Neurosurgery Clinical Research
Forging Novel Treatments & Diagnostic Breakthroughs Through Innovative Clinical Research
Our faculty in the Department of Neurological Surgery are involved in nearly 80 research protocols studying a broad range of disorders, including neurovascular disease, epilepsy, movement disorders, spinal disease, brain tumors and other neurosurgical disorders affecting infants, children and adults.
Published Research
COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers: serological findings supporting routine testing
Stock AD, Bader ER, Cezayirli P, Inocencio J, Chalmers SA, Yassari R, Yanamadala V, Eskandar E. Front Med (Lausanne). 2020 Aug 21; 7:471. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00471
Caudate stimulation enhances learning
Bick SK, Patel SR, Katnani HA, Peled N, Widge A, Cash SS, Eskandar EN. Brain. 2019 Oct 1;142(10):2930-2937. doi: 10.1093/brain/awz254. Erratum in: Brain. 2019 Dec 1;142(12):e74. PMID: 31504220
COVID-19-associated carotid atherothrombosis and stroke
Esenwa C, Cheng NT, Lipsitz E, Hsu K, Zampolin R, Gersten A, Antoniello D, Soetanto A, Kirchoff K, Liberman A, Mabie P, Nisar T, Rahimian D, Brook A, Lee SK, Haranhalli N, Altschul D, Labovitz D. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2020 Aug 20; doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A6752. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32819896.
Endovascular therapy plus medical therapy result in more favorable functional outcomes
Albers G, Marks M, Kemp S, et al. N Engl J Med. 2018 Feb 22;378(8):708-718. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1713973. Epub 2018 Jan 24; PMID: 29364767; PMCID: PMC6590673.
Dynamic mapping of the corticospinal tract in open cordotomy and myelomeningocele surgery
Tsetsou, S., Butler, W., Borges, L., Eskandar, E. N., Fehnel, K. P., See, R. B., & Simon, M. V. (2020). J Clin Neurosci. 2020 Apr;74:225-231. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.01.054. Epub 2020 Jan 20; PMID: 31973921.
In reply: older patients have better pain outcomes following microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia
Bick SK, Huie D, Sneh G, Eskandar EN. Neurosurgery. 2019 Sep 1; 85(3):E610-E611. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyz197. PMID: 31149717.
Preoperative MRI findings and prediction of diagnostic utility of foramen ovale electrodes
Bick SK, Dolatshahi MS, Grannan BL, Cole AJ, Hoch DB, Eskandar EN. J Neurosurg. 2019 Mar 8; 132(3):692-699. doi: 10.3171/2018.12.JNS182093. PMID: 30849762.
A novel clinical scoring system for perioperative morbidity in metastatic spinal tumor surgery
Ramos, R. D. G., Benton, J. A., Gelfand, Y., Echt, M., Hamad, M. K., Kinon, M. D., Yanamadala, V., & Yassari, R. 2021 Feb 1; 46(3):E161-E166. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000003733. PMID: 33038202.
Racial disparities in clinical presentation, type of intervention, and in-hospital outcomes of patients with metastatic spine disease: An analysis of 145,809 admissions in the United States
De la Garza Ramos R, Benton JA, Gelfand Y, Echt M, Flores Rodriguez JV, Yanamadala V, Yassari R. Cancer Epidemiol. 2020 Oct;68:101792. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2020.101792. Epub 2020 Aug 9; PMID: 32781406.
Trans-carotid and trans-radial access for mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Scoco AN, Addepalli A, Zhu S, Benton J, Unda SR, Haranhalli N, Zampolin R, Pasquale DD, Brook A, Altschul D. Cureus. 2020 Jun 28;12(6):e8875. doi: 10.7759/cureus.8875. PMID: 32617250; PMCID: PMC7325357.
Hemorrhagic presentations of COVID-19: risk factors for mortality
A, Haranhalli N. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2020 Nov;198:106112. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2020.106112. Epub 2020 Jul 26; PMID: 32738585; PMCID: PMC7382923.
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