Welcome to the Telkes Lab, where Neuromodulation meets Neural Engineering! We investigate the electrophysiology of the human brain and spinal cord with the central goal of advancing scientific understanding of the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying neuromodulation interventions—such as spinal cord stimulation and deep brain stimulation—in individuals with chronic pain conditions and movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. Our research aims to:
- Optimize existing neuromodulation methods.
- Develop more personalized therapeutic strategies.
- Engineer new technologies to improve treatment outcomes and enhance patients’ daily lives.
We are a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative research group, leveraging a combination of neural engineering, biomedical signal processing, and neurophysiological methods—including local field potentials, single-unit recordings, EEG, ECG, and EMG signals—alongside clinical research approaches to tackle complex questions in brain and spine modulation.
