Welcome to DBSpace Lab, a virtual lab focused on developing model-centric strategies for effective, efficient, ethical, and just neuromodulation.
In the spirit of citizen science, this lab space is meant for everyone, no matter background or knowledge level. The critical things are: a desire to learn, to ask bold questions, and to work towards a more democratic understanding of clinical neuroscience.
This Github Organization is the primary (and virtual) space for DBSpace Lab, an effort that I started during my MD/PhD at Emory/GeorgiaTech.
My PhD work was mentored by a pioneer of psychiatric deep brain stimulation (DBS) and a wide spread of leading neuroscientists, psychiatrists, engineers, neurosurgeons, and psychologists.
That work has started getting published out there, but those analyses are just the tip of a massive iceberg.
The main goal for DBSpace is to host a unique, open dataset collected from a once-in-a-lifetime experiment, and foster novel approaches to analysing it. Given the lack of institutional support given to small-data, control theoretic, and applied mathematical approaches in the DBS space, those will be prioritized here.
This is a weekend lab meant to be an informal collaborative space for model-centric approaches to adaptive DBS. You'll see a whole bunch of projects that we'd love for you to try your ideas on and contribute to.
We are a principle-driven group, and those principles are anchored in clinical medicine. That means: people-first.
Some other principles that are foundational here:
- Patients, not Petri Dishes
- Math, not Measurements
- Precious Data is Precious
- Small-Data is More Ethical
- Democratizing Neuromodulation
- All Towards Justice
All the projects here will be open source, freely available for all-time - the goal is bring DBS into a public science framework. Importantly, derivative works should also stay in the public space - this will be reflected in the licensing.
Read more about the overarching philosophy in the organization wiki.
There's no learning like group-learning. We'll set up a schedule for periodic workshops where we talk through some of the foundational engineering principles of DBS alongside hands-on notebooks. Community is always the driver of progress, and DBS is no exception.
This Github Organization is the core of the DBSpaceLab. Other, related spaces are: