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. 

(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 Sattelite Symposia - Boston Scientific

“It’s About Time: A New Era of DBS with 16-Contact Directional Leads Powered by Illumina 3D Programming”

(Saman Vinke)

17:00-17.30 Coffee break

 

17.30-18.30 Flash presentations

Each presentation 8 min. duration 2 min. discussions. (10 presentations)

17.30-17.40 "The application of smart footwear in gait rehabilitation for patients with Parkinson’s Disease”

Katarina Ajdukovic i Denis Volaric

 

17.40-17.50 "The Importance of Psychological Assessment in Evaluating Candidacy for Deep Brain Stimulation: A Case Study"

Adriana Klaric, Ines Toric

 

17.50-18.00 "Deep brain stimulation impact on occupational functioning in Parkinson's disease"

Marija Bortiek

 

18.00-18.10 "Deep Brain Stimulation as a Motor Learning Amplifier: Physiotherapy as a Bridge to a New Normal"

Marijan Masic

 

18.10-18.20 "Physical therapy in DBS pacients - case report"

Gabrijela Kovacic i Lucija Rajnovic

 

18.20-18.30 “Balancing Motor Benefits and Communication Outcomes in DBS”

Jelena Hauser

 

 

 

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Presentation each 25 min. duration and 5 min. for discussion!

9.00-9.30 DBS in disorder of consciousness

(Marina Raguž)

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)

11.30-12.00 The Parallel Path: Establishing a DBS Center and Training in Functional Neurosurgery

(Fadi Almahariq)

12.00-12.10 Coffee break

12.10-15.00 Flash presentations and hands-on courses

Each presentation 8 min. duration 2 min. discussions. (10 presentations)

12.10-12.20 "Deep Brain Stimulation in the Treatment of Essential Tremor A Case Report"

Romana Brnic Andric

 

12.20-12.30 "Six-month follow-up of a Parkinson's disease patient treated with adaptive deep brain stimulation"

Mario Hero

 

12.30-12.40 "Deep brain stimulation in GNB1-related dystonia: a case report and literature review"

Gloria Rozmaric

 

12.40-12.50 "Sucessful treatment of genetic dystonia with directional DBS : case series"

Nadja Grozdanić

 

12.50-13.00 "Functional neurological disorders after DBS"

Elisa Papic

 

13.00-13.10 "Delayed Intracerebral Hemorrhage after Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease"

(Hana Chudy)

 

15.00-16.00 Lunch

16.-18.00 Young researchers’ e-posters

 

COURSE DIRECTORS

 

  1. Prof. Darko Chudy, MD, PhD, Medical faculty University of Zagreb, Department of neurosurgery, UH Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia 
  2. Prof.Vladimira Vuletic, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, UHC Rijeka, Medical faculty University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
  3. 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         
  4. Prof. John David Rolston, MD, PhD, Director of Epilepsy Surgery, Director of the Mapping & Engineering Neural Dynamics (MEND) Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, USA
  5. 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

 

  • Fadi Almahariq MD PhD  Assistant Professor, Chairman of stereotactic and functional Neurosurgery committee in WFNS
  • The Parallel Path: Establishing a DBS Center and Training in Functional Neurosurgery

 

  • 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    
  • PD genetics and DBS: Do we need to care?

 

  • 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

 

  • Marina Raguž MD PhD  Assistant Professor Catholic University of Croatia 
  • DBS in disorder of consciousness

 

  • 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 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.