Improved efficacy of temporally non-regular deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease

DT Brocker, BD Swan, DA Turner, RE Gross… - Experimental …, 2013 - Elsevier
High frequency deep brain stimulation is an effective therapy for motor symptoms in Parkinson's
disease. However, the relative clinical efficacy of regular versus non-regular temporal …

Principles of electrical stimulation of neural tissue

DT Brocker, WM Grill - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2013 - Elsevier
Deep brain stimulation is a remarkable therapy that has mainstreamed electrical stimulation
of the brain for the treatment of neurological dysfunction. To appreciate the mechanisms of …

Optimized temporal pattern of brain stimulation designed by computational evolution

DT Brocker, BD Swan, RQ So, DA Turner… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Brain stimulation is a promising therapy for several neurological disorders, including
Parkinson’s disease. Stimulation parameters are selected empirically and are limited to the …

A biophysical model of the cortex-basal ganglia-thalamus network in the 6-OHDA lesioned rat model of Parkinson's disease

K Kumaravelu, DT Brocker, WM Grill - Journal of computational …, 2016 - Springer
Electrical stimulation of sub-cortical brain regions (the basal ganglia), known as deep brain
stimulation (DBS), is an effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Chronic high …

[HTML][HTML] Evoked potentials reveal neural circuits engaged by human deep brain stimulation

SL Schmidt, DT Brocker, BD Swan, DA Turner, WM Grill - Brain stimulation, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective therapy for reducing the motor
symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, but the mechanisms of action of DBS and neural correlates of …

Measurement of evoked potentials during thalamic deep brain stimulation

AR Kent, BD Swan, DT Brocker, DA Turner, RE Gross… - Brain stimulation, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS) treats the symptoms of several movement
disorders, but optimal selection of stimulation parameters remains a challenge. The evoked …

Short pauses in thalamic deep brain stimulation promote tremor and neuronal bursting

BD Swan, DT Brocker, JD Hilliard, SB Tatter… - Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective We conducted intraoperative measurements of tremor during DBS containing short
pauses (⩽50 ms) to determine if there is a minimum pause duration that preserves tremor …

Beta frequency oscillations in the subthalamic nucleus are not sufficient for the development of symptoms of parkinsonian bradykinesia/akinesia in rats

CB Swan, DJ Schulte, DT Brocker, WM Grill - eneuro, 2019 - eneuro.org
Substantial correlative evidence links the synchronized, oscillatory patterns of neural activity
that emerge in Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the beta (β) frequency range (13–30 Hz) with …

Patterned low-frequency deep brain stimulation induces motor deficits and modulates cortex-basal ganglia neural activity in healthy rats

CS Oza, DT Brocker, CE Behrend… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective therapy for movement disorders, including
Parkinson’s disease (PD), although the mechanisms of action remain unclear. Abnormal …

Effects of ramped-frequency thalamic deep brain stimulation on tremor and activity of modeled neurons

BD Swan, DT Brocker, RE Gross, DA Turner… - Clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective We conducted intraoperative measurements of tremor to quantify the effects of
temporally patterned ramped-frequency DBS trains on tremor. Methods Seven patterns of …