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The EPIONE study

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for post stroke pain

The word EPIONE is written in light blue capital letters to serve as the trial logo

Study overview

The EPIONE Trial is part of a six-year EPSRC-funded programme grant focusing on the design of new engineering technologies for chronic pain.

Trial email: epione_dbs_pain@nds.ox.ac.uk

Latest news

Study tests whether deep brain stimulation can treat chronic pain

Professor Alex Green carrying out the implantation of the Picostim-DyNeuMo device on a patient.The EPIONE study, led by Professor Alex Green at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, is trialling whether deep brain stimulation (DBS) – delivering an electrical pulse into affected areas of the brain – can help to relieve central post-stroke pain (CPSP).

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Oxford professors held free talk on groundbreaking research

Pictures of Professors Alex Green and Ben Seymour, along with a picture of a brain and the wording 'Can electrodes in the brain treat chronic pain?'Professor Alex Green, Professor of Neurosurgery, and Professor Ben Seymour, Professor of Clinical Neuroscience discussed the EPIONE study at a free public event in Oxford. Read more on the Oxford Mail website and view the talk details.