epilepsy
VISE Fall Seminar with Hal Blumenfeld, MD, PhD 12.1.22
Nov. 16, 2022—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Hal Blumenfeld, MD, PhD Loughridge Williams Professor Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC) Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery Yale University School of Medicine Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Stimulation of...
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 7.21.22
Jul. 8, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Lucas Sainburg (BME), PhD Candidate and Emelina Vienneau (BME) PhD Candidate Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Speaker #1: Lucas Sainburg, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Effects of temporal lobe epilepsy and surgical treatment on functional MRI...
VISE affiliate Graham Johnson awarded prestigious individual predoctoral fellowship
Oct. 4, 2021—Graham Johnson, a biomedical engineering MD-PhD student and VISE affiliate, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Johnson works with his mentor Dario Englot, MD, in the Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology (BIEN) Lab. Englot, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery,...
New $2 million NIH grant advances less invasive procedure for TLE
Feb. 18, 2021—A Vanderbilt research team has received a $2 million National Institutes of Health grant to further develop a needle-size robotic surgery system with real-time MRI guidance for drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
New imaging approach could clarify scope of network perturbations
Apr. 16, 2020—Dario Englot, M.D., surgical director of epilepsy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Catie Chang, Ph.D., assistant professor at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering are embarking on a novel imaging study to characterize seizure-induced differences in functional brain connectivity of patients with epilepsy, with special attention on mTLE.
VISE affiliates receive R01 grant aimed to predict treatment response in epilepsy patients
Mar. 14, 2019—With the aid of $2.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Vanderbilt researchers are on a quest to develop early biomarkers of treatment outcomes for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy based on their individual brain networks.
VISE affiliates awarded $2.5 million NIH grant for epilepsy project
Nov. 15, 2018—A team of Vanderbilt University engineers and surgeons were recently awarded a five-year, $2.5 million National Institutes of Health R01 grant to continue research into epilepsy-related seizures and brain networks. Victoria Morgan, associate professor of radiology and radiological sciences, is the principal investigator. Bennett Landman, associate professor of electrical engineering and Dario Englot, assistant professor...
Hernán González, VISE trainee, awarded Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31)
Sep. 25, 2018—VISE trainee and biomedical engineering MD-Ph.D. student Hernán González is among those awarded a prestigious fellowship from The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The fellowship González received is given to support the research training of exceptional pre-doctoral students. Award recipients receive up to five years of research training support leading to a PhD...
VISE affiliates team up with multiple collaborators to investigate brainstem connectivity in epilepsy
Jun. 5, 2018—New research from Vanderbilt suggests that repeated seizures reduce brainstem connectivity, a possible contributor to unexplained neurocognitive problems in epilepsy patients
BIEN Lab wins three awards at NANS 2018
Jan. 22, 2018—The BIEN Lab was honored three times during this year’s North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) Annual Meeting. Dr. Dario Englot, assistant professor of neurological surgery, radiology and radiological sciences, and biomedical engineering, won the prestigious Kumar New Investigator Award for his paper titled, “Altered structural and functional connectivity of brainstem arousal centers in temporal lobe...
VISE neurosurgeon awarded NIH R00 grant for epilepsy research
Jul. 28, 2017—Dario Englot, assistant professor of neurological surgery and biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt, was recently awarded an R00 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study brain networks in epilepsy, and how surgery may help improve brain function. This competitive award, an R00 grant, is part of the NIH Pathway to Independence program to help...
Spring Seminar: Dario Englot, M.D., Ph.D.
Feb. 28, 2017—Dario Englot, MD, PhD, Fellow and Clinical Instructor in Functional Neurosurgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, March 2, 2017 Time: 12:15pm lunch, 12:20pm start Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Brain network disturbances in surgical epilepsy: Integrating electrophysiology and neuroimaging techniques Abstract: Epilepsy is a common and debilitating neurological disorder that...
Fall Seminar: Ashwini D. Sharan, MD FACS
Nov. 4, 2016—Speaker: Ashwini D. Sharan, MD FACS President of North American Neuromodulation Society President Elect of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Professor of Neurosurgery Program Director Division Chief for EN2 Epilepsy and Neuromodulation Neurosurgery Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience Thomas Jefferson University Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016 Time: 12:05 start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326...
Tennessean article: Neurotargeting uses data to combat neurological disorders
Jul. 8, 2016—A Vanderbilt University neurosurgeon and two Vanderbilt engineers have launched a medical database that they hope will have a significant impact on addressing neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.