Advances in closed-loop neuromodulation
11/4/22, 2:30 PM - 11/4/22, 3:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) (30 minutes)

David Haslacher
Doctoral candidate Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Doctoral candidate Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

David Haslacher studied computer science in Munich, artificial intelligence in Utrecht, and computational neuroscience in Tübingen. Since then, he has been developing the combination of transcranial alternating current stimulation with electro- and magnetoencephalography at the Clinical Neurotechnology Laboratory of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He is now finishing his PhD on closed-loop neuromodulation under the guidance of Surjo Soekadar, and is interested in developing more precise and effective treatments for psychiatric and neurological disorders.


Neuromodulation techniques such as transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) are a promising treatment approach for several neurological and psychiatric disorders, but suffer from variable effects due in part to their brain-state dependency. In this talk, I will show how electroencephalography (EEG) has become a useful tool to understand the immediate effects of tACS, and to implement closed-loop systems where tACS is adapted to ongoing brain oscillations in real-time. Finally, some potential clinical applications of such closed-loop approaches are discussed.