Super excited that our dysfunctome paper is finally out at
@NatureNeuro
!
Certainly by far the most important work I have been involved in so far.
Huge congratulations and kudos to
@b_hollunder
and
@NingfeiL
for seeing this through. Fantastic tweetorial by Barbara below 👇👇
Intrigued to discover more about how DBS reveals & therapeutically impacts on the dysfunctional circuits behind different brain disorders, from OCD to dystonia? 🪄🧠
So were we! Join us on this deep dive from core to cortex – now out
@NatureNeuro
:
A 🧵
Thrilled to share our work on DBS for
#Alzheimer
’s Disease
– likely the most important work in my career, so far.
Spearheaded by the one and only
@sofiari91
w/ lots of collaborators, we sought out to find the optimal DBS stim site & network in AD
A 🧵
Beautiful atlas of brainstem nuclei released by the team of
@BianciardiMarta
@MGHMartinos
!
31 brainstem nuclei labels (8 medial/23 bilateral), and 11 brainstem subnuclei labels (bilateral)
6 months after moving to the US and I already won an Oscar* – I love this country!
*less importantly: also got appointed Assoc. Prof
@harvardmed
and received an R01 from
@NIMHgov
🙏
I got a major grant and will start my own lab in Berlin – yay! We have a homepage now – yay! More importantly, we're looking for a talented 3-year PhD applicant with transitional 1-year Postdoc phase from now on! Would you be so kind to retweet? Thank you!
Excited that our article 👇👇 has been featured on the cover of the march issue of
@NatureNeuro
– even more excited that
@b_hollunder
, the first-author of the study, hand-drew the cover herself. [🤫 I think she’s an artist]
Intrigued to discover more about how DBS reveals & therapeutically impacts on the dysfunctional circuits behind different brain disorders, from OCD to dystonia? 🪄🧠
So were we! Join us on this deep dive from core to cortex – now out
@NatureNeuro
:
A 🧵
Delighted to share our review on connectomic DBS for OCD spearheaded by
@BaldermannJC
out in
@BiologicalPsyc1
now. This is likely the most significant clinical-translational achievement I've had the privilege to play a part in, yet.
A thread:🧵
We are excited to announce the addition of Andreas Horn, M.D., Ph.D.
@andreashorn_
, a world expert in using brain circuit imaging, as new faculty member to the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
@foxmdphd
. Read more
Our commentary “Bringing human brain connectomics to clinical practice in psychiatry” by
@shansiddiqi
&
@foxmdphd
is now online, a sharable link w/ free access is here:
Humbled & grateful to be awarded the most important early career prize in Germany by
@dfg_public
&
@BMBF_Bund
.
Many thanks go to my mentors
@AA_Kuhn
&
@foxmdphd
, as well as the amazing team
@netstim_org
without whom none of the work would have been possible or thinkable. 🙏 🙏
Dr. Andreas Horn von
#Charit
éBerlin &
@Harvardmed
ist als einer von Deutschlands herausragenden Nachwuchsforschenden von
@dfg_public
mit dem Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis ausgezeichnet worden. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 💐
Happy to announce I have taken up an Associate Editor position at Human Brain Mapping
@OHBM
w/ EiCs
@INM7_ISN
@Frangougroup
@gary_egan
& J. Lancaster.
Consider sending us your connectomic deep brain stimulation & neuromodulation work going forward! 🚀
Excited that our Connectomic DBS for Alzheimer's Disease is online at
@NatureComms
since today!
Paper here:
Tweet summary (based on the preprint) here:
To treat OCD, Deep Brain Stimulation to the ventral capsule is effective – but the optimal target site remains unclear.
In a huge collaborative effort
@garance_meyer
&
@c_neudorfer
set out to determine it
@BiologicalPsyc1
. A 🧵 👇👇
The HCP 1000 structural connectome finally has a proper scientific citation:
Not just for DBS network mapping, also for structural fingerprinting using
@leaddbs
e.g. as done by Kringelbach/Deco groups or by
@boeslab
for lesion network mapping.
Since 2014, we’ve created and validated six structural and functional “average” connectomes of the human brain within
#MNI
space that are all freely available for download. A summary here:
Our book "Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation" will hit the shelf in ten days (September 17th) and can be preordered on
@amazon
or w Academic Press.
In case you wonder whether it's worth it, you can read about the back-story and team behind the book here:
Excited that around 500 copies of our Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation book sold. You never know how books go and not a high absolute number but given the size of the field very happy we pulled this off and motivating for a 2nd edition.
🙏🙏 everyone!
“data does not match what we know from rodents”. What is it with the obsession of rodent work in these high impact journals? I get that mice are cute but some of us aim at helping patients..
Commentary out by
@shansiddiqi
w/ Joe Taylor &
@foxmdphd
on how we could bring human brain connectomics into clinical practice in psychiatry (imho directly translatable to neurology).
@LitvakVladimir
Hi Vladimir, thanks for the interest! I had to prerecord the talk for OHBM and it is here:
Not exactly the same talk as the live one but v close. Miss you!
Super excited by this booklet by Wendell Krieg from 1957. Flicking through the colorful plates, it could have been published yesterday – but is indeed 65 years old.
Human brain in the front pocket, rodent brain in the back pocket. Original price $7, copy from the U Birmingham.
The importance of this paper cannot be overstated – variance goes down if surgeons see more details. Unique cohort of cases operated following 3T/7T imaging: 7T cases do better! See lower variance in panel B. Always dreamed of achieving that w/
@leaddbs
, Erik now did so w/ 7T!
First study exploring the impact of 7T vs 3T MRI on DBS outcomes for tremor: Our study shows 7T offers superior precision, improving tremor reduction & requiring lower stimulation current!
@TheJNS
@MayoRadiology
#MayoClinicFlorida
🧵
Very excited that our study spearheaded by
@NingfeiL
has been published at
@NatureComms
!
In a highly collaborative effort involving people from five centers and 50 DBS patients we may have found a tract target to help patients suffering from OCD. 1/n
Beautiful footage by the Hassler book which shows what I keep preaching over and over again: “what dwarves we have become since the introduction of MRI” – ping
@Haber_Lab
Knew many of the Hassler papers but this is a true gem, thanks
@NaN_Value
for sharing!
As a consequence of the debacle that
@ElsevierConnect
put upon our field with
@NeuroImage_EiC
(-> now
@ImagingNeurosci
), I am doing the little I can to sanction their actions by resigning as editor from their newly found journal “Deep Brain Stimulation”. 🧵👇
All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal
This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.
Fantastic news that the Morel atlas has been made openly available by the authors – and they reached out to let us know we can integrate it into
@leaddbs
, as well!
#OpenScience
💪
Taking the excellent article by Suzanne Haber,
@yendiki
and
@SaadJbabdi
in BioPsych as an opportunity for a thread:
“The dMRI tractography streamlines labeled as the slMFB represent fibers of the Internal Capsule, not the MFB.”
I could not agree more.
Seeing the peer review process as a coauthor at
@Nature
- seems ridiculously hard to get human data published at the outlet. Key reason for rejection after three rounds of revisions given by editors was … wait for it 🐁
Huge congratulations to
@foxmdphd
for receiving the
@brainstimj
early career investigator award today in Charleston at
#BrainStimConf
!
Using causal links (lesions & brain stimulation sites) to study their impact on the human connectome.
Nice combination of DBS, optogenetics & high-speed membrane voltage fluorescence imaging to confirm that DBS creates an informational lesion.
@NatureComms
Does it matter whether it’s a “white matter -” or “grey matter effect”? Why should it? 🤷♂️💁♂️
We are thrilled to have received a center grant to retune brain disorders using deep brain stimulation under the lead of Andrea Kühn and Jens Volkmann in Berlin & Würzburg. This means, I’m hiring, as well - follow this place for more info.
Thanks for the fantastic feedback on our paper, everyone.
We are over the moon! 💫
In case you are interested but you lack the time to read the entire thing, we wrote a one-page summary for
@NatureNeuro
that is freely available here:
Intrigued to discover more about how DBS reveals & therapeutically impacts on the dysfunctional circuits behind different brain disorders, from OCD to dystonia? 🪄🧠
So were we! Join us on this deep dive from core to cortex – now out
@NatureNeuro
:
A 🧵
Beautiful work by the Bern group essentially validating the VTA model of Lead-DBS and using it to predict DBS outcomes using tractography. Interesting side note: normative tracts superior to patient-specific.
Dear DBS colleagues – consider submitting to Deep Brain Stimulation, the newly minted official journal of the
@dbssocietyorg
!
We are positive that we can almost certainly wave publishing fee for all submissions in 2023 – don’t hesitate to reach out if in doubt. 👇👇
We’re looking for an RA and Postdoc to join our network neuromodulation (deep brain stimulation & connectomics) lab at
@MassGenBrigham
&
@harvardmed
as soon as possible!
Please reach out via email or DM and please RT for reach! Thanks!
RA post here:
Excited that I could acquire a first edition of Wendell Krieg's amazing functional neuroanatomy book – amazing foresight of visualizing tracts in 3D around 1942.
Interested in neuroimaging in the context of deep brain stimulation? Maybe this introductory chapter about the specific challenges is for you. (MRI sequences, advanced registration methods, meaningful DBS models).
w/
@simonoxen
@NingfeiL
Amazing welcome reception by the center for brain circuit therapeutics in Boston today, thanks so much
@foxmdphd
@neuromichael
et al -
@c_neudorfer
and I are beyond thrilled to start working with such an amazing group of researchers!
Great overhaul of the ever-reproduced three-loop figure by
@Bassam_Al_Fatly
for our upcoming book Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation. Added somatotopy in the motor loop! Did we make any mistakes?
Excited to see my entire newsfeed celebrating this. I think this could turn out to become the historical „NeuroImage event“ that changed publishing in the Neuro community.
@ElsevierConnect
@WileyNeuro
@SpringerNature
take note!
All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal
This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.
🎊🥳Lead-DBS v3.0 is finally out!
Read all of it in our newsletter which is currently being delivered to >7000 dear colleagues on our mailing list.
New logo, new
@BIDSstandard
, new tools, new atlases, new everything – way too many people to thank! 👏👏🎉
.
@NingfeiL
compiled the cortical, striatal, cerebellar and new thalamic 7-network atlases by
@bttyeo
and colleagues into a single atlas with presets that can be explored in 3D. With your permission thomas would include in the upcoming
@leaddbs
release!
So far probably the coolest study I've been involved in just published in
#BioPsych
. In it, Carlos Baldermann delineates a tract that – if stimulated with DBS – improves symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder. 1/n
Very excited to be the imaging side-kick on this review with two electrophysiology legends (
@AA_Kuhn
and
@neumann_wj
) where we argue that DBS should be seen as a brain circuit intervention and what we can do on multiple scales using ephys & imaging to study it! 👇👇
Our review article with
@andreashorn_
and
@AA_Kuhn
on
#deepbrainstimulation
is out in
@TrendsNeuro
today! We discuss the interaction of brain circuit alterations and DBS effects in movement disorders and share our perspective on future opportunities.
Thrilled, humbled but also intimidated by the impact of Lead-DBS since we started as a small weekend project in 2012.
Now >20k downloads, >350 citations, >3,500 amazing colleagues on our mailing list.
👏to
@NingfeiL
,
@DembekTill
,
@simonoxen
,
@oprienrico
,
@sofiari91
& many more!
At least 72 publications empowered by
@leaddbs
in 2020!
Thank you so much to this great & welcoming DBS community & for the many contributions by labs worldwide.
Thanks
@qiangwangdr
&
@sofiari91
for keeping track!
Was super honored when
@StanDehaene
asked me to contribute a picture to his book – now even more happy to receive a signed copy. Thank you! – and what a fabulous book with so many beautiful landmark contributions – A story of neuroscience in aesthetic pictures – much recommended!
Excited to serve on the editorial board of a new journal entitled “Deep Brain Stimulation” - let’s get this started 👏👏 - now accepting submissions:
Official journal of
@dbssocietyorg
Excited that
@simonoxen
’s Lead-OR toolbox paper has been published w/
@eLife
today. Much has happened till the preprint so here’s a renewed tweetorial about Lead-OR:
The first time I see my entire lab in a single space. Truly amazing moment after working across the Atlantic together on so many joint projects. Grateful for the
@dfg_public
Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize money to make this possible!
Another figure I've been working on for the upcoming connectomic DBS book I'm editing. You can almost see the compression of the convolutional neural network of the striatopallidofugal system at work in these gorgeous PLI slices by Markus Axer et al.
Amazing book from 1850 by Alfred Smee. “man is made up of a great number of voltaic elements, so arranged as to form one whole”. Human circuit with an extra layer to aggregate impressions from senses.
*Way* ahead of his time.
Via
@matthewcobb
's excellent The idea of the brain.
Just stumbled upon this post from my poster at the
@OHBM
2014 conference in Hamburg. I had sneakily pulled a coffeetable over to show Lead-DBS with a normative connectome.
This moment is special to me since here I first met
@foxmdphd
– changed my career & life forever. 🙏🙏
A bit annoyed by people being annoyed by Elon Musk. Let the guy do his thing. He’s not wasting public money. Nay-sayers have not been helpful in the history of discovery, ever. Why does our field feel threatened? This is not a race, it’s a joint endeavor - everyone can take part.
Preprint: Modulating the human functional connectome using deep brain stimulation. We scanned 20 PD patients in the fMRI while deep brain stimulation was switched on vs. off, analysed changes of the functional connectome.
@neumann_wj
@me_julez
Another gem shared w/ me by
@c_neudorfer
– drawings by Bertrand Luys (the one who first described the subthalamic nucleus). Isn’t that an amazing amount of artistic talent, clarity and beauty?
Thanks so much to
@c_neudorfer
for digging up this book by Sem-Jacobson from 1968 (!) which shows STN-DBS for PD and Cg25-DBS for Depression were pioneered in Norway, long before they became mainstream.
More about this w/
@EspenDietrichs
at
@stimbrains
:
This is amazing! The Amsterdam Ultra-high field adult lifespan database (AHEAD): A freely available multimodal 7 Tesla submillimeter magnetic resonance imaging database
Fantastic work by
@ausaf
’s group using DBS electrical stim and
@leaddbs
reconstructions to map VPM somatotopy.
Exact match with the 1979 Hassler data!
Exciting to have this group of fabulous future rockstars join me in joining the center for brain circuit therapeutics &
@netstim_org
Recruitment is done, we’re an actually lab now! 👏👍🎈🎉
Yet another beautiful paper by Clemens Neudorfer – this time on endovascular deep brain stimulation. Setting atlases from
@leaddbs
and
@ComaRecoveryLab
among others into context of the vascular system. Great win that Clemens joined our lab a few weeks ago!
First use I am aware of that
@leaddbs
was used to reconstruct cerebellar electrodes – v interesting case series (N=3) of DBS to the dentate in cerebral palsy by the Starr lab.
@iahncajigas
et al. in
@TheJNS
(thanks for sharing
@RMarkRichardson
)
Happening NOW: See how
@c_neudorfer
is translating the human transcriptome and combines it with the human connectome to explain variance in clinical improvement following deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s, OCD and Dystonia. Poster
#645
Cool new visualization concept by the Coenen group termed SPECTRE to show cortical connectivity gradients in stereotactic planning software. Match with STN subdivisions calculated by
@SiobhanEwert
in the DISTAL atlas.
Test-retest robust. 👏👏
Finally got to check out the fantastic ex-vivo dMRI dataset by
@b_tendler
&
@fmrib_karla
a bit more in detail. Such a fantastic resource – congratulations and 👏🙏🙏 for making it available!
Thanks to
@FangChengYeh
for processing tips (and DSI Studio).
One favorite moment at the
#BrainStimConf
so far - two med students from India showed me their 3D printed & hand-painted DBS model based on
@leaddbs
! Apparently they have a larger model that they’ll show at their poster -
@shivani91528083
could you tell us more when&where? 🙏
Amazing resource pushing the frontier of normative connectomes by
@MGHMartinos
(who else) led by Kawin Setsompop.
Had the privilege of testing the connectome since abt half a year and it's of excellent quality! First DBS applications in the pipeline..
Excited about this collaboration with the team at
@Baylor
@SameerShethMD
@ron_gdt
@BShofty
to the OCD-response tract by
@NingfeiL
in a blinded fashion.
I particularly like the design of the study, I think it could be fruitful to do this more in DBS -🧵