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Specialty:
Board Certification:
Faculty Rank:
Professor
Medical or Graduate Education:
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Residency:
University of Washington Medical Center - Neurological Surgery
Clinical Expertise:
Deep brain stimulation
Dystonia
Dystonia surgery
Epilepsy
Epilepsy surgery
Essential tremor
Essential tremor surgery
Gene therapy
Movement disorders
Movement disorders surgery
Neural transplantation
Pallidotomy
Parkinson disease
Parkinson disease surgery
Stereotactic surgery
Thalamotomy
Vagus nerve stimulation
Research Interests:
Movement disorders
Alzheimer disease
Epilepsy
Gene therapy
Stem cell transplantation
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Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.
Displacement of a Deep Brain Stimulator Lead During Placement of an Additional Ipsilateral Lead. Falowski S, Ghods AJ, Bakay RA. Neuromodulation. 2012 2012 Sep 4. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1403.2012.00500.x. [Epub ahead of print]Effect of intraoperative subthalamic nucleus DBS on human single-unit activity in the ipsilateral and contralateral subthalamic nucleus. Toleikis JR, Metman LV, Pilitsis JG, Barborica A, Toleikis SC, Bakay RA. J Neurosurg. 2012 2012 May;116(5):1134-43. Epub 2012 Feb 17. 116(5):1134Intraoperative x-ray to measure distance between DBS leads: A reliability study. Verhagen Metman L, Pilitsis JG, Stebbins GT, Bot M, Bakay RA. Mov Disord. 2012 2012 Jul 27(8):1056-9. doi: 10.1002/mds.25056. Epub 2012 Jun 12.Deep brain stimulation and hemorrhage. Bakay RA, Vannemreddy PS. J Neurosurg. 2012 2012 Apr 116(4):929-30; author reply 930-2. doi: 10.3171/2011.10.JNS111739. Epub 2012 Feb 3. No abstract available.Deep brain stimulation and seizures. Bakay RA, Vannemreddy PS. J Neurosurg. 2012 2012 Apr 116(4):926; author reply 926-7. doi: 10.3171/2011.8.JNS111461. Epub 2012 Jan 13. No abstract available.An evaluation of hardware and surgical complications with deep brain stimulation based on diagnosis and lead location. Falowski S, Ooi YC, Smith A, Verhargen Metman L, Bakay RA. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2012 2012 90(3):173-80. doi: 10.1159/000338254. Epub 2012 Jun 5.Neural Prosthesis: Concept and Progress. Bakay RA, Vannemreddy PS. World Neurosurg. 2011 Nov 1Perspectives on "fusion image-based programming after subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation" Bakay RA, Falowski S. World Neurosurg. 2011 Mar-Apr 75(3-4):436-7Intrastriatal transplantation of microcarrier-bound human retinal pigment epithelial cells versus sham surgery in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease: a double-blind, randomised, controlled trial. Gross RE, Watts RL, Hauser RA, Bakay RA, Reichmann H, von Kummer R, Ondo WG, Reissig E, Eisner W, Steiner-Schulze H, Siedentop H, Fichte K, Hong W, Cornfeldt M, Beebe K, Sandbrink R; Spheramine Investigational Group. Lancet Neurol. 2011 Jun 10(6):509-19Dyskinesias do not develop after chronic intermittent levodopa therapy in clinically hemiparkinsonian rhesus monkeys Lieu CA, Deogaonkar M, Bakay RA, Subramanian T Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2011 Jan 17(1):34-9Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease: an expert consensus and review of key issues Bronstein JM, Tagliati M, Alterman RL, Lozano AM, Volkmann J, Stefani A, Horak FB, Okun MS, Foote KD, Krack P, Pahwa R, Henderson JM, Hariz MI, Bakay RA, Rezai A, Marks WJ Jr, Moro E, Vitek JL, Weaver FM, Gross RE, Delong MR Arch Neurol 2011 Feb 68(2):165Frameless deep brain stimulation using intraoperative O-arm technology. Smith AP, Bakay RA. J Neurosurg. 2011 Aug 115(2):301-9Effects of five years of chronic STN stimulation on muscle strength and movement speed Sturman MM, Vaillancourt DE, Metman LV, Bakay RA, Corcos DM Exp Brain Res 2010 Sep 205(4):435-43Electrical stimulation of the anterior nucleus of thalamus for treatment of refractory epilepsy Fisher R, Salanova V, Witt T, Worth R, Henry T, Gross R, Oommen K, Osorio I, Nazzaro J, Labar D, Kaplitt M, Sperling M, Sandok E, Neal J, Handforth A, Stern J, DeSalles A, Chung S, Shetter A, Bergen D, Bakay R, Henderson J, French J, Baltuch G, Rosenfeld W, Youkilis A, Marks W, Garcia P, Barbaro N, Fountain N, Bazil C, Goodman R, McKhann G, Babu Krishnamurthy K, Papavassiliou S, Epstein C, Pollard J, Tonder L, Grebin J, Coffey R, Graves N; SANTE Study Group Epilepsia 2010 May 51(5):899-908Safety of magnetic resonance imaging of deep brain stimulator systems: a serial imaging and clinical retrospective study Chhabra V, Sung E, Mewes K, Bakay RA, Abosch A, Gross RE J Neurosurg 2010 Mar 112(3):497-502Gene delivery of AAV2-neurturin for Parkinson's disease: a double-blind, randomised, controlled trial Marks WJ Jr, Bartus RT, Siffert J, Davis CS, Lozano A, Boulis N, Vitek J, Stacy M, Turner D, Verhagen L, Bakay R, Watts R, Guthrie B, Jankovic J, Simpson R, Tagliati M, Alterman R, Stern M, Baltuch G, Starr PA, Larson PS, Ostrem JL, Nutt J, Kieburtz K, Kordower JH, Olanow CW Lancet Neurol 2010 Dec 9(12):1164-72Standard guidelines for publication of deep brain stimulation studies in Parkinson's disease (Guide4DBS-PD) Vitek JL, Lyons KE, Bakay R, Benabid AL, Deuschl G, Hallett M, Kurlan R, Pancrazio JJ, Rezai A, Walter BL, Lang AE Mov Disord 2010 Aug 15 25(11):1530-7Somatotopic organization in the internal segment of the globus pallidus in Parkinson's disease Baker KB, Lee JY, Mavinkurve G, Russo GS, Walter B, DeLong MR, Bakay RA, Vitek JL Exp Neurol 2010 Apr 222(2):219-25Neurotrophic factor therapy for Parkinson's disease Rangasamy SB, Soderstrom K, Bakay RA, Kordower JH Prog Brain Res 2010 184:237-64Stimulation-induced parkinsonism after posteroventral deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus internus for craniocervical dystonia Zauber SE, Watson N, Comella CL, Bakay RA, Metman LV J Neurosurg 2009 Feb 110(2):229-33Survival of mossy cells of the hippocampal dentate gyrus in humans with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy Seress L, Abrahám H, Horváth Z, Dóczi T, Janszky J, Klemm J, Byrne R, Bakay RA J Neurosurg 2009 Dec 111(6):1237-47Deep brain stimulation for schizophrenia Bakay RA Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2009 87(4):266Factors involved in long-term efficacy of deep brain stimulation of the thalamus for essential tremor Pilitsis JG, Metman LV, Toleikis JR, Hughes LE, Sani SB, Bakay RA J Neurosurg 2008 Oct 109(4):640-6Transgene expression, bioactivity, and safety of CERE-120 (AAV2-neurturin) following delivery to the monkey striatum Herzog CD, Dass B, Gasmi M, Bakay R, Stansell JE, Tuszynski M, Bankiewicz K, Chen EY, Chu Y, Bishop K, Kordower JH, Bartus RT Mol Ther 2008 Oct 16(10):1737-44Safety and tolerability of intraputaminal delivery of CERE-120 (adeno-associated virus serotype 2-neurturin) to patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease: an open-label, phase I trial Marks WJ Jr, Ostrem JL, Verhagen L, Starr PA, Larson PS, Bakay RA, Taylor R, Cahn-Weiner DA, Stoessl AJ, Olanow CW, Bartus RT Lancet Neurol 2008 May 7(5):400-8Postmortem study of deep brain stimulation of the anterior thalamus: case report Pilitsis JG, Chu Y, Kordower J, Bergen DC, Cochran EJ, Bakay RA Neurosurgery 2008 Feb 62(2):E530-2; discussion E532Effect of short and long term STN stimulation periods on parkinsonian signs Sturman MM, Vaillancourt DE, Shapiro MB, Metman LV, Bakay RA, Corcos DM Mov Disord 2008 Apr 30 23(6):866-74Cortical stimulation for the rehabilitation of patients with hemiparetic stroke: a multicenter feasibility study of safety and efficacy Levy R, Ruland S, Weinand M, Lowry D, Dafer R, Bakay R J Neurosurg 2008 Apr 108(4):707-14Therapeutic potentials of human embryonic stem cells in Parkinson's disease Newman MB, Bakay RA Neurotherapeutics 2008 Apr 5(2):237-51Ventral intermediate thalamic stimulation in complex tremor syndromes. Diederich NJ, Verhagen Metman L, Bakay RA, Alesch F. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2008 86(3):167-72
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View Transcript What I really have passion for, and what I really work for is functional neurosurgery — that is changing the symptoms of the disease. So if one has epilepsy and uncontrolled seizures, we can intervene with surgery and decrease or even eliminate the seizures. If we have a child who has dystonia — pretzel-like cramping of the muscles — we can unwrap the muscles, relax them — and have the child come out running, jumping and playing as normal — through deep brain stimulation.
Deep brain stimulation is implanting an electrode in the brain — in the right spot, in the right patient, the right disease — and allowing that stimulator to interfere with the abnormal activity so that the normal activity comes out, and that the behavior improves. The ability of the deep brain stimulator to change the way in which the brain is functioning is remarkable. It’s being used for all types of diseases that we never thought we’d be able to treat before.