Editorial: Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank: Updates in Neurotechnology and Neuromodulation, Volume II

The first DBS Think Tank was convened in 2012 at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL. Since that initial meeting, the DBS Think Tank has grown, through the hybrid use of virtual and in-person resources to expand the involved number, and scope of worldwide participants from research, engineering, clinical, ethical-legal, and commercial disciplines. Since 2013, proceedings of the DBS Think Tank have been published and these highlight the most current and emerging work in the field. While the primary outcome variable was met in three of the five subjects who exhibited a >40% improvement in the number of FoG episodes from baseline to 6 months when on acute PPN CL-DBS, there were no significant differences between the pre-DBS and month 6 FoG counts at the group level. [...]there were numerous reports of side effects in this cohort, with 40% explantation due to delayed infection. The authors reviewed Rune Lab, a scalable, HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based data platform designed for (1) time-synchronization and aggregation of multi-modal datasets (2) real-time data access, and (3) data analysis at the multiple terabytes scale directly in the cloud; and concluded that the system architecture, development process, and viability of shared data platforms