
Arjun Balachandar 🇨🇦 🧠
@arjbalachandar
Movement Disorders fellow @uhnshsneurology, PhD-student @KBI_UHN/@UofTIMS, ex-resident @uoftneurology/@uoftmedicine. 🧠 Neuromodulation/DBS, Mov Dis, AI/ML, 🏔
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An unforeseen issue of adaptive deep brain stimulation is managing the control signal during #sleep, when brain physiology changes We used #MachineLearning for 'Sleep-Aware DBS', which proved to work regardless of target and disease. Arjun Balachandar 🇨🇦 🧠 doi.org/10.1002/mds.29…


Automated sleep detection in movement disorders using Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Machine Learning by Balachandar, Alfonso Fasano + colleagues. Chronic intracranial narrowband recordings identified sleep in 5 folks w/ PD, ET, Tourette. …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md… DBS Think Tank


Our new paper on neurophysiologic biomarkers in the setting of #AlzheimersDisease is finally out in ElsevierNeuroscience! A tour de force effort by an incredible team, pushing the boundaries of current approaches towards next generation diagnostics sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Stroke lesions that cause limb ataxia localize to the cerebellum? The new study by Liesmäki & Kungshamn et al TurkuBrainlab shows that half of them do not. Instead, these lesions localize to a brain network. Now out Neurology Journal neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN…


There is much we can learn from each other. Read the ideas on DMT discovery that came from UToronto Neurology bringing experts in #Parkinsons and #multiplesclerosis together in #Toronto (published with Springer Nature in Nat Rev Neurology) rdcu.be/dWf2U




A genomic test is the optimal way to rapidly diagnose central nervous system infections, 7-year performance data UC San Francisco in thousands of patients for metagenomics next-gen sequencing nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Medicine @PBenoit93 chiulab stanford UCSF School of Medicine



This just out! My colleague Peter Dirks and his lab published on the origins of Glioblastoma from neural precursor cells in a manner similar to injury reprogramming. In nature this week! #glioblastoma #stemcells The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) U of T Department of Surgery University of Toronto Neurosurgery




Quite possibly the best review of neurosarcoidosis ever! Thank you to Alex Muccilli for presenting at our last neurology grand rounds for the year and for sharing her “deep dive” insights and recent updates on management for this complex disease.
