Session Title: Insights at the Intersection of Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging

Description: Our fundamental understanding of the neural circuit dysfunction responsible for most cognitive and behavioral symptoms lags a recent explosion in knowledge regarding simpler, homeostatic circuits. Intracranial recordings, direct brain stimulation, and other electrophysiologic approaches provide valuable insights that complement results of functional neuroimaging, lesion analysis, and small-animal experiments. This intersection of knowledge from complementary approaches holds great potential for future advances in Behavioral Neurology. This symposium includes neuroscientists and neurologists working at the forefront of these areas, with an emphasis on fascinating and fundamentally new insights gleaned from recordings and stimulation of brain regions that may be central to our future understanding and treatment of behavioral symptoms.

Chair: Joel Geerling, MD, PhD, University of Iowa

Co-Chair: Ryan Darby, MD, Vanderbilt University

Objective(s): 

• Following this session, learners will appreciate key, new discoveries that are fundamentally important to understanding brain functions central to Behavioral Neurology
• Learners will emerge with an enhanced understanding that better prepares them to integrate future information for a more complete understanding of brain function relevant to Behavioral Neurology

Presentations:

Studying the Human Brain with Direct Cortical and Subcortical Recordings and Electrical Stimulation

Speaker:

Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD

Stanford University

Insights Into Human Cognition from Intracranial Recording

Speaker:

Robert Knight, MD

University of California Berkeley

Studying Cortical Function with Human Intracranial Electrophysiology

Speaker:

Nigel Pederson, MBBS

Emory University

The Orbitofrontal Cortex and Emotional Disorders

Speaker:

Edmund Rolls, MA, DPhil, DSc, Hon DSc

University of Warwick