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Overview

Keyoumars Ashkan is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has a strong research focus within the field of Medicine, with particular emphasis on Neurology, Genetics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Epidemiology.

Their work spans multiple specialized topics in neuroscience and medical imaging. Key subjects in their research include:

  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Meningioma and schwannoma management
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Keyoumars Ashkan has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • Neuro-Oncology (17 publications)
  • World Neurosurgery (10 publications)
  • Neurosurgery (8 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (8 publications)
  • Journal of Personalized Medicine (7 publications)

Their collaboration network features frequent co-authors such as José Pedro Lavrador (68 collaborations), Ranjeev Bhangoo (66 collaborations), Richard Gullan (55 collaborations), Francesco Vergani (49 collaborations), and Harutomo Hasegawa (21 collaborations).

Representative recent publications by Keyoumars Ashkan include:

  • "Association of Autologous Tumor Lysate-Loaded Dendritic Cell Vaccination With Extension of Survival Among Patients With Newly Diagnosed and Recurrent Glioblastoma", 2022, JAMA Oncology
  • "The aperiodic exponent of subthalamic field potentials reflects excitation/inhibition balance in Parkinsonism", 2023, eLife
  • "Proton Resonance Frequency Shift Thermometry: A Review of Modern Clinical Practices", 2020, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • "A prospective, controlled study of non-motor effects of subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson's disease: results at the 36-month follow-up", 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • "Beneficial nonmotor effects of subthalamic and pallidal neurostimulation in Parkinson's disease", 2020, Brain Stimulation

Best Publications

  • Adaptive deep brain stimulation in advanced Parkinson disease

    Simon Little;Alex Pogosyan;Spencer Neal;Baltazar Zavala

  • Deep brain stimulation can suppress pathological synchronisation in parkinsonian patients

    A Eusebio;W Thevathasan;L Doyle Gaynor;A Pogosyan

  • Insights into the mechanisms of deep brain stimulation

    Keyoumars Ashkan;Priya Rogers;Hagai Bergman;Ismail Ughratdar

  • Survival of midbrain dopaminergic cells after lesion or deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in MPTP-treated monkeys

    Bradley A. Wallace;Keyoumars Ashkan;Claire E Heise;Kelly D Foote

  • Intra-operative recordings of local field potentials can help localize the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease surgery

    Chiung Chu Chen;Alek Pogosyan;Ludvic U. Zrinzo;Stephen Tisch

  • Effect of electrode contact location on clinical efficacy of pallidal deep brain stimulation in primary generalised dystonia

    Stephen Tisch;Ludvic Zrinzo;Patricia Limousin;Kailash P Bhatia

  • Midline Frontal Cortex Low-Frequency Activity Drives Subthalamic Nucleus Oscillations during Conflict

    Baltazar A. Zavala;Huiling Tan;Simon Little;Keyoumars Ashkan

  • Neuroprotection of midbrain dopaminergic cells in MPTP-treated mice after near-infrared light treatment.

    Victoria E. Shaw;Sharon Spana;Keyoumars Ashkan;Alim-Louis Benabid

  • Functional reorganization in obstructive sleep apnoea and insomnia: A systematic review of the resting-state fMRI.

    Habibolah Khazaie;Mattia Veronese;Khadijeh Noori;Farnoosh Emamian

  • EuroInf 2: Subthalamic stimulation, apomorphine, and levodopa infusion in Parkinson's disease.

    Haidar S. Dafsari;Pablo Martinez-Martin;Alexandra Rizos;Maja Trost

  • Modulation of Beta Bursts in the Subthalamic Nucleus Predicts Motor Performance.

    Flavie Torrecillos;Flavie Torrecillos;Gerd Tinkhauser;Gerd Tinkhauser;Gerd Tinkhauser;Petra Fischer;Petra Fischer;Alexander L. Green

  • Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia in the elderly: a review of the safety and efficacy.

    Keyoumars Ashkan;Henry Marsh

  • Proportion of life lived with dystonia inversely correlates with response to pallidal deep brain stimulation in both primary and secondary childhood dystonia

    Daniel E Lumsden;Margaret Kaminska;Hortensia Gimeno;Kylee Tustin

  • Non-motor outcomes depend on location of neurostimulation in Parkinson's disease

    Jan Niklas Petry-Schmelzer;Max Krause;Till A Dembek;Andreas Horn

  • Variability of the subthalamic nucleus: the case for direct MRI guided targeting.

    K Ashkan;P Blomstedt;L Zrinzo;S Tisch

  • Subthalamic Nucleus Local Field Potential Activity during the Eriksen Flanker Task Reveals a Novel Role for Theta Phase during Conflict Monitoring

    Baltazar Zavala;John-Stuart Brittain;Ned Jenkinson;Keyoumars Ashkan

  • CT/MR image fusion in the postoperative assessment of electrodes implanted for deep brain stimulation.

    Ruth L. O’Gorman;Josef M. Jarosz;Michael Samuel;Chris Clough

  • Beneficial Effects of Bilateral Subthalamic Stimulation on Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease

    Haidar Salimi Dafsari;Prashanth Reddy;Christiane Herchenbach;Stefanie Wawro

  • Pallidal stimulation modifies after-effects of paired associative stimulation on motor cortex excitability in primary generalised dystonia

    Stephen Tisch;John C. Rothwell;Kailash P. Bhatia;Niall Quinn

  • Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease 1993-2003: where are we 10 years on?

    K Ashkan;B Wallace;B A Bell;A L Benabid

  • Benign central neurocytoma

    Keyoumars Ashkan;Adrian T. H. Casey;Corrado D'Arrigo;William F. Harkness

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Brown
Peter Brown University of Oxford
Richard Selway
Richard Selway King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Huiling Tan
Huiling Tan University of Oxford
Ludvic Zrinzo
Ludvic Zrinzo University College London
Alek Pogosyan
Alek Pogosyan University of Oxford
Patricia Limousin
Patricia Limousin University College London
Thomas Foltynie
Thomas Foltynie University College London
Tipu Z. Aziz
Tipu Z. Aziz University of Oxford
Alexander L. Green
Alexander L. Green University of Oxford
Marwan Hariz
Marwan Hariz Umeå University

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