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Doris Wang

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Neurosurgeon-scientist studying how brains walk the walk. Neural interfaces, devices, oscillations, and toddler chase dynamics. Balancing beta bursts and bedtime stories. 📍UCSF | 🧠⚡️🚶🏻‍♂️ | Views my own (but likely statistically significant)

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · 22d

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is an incision-less surgical procedure used to treat essential tremor by lesioning the brain pathway involved with tremor generation. @ucsfhealth.bsky.social neurosurgeon @doriswang.bsky.social explains that this leads to lasting tremor reduction.

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great talks and even more interesting and engaging discussion! Fantastic start to the think tank!

Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · Sep 2

DBS Think Tank Scientific Sessions start on zoom at 1:00PM as soon as Nobel Laurette Stanley Prusiner finishes his talk and takes questions.
We are off to a great start. Here are the first two sessions for today in case you are interested in listening in. @sfn.org @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congratulations!!!!!🎉🍾🎊

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Aug 22

This work was led by the amazing former postdoc Ken Louie, and an all star research team and collaborators to make it happen! #aDBS #Parkinsons #gait

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Aug 22

We tested the effects of adaptive DBS both in clinic and at home and found that aDBS improves gait symmetry and variability in patients with Parkinson’s disease! Providing an exciting and promising therapy to restore gait functions.

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here, we use chronically implanted bidirectional DBS devices connected to pallidal leads and cortical ECoG strips to 1) capture biomarkers of leg swing during natural walking 2) use these biomarkers to rapidly change stimulation amplitudes during each gait cycle in an embedded device.

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Aug 22

Super proud and excited to share our preprint.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Adaptive deep brain stimulation timed to gait phase improves walking in Parkinson's disease

Gait dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD) is a major source of disability and is often resistant to traditional deep brain stimulation (DBS). Here, we report a novel neuromodulation paradigm, gait-...

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Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks you so much for inviting me to be a part of this fantastic conference! I learned so much and am beyond excited for our field!

Swathi Kiran@Center for Brain Recovery at BU @swathikiran.bsky.social · Jul 29

Day 1 of the 🧠Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference included talks from notable researchers and industry experts from around the world, discussing topics of #neuroprosthetics #neuromodulation and #neurotechnology.

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Jul 29

We’re honored to be named among the top two neurosurgery programs nationwide and the Best in the West by @usnews.com! 🎉 It's a privilege caring for our patients and their families, and we thank our entire team for hard work and dedication. @ucsfhealth.bsky.social www.ucsfhealth.org/lp/us-news-2...

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UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Jul 23

A new study led by @doriswang.bsky.social's lab developed a systematic way to quantify key aspects of gait in patients with #Parkinsons and used machine learning to identify personalized deep brain stimulation (DBS) settings to improve walking: www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/07...
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Graphic that depicts an overview of the study in which UCSF researchers modeled and optimized DBS settings to improve walking in patients with Parkinson's, identifying key insights abut the neurophysiology of walking along the way.

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Jul 1

Lab party! Thanks to all these amazing, hardworking, compassionate geniuses for making science fun!

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Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · Jun 28

Can we reboot walking after Parkinson's disease DBS?
Can AI teach deep brain stimulation devices to help people 'walk the walk?' A new study by Wang says MAYBE. Using personalized data-driven models, they optimized DBS for walking.
@parkinsondotorg.bsky.social #parkinson @ucsfhealth.bsky.social

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Jun 30

Very excited to share our newest publication on identifying neurophysiological signatures of improved gait using bidirectional DBS devices!

UCSF Neurosurgery @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social · Jun 27

New in npj Parkinson's Disease, @doriswang.bsky.social's lab presents an AI approach for identifying personalized deep brain stimulation (DBS) settings to improve walking. The findings lay the groundwork for adaptive DBS systems that adjust in real-time: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Graphic that depicts an overview of the study in which researchers modeled and optimized DBS settings to improve walking in patients with Parkinson's, identifying key insights abut the neurophysiology of walking along the way. Text banner includes the publication citation: Modeling and optimizing deep brain stimulation to enhance gait in Parkinson's disease: personalized treatment with neurophysiological insights. Fekri Azgomi H et al. NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2025 Jun 18;11(1): 173.

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Matthias Stangl @mstangl.bsky.social · Mar 31

Interested in human brain function and neuroimaging during natural real-world activities? Learn more from our amazing speakers and present your own work at the Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference. Registration & abstract submission is now open: neuroscienceeverydayworld.org/conference-2...

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Matthias Stangl @mstangl.bsky.social · Mar 31

Very much looking forward to our speakers: @maryamshanechi.bsky.social, @hugospiers.bsky.social, Marom Bikson, @jenpitt.bsky.social, Mary Czerwinski, @peabody124.bsky.social, @dpferris.bsky.social, @sladouce.bsky.social, Matthew Rizzo,
@c-rothkopf.bsky.social, @doriswang.bsky.social, Ying Choon Wu

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Feb 25

Very excited to share our latest preprint. Using implanted DBS devices with at home wearable monitors, we were able to identify gait state in the natural environment based on cortical and basal ganglia neural signature: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

At-Home Movement State Classification Using Totally Implantable Bidirectional Cortical-Basal Ganglia Neural Interface

Movement decoding from invasive human recordings typically relies on a distributed system employing advanced machine learning algorithms programmed into an external computer for state classification. ...

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Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Jan 25

To the stranger who paid for our lunch at Kona airport because I didn’t have a credit card on me (getting too used to tap to pay), thank you from the bottom of my heart and my toddlers’ growling stomachs. I will always remember your kindness and pay it forward! #humanity #payitforward #kindness

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Dec 15

It suggests that abnormal pallidal outflow and synchronization between the pallidum and motor cortices may be a pathophysiological mechanism underlying disordered postural response in Parkinson's disease.

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Dec 15

Our results provide evidence for a model where synchronized premotor and motor cortical activities transiently couple with the globus pallidus to regulate the timing of postural responses, and local pallidal activity regulate the amplitude of postural changes during gait initiation.

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Dec 15

We found distinct patterns of oscillatory changes that occur in the pallidum and motor cortex, and found that while pallidum gamma power is predictive of the scaling of gait initiation, pallidal M1, and premotor-M1 low frequency coherence is predictive of the timing of weight shift

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Dec 15

Excited to share our new preprint. We recorded field potentials from the motor/premotor cortices and pallidum of people with Parkinson’s disease as they performed a gait initiation task to understand the cortico-pallidal network dynamics that underlie this action: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pallidal and motor cortical interactions determine gait initiation dynamics in Parkinson's disease

Gait initiation is a fundamental human task, requiring one or more anticipatory postural adjustments (APA) prior to stepping. Deviations in amplitude and timing of APAs exist in Parkinson's disease (P...

www.medrxiv.org

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Dec 14

Completed our 100th focused ultrasound treatment! It truly takes a village and a collaborative effort to make it possible. Go team and here’s to many more!
#fus #hifu #neurosurgery #tremor

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Dec 9

Good to be back

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Dec 4

Masters debate in a chateau! Amazing talks, colleagues, and inspiring innovation. So great to be back in Paris even just for a day!

Doris Wang @doriswang.bsky.social · Dec 1

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