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Multitarget brain implants enable generalized decoding of Parkinson's disease symptoms from chronic home recordings.

Timon Merk, Maria Olaru, Nanditha Rajamani, Patricia Zvarova, Erblina Purelku, Zixiao Yin, Richard M Köhler, Jojo Vanhoecke, Ashwini Oswal, Guanyu Zhu and 7 more

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Timon MerkMovement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Maria OlaruDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America.
Nanditha RajamaniInstitute for Network Stimulation, Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2511-9839
Patricia ZvarovaInstitute for Network Stimulation, Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, Germany.
Erblina PurelkuMovement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Zixiao YinDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Richard M KöhlerMovement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5219-1289
Jojo VanhoeckeMovement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9857-1519
Ashwini OswalMRC Brain Networks Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Guanyu ZhuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Jian-Guo ZhangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0009-0574
Reza Abbasi-AslDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America.
Amelia HahnDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America.
Simon LittleDepartment of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6249-6230
Andreas HornInstitute for Network Stimulation, Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, Germany.
Philip A StarrDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2733-4003
Wolf-Julian NeumannMovement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit, Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6758-9708

Funding

BRAIN CONNECTS: The center for Large-scale Imaging of Neural Circuits (LINC)UM1NS132358 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Suzanne N Haber, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman · 2023 to 2026
$17.5M
Using human brain connectivity to identify the causal neuroanatomical substrate of depression symptomsR01MH113929 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHAEL D FOX · 2017 to 2026
$6.9M
Toward Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation in Obsessive Compulsive DisorderR01MH130666 · NIMH · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHAEL D FOX · 2022 to 2026
$3.9M
Using Brain Lesions and Deep Brain Stimulation to Identify an Epilepsy CircuitR01NS127892 · NINDS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI MICHAEL D FOX · 2022 to 2026
$3.4M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH113929NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH130666NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS127892NINDS NIH HHS UM1 NS132358
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) oèrs unprecedented precision in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Current aDBS control algorithms depend on brain signal biomarkers, such as basal ganglia oscillatory activity in the beta (8-30 Hz) range. Even after extensive optimization through a specialized medical team, about one third of patients may remain ineligible for aDBS due to insuìcient biomarker fidelity. Moreover, while the marker broadly correlates with disease severity, it does not recognize how specific symptoms independently fluctuate over time. A concept to address these shortcomings is to rely on machine learning based brain signal decoding. Here, we trained decoders on over 500 hours of invasive multisite recordings from cortex and deep brain targets to predict the wearable based estimates of PD symptoms and side-eècts without patient individual training. Recordings were streamed from brain implants while patients were at home on their usual antiparkinsonian treatment. The resulting models robustly outperformed individually defined beta activity, while providing three major conceptual advances: they performed even in patients without a basal ganglia beta rhythm, generalized across patients without requiring retraining or adaptation and robustly and dièrentially and simultaneously decoded the severity of bradykinesia, tremor and dyskinesia. In a proof-of-concept simulation, we demonstrate how these models could be used to steer stimulation fields dynamically to predefined symptomresponse brain networks. This fusion between adaptive and connectomic DBS may define when to stimulate which brain circuit for optimal symptom-specific control in real time and pave the way for a new generation of fully automatized symptom-specific neuromodulation approaches.

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PMCPMC13193127

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