BIONIC: Discovering Thalamic Connectivity and Using It to Treat Epilepsy

Sebastian Ujică

In this talk, Dr. Nick Gregg presents cutting‑edge work on mapping thalamic networks to develop personalized neuromodulation therapies for drug‑resistant epilepsy. He begins with the case of a patient who continued to suffer daily seizures despite a frontal lobectomy and anterior thalamic DBS—highlighting the limitations of current one‑target‑fits‑all approaches. Dr. Gregg explains that unlike movement disorders with predictable circuits, each person’s seizure network is unique, and seizures