T01:29:02
In this engaging conversation with Dr. Nico Dosenbach, a clinician-scientist at Washington University, we dive into his personal journey from the Black Forest in Germany to his adventures in the...
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#38: Espen Dietrichs – about Carl Sem-Jacobsen, the true inventor of subthalamic DBS in Norway from 2023-09-10T19:00:35
In this conversation with Espen Dietrichs, we talk about the work of Carl Wilhelm Sem-Jacobsen, who almost certainly applied deep brain stimulation to the subthalamic nucleus chronically over we...
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#37: Jon Nelson – DBS for Depression saved my life: Defying Stigma in Mental Health from 2023-08-17T15:20:23
In this compelling episode we delve into the inspiring story of Jon Nelson, a remarkable individual who has braved the depths of mental illness and emerged as a beacon of resilience and hope. In...
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#36: Béchir Jarraya & Jordy Tasserie – Unlocking Consciousness: Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback, and the Future of Brain Science from 2023-08-06T17:51:52
In this episode, we delve into the groundbreaking work of the Neuromodulation Lab at the NeuroSpin center, led by Dr. Béchir Jarraya. The lab’s mission is to evaluate brain modulation using phar...
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#35: Mark Richardson – Surfing the Frontiers of Functional Neurosurgery: From Brain Modulation to Patient Engagement from 2023-06-19T12:22:30
In this episode, we interviewed Dr. Mark Richardson, an expert in functional neurosurgery and the Director of the Brain Modulation Lab at MGH Neurosurgery. He shared insights into his career and...
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#34: Charles Jennings – From Graduate School to Founding Editor of Nature Neuroscience and Beyond from 2023-05-09T14:00:07
We had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Charles Jennings, an accomplished scientist and leader in the field of neuroscience. As the Executive Director of the Program for Interdisciplinary Neuro...
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#33: Joachim Krauss, Marwan Hariz, & Christian Moll – The History of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and Serendipity from 2023-04-19T18:19:48
Join us for an illuminating conversation with Drs. Joachim Krauss, Marwan Hariz, and Christian Moll, as we delve into the history of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, and the impact of s...
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#32: Philip Mosley – Neuropsychiatric network effects of DBS in Parkinson's and OCD from 2022-11-27T15:44:20
It was my great pleasure to talk with Philip Mosley, who is one of the most experienced neuropsychiatrists working with DBS and published seminal work on non-motor, neuropsychiatric side-effects...
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#31: Veerle Visser-Vandewalle – Operating on the first neuropsychiatric DBS case in the modern era from 2022-09-13T12:37:10
It was my great pleasure to talk with Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, who is the Head of the Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at University Hospital of Cologne. As a unique setup...
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#30: Suzanne Haber – Anatomists, an endangered species & their importance for DBS from 2022-09-05T21:44:25
It was my great honor to talk with Suzanne Haber about the importance of anatomy in neurosurgery and neuromodulation as a whole. Among many other topics, we discussed her seminal work on the sub...
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#29: Mike Fox – Finding Therapeutic Treatment Targets using Causal Brain Connectomics from 2022-09-03T21:07:57
Mike Fox leads the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at the Brigham & Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston. The center is unique in that it houses colleagues from neurosu...
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#28: Marie Krüger – Segmented Contacts & DBS for Dental Pain from 2022-08-26T21:43:27
It was my great pleasure to talk with Marie Krüger, who is currently leading the stereotactic surgery unit in St. Gallen but is on her move to join the team at UCL / Queensquare London. Marie tr...
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#27: Joshua Gordon – Neuromodulation from genes to cells to circuits to behavior from 2022-08-26T14:19:39
One of five adults in the United States suffers from a diagnosable mental illness at any one point in time. The burden of psychiatric diseases is massive on both personal and economic levels. It...
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#26: Nolan Williams – A Noninvasive Neuromodulation Revolution? from 2022-07-19T12:07:22
It was my great pleasure to talk with Nolan Williams, who is the mind behind the Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy (SAINT) protocol for treatment of depression. In th...
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#25: Michael Okun & Kelly Foote – DBS Think Tank, Connectedness, Closed-Loop & Tic-Detectors from 2022-07-15T12:53:24
The tenth DBS Think Tank is about to happen in Gainesville, Florida next month – so it's timely to talk with the masterminds behind it: Michael Okun and Kelly Foote need no introduction in the f...
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#24: Aryn Gittis – Optogenetically inspired DBS for Parkinson's Disease from 2022-07-05T19:08:27
Following a fascinating talk Aryn gave at OptoDBS 2022, we talk about her work on optogenetically inspired deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's Disease. In a first paper (2017 Nature Neuroscie...
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#23: Anne Young – Basal Ganglia Circuitry, Glutamate & Leadership from 2022-07-04T23:00:41
In this episode, I had the tremendous honor of speaking with Anne Young about the many highlights of her career, including key evidence that established Glutamate as a neurotransmitter, as well ...
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#22: Mahlon DeLong – The Basal Ganglia in Health & Disease from 2022-05-31T21:45:46
In this episode, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Mahlon DeLong about the past and future of our field, the most influential model of the basal ganglia circuitry, microexciteable zones ...
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#21: Aysegul Gunduz – Engineering in DBS, closed loop & brain sensing from 2022-04-02T15:55:54
In this episode, Aysegul Gunduz & Julian Neumann speak about Ayse's exciting work on closed-loop DBS in tremor, their tic-detector, and thriving as an engineer in a medical field such as DBS...
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#20: Christian Lüscher – OptoDBS and how we bring back the neuron into neurology from 2022-03-13T22:41:49
In this episode I had the honor to speak with Christian Lüscher about his exciting work on neuromodulation in addiction as well as the upcoming OptoDBS conference which he has been organizing si...
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#19: Sameer Sheth – Neuromodulation for Psychiatry – the last frontier? from 2022-03-03T13:31:46
In this episode I had the honor to speak with Sameer Sheth about recent advances in deep brain stimulation for psychiatric indications. We focus on two recent publications, a paper published in ...
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#18: Jeffrey Hausdorff – The Present and Future of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Aging and Parkinson’s disease Research from 2022-01-24T16:26:19
In this guest episode, Jeffrey Hausdorff and Nathan Morelli speak about transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), its mechanisms of action, current application in research, and where the f...
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#17: Hagai Bergman – The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia: At the Base of the Brain and Mind from 2021-12-19T02:03:26
In this episode, Hagai Bergman and I talk about his new book, The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia: At the Base of Brain and Mind. We cover some of the many highlights of his life in basal gangl...
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#16: Julian Neumann – Machine-Learning for adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation from 2021-11-22T00:17:04
In this episode, Julian Neumann and I talk about his research toward adaptive deep brain stimulation. Julian has recorded local field potentials from DBS electrodes implanted in patients with Pa...
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#15: Peter Snyder about Jose Delgado: Remote-controlling the brain from 2021-11-03T16:55:41
In this episode, Peter Snyder and I talk about Jose Delgado, one of the inventors of deep brain stimulation. Peter's father, Dr. Daniel R. Snyder, served as Delgado’s last American-trained ...
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#14: Benjamin Stecher & Alberto Espay – Challenging "brain fables" about neurodegenerative diseases from 2021-10-23T17:07:37
You have met Ben Stecher in episode #12 already – today we follow up on his very own account of deep brain stimulation after Ben has now lived w...
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#13: Mark Humphries – Basal Ganglia Models, Highs and Lows in the Brain and… how does DBS work? from 2021-07-25T12:23:14
It was a tremendous privilege to pick Mark Humphrey's brain who has insight about broad domains of the brain like few others. His new book Listen
#12: Benjamin Stecher – A personal account of Parkinson's and Deep Brain Stimulation from 2021-06-14T05:03:49
Benjamin Stecher is doing impressive work in is role a scientific writer and patient advocate. He co-authored the book “Listen
#11: Katrin Amunts – A modern take on human brain anatomy and its relevance to DBS from 2021-04-28T15:40:45
Katrin Amunts is the Scientific Research Director of the Human Brain Project and leads two centers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and the University Hospital Düsseldorf. With her internationally re...
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#10: Cameron McIntyre – Pushing the frontier of biophysically plausible DBS models from 2021-02-28T16:27:43
Cameron McIntyre and I talk about biophysically plausible deep brain stimulation models that his laboratory has established and continues to refine since about 20 years. Cameron shares insights ...
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#9: Mac Shine – A thalamus-centric view of basal ganglia, cerebellar and cortical interactions from 2020-12-22T14:18:49
Mac Shine and I talk about Mac's recent intriguing opinion paper that may have radical implications for systems and clinical neuroscience. In it, the thalamus mediates between feed-forward type ...
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#8: Mojgan Hodaie – Connectivity aided targeting in neuromodulation for neuropathic pain from 2020-12-04T06:16:41
In this guest episode, Luka Milosevic talks with Mojgan Hodaie about the neuromodulation for neuropathic pain, how serendipity may lead to a whole novel research field, how our teachers shape th...
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#7: Patricia Limousin – Subthalamic Nucleus Stimulation: From Parkinson's Disease to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from 2020-11-21T21:46:58
In this episode, we talk with Patricia Limousin about the early days of DBS in the modern era to the current day and about what the future may hold. Building up on episode #4 with Pierre Pollak, we...
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#6: Lone Frank – Robert Heath, the forgotten inventor of Deep Brain Stimulation from 2020-09-21T07:55:32
In this episode, Lone Frank shares insight about her book “The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor” in which she delved into the academic life of a true...
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#5: Günther Deuschl – On the importance of transforming Deep Brain Stimulation to evidence based medicine from 2020-08-22T13:55:41
In this episode, Günther Deuschl shares insight about his life in neurology and the endeavors to transform deep brain stimulation for movement disorders as established treatment options supporte...
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#4 Pierre Pollak – How modern-day Deep Brain Stimulation for movement disorders was introduced in Grenoble from 2020-07-05T11:41:08
In this episode, Pierre Pollak shares insight about his life in neurology, music and sports and how he introduced modern-day deep brain stimulation for movement disorders together with Alim Loui...
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#3: Marwan Hariz – a strong role for imaging and being critical in the field of DBS from 2020-06-14T12:03:49
In this episode, Marwan Hariz shares insight about why imaging is both the past and the future for deep brain stimulation, how its role of being the “court jester” or “stereotaxy police” emerged...
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#2 Helen Mayberg – Deep Brain Stimulation for Major Depression from 2020-05-29T17:30:14
In this episode, Helen Mayberg shares the experience made when the first major depression patient received deep brain stimulation electrodes, some anecdotes about the past and lots of good advice a...
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#1: Christian Moll – from Wernicke to Functional Neurosurgery and Back from 2020-05-24T08:55:56
The German submarine sunk a ship that was carrying Freeman and Watts' handbook to Europe, leading to a delayed start of psychosurgery in Germany. Influence of anatomists like Carl Wernicke or Cecil...
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