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Christopher R. Butson

Christopher R. Butson

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Neuroscience

D-Index
51
Citations
8304
World Ranking
5585
National Ranking
2476

Overview

Christopher R. Butson is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work mainly revolves around Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, with additional contributions to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of areas including Neurological disorders and treatments, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies.

Among their recent scientific publications are:

  • Tourette syndrome: clinical features, pathophysiology, and treatment, 2022, The Lancet Neurology
  • Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Past, Present, and Future of Deep Brain Stimulation: Hardware, Software, Imaging, Physiology and Novel Approaches, 2022, Frontiers in Neurology
  • Thalamic deep brain stimulation in traumatic brain injury: a phase 1, randomized feasibility study, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Structural connectivity predicts clinical outcomes of deep brain stimulation for Tourette syndrome, 2020, Brain

Christopher R. Butson frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Michael S. Okun, Kara A. Johnson, Kelly D. Foote, John D. Rolston, and Daria Nesterovich Anderson.

Regarding publication venues, they have contributed multiple articles to:

  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Brain Stimulation
  • The Lancet Neurology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Best Publications

  • Patient-specific analysis of the volume of tissue activated during deep brain stimulation

    Christopher R. Butson;Scott E. Cooper;Jaimie M. Henderson;Cameron C. McIntyre

  • Tissue and electrode capacitance reduce neural activation volumes during deep brain stimulation.

    Christopher R. Butson;Cameron C. McIntyre

  • Sources and effects of electrode impedance during deep brain stimulation

    Christopher R. Butson;Christopher B. Maks;Cameron C. McIntyre

  • Role of electrode design on the volume of tissue activated during deep brain stimulation

    Christopher R Butson;Cameron C McIntyre

  • Computational Analysis of Subthalamic Nucleus and Lenticular Fasciculus Activation During Therapeutic Deep Brain Stimulation

    Svjetlana Miocinovic;Svjetlana Miocinovic;Martin Parent;Christopher R. Butson;Philip J. Hahn

  • Patient-specific models of deep brain stimulation: Influence of field model complexity on neural activation predictions

    Ashutosh Chaturvedi;Ashutosh Chaturvedi;Christopher R. Butson;Scott F. Lempka;Scott F. Lempka;Scott E. Cooper

  • Current steering to control the volume of tissue activated during deep brain stimulation.

    Christopher R. Butson;Cameron C. McIntyre

  • Method and device for displaying predicted volume of influence

    Cameron C. McIntyre;Christopher R. Butson;John D. Hall;Jaimie M. Henderson

  • Deep brain stimulation activation volumes and their association with neurophysiological mapping and therapeutic outcomes

    Christopher B. Maks;Christopher R. Butson;Benjamin L. Walter;Jerrold L. Vitek

  • Experimental and theoretical characterization of the voltage distribution generated by deep brain stimulation

    Svjetlana Miocinovic;Svjetlana Miocinovic;Scott F. Lempka;Scott F. Lempka;Gary S. Russo;Christopher B. Maks

  • Pedunculopontine nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease: A clinical review

    Wesley Thevathasan;Bettina Debu;Tipu Aziz;Bastiaan R Bloem

  • Probabilistic Analysis of Activation Volumes Generated During Deep Brain Stimulation

    Christopher R. Butson;Scott E. Cooper;Jaimie M. Henderson;Barbara Wolgamuth

  • Systems and methods for determining volume of activation for deep brain stimulation

    Christopher R. Butson;Christopher B. Maks;Cameron C. McIntyre

  • Cicerone: stereotactic neurophysiological recording and deep brain stimulation electrode placement software system

    S. Miocinovic;S. Miocinovic;A. M. Noecker;C. B. Maks;Christopher R Butson

  • Tourette syndrome: clinical features, pathophysiology, and treatment

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  • Optimized programming algorithm for cylindrical and directional deep brain stimulation electrodes.

    Daria Nesterovich Anderson;Braxton Osting;Johannes Vorwerk;Alan Dale Dorval

  • StimExplorer: deep brain stimulation parameter selection software system.

    Christopher R Butson;A. M. Noecker;C. B. Maks;Cameron C. McIntyre

  • Past, Present, and Future of Deep Brain Stimulation: Hardware, Software, Imaging, Physiology and Novel Approaches

    Unknown

  • Differences among implanted pulse generator waveforms cause variations in the neural response to deep brain stimulation.

    Christopher R. Butson;Cameron C. McIntyre

  • System and method to design structure for delivering electrical energy to tissue

    Christopher R. Butson;Cameron McIntyre

  • Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

    Juan Carlos Baldermann;Thomas Schüller;Sina Kohl;Valerie Voon

  • Management of Deep Brain Stimulator Battery Failure: Battery Estimators, Charge Density, and Importance of Clinical Symptoms

    Kaihan Fakhar;Erin Hastings;Christopher R. Butson;Kelly D. Foote

  • Predicting the effects of deep brain stimulation with diffusion tensor based electric field models

    Christopher R. Butson;Scott E. Cooper;Jaimie M. Henderson;Cameron C. McIntyre

Frequent Co-Authors

Cameron C. McIntyre
Cameron C. McIntyre Duke University
Michael S. Okun
Michael S. Okun University of Florida
Jaimie M. Henderson
Jaimie M. Henderson Stanford University
Kelly D. Foote
Kelly D. Foote University of Florida
John D. Rolston
John D. Rolston University of Utah
Ayşegül Gündüz
Ayşegül Gündüz University of Florida
Jill L. Ostrem
Jill L. Ostrem University of California, San Francisco
Jerrold L. Vitek
Jerrold L. Vitek University of Minnesota
Thomas Foltynie
Thomas Foltynie University College London
Sylvain Baillet
Sylvain Baillet McGill University

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