Causal mapping of human brain function

SH Siddiqi, KP Kording, J Parvizi, MD Fox - Nature reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Mapping human brain function is a long-standing goal of neuroscience that promises to
inform the development of new treatments for brain disorders. Early maps of human brain …

New and emerging approaches to treat psychiatric disorders

KW Scangos, MW State, AH Miller, JT Baker… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders are highly prevalent, often devastating diseases that negatively impact
the lives of millions of people worldwide. Although their etiological and diagnostic …

Closed-loop neuromodulation in an individual with treatment-resistant depression

KW Scangos, AN Khambhati, PM Daly, GS Makhoul… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Deep brain stimulation is a promising treatment for neuropsychiatric conditions such as
major depression. It could be optimized by identifying neural biomarkers that trigger therapy …

Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease

SH Siddiqi, FL Schaper, A Horn, J Hsu… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Damage to specific brain circuits can cause specific neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Therapeutic stimulation to these same circuits may modulate these symptoms. To determine …

The multifaceted role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in emotion, decision making, social cognition, and psychopathology

J Hiser, M Koenigs - Biological psychiatry, 2018 - Elsevier
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) has been implicated in a variety of social,
cognitive, and affective functions that are commonly disrupted in mental illness. In this …

State-dependent responses to intracranial brain stimulation in a patient with depression

KW Scangos, GS Makhoul, LP Sugrue, EF Chang… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Deep brain stimulation is a promising treatment for severe depression, but lack of efficacy in
randomized trials raises questions regarding anatomical targeting. We implanted multi-site …

Subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: a multisite, randomised, sham-controlled trial

PE Holtzheimer, MM Husain, SH Lisanby… - The Lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subcallosal cingulate white matter has
shown promise as an intervention for patients with chronic, unremitting depression. To test …

Connectivity predicts deep brain stimulation outcome in P arkinson disease

A Horn, M Reich, J Vorwerk, N Li, G Wenzel… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The benefit of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson disease (PD) may
depend on connectivity between the stimulation site and other brain regions, but which …

Distinct symptom-specific treatment targets for circuit-based neuromodulation

SH Siddiqi, SF Taylor, D Cooke… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Treatment of different depression symptoms may require different brain
stimulation targets with different underlying brain circuits. The authors sought to identify such …

How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain

LF Barrett - Pan Macmillan, 2017 - books.google.com
'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood
and turned my understanding upside down'–Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point …