Bijan Pesaran, PhD
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About me

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

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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


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


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


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


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


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


Seilheimer RL, Qiu L, Rocchio G, Nho YH, Campos G, Pesaran B, Williams NR, Rolle CE, Buch VP, Ganguly TM, Miller KJ, Cristancho M, Oathes DJ, Brown L, Scangos KW, Barbosa DAN, Halpern CH Stereo-encephalography-guided multi-lead deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory obsessive compulsive disorder - study design and individualized surgical targeting approach , medRxiv: 2025


Qiu L, Nho Y, Seilheimer RL, Kim MJ, Tufanoglu A, Williams N, Wexler A, David O, Millet B, Katherine SW, Pesaran B, Evins AE, Richardson M, Childress AR, Halpern CH. Localizing electrophysiologic cue-reactivity within the nucleus accumbens guides deep brain stimulation for opioid use disorder , bioRxiv: 2025


Schmitz C, Smith JE, Rachinskiy I, Pesaran B, Vitale F, Sommer M, Viventi J. Supracortical Microstimulation: Advances in Microelectrode Design and In Vivo Validation. , Annu Rev Biomed Eng: 2025


Qiu L, Nho Y, Seilheimer RL, Kim MJ, Tufanoglu A, Williams N, Wexler A, David O, Millet B, Katherine SW, Pesaran B, Evins AE, Richardson M, Childress AR, Halpern CH. Localizing electrophysiologic cue-reactivity within the nucleus accumbens guides deep brain stimulation for opioid use disorder. , Biorxiv: 2025