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Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD
Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD
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Neurosurgery Clinic
Phillips-Wangensteen Building
First Floor, Clinic 1A
516 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-624-6666
 
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Medical Title:

Neurosurgeon

Academic Appointments:

Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota; Director of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Services:

Brain Cancer
Neurosciences
University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview:
Brain Cancer
Movement Disorders and Epilepsy
Neurosurgery

Specialties:

Neurosurgery

Clinical Interests:

  • Movement disorders - Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia
  • Surgical treatment of epilepsy
  • Lesions of peripheral nerves, including carpal tunnel, ulnar neuropathy, neurofibromas and schwannomas

Languages Spoken:

English

Education:

Medical School
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Site of Residency
University of California, San Francisco, Calif. (Neurosurgery)

Site of Fellowship
McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute (Epilepsy Surgery);
Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto (Functional Neurosurgery)
 

Board Certifications:

Neurosurgery

Hospital Privileges:

Fairview Southdale Hospital
University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview

Best Doctors in America®, 2009-2010

Abosch A, Yacoub E, Ugurbil K, Harel N (2010). An assessment of current brain targets for deep brain stimulation surgery using susceptibility-weighted imaging at 7T. Neurosurgery, 2010 Dec; in press.

Ince NF, Gupte A, Wichmann T, Ashe J, Henry T, Bebler M, Eberly L, Abosch A. Selection of optimal programming contacts based on local field potential recordings from subthalamic nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease. Neurosurgery, 2010 Aug; 67(2):390-397. PMID: 20644424.

Shrivastava D*, Abosch A*, Hanson T, Tian J, Gupte A, Iaizzo PA, Vaughan JT. Effect of the extracranial deep brain stimulation lead on radiofrequency heating at 9.4 Tesla (400.2 MHz). *Denotes equal contribution by these two authors. JMRI, 2010 Sep; 32(3):600-607.

Abosch A, Gupte A, Eberly LE, Tuite PJ, Nance M, Grant JE. Impulsive behavior and associated clinical variables in Parkinson’s disease. Psychosomatics, 2010, in press.

Janson C, Maxwell R, Gupte AA, Abosch A. Bowstringing as a complication of deep brain stimulation: case report. Neurosurgery 2010 Jun; 66(6):E1205; discussion E1205. PMID: 20495391.

Chhabra V, Sung E, Holder C, Mewes K, Bakay RAE, Abosch A, Gross RE. Safety of magnetic resonance imaging of deep brain stimulator systems: a serial imaging and clinical retrospective study. J Neurosurgery 2009 Mar; 112(3):497-502. PMID: 19681685.

Benzil DL, Abosch A, Germano I, Gilmer H, Maraire JN, Muraszko K, Pannullo S, Rosseau G, Schwartz L, Todor R, Ullman J, Zusman E. WINS White Paper Committee: The future of neurosurgery: a white paper on the recruitment and retention of women in neurosurgery. J Neurosurgery. 2008 Sep; 109(3):378-86. PMID: 18759565.

Abosch A, Cosgrove GR; Biological basis for the surgical treatment of depression. Neurosurg Focus. 2008; 25(1):E2. Review. PMID: 18590379.

Roark C, Whicher S, Abosch A. Reversible neurological symptoms caused by diathermy in a patient with deep brain stimulators: case report. Neurosurgery. 2008 Jan; 62(1): E256. Discussion. PMID: 18300881.

Papavassiliou E, Rau G, Heath S, Abosch A, Barbaro NM, Larson PS, Lamborn K, Starr PA. Thalamic deep brain stimulation for essential tremor: relation of lead location to outcome. Neurosurgery. 2008 Feb; 62 Suppl 2:884-94. PMID: 18596419.

 
 
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