Thursday | February 27, 2025 | 3:00 pm PST
Analyzing Networks in the Brain and its Clinical Neuromodulation Implications.
This exclusive online event promises to be an eye-opener for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of brain health and the powerful tools we have to optimize it.
Dirk DeRidder will discuss: Analyzing Networks in the Brain and its Clinical Neuromodulation Implications.
About Dirk:
Dirk DeRidder is professor of Neurosurgery at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago in New Zealand and co-runs a private neuromodulation clinic in Belgium. He is also associated with Manipal University in India, Trinity College in Dublin, and teaches at the University of Bonn in Germany. His research is based on 2 pillars: 1. Network science, in which any symptom is the emergent property of a changed network, and 2. the Bayesian brain concept, i.e. considering the brain as a predictive machine that updates its predictions by active exploration of the environment through the senses, as a way to reduce the inherent uncertainty in a changing environment. Phantom percepts are seen as a maladaptive network phenomena due to deficient updating resultant from sensory deafferentation.
His main research interest is the understanding and treatment of phantom perceptions (tinnitus, pain), especially by use of functional imaging navigated non-invasive (TMS, tDCS, tACS, tRNS, LORETA neurofeedback) and invasive (implants) neuromodulation techniques. The approach to unravel phantom percepts is by developing an understanding of commonalities in different diseases such as in thalamocortical dysrhythmias (pain, tinnitus, Parkinson disease, depression, slow wave epilepsy) and reward deficiency syndromes (addiction, OCD, Personality disorders, …) He has developed “burst” and “noise” stimulation as novel stimulation designs for implants, and is currently working on multifocal or network stimulation, as well as reconditioning stimulation. He has written more than 50 book chapters and more than 320 pubmed listed journal articles. This has resulted in a Google Scholar H-index of 82, with more than 27,000 citations and an i10 index of 300.
This session will be recorded.