MDS Podcast

Highlights from day 2: Dr. Sanjay Pandey recaps the key takeaways, including from the aging & comorbidities and renown awardee lecture sessions.

Dr. Thomas Kimber breaks down the eventful and science-packed first day of the #MDSCongress.

Prof. Tiago Outeiro speaks with 2026 MDS Congress C. David Marsden Presidential Lecture Award winner Prof. Vincenzo Bonifati about his landmark genetic discoveries and the future of movement disorders research.

Sara Schaefer speaks with the MDS Congress 2026 Junior Award Winner Dr. Richard Morton about his prevalence study on Parkinson's disease in Kalifi County, Kenya, a substudy of the Transforming Parkinson's Care in Africa (TraPCAf) study.

In this episode, we speak with Zixiao Yin, recipient of a Junior Award at the MDS Congress, about his work on reconstructing deep brain activity from cortical signals.

Using more than 700 hours of simultaneous cortical and subcortical recordings across different movement disorders, brain targets, and clinical states, Yin and colleagues developed deep learning approaches to infer subcortical activity from cortical recordings. We discuss why this could matter for adaptive DBS, how cortical signals can be used to estimate STN beta activity and reconstruct deep brain signals, and whether this approach could provide an alternative when direct subcortical sensing is unreliable.