Carina Oehrn, MD, PhD
Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD
Carina Oehrn / Helen Bronte-Stewart
For our April session, we hosted Carina Oehrn and Helen Bronte-Stewart on Thursday.
Carina Oehrn, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC Davis and a cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on the neural basis of cognitive and affective symptoms in Parkinson’s disease. Her work leverages intracranial recordings and adaptive deep brain stimulation to investigate basal ganglia and cortical circuits and develop closed-loop therapies targeting non-motor symptoms. The title of her talk will be “Expanding DBS applications from motor to cognitive symptoms in Parkinson’s disease.”
Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD, is a Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University and a movement disorders specialist whose research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying abnormal movement in Parkinson’s disease. Her work integrates quantitative motor analysis, electrophysiology, and closed-loop deep brain stimulation, and has led to pioneering clinical trials using adaptive neurostimulation for gait impairment and freezing of gait. The title of her talk will be “Addressing unmet needs in Neuromodulation in Parkinson’s disease.”
