Translational neurosurgery for movement, epilepsy, and pain.
Computational, engineering, and statistical methods applied to intraoperative neurophysiology — to inform surgical planning, neuromodulation, and brain computer interface design.
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A translational research lab in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery.
The RESToRe Lab uses computational, engineering, and statistical methods to analyze electrophysiological data — assisting with surgical planning, developing novel neurologic targets for neuromodulation, and understanding the neural control of movement to restore function after neurologic injury.
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Plain-language guides to the conditions we treat — movement disorders, epilepsy, pain, and stroke recovery — with how to be referred and what to expect at your first visit.
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The lab's research program — neurodynamics of movement, brain computer interfaces, neuromodulation for epilepsy, and pain — with publications, software, and open positions.
Research areas →Three clinical areas, one translational program.
Movement disorders
Intraoperative neurophysiology during awake DBS for Parkinson's disease and essential tremor. Imaging-guided directional DBS, focused ultrasound for tremor, and early work on cerebellar DBS for cerebral palsy.
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Epilepsy
Stereo-EEG recordings to characterize seizure onset zones, including thalamic SEEG and quantitative biomarkers such as neural fragility. Long-term outcomes of laser interstitial thermal therapy for mesial temporal epilepsy.
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Pain & neuromodulation
Surgical management of refractory pain and applications of closed-loop neuromodulation, including ongoing work on treatment-resistant depression workup with stereo-EEG.
Research →What's new in the lab.
The most recent confirmed activity. Filterable feed at news.
Min Jae Kim presents STN-DBS effects on motor cortex and cortico-basal ganglia connectivity at AANS.
MD–PhD candidate Min Jae Kim presented a rapid-fire oral abstract at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) Annual Meeting on how subthalamic-nucleus deep brain stimulation modulates microscale motor …
Read on news →Pedro Borges leads a preprint on microscale organization of the human motor homunculus.
Drs. Iahn Cajigas, Bijan Pesaran, Casey Halpern, and colleagues (including Drs. Liming Qiu, Michael Beauchamp, and Daniel Yoshor) report new findings on the microscale organization and separability of upper-extremity …
Read on Research Square →Bowen Wang submits master's thesis on single-hemisphere bimanual decoding for motor brain–computer interfaces.
Master's student Bowen Wang submitted his Penn Bioengineering M.S.E. thesis, "Single-Hemisphere Decoding of Bimanual Hand Movement: Implications for Motor Brain-Computer Interfaces." The work spans a Miami chronic …
Read on news →NIH K12 Neurosurgeon Research Career Development Program · Michael J. Fox Foundation · Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation.
Primary collaborators include Dr. Bijan Pesaran (Brain Machine Interface Systems Lab), Dr. Michael Beauchamp (Beauchamp Lab — multisensory integration and visual perception), and Dr. Casey Halpern (Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Halpern Lab).