Topic: movement disorders

We are very much looking forward to host Francisca Ferreira and Birte Forstmann on December 14th, 2023, at noon ET / 6PM CET. Francisca Ferreira is a PhD student and Neurosurgery trainee at the University College of London Queen Square Institute of Neurology and a Royal College of Surgeons “Emerging Leaders” program laureate. Her presentation title will be: “Microstructural and connectivity correlates of outcome variability in functional neurosurgery for movement disorders”. Birte Forstmann, PhD, is the Director of the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

It’s our pleasure to announce that we will host Haidar Dafsari and Günther Deuschl on September 28th at noon ET / 6PM CET. Haidar Dafsari, MD, is a researcher and lecturer at the University Hospital Cologne. Günther Deuschl, MD, PhD, is a professor at Kiel University. He was president of the International Movement Disorders Society (MDS) from 2011-2013, Editor in Chief of the journal Movement Disorders and has been awarded numerous high-class awards. Beside his scientific presentation, he will give us a glimpse at the “Person behind the science”.The talks will be followed by a shared discussi

Caroline Williams-Gray is a Principal Research Associate in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, and an honorary consultant neurologist specializing in Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders. She leads a translational research group investigating the clinical and biological heterogeneity of PD, with the ultimate goal of developing more targeted therapies for different Parkinson’s subtypes. Her recent work has focused on the theory that the immune system plays a significant role in mediating the heterogeneity of PD and its progression. Her lab is investigating

On Thursday, 23rd of February, we will host Veerle Visser-Vandewalle and Marie Krüger. Marie Krüger, MD, is is currently leading the stereotactic surgery unit in St. Gallen but is on her move to join the team at UCL / Queensquare London. She will discuss “Directional DBS targeting of different nuclei in the thalamus for the treatment of pain”. Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, MD, PhD, is the Head of the Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at University Hospital of Cologne. Beside his scientific presentation on “25 years of DBS beyond movement disorders: what challenges are we fac

On Wednesday, January 25th, at noon ET / 6PM CET, we will host Roxanne Lofredi and Hagai Bergman. Roxanne Lofredi, MD, is a research fellow in the Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Hagai Bergman, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Physiology in the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Research and Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is Simone and Bernard Guttman Chair in Brain Research. Beside his scientific presentation on “Beta oscillations in the basal ganglia: Past, Present and Future”, he will also give us a glimpse at

The Ruhr Hand Motion Catalog of Human Center-Out Transport Trajectories [1] is a compilation of three-dimensional task-space motion data simultaneously measured by two motion tracking systems. The first one, an optical motion capture system, provided robust reference data. The second recording system consisted of a single state-of-the-art IMU to demonstrate the feasibility of portable applications. The transport object was moved in 3D space from a unified start position to one of nine target positions, equidistantly aligned on a semicircle. Ten trials were performed per target and hand, result