Penn Medicine Provider
Neurology
Geoffrey Karl Aguirre, MD, PhD
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology

About me

  • Associate Director of the Neurology Residency Program
  • Vice Chair of Research, Neurology
  • Professor of Neurology

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My 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. Aguirre is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Kaiser E A, McAdams H, Igdalova A, Haggerty E B, Cucchiara B, Brained D H, Aguirre G K Reflexive Eye Closure in Response to Cone and Melanopsin Stimulation: A Study of Implicit Measures of Light Sensitivity in Migraine , Neurology: 2021


Barnett M A, Aguirre G K, Brained D H A Quadratic Model Captures the Human V1 Response to Variations in Chromatic Direction and Contrast , eLife: 2021


Workman CI, Humphries S, Hartung F, Aguirre GK, Kable JW, Chatterjee A. Morality is in the eye of the beholder: the neurocognitive basis of the "anomalous-is-bad" stereotype , Ann N Y Acad Sci.: 2021,1-15


Patterson-Gentile C, Joshi N R, Ciuffreda K J, Arbogast K B, Master C, Aguirre G K Developmental Effects on Pattern Visual Evoked Potentials Characterized by Principal Component Analysis , Translational Vision Science & Technology: 2021


Vincent J, Haggerty E B, Brainard D H, Aguirre G K Melanopic stimulation does not alter psychophysical threshold sensitivity for luminance flicker , Scientific Reports: 2021


Chen M, Nofziger J, Datta R, Gee J C, Morgan J, Aguirre G K The influence of axial length upon the retinal ganglion cell layer of the human eye , Translational Vision Science & Technology, 9(13): 2020,1-14


Darwich N F, Phan J M, Kim B, Suh E, Papatriantafyllou J D, Changolkar L, Nguyen A T, O’Rourke C, He Z, Porta S, Gibbons G S, Luk K C, Papageorgiou S G, Grossman M, Massimo L, Irwin D J, McMillan C T, Nasrallah I M, Toro C, Aguirre G K, Van Deerlin V M, Lee E B Autosomal dominant VCP hypomorph mutation impairs disaggregation of PHF-tau , Science, 370(6519): 2020,eaay8826


Cieslak M, Cook P, He X, Yeh FC, Dhollander T, Adebimpe A, Aguirre G, Bassett D, Betzel R, Bourque J, Cabral L, Davatzikos C, Detre J, Earl E, Elliott M, Fadnavis S, Fair D, Foran W, Fotiadis P, Garyfallidis E, Giesbrecht B, Gur R, Gur R, Kelz M, Keshavan A, Larsen B, Luna B, Mackey A, Milham M, Oathes D, Perrone A, Pines A, Roalf D, Richie-Halford A, Rokem A, Sydnor V, Tapera T, Tooley U, Vettel J, Yeatman J, Grafton S, Satterthwaite T. QSIPrep: Robust workflows for preprocessing and reconstructing diffusion MRI , Nature methods: 2020


Patterson Gentile C, Aguirre G K A neural correlate of visual discomfort from flicker , Journal of Vision, 20(7): 2020,1-10


McAdams H, Kaiser E A, Igdalova A, Haggerty E B, Cucchiara B, Brainard D H, Aguirre G K Selective amplification of ipRGC signals accounts for interictal photophobia in migraine , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(29): 2020,1730-17329


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