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Overview

Ashwini Sharan is affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans a diverse range of topics with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience, neurology, surgery, pathology and forensic medicine, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

The primary areas of study addressed in their work include:

  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Sharan has published extensively in various scientific journals, demonstrating consistent engagement with several prominent venues. The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • Neurosurgery
  • World Neurosurgery
  • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their recent papers cover a range of topics within neuroscience and neurosurgery, including:

  • Functionally distinct high and low theta oscillations in the human hippocampus, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Intracranial EEG in the 21st Century, 2020, Epilepsy Currents
  • Telemedicine in Neurosurgery: Lessons Learned and Transformation of Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, World Neurosurgery
  • Single-Neuron Representations of Spatial Targets in Humans, 2020, Current Biology
  • Robot-Assisted Stereotaxy Reduces Target Error: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of 6056 Trajectories, 2020, Neurosurgery

Collaborative work is a significant aspect of Sharan's research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • James S. Harrop
  • Chengyuan Wu
  • Joshua Heller
  • Jack Jallo
  • Mahdi Alizadeh

This collaborative network and the broad array of publication venues reflect a multidisciplinary approach intersecting clinical and research domains within medicine and neuroscience. Sharan's research contributions reveal a focus on both experimental and clinical neuroscience, with particular attention paid to neurosurgical techniques, brain function monitoring technologies such as EEG, and the treatment of neurological disorders including epilepsy and spinal pathologies.

Best Publications

  • Electrical stimulation of the anterior nucleus of thalamus for treatment of refractory epilepsy

    Robert Fisher;Vicenta Salanova;Thomas Witt;Robert Worth

  • Long-term efficacy and safety of thalamic stimulation for drug-resistant partial epilepsy

    Vicenta Salanova;Thomas Witt;Robert Worth;Thomas R. Henry

  • Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation

    Joshua Jacobs;Christoph T Weidemann;Jonathan F Miller;Alec Solway

  • Obesity and spine surgery: relation to perioperative complications

    Nimesh Patel;Bradley Bagan;Sumeet Vadera;Mitchell Gil Maltenfort

  • Safety and efficacy of peripheral nerve stimulation of the occipital nerves for the management of chronic migraine: Long-term results from a randomized, multicenter, double-blinded, controlled study

    David W. Dodick;Stephen D. Silberstein;Kenneth L. Reed;Timothy R. Deer

  • Complications in spine surgery

    Rani Nasser;Sanjay Yadla;Mitchell G Maltenfort;James S Harrop

  • A review of size and location of ruptured intracranial aneurysms.

    Thomas R. Forget;Ronald Benitez;Erol Veznedaroglu;Ashwini Sharan

  • 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

  • Closed-loop stimulation of temporal cortex rescues functional networks and improves memory.

    Youssef Ezzyat;Paul A. Wanda;Deborah F. Levy;Allison Kadel

  • Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease: surgical technique and perioperative management.

    Andre Machado;Ali R. Rezai;Brian H. Kopell;Robert E. Gross

  • Synchronous and Asynchronous Theta and Gamma Activity during Episodic Memory Formation

    John F. Burke;Kareem A. Zaghloul;Joshua Jacobs;Ryan B. Williams

  • Effect of early surgery, material, and method of flap preservation on cranioplasty infections: a systematic review.

    Sanjay Yadla;Peter G. Campbell;Rohan Chitale;Mitchell G. Maltenfort

  • Laser interstitial thermal therapy for medically intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

    Joon Y. Kang;Joon Y. Kang;Chengyuan Wu;Joseph Tracy;Matthew Lorenzo

  • Direct Electrical Stimulation of the Human Entorhinal Region and Hippocampus Impairs Memory

    Joshua Jacobs;Jonathan Miller;Sang Ah Lee;Sang Ah Lee;Tom Coffey

  • Widespread theta synchrony and high-frequency desynchronization underlies enhanced cognition.

    E. A. Solomon;J. E. Kragel;Michael R. Sperling;Ashwini Sharan

  • Neurostimulation system used for deep brain stimulation (DBS): MR safety issues and implications of failing to follow safety recommendations.

    Ali R. Rezai;Michael Phillips;Kenneth B. Baker;Ashwini D. Sharan

  • Delivery device for stimulating the sympathetic nerve chain

    Ali Rezai;II Thomas MacMartin Harman;Ashwini Sharan

  • Single-stage autogenous bone grafting and internal fixation in the surgical management of pyogenic discitis and vertebral osteomyelitis

    Gregory J. Przybylski;Ashwini D. Sharan

  • Neural stimulation delivery device with independently moveable delivery structures

    Ali Rezai;Ashwini Sharan

  • Functionally distinct high and low theta oscillations in the human hippocampus

    Abhinav Goyal;Jonathan Miller;Salman E. Qasim;Andrew J. Watrous

  • Neurostimulation for affecting sleep disorders

    Ali Rezai;Jorge Alvaro Gonzalez-Martinez;Ashwini Sharan

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph I. Tracy
Joseph I. Tracy Thomas Jefferson University
Michael J. Kahana
Michael J. Kahana University of Pennsylvania
Joel M. Stein
Joel M. Stein University of Pennsylvania
Sameer A. Sheth
Sameer A. Sheth Baylor College of Medicine
Kathryn A. Davis
Kathryn A. Davis University of Pennsylvania
Barbara C. Jobst
Barbara C. Jobst Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center
Maromi Nei
Maromi Nei Thomas Jefferson University
Jonathan P. Miller
Jonathan P. Miller Case Western Reserve University

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