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Bassam Al-Fatly

@bassamalfatly.bsky.social
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Postdoc | Department of Neurology | Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Interested in deep brain stimulation, movement disorders, neuroimaging and connectomics.

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Brain Communications @braincomms.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Marcelino and Al-Fatly et al. report literature-based lesion network mapping of dyskinetic cerebral palsy. Grey matter lesions are the most common MRI finding; the motor thalamus is a converging node of a wide functional network. Read at buff.ly/IyRv0E0.
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Sergiu Groppa @segroppa.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Take a look at our new work, providing explanations for the mechanisms of deep brain stimulation, with insights into the modulation of motor- premotor cortex activity from mouse-based and translatable research methodologies for future therapy solutions shorturl.at/5Atjh
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Frequency- and layer-specific effects of high-frequency STN stimulation on mouse motor cortical areas in vivo
Abstract. High-frequency deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is an effective evidence-based therapy for Parkinson’s disease; howe
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Lukas Goede @lukasgoede.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Tremor is a common symptom across many neurological disorders. But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis? We think: yes. Our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com: 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 A thread.
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Lukas Goede @lukasgoede.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This was a huge team effort - combining datasets across disorders, continents, and methods. We hope this work helps advance neuromodulation toward guided, symptom-specific treatment. Full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Convergent mapping of a tremor treatment network - Nature Communications
Goede et al. combined multiple modalities to define a common tremor network across disorders. This finding may help optimize deep brain stimulation and guide future noninvasive therapies.
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The Science of Parkinson's @scienceofpd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
New research from @lukasgoede.bsky.social @andreashorn.org & colleagues provides a robust, cross-condition tremor network that may guide both invasive & noninvasive neuromodulation strategies for #Parkinsons & essential tremor www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Science of Parkinson's @scienceofpd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"Ultra-high field MRI provides high-resolution maps of various aspects of the underlying neurodegenerative process which reflect individual motor impairment in #Parkinsons" - research use 7 tesla MRI; N=43 PD & 24 controls www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
New insights on tremor therapeutic sweetspot and tract this time in FUS thalamotomy, congrats @andreashorn.org and team
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Can Sarica @cansarica.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Happy to share our work in @movedisorder.bsky.social We compared outcomes of bilateral #HIFU and #DBS in essential tremor, identified thalamic hotspots using probabilistic mapping. @fusfoundation.bsky.social @alfonsofasano.bsky.social
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 08/01/2025
🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨 @braincircuits.bsky.social GPi DBS for dystonia is effective. More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative. In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Michael Fox @foxmdphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Do we need to stimulate different circuits to improve different dystonia symptoms with STN DBS? Work by Konstantin Butenko, @andreashorn.org @braincircuits.bsky.social out today in @PNAS says yes: Engaging dystonia networks with subthalamic stimulation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Mapping neuropeptide signaling in the human brain | doi.org/10.1101/2024... Neuropeptides are among the functionally diverse signaling molecules in the brain and body. @cebric.bsky.social curates an atlas of neuropeptide receptors and relates it brain function 🧩 🧠 ⤵️
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 16/12/2024
Is it critical to stimulate @ndosenbach.bsky.social's SCAN and CON networks for clinical improvements of Tourette's patients that undergo DBS? Carlos Baldermann says yes in a cool new paper out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social comms today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Do you know the actual tic networks in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome? Juan Carlos Baldermann and a whole host of colleagues explore this in a new article in Nature Communications. Dosenbach and Gordon sparked this group to action after the DBSThinkTank.
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The Science of Parkinson's @scienceofpd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New paper finds that aberrant relative brain hyperperfusion (amount of blood flowing to the brain), independent of striatal dopamine depletion, is associated with baseline & longitudinal motor deficits & progression of neurodegeneration in #Parkinsons www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
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Association of Relative Brain Hyperperfusion Independent of Dopamine Depletion With Motor Dysfunction in Patients With Parkinson Disease | Neurology
Background and ObjectivesParkinson disease (PD) exhibits a characteristic pattern of brain perfusion or metabolism, thereby being considered network disorder. Using dual-phase N-(3-fluoropropyl)-2β-ca...
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The Science of Parkinson's @scienceofpd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Analysis of 39 cases of focused ultrasound subthalamotomy for #Parkinsons highlights the functional anatomy of the subthalamic nucleus & the pathophysiology of cardinal features of PD; Reduced bradykinesia & rigidity associated with ablation of rostral motor STN www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 10/06/2023
Our paper entitled “Neuroimaging-based analysis of DBS outcomes in pediatric dystonia: insights from the GEPESTIM registry” is now out in Neuroimage Clinical sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 21/02/2023
It is a pleasure to be in #BrainStimConf to present this new study and very happy to have been awarded a travel grant by #IBROTavelGrant Many thanks to #IBRO and my coauthors @andreashorn_ @AA_Kuhn @foxmdphd @MichaelOkun and many others not on Twitter #Neurology
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 18/07/2022
Happy to have passed the European Board of Neurology 2022 Exam, I recommend it to all #Neurology fellows, many thanks to @EANeurology for the organizing and giving this opportunity to have in depth knowledge in neurology, have to say a bit tough but doable 😃
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 02/06/2022
Nice overview from @HSiebner on targeting brain circuitry using personalized noninvasive brain stimulation approaches @Retune_CRC
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 31/03/2022
Lesions in the tremor circuit can induce tremor (1st img), similar lesions can treat an "existing" tremor (2nd img) -In this case, DBS/lesioning surgery require a pre-existing pathological oscillation to work, can DBS still enhance functionality in normal brain?
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 14/02/2022
Very happy about this successful multicenter "european" collaboration spearheaded by Andreas Nowacki & Sabry Barlatey on mapping beneficial effect of DBS in Essential Tremor in 119 pts @andreashorn_ @DembekTill @AA_Kuhn @VVV_Cologne @leaddbs @netstim_org onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…
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Probabilistic Mapping Reveals Optimal Stimulation Site in Essential Tremor
Objective The objective of this study was to obtain individual clinical and neuroimaging data of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for essential tremor (ET) from 5 different European ...
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 04/02/2022
Excited to share our new study about mapping beneficial effect of STN-DBS on Quality of Life in PD thanks to Günther Deuschl for this amazing opportunity together with Inken Tödt & @andreashorn_, read more in threads🔽 …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md…
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The Contribution of Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation to the Improvement in Motor Functions and Quality of Life
Background Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) effectively treats motor symptoms and quality of life (QoL) of advanced and fluctuating early Parkinson's disease. Little is known abo...
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 14/01/2022
Lesion and dbs network mapping of tics, a very fruitful first coauthorship with the one and only @ChristosGanos, amazingly supervised by @AA_Kuhn and @andreashorn_ and a great multicenter collaboration and with @foxmdphd (the pioneer of lesion network mapping), such an honor t.co/5iqCBjnXvk
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 11/11/2021
#FSL users, any hint on how to use #FSL topup on two phase encoded #DTI scans each with 63 directions and 1 b0, the data is actually from PPMI dataset (PD patients) and am trying to correct for susceptibility distortion using topup. Thanx #neuroimaging #neuroscience
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 09/04/2021
I really love this schematic, the way it relays the information is wonderful. The cerebellum (dentate) and basal ganglia synapses at separate thalamic nuclei but cross-talk at overlapping cortical level (Nieuwenhuys/TheHumanCentralNervousSystem) @andreashorn_ @neumann_wj
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 22/01/2021
A great dbs-sweetsoot calculation methods comparison paper by @DembekTill et al t.co/5pfeZHlUPI
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 22/11/2020
Congrats @petryschmelzer @DembekTill @VVV_Cologne and other coworkers on this amazing work, really honored for the first use of tremor DBS-suppression tract from our work in@andreashorn_ @leaddbs t.co/Tq6KoZU5VP doi.org/10.1093/brain/…
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Connectivity profile of thalamic deep brain stimulation to effectively treat essential tremor
Al-Fatly et al. establish predictive connectivity maps of deep brain stimulation in essential tremor. They demonstrate that electrode connectivity to tremo
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 30/07/2020
#dbs folks, which way to go? sweet spot (A)? or sweet cluster/volume (B)? or sweet tract/bundle (C)? or sweet connectome (D)? @leaddbs
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 09/03/2020
Prefrontal-Subthalamic Hyperdirect Pathway Modulates Movement Inhibition in Humans cell.com/neuron/fulltex…
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Prefrontal-Subthalamic Hyperdirect Pathway Modulates Movement Inhibition in Humans
Chen et al. identify a fast, non-stop pathway between the prefrontal cortex and subthalamic nucleus in humans using multisite invasive brain recordings. This pathway is critically involved in the stopping of ongoing actions. Modulation of this pathway may be a means of treating disorders of inhibitory control, such as impulsivity.
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Bassam Al-Fatly @bassamalfatly.bsky.social · 26/09/2019
A very rewarding experience, our poster has been selected by Dr Peter Bain for guided posters tour at #MDSCongress @andreashorn_ @SiobhanEwert
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