Older lab news.
Awards, talks, and publications from before October 2024. The current 18-month feed lives on the News page.
2024
Susanna Howard presents tremor-rating-scale validation work at MDS 2024.
Dr. Susanna Howard presented a poster at the International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders on the correlation between the Clinical Rating Scale for Tremor and quantitative tremor metrics in essential tremor. Co-authors include Drs. Liming Qiu, Casey Halpern, and Iahn Cajigas at Penn.
Reasons for hospitalizations and emergency department visits among patients with essential tremor — published in Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements.
Dr. Susanna Howard (first author), medical student Ellie Gabriel, and colleagues — including Drs. Liming Qiu, Casey Halpern, and Iahn Cajigas at Penn — characterized hospitalization and emergency-department patterns among patients with essential tremor, identifying high-acuity comorbidities that drive utilization in this population.
Iahn Cajigas presents brain–computer interfaces and neuromodulation for incomplete spinal cord injury at the NASS webinar.
Dr. Iahn Cajigas delivered a North American Spine Society webinar titled "Brain Computer Interfaces and Neuromodulation in the Treatment of Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury" on September 12, 2024. The talk surveyed the lab's K12-funded program (NIH K12 NS129164) on motor decoding for SCI recovery.
Pierce Davis selected as a top-three abstract at Pennsylvania Neurosurgery Society 2024.
Medical student Pierce Davis presented work on intraoperative high-density ECoG array localization, in collaboration with Precision Neuroscience, at the Pennsylvania Neurosurgery Society. The abstract was selected as third of the top ten abstracts at PNS 2024.
Iahn Cajigas chairs an accepted session on advances in spinal cord injury management at Neurotrauma 2024.
Dr. Iahn Cajigas proposed and chaired an accepted session on spinal cord injury management — covering brain–computer interface and neuromodulation approaches for SCI recovery — at the Neurotrauma 2024 conference on June 11, 2024.
Jaskeerat Gujral presents the Phase I cuneiform-nucleus DBS trial for freezing of gait at ASSFN 2024 Nashville.
Undergraduate alumna Jaskeerat Gujral (first author) presented "Stimulation of the Cuneiform Nucleus Improves Freezing of Gait in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: A Phase I Clinical Trial" at the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Biennial Meeting. Co-authors include lab member Michael Baumgartner and Drs. Liming Qiu, Casey Halpern, and Iahn Cajigas at Penn.
Min Jae Kim presents probabilistic lesion mapping of MRgFUS tremor sweetspots at ASSFN 2024.
MD–PhD candidate Min Jae Kim (first author) presented poster #132, "Characterizing Differential Tremor Sweetspots and Side Effect Sourspots Following Thalamic High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound through Probabilistic Lesion Mapping," at the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Biennial Meeting in Nashville. Co-authors include Drs. Liming Qiu, Casey Halpern, and Iahn Cajigas at Penn, with Gustavo Campos, Maya Alexis, and Daniel Barbosa.
Iahn Cajigas presents Cerebellar Deep Nuclei DBS for Acquired Dystonias in Children at the ASSFN biennial meeting.
Dr. Iahn Cajigas presented "Cerebellar Deep Nuclei DBS for Acquired Dystonias in Children" in the Pediatric Surgical Advances session at the 2024 American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) Biennial Meeting in Nashville on June 2, 2024. Co-authored with Drs. Melanie A. Morrison, Marta San Luciano, and Philip A. Starr (UCSF).
Min Jae Kim presents a focused-ultrasound dysgraphia case report at the Pennsylvania Neurosurgery Society.
MD–PhD candidate Min Jae Kim presented a case-report abstract at the Pennsylvania Neurosurgery Society on dysgraphia following thalamic high-intensity focused ultrasound, co-authored with Drs. Liming Qiu, Casey Halpern, and Iahn Cajigas.
Min Jae Kim named a 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans.
MD–PhD candidate Min Jae Kim was selected as one of 30 recipients nationwide for the 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate education. The fellowship provides up to $90,000 over two years to support his graduate studies at Penn, where his research investigates network-level mechanisms linking deep brain stimulation to cortical physiology in movement disorders.
2023
A surgical decision aid for occipital neuralgia, with literature review and single-center case series.
Dr. Susanna Howard (first author) and colleagues — including Drs. Liming Qiu and Iahn Cajigas at Penn — assembled a structured surgical decision aid for occipital neuralgia, paired with a literature review and the Penn single-center case series.
Cerebellar deep brain stimulation for the treatment of movement disorders in cerebral palsy.
Dr. Iahn Cajigas (first author), with colleagues at UCSF, reported on cerebellar deep brain stimulation as a treatment strategy for movement disorders in patients with cerebral palsy, drawing on the prior UCSF case series.
2022
The RESToRe Lab opens at Penn Neurosurgery.
The RESToRe Lab opened at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Neurosurgery on September 1, 2022, with Dr. Iahn Cajigas as principal investigator. The lab applies computational, engineering, and statistical methods to intraoperative neurophysiology — informing surgical planning, neuromodulation targets, and brain–computer interface design for movement disorders, epilepsy, and pain. // hello, world.