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Ali R. Rezai is affiliated with West Virginia University in the United States and has a significant body of work within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields including Neurology, Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging, Pain Management and Treatment, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Frequent coauthors in their published research include Victor Finomore, Marc W. Haut, Jeffrey Carpenter, Manish Ranjan, and James J. Mahoney.

Ali R. Rezai has published research in various journals and venues, with frequent publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Clinical Oncology, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Neuro-Oncology, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Noninvasive hippocampal blood−brain barrier opening in Alzheimer's disease with focused ultrasound, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Opening and Aducanumab in Alzheimer's Disease, 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Blood-Brain Barrier Opening with MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound Elicits Meningeal Venous Permeability in Humans with Early Alzheimer Disease, 2021, Radiology
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and other forms of neuromodulation for substance use disorders: Review of modalities and implications for treatment, 2020, Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • β-Amyloid Plaque Reduction in the Hippocampus After Focused Ultrasound-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in Alzheimer's Disease, 2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson Disease: An Expert Consensus and Review of Key Issues

    Jeff M. Bronstein;Michele Tagliati;Ron L. Alterman;Andres M. Lozano

  • Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury

    N. D. Schiff;J. T. Giacino;K. Kalmar;J. D. Victor

  • Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Donald A. Malone;Darin D. Dougherty;Ali R. Rezai;Linda L. Carpenter

  • Restoring cortical control of functional movement in a human with quadriplegia

    Chad E. Bouton;Chad E. Bouton;Ammar Shaikhouni;Nicholas V. Annetta;Marcia A. Bockbrader

  • Electrical stimulation of the sympathetic nerve chain

    Ali R. Rezai

  • Deep brain stimulation of the ventral internal capsule/ventral striatum for obsessive-compulsive disorder: worldwide experience.

    B D Greenberg;Lutgardis Gabriëls;D A Malone;A R Rezai

  • Three-Year Outcomes in Deep Brain Stimulation for Highly Resistant Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

    Benjamin D Greenberg;Donald A Malone;Gerhard M Friehs;Ali R Rezai

  • AAV2-GAD gene therapy for advanced Parkinson's disease: a double-blind, sham-surgery controlled, randomised trial

    Peter A LeWitt;Ali R Rezai;Maureen A Leehey;Steven G Ojemann

  • A Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Chronic Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Darin D. Dougherty;Ali R. Rezai;Linda L. Carpenter;Robert H. Howland

  • Method and apparatus for renal neuromodulation

    Ali R. Rezai;Roy K. Greenberg;Milind Deogaonkar

  • Method of treating complex regional pain syndromes by electrical stimulation of the sympathetic nerve chain

    Ali R. Rezai;Martin Zonenshayn

  • Method of treating palmar hyperhydrosis by electrical stimulation of the sympathetic nervous chain

    Ali R. Rezai;Martin Zonenshayn

  • Neurostimulation systems for deep brain stimulation: in vitro evaluation of magnetic resonance imaging-related heating at 1.5 tesla.

    Ali R. Rezai;Daniel Finelli;John A. Nyenhuis;Greg Hrdlicka

  • Method of treating psychological disorders by brain stimulation within the thalamus

    Ali R. Rezai

  • Methods of treating medical conditions by neuromodulation of the sympathetic nervous system

    Ali Rezai;Mehdi Ansarinia

  • Primary dystonia is more responsive than secondary dystonia to pallidal interventions: outcome after pallidotomy or pallidal deep brain stimulation.

    Hazem A. Eltahawy;Jean Saint-Cyr;Nir Giladi;Anthony E. Lang

  • An Updated Interdisciplinary Clinical Pathway for CRPS: Report of an Expert Panel

    Michael D. Stanton-Hicks;Allen W. Burton;Stephen P. Bruehl;Daniel B. Carr

  • Complications of deep brain stimulation surgery.

    Aleksandar Beric;Patrick J. Kelly;Ali Rezai;Djordje Sterio

  • Deep brain stimulation in epilepsy.

    Tobias Loddenkemper;Andrew Pan;Silvia Neme;Kenneth B. Baker

  • Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury (Nature (2007) 448, (600-603))

    N. D. Schiff;J. T. Giacino;K. Kalmar;J. D. Victor

Frequent Co-Authors

Andre G. Machado
Andre G. Machado Cleveland Clinic
Ashwini Sharan
Ashwini Sharan Thomas Jefferson University
Kenneth B. Baker
Kenneth B. Baker Cleveland Clinic
Benjamin D. Greenberg
Benjamin D. Greenberg Brown University
Patrick J. Kelly
Patrick J. Kelly New York University
Jaimie M. Henderson
Jaimie M. Henderson Stanford University
Steven A. Rasmussen
Steven A. Rasmussen Brown University
Andres M. Lozano
Andres M. Lozano University of Toronto
Frank G. Shellock
Frank G. Shellock University of Southern California
Michael V. Knopp
Michael V. Knopp The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

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