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2025年02月21日

Tuning Depression Circuits: Insights from studies of Deep Brain Stimulation

日 時 2025年02月21日(金) 15:30 より 16:30 まで
講演者 Helen Mayberg
講演者所属 Director, Center of Advanced Circuit Therapeutics
Professor,Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and AI & Human Health
Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
場 所 生理学研究所 明大寺地区実験棟1階 セミナー室A/B
お問い合わせ先 竹村 浩昌 (htakemur@nips.ac.jp)
要旨
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), the targeted modulation of discrete neural circuits using implanted electrodes, is an experimental treatment strategy for patients with intractable depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders. While various brain targets are being investigated, progress to optimize and refine DBS to the subcallosal cingulate region (SCC) for depression has continued to evolve and mature, with a growing focus on multimodal readouts to guide clinical decisions over time.  Enabled by advances in device technology and supported by animal models, recent studies are now implementing combined multimodal imaging with dense time-series electrophysiological and naturalistic behavioral data to track the trajectory of treatment response and characterize circuit plasticity and repair during acute and chronic stimulation.  The use of these complementary perspectives is yielding a more cohesive understanding of disease pathophysiology and DBS mechanisms of actions with implications beyond depression.