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Andreas Horn interviews experts in the field of deep brain stimulation, noninvasive neuromodulation, functional brain imaging and neuroanatomy. Join us on our quest to interact with the human brain and thank you for your interest in science!Andreas Horn, M.D., Ph.D., directs the institute for network stimulation and is a professor for computational neurology at University Cologne.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Stimulating Brains treats deep brain stimulation as science, engineering, clinical practice, and patient experience all at once.
Stimulating Brains belongs on the science shelf for listeners who want the machinery left in the room. The show stays close to neuroscience as it enters the clinic: deep brain stimulation, sensing implants, brain imaging, cortical signals, and the networks researchers try to…
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A measured look at why action comes before perception in Buzsaki's thinking.
Buzsaki's thinking lands on a clean throughline: science tests rather than proves, thought is deferred action, and the brain matters only insofar as it helps an organism move through the world and live.
A grounded history of how DBS became practical through engineering, persistence, and radiology wrangling.
This conversation follows the practical fixes that made deep brain stimulation workable: MRI parameter changes, CT workarounds, frame safety concerns, and the slow education of radiologists and manufacturers.
A patient's-eye view of DBS with enough technical depth to stay useful.
Jim McNaspy's conversation gives deep brain stimulation a lived-in, practical shape instead of a purely clinical one. As both a Parkinson's patient, diagnosed in 2000 and treated with DBS in 2019, and chief counsel at the Michael J.
A grounded DBS interview that keeps its attention on how the work actually gets done.
Phil Starr traces the practical and conceptual work behind using cortical recordings to inform DBS, moving from intraoperative recording to the longer term recordings his lab now relies on.
A grounded look at how better sensing could reshape deep brain stimulation.
Stimulating Brains keeps its focus on the practical future of deep brain stimulation: better sensing, richer signals, and what those changes could mean for clinicians.
Careful conversations on drugs, treatment, and recovery.
Buddhist practice for the predictive brain.
Long conversations with people who think in systems.
Psychedelics, treated with care and context.
Behavioural science with a commercial pulse.
Action comes first.
STN stimulation worked so well for patients that waiting around stopped making sense.
Andreas Horn interviews neurosurgeon Ludvic Zrinzo about precision and evidence in functional neurosurgery, including DBS for OCD and adaptive stimulation.
Andreas Horn interviews Eyal Zadikorio about the history and future of focused ultrasound in noninvasive neurosurgery.
Interview with Dr.
Why isn't Jim getting brain stimulation?
Cortical recording is the hinge.
Amiza Reitmeyer, VP and General Manager of Brain Modulation at Medtronic, joins Stimulating Brains for a conversation about where DBS may be headed.
Andreas Horn interviews Dr.
Andreas Horn interviews NIMH director Joshua Gordon about the RDoC framework and mapping behavioral functions to neural circuits.