Casey H. Halpern, MD

Neurosurgery
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Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neurosurgery Pennsylvania Hospital
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About me

  • Division Head, Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery
  • Professor of Neurosurgery

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
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Spoken languages

English
English

Reviews

Average Rating

473 reviews

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Anonymous
July 2026
very good
Anonymous
July 2026
i did already to a friend who experiences the same problems
Anonymous
July 2026
trust dr halpern with my life
Anonymous
July 2026
he takes time explaining.

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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.
Dr. Halpern is a Penn Medicine physician. In New Jersey, providers are affiliated with Penn Medicine through Clinical Health Care Associates of New Jersey or Princeton Healthcare Affiliated Physicians, PC.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Farooqui J, Toennies J, Mintch LM, Nelson J, Yudkoff B, Cristancho M, Scangos K, Halpern CH, Robinson JT, Wexler A. What matters in next-generation implanted neurotechnology design? Perspectives from individuals with treatment-refractory depression , Journal of Neural Engineering: 2026


Sherman BC, Ahmed MA, Lev-Tov L, Purger DA, Reid B, Hornbeck T, Verhein JR, Halpern CH, Katz M, Henderson JM, Ferris M, Buch VP Using Multinodal Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment of Complex Movement Disorders: Initial Case Series , Operative Neurosurgery, 31(2): 2026,241-251


Bieber D, Abdallah RT, Ab-Elsayed A, Burkey AR, Englot DJ, Gupta K, Munyon CN, Halpern CH, Miller KJ, Rosenow JM, Raslan AM, Slavin KV, Sweet JA, Sheth S, Tomycz N, Viswanathan A, Wu C, Raskin JS Development of an Educational Curriculum for the Surgical Implantation of DBS Systems , Neuromodulation, 29(5): 2026,741-749


Lauro PM, Palmer CF, Nambiar MM, Muller U, Qiu L, Halpern CH, Scangos KW Circuit-based neuromodulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a review of prior and emerging methods , Frontiers in Psychiatry: 2026


O'Rourke CM, Selheimer RL, Halpern CH, Oathes DJ Next-Generation Neuromodulation for Anxiety: Circuit-Based and Personalized Approaches , Current Psychiatry Reports, 28(1): 2026


Gabriel ED, Eisinger RS, Lee JM, Hamimi S, Kim H, Howard SD, Halpern CH When the Scale Drops: Pathways to Weight Loss in Parkinson's Disease and Future Directions , Movement Disorders, 41(6): 2026,1337-1348


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 , Journal of Affective Disorders: 2026


Vilela-Filho O, Bannach MA, Lino-Filho AM, Hamani C, Nuttin B, Hariz M, Schulder M, Greenberg BD, Cosgrove R, De Oliveira-Souza R, Horn A, Sheth SA, Kubu C, Salem S, Zaccariotti AJ, Tavares NO, Damasceno BP, Mayberg HS, Lozano AM, Visser-Vandewalle V, Kuhn J, Falkai P, Slavin K, Doshi P, Lopes AC, Vattimo EF, Coyne T, Akram H, Toda H, Halpern CH, Coenen VA, Gorgulho AA, Andrade P, Blomstedt P, Wu H, Zrinzo L, Sun B, De Quevedo JL, Belmonte-De-Abreu P, Cosyns P, Mclaughlin N, Alkhani A, Giordano J, Berk M, Yatham LN, Chabardes S, Abbadi NE, De Salles AAF, Enslin N, De Sousa MB, Oliveira JO Jr, Labruna R, Reis AM, Jiménez-Ponce F, Ferragut MA, Chang JW, Régis J, Torres CV, Taira T, Lipsman N, Barcia JA, Rezai A, Schuurman R, Martinez-Alvarez R, Dougherty DD, Broggi G, Huys D, Bervoets C, Oliveira PM, Ragazzo PC, Giacobbe P, Lazaro-Munoz G, Polosan M, Naesström M, Johansson V, Schlaepfer T, Ribeiro TM, Lee KH, Neimat JS, Hodaie M, Sitnikov A, Yilmaz A, Almahariq F, Lopez Rios AL, Gonçalves-Ferreira A Comparison of neuropsychological side effects between contemporary radiofrequency ablative neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders and conventional neurosurgical procedures: systematic review and meta-analysis , Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 97(6): 2026,532-541


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 , Preprint: 2026


Talati P, Spindler M, Halpern CH Framework for Approaching Patients with Suboptimal Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy Response despite Stimulation Optimization , Movement Disorders Clinical Practice: 2026