Plenary sessions
We are excited to highlight the diverse plenary sessions featured at this year’s WSSFN Congress, which promise to deliver groundbreaking neurosurgery insights and foster invaluable discussions among our multidisciplinary community:
Plenary Session 01
September 4, 2024, 08:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Vevey Hall
Welcome
08:00 AM – 08:15 AM
Presidential Address
08:15 AM – 08:40 AM
Speech Decoding
08:40 AM – 09:00 AM
Computational Approaches to Seizure Prediction/Forecasting
09:00 AM – 09:20 AM
Novel electrode technology for intracranial recording
09:20 AM – 09:40 AM
Closed loop deep brain stimulation
09:40 AM – 10:00 AM
Plenary Session 02
September 5, 2024, 08:15 AM – 10:55 AM
Vevey Hall
U.S. BRAIN Initiative
08:15 AM – 08:35 AM
Symptom-tract Relationships in DBS
08:35 AM – 08:55 AM
Awake vs. asleep DBS for ET
08:55 AM – 09:15 AM
The future of psychiatric neurosurgery
09:15 AM – 09:35 AM
Naturalistic Neurobehavioral Investigations in Psychiatric Disorders
09:35 AM – 09:55 AM
Implications of optogenetics research for neuropsychiatric disorders
09:55 AM – 10:15 AM
Functional Neurosurgery in Developing Countries. Role of WSSFN in Expanding Horizons, Education, Training
10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
Ethical considerations in functional neurosurgery
10:35 AM – 10:55 AM
Plenary Session 03
September 6, 2024, 08:15 AM – 10:35 AM
Vevey Hall
Trigeminal neuralgia
08:15 AM – 08:35 AM
The Pendulum of Movement Disorder Surgery
08:35 AM – 08:55 AM
Intracranial neural signatures of pain disorders
08:55 AM – 09:15 AM
The future of radiosurgery
09:15 AM – 09:35 AM
Closed loop neurostimulation for non-motor/memory indications
09:35 AM – 09:55 AM
Commercial applications of brain-computer interface research
09:55 AM – 10:15 AM
AI implications in S/F neurosurgery
10:15 AM – 10:35 AM