Mark Richardson, MD, PhD
Director, Functional Neurosurgery, Mass. General Hospital

Charles A. Pappas Associate Professor of Neurosciences, Harvard Medical School

Visiting Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Invasive brain stimulation therapies include deep brain stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and epilepsy, and responsive neurostimulation (RNS) for epilepsy. DBS is also under investigation for treating major depressive disorder, Tourette’s, and addiction. This talk will provide an overview of these therapies, including rationale, recent technical innovations, and description of how evolution in the field is driven by clinical opportunities to study invasive brain recordings.

Dr. Richardson is Director of Functional Neurosurgery at MGH, Charles Pappas Associate Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard Medical School, and Visiting Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He is a neurosurgeon-neuroscientist whose clinical expertise includes invasive brain recording in the treatment of movement disorders, epilepsy, and psychiatric disease. He also directs the Brain Modulation Lab, a human systems neuroscience lab studying brain electrophysiology and behavior in these patients.