Lectures’ program
Friday May 15, 2026
8.45-9.00 Opening and welcome words (organizers)
Presentation each 25 min. duration and 5 min. for discussion!
9.00-9.30. Paradigm shift in surgery for movement disorders?…again!!??
(Marwan Hariz)
9.30-10.00 Decoding pain modulation by DBS in Parkinson’s disease
(Abdelhamid Benazzouz)
10.00-10.30 Emerging Advances in Functional Neurosurgery
(Andres M Lozano)
10.30-11.00 Patients’ selection for DBS (Parkinson’s disease+ dystonia + tremor)
(Maria Fiorella Contarino)
11.00. -11.30 Coffee break
11.-12.00. Long term outcomes in Parkinson’s disease
(Elena Moro)
12.30-13.00 Advanced DBS programming
(Patricia Limousin)
13.00-13.30 Reawakening Circuits: Centromedian-Thalamic Network Stimulation for
Seizure Control and Restoration of Consciousness
(John Rolston )
13.30-14.00 Failures of deep brain stimulation - how to avoid them and what to do?
(Joachim K. Krauss)
14.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-15.30 DBS and cognition in Parkinson’s disease
(Matej Skorvanek)
15.30-16.00 Comparison of invasive methods in Parkinson’s disease
(Maja Trost)
16.00-16.30 MRI-guided DBS
(Saman Vinke)
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.00 Flash presentations
Each presentation 8 min. duration 2 min. discussions. (10 presentations)
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Presentation each 25 min. duration and 5 min. for discussion!
9.00-9.30 Zona Incerta Surgery in Treatment of Movement Disorders
(Ali Savas)
9.30-10.00 DBS in dystonia
(Vladimira Vuletic)
10.00-10.30 Deep brain stimulation for other neurological and psychiatric disorders -
current challenges and future directions
(Dejan Georgijev)
10.30-11.00 Patient-specific 7 Tesla motor STN identification to optimize DBS outcome
(Pepjin van den Munckhof)
11.00-11.30 33 years of travel from pallidotomy to DBS and the meaning of transfer of
knowledge among MD
(Darko Chudy)
11.30-11.40 Coffee break
11.40-15.00 Flash presentations and hands- on courses
15.00 -16.00 Lunch
16.-18.00 Young researchers’ e-posters
COURSE DIRECTORS
- Prof. Darko Chudy, MD, PhD, Medical faculty University of Zagreb, Department of neurosurgery, UH Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
- Prof.Vladimira Vuletic, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, UHC Rijeka, Medical faculty University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
- Prof. Elena Moro,MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neurological Rehabilitation and Forensic Medicine, Chair Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble, France
- Prof. John David Rolston, MD, PhD, Director of Epilepsy Surgery, Director of the Mapping & Engineering Neural Dynamics (MEND) Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Professor Patricia Limousin, MD, PhD, Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
SPEAKERS
- Professor Abdelhamid Benazzouz, PhD, IMN – Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives – Université de Bordeaux Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine – France, Bordeaux, France
- Decoding pain modulation by DBS in Parkinson’s disease
- Professor Darko Chudy, MD, PhD, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb,
- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
- 33 years of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in Croatia – Journey through Challenges and Achievements
- Professor Maria Fiorella Contarino, MD PhD, Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Neurology, Haga Teaching Hospital, The Hague, The Netherlands
- Patients’ selection for DBS (Parkinson’s disease+ dystonia + tremor)
- Professor Dejan Georgiev, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- “Deep brain stimulation for other neurological and psychiatric disorders - current challenges and future directions”
- Professor Marwan Hariz, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery Norrlands University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
- Paradigm shift in surgery for movement disorders?…again!!??
- Professor Joachim K. Krauss, MD, PhD, Chairman and Director of Department of Neurosurgery MHH, Hannover, Germany
- Failures of deep brain stimulation - how to avoid them and what to do?
- Professor Patricia Limousin, MD, PhD, Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
- Advanced DBS programming
- Professor Andres M Lozano, M.D. Ph.D., Alan and Susan Hudson Cornerstone Chair in Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada
- Emerging Advances in Functional Neurosurgery
- Professor Elena Moro,MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neurological Rehabilitation and Forensic Medicine, Chair Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble, France
- Long term outcomes in Parkinson’s disease
- Professor Pepjin van den Munckhof, M.D. Ph.D. Department of neurosurgery, University Medical Centar Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Patient-specific 7 Tesla motor STN identification to optimize DBS outcome
- Professor John Rolston, MD PhD Director of the Mapping &EngineeringNeural Dynamics (MEND) Lab Department of neurosurgery Brigham & Women's Hospital Boston United States of America
- Reawakening Circuits: Centromedian-Thalamic Network Stimulation for Seizure Control and Restoration of Consciousness
- Professor Ali Savas, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, 06230, Turkey
- Zona Incerta Surgery in Treatment of Movement Disorders
- Professor Matej Skorvanek MD, PhD, Department of Neurology and Center for Rare Movement Disorders, Faculty of Medicine, P. J. Safarik University and University Hospital L. Pasteur, Kosice, Slovak Republic
- DBS and cognition in Parkinson's disease
- Professor Maja Trošt, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Comparison of invasive methods in Parkinson's disease
- Professor Saman Vinke, MD. PhD, Neurosurgeon at Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen
- Imaging the Future: MRI-Guided Innovations in Deep Brain Stimulation
- Professor Vladimira Vuletic, MD, PhD , Department of Neurology, UHC Rijeka, Medical faculty University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
- DBS in dystonia
You can certainly present your center's research or the works of young colleagues as part of flash presentations and e-posters. When registering, they just need to click on an abstract and then the organisation board will choose which ones are for oral presentations and which ones are for e-posters.