Quote of the #WSSFN2022 Meeting from Bart Nuttin: "It's easier in Belgium to get someone approval for euthanasia than for DBS for #OCD". Stigma is real, alive, and literally killing people.

The #Abstracts of the 19th Biennial Meeting of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery #WSSFN2022 are now online. 📝Editors: Mojgan Hodaie Mojgan Hodaie, Stephan Chabardes, Jung-Il Lee, Joseph Neimat, Ido Strauss and Hemmings Wu ➡️ow.ly/Yak550KyHTn

Congress mode on! Have a look at our posters at #wssfn2022 from our Functional Neurosurgery Lab @UKK Universität zu Köln

#mdpibrainsci A Systematic Review of Treatment Outcome Predictors in Deep Brain Stimulation for Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/7… MDPI @Scilit_MDPI #neuroscience #brain #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #OCD #DeepBrainStimulation #DBS

Very successful week in Incheon at the #wssfn2022! So proud to be part of the Cologne-Team Universität zu Köln #functionalneurosurgerylab

Submit your cutting edge AI/ML implementations in the field of DBS to this new special issue in biomedicines guest edited by Jun “John” Yu, MD MS and Joshua Wong Learn more here mdpi.com/si/132260

❓🧾❓#Survey of asleep and awake #DBS practices across the globe. Please participate and #retweet if you have a DBS-focused practice. Aiming to improve care by #stimulating #discussion about worldwide practices. ASSFN DBS Think Tank bit.ly/3QBKDeE

The DBS Think Tank X talks are now available online! If you missed the meeting, catch the recordings here fixel.ufhealth.org/research/deep-… Stay tuned with Michael Okun for the annual proceedings!

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 Ana Sofia Rios w/ lots of collaborators, we sought out to find the optimal DBS stim site & network in AD medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… A 🧵

Great conversation with V. Visser-Vandewalle who is the head of the department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at Uniklinik Köln – Past & Future of DBS for Tourette’s, Alzheimer’s and OCD! Tune in here 👇👇

#mdpibrainsci New Special Issue Open for Submission! Recent Advances in Pain Research edited by Dr. Magdalena Kocot-Kępska mdpi.com/si/138425 MDPI @Scilit_MDPI #neurology #neuroscience #brain #pain #ChronicPain #NeuropathicPain #PainManagment #AcutePain

I am just going to retweet this again, because I am so proud to be part of the team of V. Visser-Vandewalle. Such a great interview Andreas Horn

New paper out in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry on our systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrating the safety and efficacy of #DBS for treatment-resistant #OCD. Great work by co-first authors @ron_gdt and Ricardo Andrés Nájera, MD jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/…

Read the DBS Think Tank X proceedings at frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #DBS #DeepBrainStimulation #DBSSurgery #DBSThinkTank Frontiers - Neuroscience 🧵 (3/3)

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.

Very proud of Petra Heiden for winning the best presentation from the Functional Neurosurgery Section 2023 from the German Society of Neurosurgery! DBS of the ALIC/Nacc for OCD: where to modulate? AG Funktionelle Neurochirurgie Köln #functionalneurosugerylab Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie e. V. #dgnc

It was a great honor and pleasure to present our data, discuss and learn from colleagues and friends at the #ESSFN2023 Congress. Above all immensely proud of the #functionalneurosurgerylab Uniklinik Köln for the great teamwork! V. Visser-Vandewalle Petra Heiden Rene Marquez-Franco

I am very grateful, that we had the opportunity to present our data at the #ESSFN2023. It was an amazing congress. It was great to see old friends and meet many new ones. See you in Chicago! #functionalneurosurgerylab Uniklinik Köln V. Visser-Vandewalle Pablo Andrade V. Visser-Vandewalle Rene Marquez-Franco