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.
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.
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 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.