01/05

Marom Bikson speaks at the National Institute of Health, National Institute of Aging on ““A new medical device for non-invasive neuro-modulation and therapy with very low-intensity electrical currents”.

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11/06

Marom Bikson speaks at the Creative Management of Childhood Epilepsy symposium at New York Presbyterian Hospital (brochure) on technical challenges in epilepsy detection and electrotherapy (slides).

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10/28

Varun Bansal and Abhishek Datta attend and present at the CIMIT Innovation Congress 2009 in Boston (Varun's poster).

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10/21

Asif presents his poster at the 2009 Society for Neuroscience (SfN 09) conference in Chicago:

T. Radman, A. Rahman, A. Datta, D. Reato, M. Bikson, "Low-amplitude DC electric fields induce long-term potentiation in rat motor cortex in vitro"

Some pictures from Chicago:

                       

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10/18

Two of our papers are published in Brain Stimulation. Congratulations to Abhi and team on another cover!



Radman T, Ramos RL, Brumberg JC, Bikson M. Role of cortical cell type and morphology in sub- and suprathreshold uniform electric field stimulation. Brain Stimulation. 2009; 2(4):215-228. PDF

Datta A, Bansal V, Diaz J, Patel J, Reato D, Bikson M. Gyri –precise head model of transcranial DC stimulation: Improved spatial focality using a ring electrode versus conventional rectangular pad. Brain Stimulation. 2009; 2(4):201-207. PDF

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10/12

Marom Bikson presents insights on mechanisms and technology for tDCS at the National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of Neural Disorders and Stroke.  Slides

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09/17

A picture from Davide’s birthday:

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08/27

Cell reconstructions from Tom’s upcoming paper “Role of Cortical Cell Type and Morphology in Sub- and Suprathreshold Uniform Electric Field Stimulation” posted on NeuroMorpho.Org.

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08/25

Abhi gave his second PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations Abhi!

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Electric fields can be fascinating not only when applied to the brain! In this case we can definitely call these fields supra-threshold... :D (by Joao).

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08/12

Davide gave a talk ("Effect of electric fields on gamma oscillations in brain slices") at the journal club of the Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation at the Columbia University Medical Center.

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07/31

The Journal of Medical Devices (Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2009) has published our following abstracts from the 2009 Medical Device Conference
 
1. High-Density Transcranial DC Stimulation (HD-tDCS): Targeting Software
A. Datta, V. Bansal, J. Diaz, J. Patel, L. Oliveira, D. Reato, and M. Bikson
J. Med. Devices 3, 027518 (2009)
 
2. High-Density Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS): Hardware Interface
J. Diaz, V. Bansal, A. Datta, J. Patel, and M. Bikson
J. Med. Devices 3, 027544 (2009)
 
3. High-Density Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS): Skin Safety and Comfort
J. Patel, V. Bansal, P. Minha, J. Ho, A. Datta, and M. Bikson
J. Med. Devices 3, 027533 (2009)
 
4. Temperature Control at DBS Electrodes Using Heat Sinks: Experimentally Validated FEM Model of DBS Lead Architecture
M. Elwassif, A. Datta, and M. Bikson
J. Med. Devices 3, 027534 (2009)
 
5. Intra-Operative Pulse Oximetry
L. Oliveira, E. Servais, N. Rizk, P. Adusumilli, and M. Bikson
J. Med. Devices 3, 027533 (2009)

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Marom Bikson is awarded a 2009 Wallace H. Coulter Early Career award to develop technology for non-invasive brain electrotherapy.  The Phase 1 award will support research and development at CCNY and clinical trials at the National Institute of Health.  Lucas Parra and Eric Wassermann (NIH) are co-PIs.

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Lucas Parra is awarded a DARPA grant to develop hardware and software for High-Density tDCS, including a physician-interface targeting toolbox to guide patient specific therapy. Marom Bikson is co-PI.

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Best Wishes to Jinal Patel who completed his MS in Biomedical Engineering and will be joining the Devon Robotics as a Product Specialist.

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The following orals and posters were presented at the 3rd Tinnitus Research Initiative Meeting in Stresa (Italy). Dr. Parra and Davide gave two oral presentations:

• Xiang Zhou, Simon Henin, Glenis Long, Lucas C. Parra, "Spectral Profile of Tinnitus can be Predicted from High-Resolution Audiogram and DPOAE for a Subset of Subjects" (Oral, Parra)
• Davide Reato, Marom Bikson, Lucas C. Parra, "Low Amplitude Electrical Stimulation Modulates Induced Gamma Activity in Vitro" (Oral, Davide)
• Xiang Zhou, Suzanne Thompson, Glenis Long, Lucas C. Parra, "Perception Thresholds of Pure Tone in Notched Noise Correlate with Generator Component of Distorsion Product oto-acoustic Emissions" (Poster)
• Michael Chrostowski, Suzanna Becker, Lucas C. Parra, "Oscillatory Activity and Tinnitus: A Computational Model" (Poster)

Some pictures from Stresa:

           

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Congratulations to Tom who successfully defended his PhD thesis (slides). Some pictures:

       

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Tom defends his PhD:

Thomas Radman, "Neural Targets of Electric Field Stimulation", Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

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Our comment on tDCS safety has been published:

Bikson M, Datta A, Elwassif M. Establishing safety limits for transcranial direct current stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology. 2009; 120:1033-1034. pdf

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Dr. Bikson and Davide present at the 4th International Workshop on Seizure Workshop in Kansas City:

• Modulation Seizure Permissive States With Weak Electric Fields (talk, slides)
• Low-amplitude electric fields modulate the dynamics of a neuronal network oscillating at gamma frequencies (poster)

Some pictures:

       

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Congratulations to Abhi and Tom, conference proceeding accepted International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'09) to be held in Minneapolis, 2nd - 6th September 2009

• Thomas Radman, Abhishek Datta, Marom Bikson, “One-dimensional representation of a neuron in a uniform electric field”
• Abhishek Datta, “Bio-heat Transfer Model of Transcranial DC Stimulation: Comparison of Conventional Pad versus Ring Electrode”

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Welcome Asif Rahman, who joins the Neural Engineering group with a BS in Biomedical Engineering (CCNY) and experience working for Fortunato Battaglia (mechanisms of TMS) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (medical devices).

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Wishes to Julian Diaz, who earned his BS in EE (BME concentration) and is going on to work at Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Division Newport, Rhode island

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Dr. Bikson spoke on “Towards Individualized tDCS Therapy: Biophysical Insights and High-Density Technology” at the Beth Israel / Harvard Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation.



Watch a movie of the high-density tDCs model (pad, 4x1) or a movie of the software to simulate high-density tDCs electrotherapy.

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Davide's abstract has been accepted for a poster at the Fourth International Workshop on Seizure Prediction, Kansas City, June 2009:
Davide Reato, Lucas C. Parra, Marom Bikson, "Low-amplitude electric fields modulate the dynamics of a neuronal network oscillating at gamma frequencies"

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Some pictures of a nice lab picnic:

                       

           

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Some pictures from the 2009 Design of Medical Devices Conference in Minneapolis:

                   

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Tom's paper has been accepted by Brain Stimulation.
Thomas Radman, Raddy L Ramos, Joshua C Brumberg, Marom Bikson, "Role of Cortical Cell Type and Morphology in Sub- and Suprathreshold Uniform Electric Field Stimulation"

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Congratulations to Neural Engineering alum Je Hi An who received a prestigious NSF fellowship to continue her research at Duke University BME (link).

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Abhi's paper has been accepted by Brain Stimulation.
Abhishek Datta, Varun Bansal, Julian Diaz, Jinal Patel, Davide Reato, Marom Bikson, "Gyri-precise head model of transcranial DC stimulation: Improved spatial focality using a ring electrode versus conventional rectangular pad"

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Xiang and Dr. Parra's work on speech recognition featured on CNN
"Talking in person better": CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a study performed at Dr. Parra's laboratory showing that communication works better face to face.
For more information click here.

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Davide's abstract has been accepted.
Davide Reato, Lucas C. Parra, Marom Bikson, "Modulating seizure-permissive states with weak electric fields", Fourth International Workshop on Seizure Prediction, Kansas City, June 2009.

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February 2009

Dr. Bikson will present a talk, "High-Density Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (HD-tES)", at the upcoming 2009 Design of Medical Devices Conference in Minneapolis.
The following abstracts will be also presented for the conference:

• Abhishek Datta et al., "High-Density Transcranial DC Stimulation (HD-tDCS): Targeting Software". pdf
• Julian Diaz et al., "High-density Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS) : Hardware Interface". pdf
• Jinal Patel et al., "High-density Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS): Skin Safety and Comfort". pdf
• Maged Elwassif et al., "Temperature Control at DBS Electrodes Using Heat Sink: Experimentally Validated FEM Model of DBS Lead Architecture".  pdf
• Luiz C. Oliveira et al., "Intra-Operative Pulse Oximetry"

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October 2008

June 2008