Maxime Baud, MD, PhD

Dr. Maxime Baud is a neurologist and neuroscientist at Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. He obtained his MD and PhD in neuroscience from EPFL, Switzerland. He then trained as a neurology resident and as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in San Francisco, focusing on human intracranial electrophysiology. Using long epilepsy data collected with an implanted EEG system over years, Dr. Baud unraveled the phenomenon of multidien cycles of epileptic brain activity. He is now leading the presurgical investigations for epilepsy in Bern and carries out investigations on the mechanisms of epilepsy. He also contributes to the design and development of next-generation devices for neurology in his collaboration with the Wyss Center for bio- and neuroengineering in Geneva.

Cranial Nerve Stimulation in Practice – Where have we been, and where are we heading? 

In epilepsy, seizures are often seen as dangerous random events, but a closer look reveals striking temporal patterns in their occurrences. Indeed, seizures are organized over a few cycles co-existing at multiple timescales: circadian, modulating preferential seizure hours; multidien, modulating seizure risk over days; and circannual, modulating preferential seizure seasons. This organization only becomes evident with the availability of chronic EEG that records epileptic brain activity directly from the cortex of people with focal epilepsy. I will conclude by proposing future neurotechnological developments for improved epilepsy management based on the striking cycles in epilepsy.