SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

  • DAY 1 November 21, 2025, FRIDAY
  • DAY 2 November 22, 2025, SATURDAY
08:30 – 09:00 Saygı Duruşu ve Açılış Konuşmaları
  Hayri Kertmen
Congress President
  Ayşe Bora Tokçaer
President of Parkinson’s Disease Association
  Cihan İşler
TND Functional (SFAEC) Group President
  Atilla Yılmaz
WSSFN Board Member & MSSFN President
  Ali Savaş
ESSFN Board Member & President of DBS & HBC Association
  Mustafa Sırrı Kotanoğlu
Chief Physician, Etlik City Hospital
  I. SESSION: Introduction to Movement Disorders Neurology and Surgery
Session Chairs: Bülent Elibol, Ali Savaş
09.00-09.15 "The Development of Movement Disorders Surgery and Deep Brain Stimulation in the World and in Turkey"
Sertaç İşlekel
09.15-09.30 Neuroanatomical Basis of Movement Disorders
Cihan İşler
09.30-09.45 "Neurophysiological and Biochemical Mechanisms of Movement Disorders"
Cenk Akbostancı
09:45-10:00 Recent Advances in Medical and Device-Assisted Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
Sevda Erer Özbek
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
  II. SESSION: DBS SURGERY – PREOPERATIVE PREPARATION
Session Chairs: Ayşe Bora Tokçaer, Başak Bolluk Kılıç
10:30-10:45 Evaluation of Parkinson’s Patients, Differential Diagnosis and DBS Indications
Bilge Koçer
10:45-11:00 Neurological Preparation and Assessments in Parkinson’s Patients
Pervin İşeri
11:00-11:15 Cognitive and Psychiatric Evaluation of the Patient Before DBS
Gül Yalçın Çakmaklı
11:15-11:30 Deep Brain Stimulation - Unsuitable Patients
Rezzak Yılmaz
  III. SESSION: DBS SURGERY – APPLICATIONS
Session Chairs: Ali Zırh, Müge Kuzu Kumcu
11:30-11:45 Surgical Planning, Target Selection and Direct Targeting
Akın Akakın
11:45-12:00 DBS Surgery – How I Do It
Murat Vural
12:00-12:15 DBS Surgery Under Anesthesia & Is Microelectrode Recording Necessary?
Feridun Acar
  IV. SESSION: OUTCOMES OF DBS SURGERY
Session Chairs: Rezzak Yılmaz, Hatice Balaban, Ebru Bilge Dirik
12:15-12:30 Results of DBS Surgery in Parkinson’s Patients
Bekir Tuğcu
12:30-12:45 DBS – Surgical Complications
Hayri Kertmen
12:45-13:00 Neurological Side Effects Related to DBS and Challenging Cases
Cenk Akbostancı
13:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
  V. SESSION: IMAGING THE FUTURE
Session Chairs: Ali Savaş, Aydın Aydoseli
13:30- 14:00 MRI Guided Innovations in Deep Brain Stimulation
R. Saman Vinke
14:00- 14:30 The Role of Microelectrode Recording
R. Saman Vinke
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
  VI. SESSION: PROGRAMMING STRATEGIES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Session Chairs: Cenk Akbostancı, Bilge Koçer
15:00-15:30 Fundamentals of DBS Programming for Parkinson’s Disease in Clinical Practice
Maria Fiorella Contario
15:30-16:00 Future of DBS Programming and Sensing Technologies
Maria Fiorella Contario
16:00-17:00 Oral Presentations and Case Reports
Session Chairs: Mürteza Çakır, Erdi Şahin, Özlem Gökdemir
16:00 – 16:05 The Effect of Preoperative Non-Motor Symptom Burden on Motor Improvement after Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation (STN-DBS) in Parkinson’s Patients
Fatma Hediye Erzurumlu
16:05 – 16:10 Subacute Atraumatic Subdural Hematoma Developing After Deep Brain Stimulation
Özgür Çınar
16:10 – 16:15 Wound Site Complications Following Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
Derya Karaoğlu Gündoğdu
16:15- 16:20 Asymmetric Deep Brain Stimulation Targeting in Parkinson’s Disease: Clinical Outcomes of STN-GPi Combination
İsmail Şimşek
16:20- 16:25 VIM + PSA Double Target DBS in a Case of Ataxia-Tremor with Heterozygous APTX Mutation Diagnosed as AOA1
İsmail Şimşek
16:25- 16:30 Unilateral GPi + PSA Deep Brain Stimulation in a Case of Unilateral Cervical Dystonia with Tremor: A Case Report
İsmail Şimşek
16:30 – 16:35 The Role of Deep Brain Stimulation in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Movement Disorders: Evaluation of Current Evidence
Görkem Yavaş
17:00-18:00 ‘’Deep Brain Stimulation and Movement Disorders Surgery Association ‘’Ordinary General Meeting
  I. SESSION – STN–Gpi–Vim – Is That All?
Session Chairs: Gülşah Öztürk, Bekir Enes
09:00-09:15 Extraordinary Targets in Movement Disorders from Past to Future
Akın Sabancı
09.15-09.30 Pedunculopontine Nucleus – Dream or Reality?
Mehmet Tönge
09.30-09.45 Beyond Vim in Tremor Surgery
Atilla Yılmaz
09:45-10:00 “Next Level”: Zona Incerta
Ali Savaş
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
  II. SESSION – Is DBS Alone Enough in Movement Disorders Surgery?
Session Chairs: Bedia Samancı, Pınar Özışık
10:30-10:45 Return to Lesion Surgery in Movement Disorders
Mesut Emre Yaman
10:45-11:00 Re-use of Radiofrequency in Movement Disorders Surgery
Eyüp Bayatlı
11:00-11:15 Radiosurgery in the Treatment of Movement Disorders
Yavuz Samancı
11:15-11:30 Focused Ultrasound Under MRI Guidance
Ali Zırh
  III. SESSION: Technological Advances in DBS
Session Chairs: Ahmet Acarer, Mehmet Sorar
11:30-11:40 Boston Scientific Tech: Innovations in DBS
Mohamad Wehbe
11:40-11:50 Medtronic: Advances in DBS Technology
11:50-12:00 Abbott: Advances in DBS Technology
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch Break
12:30-13:30 LUNCH SEMINAR AND DBS WORKSHOP:
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC
Session Chairs:Emre Durdağ, Selçuk Göçmen
  MR Guided DBS surgical workflow
Saman Vinke
13:30-17:30 Live DBS Surgery
Session Chairs: Murat Vural, Ümit Akın Dere, Bilge Koçer, Rezzak Yılmaz
17:30-18:00 Closing
Hayri Kertmen, Congress President
Ali Savaş, ESSFN Board Member & President of DBS & HBC Association