Search Results - "Eskandar, Emad N"
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Mechanisms of deep brain stimulation
Published in Journal of neurophysiology (01-01-2016)“…Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is widely used for the treatment of movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia and, to a…”
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Enhanced Dendritic Compartmentalization in Human Cortical Neurons
Published in Cell (18-10-2018)“…The biophysical features of neurons shape information processing in the brain. Cortical neurons are larger in humans than in other species, but it is unclear…”
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Older Patients Have Better Pain Outcomes Following Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia
Published in Neurosurgery (01-01-2019)“…Abstract BACKGROUND Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) increases in prevalence with age. Although microvascular decompression (MVD) is the most effective long-term…”
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A Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Chronic Treatment-Resistant Depression
Published in Biological psychiatry (1969) (15-08-2015)“…Abstract Background Multiple open-label trials of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), including those targeting the ventral…”
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Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis
Published in PloS one (21-11-2018)“…General-purpose computers have become ubiquitous and important for everyday life, but they are difficult for people with paralysis to use. Specialized software…”
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Responsive Thalamic Neurostimulation: A Systematic Review of a Promising Approach for Refractory Epilepsy
Published in Frontiers in human neuroscience (05-07-2022)“…Introduction Responsive neurostimulation is an evolving therapeutic option for patients with treatment-refractory epilepsy. Open-loop, continuous stimulation…”
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Travelling spindles create necessary conditions for spike-timing-dependent plasticity in humans
Published in Nature communications (15-02-2021)“…Sleep spindles facilitate memory consolidation in the cortex during mammalian non-rapid eye movement sleep. In rodents, phase-locked firing during spindles may…”
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Encoding of both positive and negative reward prediction errors by neurons of the primate lateral prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (07-12-2011)“…Learning can be motivated by unanticipated success or unexpected failure. The former encourages us to repeat an action or activity, whereas the latter leads us…”
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Rapid fragmentation of neuronal networks at the onset of propofol-induced unconsciousness
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-12-2012)“…The neurophysiological mechanisms by which anesthetic drugs cause loss of consciousness are poorly understood. Anesthetic actions at the molecular, cellular,…”
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Surgical Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia
Published in Neurosurgery clinics of North America (01-07-2017)“…Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by severe, episodic pain in the trigeminal nerve distribution. Medical therapy is the first line treatment. For patients…”
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Widespread ripples synchronize human cortical activity during sleep, waking, and memory recall
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-07-2022)“…Declarative memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval require the integration of elements encoded in widespread cortical locations. The mechanism whereby…”
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Local and distant responses to single pulse electrical stimulation reflect different forms of connectivity
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (15-08-2021)“…Measuring connectivity in the human brain involves innumerable approaches using both noninvasive (fMRI, EEG) and invasive (intracranial EEG or iEEG) recording…”
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Human seizures self-terminate across spatial scales via a critical transition
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-12-2012)“…Why seizures spontaneously terminate remains an unanswered fundamental question of epileptology. Here we present evidence that seizures self-terminate via a…”
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Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Published in Biological psychiatry (1969) (15-02-2009)“…Background We investigated the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) for treatment refractory depression. Methods…”
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Individualized localization and cortical surface-based registration of intracranial electrodes
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (15-02-2012)“…In addition to its widespread clinical use, the intracranial electroencephalogram (iEEG) is increasingly being employed as a tool to map the neural correlates…”
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AAV2- GAD gene therapy for advanced Parkinson's disease: a double-blind, sham-surgery controlled, randomised trial
Published in Lancet neurology (01-04-2011)“…Summary Background Gene transfer of glutamic acid decarboxylase ( GAD ) and other methods that modulate production of GABA in the subthalamic nucleus improve…”
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Characterizing brain dynamics during ketamine-induced dissociation and subsequent interactions with propofol using human intracranial neurophysiology
Published in Nature communications (29-03-2023)“…Ketamine produces antidepressant effects in patients with treatment-resistant depression, but its usefulness is limited by its psychotropic side effects…”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of neocortical excitation and inhibition during human sleep
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (31-01-2012)“…Intracranial recording is an important diagnostic method routinely used in a number of neurological monitoring scenarios. In recent years, advancements in such…”
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A method for precisely timed, on-demand intracranial stimulation using the RNS device
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A flexible software tool for temporally-precise behavioral control in Matlab
Published in Journal of neuroscience methods (30-09-2008)“…Systems and cognitive neuroscience depend on carefully designed and precisely implemented behavioral tasks to elicit the neural phenomena of interest. To…”
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