WSSFN – World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
WSSFN – World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
The topic for this webinar will be “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Applications in Neuromodulation, Perioperative monitoring and Neurorestoration”. Speakers will talk about the concept, physiology and potential advantages of using TMS in evaluation and managing various conditions. Techniques, technology and the physiological basis of it will be discussed. Recent published data, as well as their center’s experience with this emerging technology will also be debated. This session will be moderated with time for questions at the end of each talk.
Speakers
Prof. J. Rothwell
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
London, UK
> TMS: Basics and management of movement disorders
Prof. S. F. Taylor, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Chair for Research and Research Regulatory Affairs University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry Rachel Upjohn Building
Michigan, USA
> Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Applications in psychiatry
Prof. D. De Ridder, MD, PhD
University of Otago · Department of Surgical Sciences
Dunedin, New Zealand
> TMS: Managing tinnitus
Prof. L. Oberman
Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Department of Neurology
Washington DC, USA
> Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Applications in Autism spectrum disease
Prof. F. Vergani MD, PhD, FRCS (SN)
Consultant Neurosurgeon
King’s College Hospital
London, UK
> TMS: Experience and use of peri-operative functional mapping in cerebral lesions
Moderated by Dr Nico Enslin
Consultant neurosurgeon
Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Constantiaberg
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa