The School of Medicine proudly presents our next speaker in the

DEAN’S DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR SERIES

HELEN MAYBERG, MD

Professor, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Neuroscience,

and AI & Human Health

Director, Center of Advanced Circuit Therapeutics

Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Please join us as she presents her lecture: 

“Recovery is Not Linear: Implications for Optimizing DBS for Depression”

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an experimental treatment strategy for patients with intractable depression. Ongoing research continues to make steady progress, with implementation of refined techniques for surgical targeting and emerging clues as to which patients are most likely to benefit. Close clinical monitoring and systematic long-term follow-up combined with novel rehabilitative strategies has provided additional perspectives on the time course, trajectory and sustainability of DBS-mediated effects. Technology innovations now also allow ongoing brain activity monitoring enabling the characterization of this chronology at the neural level. These experimental studies offer a unique opportunity to link first person experiences to changes in brain state towards a more comprehensive understanding of illness and recovery. 

PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LECTURE TIME

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 – 3-4pm

Hensel Phelps West Auditorium – Research Complex 1 North

Reception in the first-floor atrium immediately following.