Publication Date
1-1-2024
Journal
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
DOI
10.3389/fnhum.2024.1320806
PMID
38450221
PMCID
PMC10915873
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
2-21-2024
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
deep brain stimulation (DBS), artificial intelligence, neuroethics, interventional psychiatry, adaptive DBS, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, optogenetics
Abstract
The Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Think Tank XI was held on August 9-11, 2023 in Gainesville, Florida with the theme of "Pushing the Forefront of Neuromodulation". The keynote speaker was Dr. Nico Dosenbach from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He presented his research recently published in Nature inn a collaboration with Dr. Evan Gordon to identify and characterize the somato-cognitive action network (SCAN), which has redefined the motor homunculus and has led to new hypotheses about the integrative networks underpinning therapeutic DBS. The DBS Think Tank was founded in 2012 and provides an open platform where clinicians, engineers, and researchers (from industry and academia) can freely discuss current and emerging DBS technologies, as well as logistical and ethical issues facing the field. The group estimated that globally more than 263,000 DBS devices have been implanted for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. This year's meeting was focused on advances in the following areas: cutting-edge translational neuromodulation, cutting-edge physiology, advances in neuromodulation from Europe and Asia, neuroethical dilemmas, artificial intelligence and computational modeling, time scales in DBS for mood disorders, and advances in future neuromodulation devices.