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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral intermediate (VIM) nucleus of the thalamus is an approved treatment for essential tremor, and is typically performed using intraoperative neurophysiologic confirmation, requiring the patient to remain awake throughout the surgery. Recently, DBS placement...

BIDMC is preparing to launch a new clinical trial of stem cell transplant to augment stroke recovery. We anticipate being able to provide more information in the coming months. See this paper from 2016 for reference.

Clinical electrical stimulation systems are increasingly common therapeutic options to treat a broad range of medical conditions, such as cardioverter-defibrillators, pacemakers, spinal cord stimulators, and deep brain stimulators. Despite their remarkable success, a significant limitation of these...

Dr. Aronson is the Primary Investigator of the laboratory and serves as an attending neurosurgeon and Director of Epilepsy Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has an appointment as Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the Massachusetts...

​​The TRANSCEND Study is a prospective, multi-center, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial. It ai​ms to study the effectiveness and safety of bilateral stimulation of the subcallosal cingulate white matter (SCCwm) using the Abbott Infinity Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) system as an...

Neurotransmitter sensing is important for both fundamental understanding and clinical treatment of many diseases and conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and drug addiction, which not only create a huge economic burden in our society but also induce...

Epilepsy affects more than 3 million people in the United States. Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common epilepsy syndrome of adults accounting for approximately 60% of all epilepsy cases. One-third of epilepsy patients are drug-resistant, defined as failure to adequately respond to at...

High density electrocorticography has shown promise as a diagnostic and prognostication tool in specific neurological conditions. Existing approaches to decoding motor, sensory, and speech signals for brain-computer interface currently rely on invasive electrodes that penetrate the pia matter. This...