News

September, 2016

BSEL receives NIH BRAIN Initiative 4-year R01 grant to develop quiet TMS. We got some press coverage for this: Triangle Business Journal: UNC, Duke nab part of $70 million NIH grants

Rogue Research demonstrates commercial cTMS device at the International Conference on Transcranial Brain Stimulation in Goettingen, Germany.

August, 2015

Electric field model of transcranial electric stimulation in nonhuman primates: correspondence to individual motor threshold by Won Hee Lee, Sarah H. Lisanby, Andrew F. Laine, and Angel V. Peterchev featured onIEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering home page, Research Highlights, and Monthly Highlights.

Individualized low-amplitude seizure therapy: Minimizing current for electroconvulsive therapy and magnetic seizure therapy by Angel V. Peterchev, Andrew D. Krystal, Moacyr A. Rosa, and Sarah H. Lisanby featured on cover of Neuropsychopharmacology.

April 27-29, 2015

Dr. Peterchev delivers invited lecture on Leveraging the TMS pulse waveform for selective neural recruitment and enhanced neuromodulation at the 3rd North America Meeting on Brain Stimulation and Neuroimaging, and visits Rogue Research headquarters in Montreal to try out latest cTMS prototype.

March 1, 2015

Rogue Research displays cTMS3 device at 1st International Brain Stimulation Conference in Singapore.

November 25, 2014

John Bernabei named Pratt Fellow. Congratulations, John!

October 12, 2014

Rogue Research has deployed cTMS devices in three influential TMS labs around the world.

September, 2014

Dr. Stefan Goetz receives NARSAD Young Investigator Award. Congratulations, Stefan!

August 25, 2014

Dr. Peterchev will teach ECE 495-01/590-07 & ENRGYEGR 490-04 "Introduction to Electrical Energy Conversion" in Fall 2014.

August 15, 2014

Drs. Peterchev and Marc A. Sommer awarded 5-year NIH R01 grant (R01NS088674) on "Rational Design of TMS for Neuromodulation." Co-investigators are Drs. Warren M. Grill, Michael L. Platt, and Sarah H. Lisanby.

July 17, 2014

Rogue Research deploys cTMS device in the lab of Dr. Ugawa in Japan.

May 30, 2014

Collaborative paper on single neuron recordings in non-human primates during during TMS accepted in Nature Neuroscience: Mueller, J. K., Grigsby, E. M., Prevosto, V., Petraglia, F. W., Rao, H., Deng, Z.-D., Peterchev, A. V., Sommer, M. A., Egner, T., Platt, M. L., and Grill, W. M. Simultaneous transcranial magnetic stimulation and single neuron recording in alert non-human primates. Nature Neurosci 2014; 17(8):1130-1136.

May 21, 2014

Won graduates with PhD degree from Columbia. Congratulations Dr. Lee! Won is moving back to New York for a post-doc position at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

March 24, 2014

Drs. Angel Peterchev (PI, Psychiatry), Jeff Glass (ECE), and Jie Liu (Chemistry) awarded Duke University Energy Initiative Energy Research Seed Fund grant to build a “Modular Solar AC Battery.” This project is based on the modular, multilevel energy converter concept invented by post-doc Dr. Stefan Goetz. Great job, Stefan!

May 22, 2014

Zhi graduates with PhD degree from Columbia. Congratulations Dr. Deng!

March 19-21, 2013

BSEL presents two posters on novel TMS device design at the 5th International Conference on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Leipzig, Germany. At the conference, Rogue Resolutions did the first public demonstration of cTMS3.

January, 2013

Electric field depth–focality tradeoff in transcranial magnetic stimulation: Simulation comparison of 50 coil designs by Zhi-De Deng, Sarah H. Lisanby, and Angel V. Peterchev featured on cover of Brain Stimulation.

January 9, 2013

Dr. Peterchev to teach ECE 590-04 "Introduction to Electrical Energy Conversion" in Spring 2013.

December 14, 2012

cTMS3 device developed by BSEL and Rogue Resolutions arrives for testing in Prof. John Rothwell's lab at Institute of Neurology, University College London.

August 11-12, 2012

Dr. Peterchev speaks at Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Workshop, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

June 8, 2012

Drs. Peterchev and David Beratan (Chemistry); Warren Grill (Biomedical Engineering); Wolfgang Liedtke (Neurology); Thomas McIntosh (Cell Biology); Scott Moore (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences); and Sri Raghavachari (Neurobiology) receive a DIBS Incubator Award to study "Characterization, Mechanisms, and Modeling of Static Magnetic Field Effects on Neuronal Excitability".

March 7, 2012

Dr. Peterchev interviewed for the Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Blog.

March 28, 2011

Drs. Peterchev and Warren Grill from the Department of Biomedical Engineering awarded a Duke Coulter partnership award for project titled "Enhancing Neuromodulation with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)." Co-investigators are Dr. Lisanby and Dr. Dr. Bruce Luber from Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences. The project will implement a study in healthy human volunteers to optimize the TMS pulse shape to enhance the neuromodulatory potency of TMS using a cTMS device.

March 25, 2011

BSEL co-hosts Neuromodulation Mini-Symposium, featuring presentations by Profs. Walter Paulus and John Rothwell:

2:00 pm: "The Motor Cortex: An Ideal Cortical Region for Investigating Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Induced Plasticity"

Walter Paulus, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University

3:00 pm: "Plasticity Induced by Theta Burst Stimulation: Common Effects of BDNF and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation?"

John Rothwell, PhD, Professor of Human Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London

Dr. Walter Paulus from Göttingen University and Dr. John Rothwell from University College London visit BSEL for demo of cTMS device.

July 1, 2010

Drs. Peterchev and Sarah H. Lisanby awarded 5-year NIH R01 grant (R01MH091083) on "Rational Design of Electric and Magnetic Seizure Therapy."

July 1, 2007

Dr. Peterchev awarded 2-year NIH R21 grant (R21EB006855) on "Development of a Novel TMS Device with Controllable Pulse Shape (cTMS)."

March, 2006

Drs. Peterchev and Lisanby discuss transcranial brain stimulation technology in psychiatry. Read the article "Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools" in the IEEE Spectrum.