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DAY ONE: Thursday, November 10, 2011

8:00 AM
Registration, Continental Breakfast


Mechanisms and Theory

9:15 AM
Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry Recordings in Animal Models and in Human Patients to Elucidate Mechanisms of DBS

    Kendall H. Lee, Mayo Clinic

10:00 AM
Parkinsonian Basal Ganglia Activity Patterns: A Computational View of Downstream Implications
    Jonathan E. Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
   
10:45 AM
Systems-Level Model of Deep Brain Stimulation
    Cameron C. McIntyre, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
   
11:30 AM
Poster session and lunch on your own
Poster room will be available until 9:00 PM

Neuropsychiatric Disorders


2:00 PM
DBS for Depression: Mapping Critical Circuits Towards Treatment Optimization

    Helen S. Mayberg, Emory University School of Medicine

2:45 PM DBS or Ablation for OCD:  Effects and Neurocircuitry

    Benjamin D.Greenberg, Brown University – Butler Hospital

3:30 PM
Coffee Break
   
3:45 PM           
TBD (Magnetic Seizure Therapy in Depression)
    Sarah “Holly” Lisanby, Duke University School of Medicine


Keynote Address      

4:30 PM
TBD
    TBA
    Recipient of the 4th Annual
    Swartz Prize in Computational Neuroscience
   
5:30 PM
Reception - Sponsored by The Swartz Foundation



Poster room will be available until 9:00 PM


DAY TWO: Friday, November 11, 2011 

8:00AM
Registration, Continental Breakfast
   
9:00 AM Meeting Announcements
   

Movement Disorders


9:15 AM    

The Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation on Abnormal Neural Oscillations and Hypersynchrony in Parkinson's Disease and Dystonia
    Helen M. Bronte-Stewart, Stanford University School of Medicine

   
10:00 AM
TBD (DBS in Tremor, Dystonia, Chorea, Tics, PD)
    Michele Tagliati, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
   
10:45 AM

Coffee Break

11:00 AM Acute Effects of Basal Ganglia Stimulation on the Primary Motor Cortex
    Philip A. Starr, UCSF School of Medicine
   
11:45 AM Exploring Mechanisms of DBS with Optogenetics

    Jaimie M. Henderson, Stanford University School of Medicine

12:30 PM

Poster session and lunch on your own

Future Directions      

2:00 PM Responsive Stimulation for Epilepsy
    Martha J. Morrell, Stanford University, and NeuroPace
   
2:45 PM TBD (DBS in TBI and Cognitive Impairment)
    Nicholas D. Schiff, Weill Cornell Medical College
   
3:30 PM

TBD (Ethical Considerations in DBS)
    Joseph J. Fins, Weill Cornell Medical College

4:15 PM Wrap-up and comments
    Main Meeting Adjourns
   

Poster room will be available until 7:00 PM