Deep Brain Stimulation

2nd Regional DBS meeting: “Deep brain stimulation: New Horizons in Neurology and Psychiatry” May 4th – 6th 2017, Zagreb, Croatia Deep brain stimulation has developed during the past 30 years as a remarkable treatment option for several brain disorders. DBS… Continue Reading

As in the previous year, Neuropenews asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, speakers etc. which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Copenhagen 2016. Please find their answers below!

The Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is one of the most important medical awards and goes this year to Mahlong R. Delong, Atlanta, USA and Alim Benabid, Grenoble, France for the ‘development of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS), a surgical technique that reduces tremors and restores motor function in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease’.

The first paper that I would like to point out to Neuropenews readers was published as a “Perspective” in the September issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) by Michael S. Okun, with the title “Deep-brain stimulation – Entering the era of human network modulation”, on the occasion of the Lasker-Debakey Clinical Medical Research Award that in 2014 was given to “…two pioneers in deep-brain stimulation (DBS): Alim-Louis Benabid, a neurosurgeon, and Mahlon DeLong, a neurologist”.

I spent 6 weeks in the Neurocenter of the Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. I had the opportunity to work in the out-patient department (1 week), in the hospital (3 weeks), in the EMG department (1 week), and in the intensive and… Continue Reading