Charles Pappas Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Neurosurgery
Dr. Emad N. Eskandar, MD
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Emad N. Eskandar practices Neurosurgery. He studied medicine at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Keck School of Medicine of USC has a rank of 31 in research and a 72 in primary care He has 2 awards "Fellow (FAANS)" and "Super Doctor". Emad Eskandar is a published doctor. He published 100 publications, including: 'The importance of accurate lesion placement in posteroventral pallidotomy. Report of two cases.' Emad Eskandar accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Psychiatric Illnesses: What Has Gone Wrong and What Should We Do Next?
- An Electrocorticography Grid with Conductive Nanoparticles in a Polymer Thick Film on an Organic Substrate Improves CT and MR Imaging.
- Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum Deep Brain Stimulation Does Not Consistently Diminish Occipital Cross-Frequency Coupling.
- Sharp Wave Ripples during Visual Exploration in the Primate Hippocampus.
- Virtual typing by people with tetraplegia using a self-calibrating intracortical Brain-computer interface.
- Mechanisms of deep Brain stimulation.
- Variability and anatomical specificity of the orbitofrontothalamic fibers of passage in the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS): precision care for patient-specif...
- Microscale Spatiotemporal Dynamics during Neocortical Propagation of Human Focal Seizures.
- A Systematic approach to selecting task relevant neurons.
- Controlled cortical impact before or after fear conditioning does not affect fear extinction in mice.
- Reprint of "Non-causal spike filtering improves decoding of movement intention for intracortical BCIs".
- Neuroanatomical Characteristics Associated With Response to Dorsal Anterior Cingulotomy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
- A Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Chronic Treatment-Resistant Depression.
- Intra-stimulation Discharges: An overlooked cortical electrographic entity triggered by direct electrical stimulation.
- Decision making in avoidance-reward conflict: a paradigm for non-human primates and humans.
- Reliability of directional information in unsorted spikes and local field potentials recorded in human motor cortex.
- Utility of foramen ovale electrodes in mesial temporal lobe Epilepsy.
- Phase reversal technique decreases cortical stimulation time during motor mapping.
- Neuromodulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- A transition in Brain state during propofol-induced unconsciousness.
- A point process approach to identifying and tracking transitions in neural spiking dynamics in the subthalamic nucleus of Parkinson's patients.
- Three-dimensional Brain surface visualization for epilepsy surgery of focal cortical dysplasia.
- Long-term seizure outcomes following resection of supratentorial cavernous malformations.
- Introduction: Evolving trends in movement disorder surgery.
- The incidence of complications in elective cranial neurosurgery associated with dural closure material.
- Advantages of closed-loop calibration in intracortical Brain-computer interfaces for people with tetraplegia.
- Local cortical dynamics of burst suppression in the anaesthetized Brain.
- Editorial: Deep Brain stimulation and obesity.
- Studying task-related activity of individual neurons in the human Brain.
- Intra-day signal instabilities affect decoding performance in an intracortical neural interface System.
- Editorial: Functional mapping.
- Action initiation in the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.
- Limbic System surgery for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: a prospective long-term follow-up of 64 patients.
- Factors Affecting Successful Localization of the Central Sulcus Using the Somatosensory Evoked Potential Phase Reversal Technique.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 2-2013. A 20-year-old man with recurrent ear Pain, fever, and headache.
- Rapid fragmentation of neuronal networks at the onset of propofol-induced unconsciousness.
- Encoding of Rules by Neurons in the Human Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex.
- Lesion Procedures in Psychiatric Neurosurgery.
- Beneficial Effect of Subsequent Lesion Procedures Following Non-response to Initial Cingulotomy for Severe, Treatment-refractory OCD.
- Human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex neurons mediate ongoing behavioural adaptation.
- Mechanisms of deep Brain stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder: effects upon cells and circuits.
- Deep Brain stimulation for medically refractory life-threatening status dystonicus in children.
- Encoding of both positive and negative reward prediction errors by neurons of the primate lateral prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus.
- Individualized localization and cortical surface-based registration of intracranial electrodes.
- Atlas-based segmentation for globus pallidus internus targeting on low-resolution MRI.
- Modulations in the oscillatory activity of the Globus Pallidus internus neurons during a behavioral task-A point process analysis.
- Using point process models to describe rhythmic spiking in the subthalamic nucleus of Parkinson's patients.
- Foramen ovale electrodes in the evaluation of Epilepsy surgery: conventional and unconventional uses.
- Single-neuron dynamics in human focal Epilepsy.
- The variability of stimulus thresholds in electrophysiologic cortical language mapping.
- Basal ganglia neurons dynamically facilitate exploration during associative learning.
- VIM Thalamic Stimulation for Monoclonal Gammopathy-Associated Tremor.
- Intra-operative behavioral tasks in awake humans undergoing deep Brain stimulation surgery.
- Deep Brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: past, present, and future.
- Coalescence and fragmentation of cortical networks during focal seizures.
- Facilitation of visuomotor associative learning by the basal ganglia.
- Physiological responses to Brain stimulation during limbic surgery: further evidence of anterior cingulate modulation of autonomic arousal.
- Getting signals into the Brain: visual prosthetics through thalamic microstimulation.
- Risk factors for hemorrhage during microelectrode-guided deep Brain stimulation and the introduction of an improved microelectrode design.
- Deep Brain stimulation of the ventral capsule/ventral striatum for treatment-resistant depression.
- Prospective assessment of stereotactic ablative surgery for intractable major depression.
- From symphony to cacophony: pathophysiology of the human basal ganglia in Parkinson Disease.
- Pallidal stimulation for dystonia in pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration.
- Increased prevalence of obesity and obesity-related postoperative complications in male patients with Meningiomas.
- Increased prevalence of obesity and obesity-related postoperative complications in male meningioma patients.
- Efficacy of surgical treatment of de novo, adult-onset, cryptogenic, refractory focal status epilepticus.
- Selective enhancement of associative learning by microstimulation of the anterior caudate.
- Experience with microelectrode guided subthalamic nucleus deep Brain stimulation.
- Deep Brain stimulation of the anterior internal capsule for the treatment of Tourette syndrome: technical case report.
- Spinal epidural abscess: clinical presentation, management, and outcome.
- Visually guided movements suppress subthalamic oscillations in Parkinson's Disease patients.
- Human anterior cingulate neurons and the integration of monetary reward with motor responses.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 33-2004. A 34-year-old man with a seizure and a frontal-lobe Brain lesion.
- Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Resident Award: Responses of subthalamic neurons during visually guided movements in patients with Parkinson Disease.
- Surgery for Parkinson Disease in the United States, 1996 to 2000: practice patterns, short-term outcomes, and hospital charges in a nationwide sample.
- Microvascular decompression surgery in the United States, 1996 to 2000: mortality rates, morbidity rates, and the effects of hospital and surgeon volumes.
- Parietal activity and the perceived direction of ambiguous apparent motion.
- Distinct nature of directional signals among parietal cortical areas during visual guidance.
- Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas: experience with endovascular and surgical therapy.
- Subthalamic nucleus Discharge patterns during movement in the normal monkey and Parkinsonian patient.
- Widespread Brain Areas Engaged during a Classical Auditory Streaming Task Revealed by Intracranial EEG.
- AAV2-GAD gene therapy for advanced Parkinson''s Disease: a double-blind, sham-surgery controlled, randomised trial.
- The effects of EEG suppression and anesthetics on stimulus thresholds in functional cortical motor mapping.
- Consideration of Epilepsy surgery in adults should be independent of age.
- Stereotactic cortical resection in non-lesional extra-temporal partial Epilepsy.
- Achieving behavioral control with millisecond resolution in a high-level programming environment.
- A flexible software tool for temporally-precise behavioral control in Matlab.
- Microelectrode-guided deep Brain stimulation for Tourette syndrome: within-subject comparison of different stimulation sites.
- Multimodality treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
- Role of inferior temporal neurons in visual memory. I. Temporal encoding of information about visual images, recalled images, and behavioral context.
- Role of inferior temporal neurons in visual memory. II. Multiplying temporal waveforms related to vision and memory.
- Timing and direction selectivity of subthalamic and pallidal neurons in patients with Parkinson Disease.
- Hydrocephalus requiring urgent external ventricular drainage in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis and Cerebral edema: case report.
- The importance of accurate lesion placement in posteroventral pallidotomy. Report of two cases.
- Dissociation of visual, motor and predictive signals in parietal cortex during visual guidance.
- Stereotactic pallidotomy performed without using microelectrode guidance in patients with Parkinson's Disease: surgical technique and 2-year results.
- Outcomes following staged bilateral pallidotomy in advanced Parkinson's Disease.
- Surgical treatment of Parkinson Disease.
- Rapid determination of cancellous bone mineral loss in ovariectomized rats by a subtraction technique.
Schools
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mass General Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
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Conditions Treated
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain Cancer
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FAANS)
- Super Doctor
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1972576239 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | ESKANDAR | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | EMAD | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021143117 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Neurology | |
| Total Claim Count | 192.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1972576239 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | ESKANDAR |
| First Name Of The Provider | EMAD |
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