Dirk De Ridder MD, PhD

Dirk De Ridder, MD, PhD, is a professor of Neurosurgery at the Dunedin School of Medicine, the University of Otago in New Zealand. His main interest is the understanding and treatment of phantom perceptions (sound, pain), especially by use of functional imaging navigated non-invasive (TMS, tDCS, tACS, tRNS, LORETA neurofeedback) and invasive (implants) neuromodulation techniques.

His main interest is to understand commonalities in different diseases such as thalamocortical dysrhythmias (pain, tinnitus, Parkinson's disease, depression, slow-wave epilepsy) and Reward deficiency syndromes.