Biography

Alik S. Widge, MD, PhD, is a dually trained psychiatrist-engineer, and use that training to develop new device-based treatments for severe mental illness. His focus is electrical and magnetic brain stimulation, and particularly the development of new "closed loop" devices. These devices sense brain signals in real-time and deliver energy in a planned and rational fashion, compensating for each patient's specific brain network abnormalities. His lab laboratory prototypes new stimulation paradigms and targets in rodent models, rapidly generating the pre-clinical data needed to support trials in human.

Dr. Widge is a member of the Mass General Division of Neurotherapeutics in the Department of Psychiatry. He evaluates patients with treatment-resistant mood and anxiety disorders and manage aspects of their brain stimulation treatment, in collaboration with an expert team of surgeons, psychiatrists, and psychologists.