News
This section will list recent and future items involving the Center and Center personnel, including new achievements, visitors, lectures, courses and workshops, appointments, awards, community opportunities, upcoming events and more.
Information session for medical students with interests in Adaptive Neurotechnologies who are applying for residency in neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Drs. Brunner, PhD, Leuthardt, MD, and Willie, MD, PhD are hosting an information session for medical students with interests in Adaptive Neurotechnologies who are applying for residency in neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine.
Epilepsy Monitoring Unit expands at St. Louis Children's Hospital
Saturday, October 1, 2022
NCAN TR&D3 co-leaders Dr. Jon Willie, MD, PhD and Peter Brunner, PhD, together with their collaborators at SLCH, Drs. Tom Foutz, MD, PhD, John Zempel, MD, PhD, Jarod Roland, MD, and Sean McEvoy, MD are developing Adaptive Neurotechnologies to improve diagnosis, treatment and therapy in patients affected by intractable epilepsy. The Epilepsy-Monitoring Unit (EMU) at the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at St.
Drs. Brunner, Miller and Worrell were awarded with an NIH/NINDS U01 grant to 4-year NIH/NINDS U01 grant to develop 'An Ecosystem of Technology and Protocols for Adaptive Neuromodulation Research in Humans.'
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Dr. Peter Brunner, PhD at the Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and his joint-PIs Dr. Kai Miller and Greg Worrell at the Mayo Clinic are the recipients of an 4-year NIH/NINDS U01 grant for developing 'An Ecosystem of Technology and Protocols for Adaptive Neuromodulation Research in Humans.'
Dr. Jon Willie was awarded an AES seed grant to investigate novel biomarkers to improve centromedian nucleus of thalamus stimulation
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Dr. Jon Willie, MD, PhD at the Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is the recipient of an AES Seed Grant for 'Novel biomarkers to improve centromedian nucleus of thalamus stimulation. His collaborators on this project are Drs. Peter Brunner, Katie Bullinger, Thomas Foutz, Robert Gross and Svjetlana Miocinovic.
Dr. Tao Xie was awarded with a two-year grant from the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience to investigate “Dynamics and Causal Functions of Amygdala-Mediated Fear Extinction Learning and Recall in Humans
Monday, May 23, 2022
Dr. Xie at the Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is the recipient of a two-year grant from the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience to investigate “Dynamics and Causal Functions of Amygdala-Mediated Fear Extinction Learning and Recall in Humans” in patients implanted with SEEG electrodes.
IpsiHand stroke-recovery device named product of year by science society
Monday, December 13, 2021
Multidisciplinary Washington University research led to device’s development.
The IpsiHand, an innovative stroke-recovery device that helps stroke patients recover significant arm and hand function by retraining their brains, has received the 2021 Pantheon Product of the Year Award from California Life Sciences.
Seminar Announcement : August 24, 2021
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Drs. Peter Brunner and Eric Leuthardt were awarded with a two-year grant from the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience.
Friday, July 23, 2021
Drs. Peter Brunner and Eric Leuthardt were awarded with a two-year grant from the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience to investigate “Neural mechanisms underlying transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation."
Seminar Announcement : July 20, 2021
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Collaborator named as the 2021 recipient of the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Allied Health Professional research Award of ASIA
Monday, July 19, 2021
Blair Dellenbach, an occupational therapist in Dr. Aiko Thompson's EPOC lab at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has been named as the 2021 recipient of the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Allied Health Professional research Award of ASIA. Dellenbach will receive $25,000 to fund her study, "Can increasing MEP size improve upper extremity motor function in individuals with SCI?"