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SUMMARY:Directional stimulation improves DBS therapy: from Computer model 
 prediction to human use
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Claudio Pollo\, Bern University Hospital\nBio: Claudio P
 ollo is responsible for stereotactic and functional neurosurgery for epile
 psy surgery and radiosurgery program at the Department of Neurosurgery. Du
 ring his training\, he focused his clinical and scientific interests on fu
 nctional neurosurgery and epilepsy surgery (Prof. Jean-Guy Villemure). His
  professional training and specialization in functional neurosurgery was d
 eepened by working as a researcher at the University Hospital Joseph Fouri
 er\, Grenoble (Prof. Alim-Louis Benabid). He wrote his doctoral thesis on 
 deep brain stimulation in the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson disease.\nI
 n 2004 he received a postgraduate diploma in biomedical engineering at the
  Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). In 2006 he was awarded the academ
 ic degree PD & MER of the Medical Faculty of the University of Lausanne (U
 NIL). Most of his publications and research projects\, supported by the Sw
 iss National Science Foundation (SNSF) or the Commission for Technology an
 d Innovation (CTI) of the Federal\, deal with epilepsy surgery\, deep brai
 n stimulation for movement disorders and epilepsy\, with functionality and
  technological aspects of electrical stimulation and with image processing
  processes.\nDeep brain stimulation of different targets has been shown to
  drastically improve symptoms of a variety of neurological conditions. How
 ever\, the occurrence of disabling side effects may limit the ability to d
 eliver adequate amounts of current necessary to reach the maximal benefit.
  Computed models have suggested that reduction in electrode size and the a
 bility to provide directional stimulation could increase the efficacy of s
 uch therapies\, especially in targets used for the therapy of movement dis
 orders like Parkinson’s disease or essential tremor. Intraoperative stud
 ies performed in human have shown that directional stimulation provides di
 fferent thresholds for clinical effects increasing the therapeutic window 
 and needing a low therapeutic current.\nRecently we were able to investiga
 te the effect of directional stimulation on beneficial and side effects\, 
 in chronically implanted patients compared to omnidirectional stimulation 
 and report our preliminary experience with this new device and how could t
 his device used in the future.
LOCATION:CB H8-01 144-165 and EPFL SV 3715 http://cnp.epfl.ch/files//conte
 nt/sites/cnp/files/Seminars/PlanSallesCampusBiotechH8-01.pdf
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