- Epilepsy
- Stroke related epilepsy
- Stroke related seizures
- Responsive neurostimulation system
- Vagus nerve stimulation
Brian Litt, MD
Neurology
Sees patients age 16 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Perelman Professor of Neurology
- Professor of Neurology in Neurosurgery
My education and training
- Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Spoken languages
English
English
עברית
Hebrew
Français
French
Reviews
78 reviews
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Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Neurology, 1992
- American Academy of Clinical Neurophysiology, International
- American Academy of Neurology, International
- American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology, International
- American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, International
- American Epilepsy Society, International
- American Federation of Musicians, National
- American Neurological Association, International
- Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, National
- Eastern Electroencephalographic Society, International
- Epilepsy Foundation, National
- Epilepsy Foundation (National), National
- Epilepsy Foundation of South Eastern Pennsylvania, Local
- ICTALS-started as International Seizure Prediction Group. Meeting has occurred every 18 months alternating between the US and Europe, International
- IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Also includes membership in IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society)., International
- International Epilepsy Database (for high fidelity neurophysiological data), International
- International League Against Epilepsy, International
- MC10, Start-up Company between UPenn, Harvard and Univ. of Illinois, National
- National Research Board of Ireland, Grant Reviewer, International
- National Science Foundation, Grant Reviewer, National
- NeuroVista, Inc, Member Scientific Advisory Board, National
- NIH Study Section, ZRG1 BDCN-F 11 M, Ad Hoc Member, National
- Penn Center for Health, Devices and Technology (Penn Health-Tech). Co-Founder and Director, National
- Philadelphia Neurological Society, Local
- Research Board of Canada, Grant Reviewer, International
- Research Board of Ireland, Grant Reviewer, International
- Society for Neuroscience, International
- The Epilepsy Therapy Project (ETP), National
- Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., Scientific Reviewer, National
- Penn Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Pattnaik AR, Xu Z, Ojemann WKS, Aguila CA, Lucas A, Lavelle S, Goldblum Z, Galer PD, Gallagher R, Davis KA, Sinha N, Conrad EC, Litt B. The seizure embedding map: a spatio-temporal transformer for comparing patients by ictal intracranial EEG features at scale , J Neural Eng, 23: 2026,046011
Dong R, Chen Y, Garg R, Averbeck SR, Wun C, Unegbu P, Shankar S, Ahmad S, Jung J, Zahed MA, Zhang D, Gogotsi Y, Takano H, Litt B, Vitale F. Artifact-free, colocalized opto-electrophysiology enabled by a flexible, multimodal interface integrating transparent MXene microelectrodes and microLEDs , Biosens Bioelectron, 304: 2026,118620
Feys O, Walsh KG, Nix KC, Josyula M, Sinha N, Lavelle SB, Wagenaar J, Michalak A, Morrell MJ, Jeschke J, Khambhati AN, Conrad EC, Kleen JK, Litt B, Rao VR, Friedman D, Davis KA. Virtual Responsive Neurostimulation Implantation: From Intracranial Connectivity to Optimized Lead Placement , medRxiv: 2026
Conrad EC, Chang E, Xie K, Aguila CA, Kim J, Shi H, Ojemann WK, Jing J, Westover MB, Sinha SR, Litt B, Davis KA, Cao Q, Ellis CA. Association between Interictal Spike Rate and Seizure Frequency in a Large Epilepsy Cohort , medRxiv: 2026
Davis P, B Tomlinson S, Armstrong C, Conrad EC, Ojemann WKS, Peters J, Litt B, Gilman C, Kennedy BC, Marsh ED. Cortical stimulation reveals effective disconnection of the epileptogenic network at seizure onset , Epilepsia: 2026
Aguila CA, Zhou Z, Lavelle SB, Ojemann WKS, Kim J, Walsh K, Mournani SS, Lucas A, Sinha N, Feys O, Scheid BH, Davis KA, Litt B, Conrad EC. Regional excitability, not epileptic pathology, drives stimulation-evoked interictal spike increases , medRxiv: 2026
Vizcarra JA, Hefter K, Lafontant DE, Duong MT, Ertefaie A, Litt B, Bassett DS, Siderowf A; Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative. Sex Differences in Fall Frequency, Risk Factors, and Outcomes in Parkinson's Disease: A Cross-Sectional Analysis , Mov Disord Clin Pract: 2026
Kojima J, Shi H, Jaikumar S, Ojemann WKS, Aguila C, Kim J, Ganguly TM, Litt B, Conrad EC. How Much Does the Reduced EEG Montage Matter for Seizure Detection?: A Large-Cohort Simulation Study , medRxiv: 2026
Chen Y, Litt B, Vitale F, Takano H. On-demand seizures facilitate rapid screening of therapeutics for epilepsy , Elife, 13: 2026,RP101859
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, 5: 2026,93