1. Filippo Agnesi is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota (USA). He obtained his doctorate at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School (MN, USA)c developing the use of electrochemical measurement of neurotransmitters release in the context of deep brain stimulation (DBS). He is a biomedical engineer with expertise in the study of the physiological mechanism, through which neuromodulation exerts its beneficial effects.
2. Kenneth Baker is Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Minnesota. He did his doctorate at the University of Arizona (USA; in the area of speech and hearing science) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship (in the area of movement disorders) at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (OH, USA). He is a systems neurophysiologist with expertise in the study and application of neuromodulation-based approaches, with a primary emphasis on the efficacy, mechanisms and safety of DBS for neurologic and...
3. Jerrold L Vitek is an internationally renowned neurologist who specializes in the surgical treatment of movement disorders. He obtained his MD and PhD in neurophysiology from the University of Minnesota in 1984, completed a neurology residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (MD, USA) in 1988 and served on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Emory University (GA, USA) and the Cleveland Clinic before becoming Chair of Neurology at the University of Minnesota in 2010. He has been a pioneer in the...