Invasive and Non-Invasive Neural Decoding of Motor Performance in Parkinson's Disease for Personalized Deep Brain Stimulation
Provides a personalized, biomarker-driven approach for adaptive DBS in Parkinson's disease, addressing the need for closed-loop neuromodulation.
Decoded motor performance from EEG and ECoG in 19 Parkinson's patients, achieving significant neural decoding in 28/35 sessions (average r=0.37), and identified six prototypical scenarios for adaptive deep brain stimulation strategies.
Decoding motor performance from brain signals offers promising avenues for adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) for Parkinson's disease (PD). In a two-center cohort of 19 PD patients executing a drawing task, we decoded motor performance from electroencephalography (n=15) and, critically for clinical translation, electrocorticography (n=4). Within each session, patients performed the task under DBS on and DBS off. A total of 35 sessions were recorded. Instead of relying on single frequency bands, we derived patient-specific biomarkers using a filterbank-based machine-learning approach. DBS modulated kinematics significantly in 23 sessions. Significant neural decoding of kinematics was possible in 28 of the 35 sessions (average Pearson's $\text{r}= 0.37$). Our results further demonstrate modulation of speed-accuracy trade-offs, with increased drawing speed but reduced accuracy under DBS. Joint evaluation of behavioral and neural decoding outcomes revealed six prototypical scenarios, for which we provide guidance for future aDBS strategies.