Bijan Pesaran, PhD

Penn Medicine Provider

About me

Robert A. Groff, M.D. Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery II
Professor of Neurosurgery in Neuroscience

Spoken languages

English

Insurance accepted

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Dr. Pesaran is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Seilheimer RL, Qiu L, Rocchio G, Nho YH, Campos G, Horn A, Rolle CE, Buch VP, Ganguly TM, Cristancho M, Oathes DJ, Brown L, Pesaran B, Krystal AD, Chang EF, Lee MA, Miller KJ, Barbosa DAN, Williams NR, Halpern CH, Scangos KW. Stereo-encephalography-guided multi-lead deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory obsessive compulsive disorder - Study design and individualized surgical targeting approach , J Affect Disord, 402: 2026,121349

Borges PGLB, Qureshi Q, Davis P, Wang Z, Sargur K, Haggerty J, Wingel K, Kim MJ, Pisano TJ, Ho E, Barth K, Byun YW, Miller JS, Dister J, Anushiravani R, Murphy M, Poole AJ, Strauss J, Mermel CH, Qiu L, Halpern CH, Yoshor D, Beauchamp M, Pesaran B, Rapoport BI, Cajigas I. Microscale organization and separability of upper extremity representations in the human motor homunculus. , Res Sq: 2026

Haggerty J, Qureshi Q, Gabriel ED, Borges PG, Davis P, Wingel K, Cai J, Sargur K, Kim MJ, Dubey A, Garwood I, Vaz A, Richardson AG, Chen HI, Hammer LH, Gold J, Litt B, Yoshor D, Beauchamp M, Halpern C, Pesaran B, Cajigas I. Thalamus: a real-time system for synchronized, closed-loop multimodal behavioral and electrophysiological data capture , Commun Eng: 2026

Nho YH, Qiu L, Seilheimer RL, Campos G, Chang A, Wang Z, Magnotti JF, Beauchamp MS, Barbosa DAN, Horn A, Williams NR, Brown LA, Ganguly TM, Cristancho M, Pesaran B, Oathes DJ, Miller KJ, Scangos KW, Halpern CH. Human orbitofrontal neural activity is linked to obsessive-compulsive behavioral dynamics , Cell, 189: 2026,739-747

Barth KJ, Rachinskiy I, Duraivel S, Sun J, Chiang CH, Wang C, Rahimpour S, Haglund MM, Vestal M, Harward SC, Devore S, Friedman D, Pesaran B, Sinha SR, Southwell DG, Frauscher B, Cogan GB, Blanco J, Viventi J. Mapping intraoperative interictal epileptiform discharges using high-resolution, thin-film cortical arrays , Epilepsia: 2026

Qiu L, Nho YH, Seilheimer RL, Kim MJ, Tufanoglu A, Williams NR, Wexler A, Oslin DW, Millet B, Scangos KW, Pesaran B, Evins AE, Richardson RM, Childress AR, Halpern CH. Electrographic cue-reactivity co-localizes with accumbens deep brain stimulation in a case of opioid use disorder , Nat Commun, 17: 2026,1708

Jung T, Zeng N, Fabbri JD, Eichler G, Li Z, Zabeh E, Das A, Willeke K, Wingel KE, Dubey A, Huq R, Sharma M, Hu Y, Ramakrishnan G, Tien K, Mantovani P, Parihar A, Yin H, Oswalt D, Misdorp A, Uguz I, Shinn T, Rodriguez GJ, Nealley C, van der Molen T, Sanborn S, Gonzales I, Roukes M, Knecht J, Kosik KS, Yoshor D, Canoll P, Spinazzi E, Carloni LP, Pesaran B, Patel S, Jacobs J, Youngerman B, Cotton RJ, Tolias A, Shepard KL A wireless subdural-contained brain-computer interface with 65,536 electrodes and 1,024 channels. , Nat Electron: 2025

Jha T, Sani OG, Pesaran B, Shanechi MM Prioritized learning of cross-population neural dynamics , J Neural Eng, 22: 2025,046040