Ali Rezai (neurosurgeon)

Ali Rezai is a neurosurgeon advancing the use of brain chip implants in deep brain stimulation and neuromodulation to treat Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury.[1][2][3][4]

In 2014 Rezai led a surgical team who used a chip implant to decode and transmit signals from the motor cortex of a patient's brain to bypass spinal injury and restore limb movement, giving a paralyzed man the use of his hands. This surgical procedure presented a technological and breakthrough in neural engineering as the first ever account of limb reanimation.[5][6][7][8]

Rezai is the director of the Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at West Virginia University.[9] He is the former director of Ohio State University's Neurological Institute and the University's Stanley D. and Joan H. Ross Chair in Neuromodulation and professor of neurosurgery and neuroscience.[4]

Deep Brain Simulation Technology

The technology of Deep Brain Simulation (DBS) is being applied to treat patients afflicted with Parkinson’s disease[10] and other movement disorders.

The safety and efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) is also being studied at the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) region to specifically modulate frontal lobe behavioral and cognitive networks as a novel treatment approach for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients.[11][12]

Research

  • Alzheimer's Disease: West Virginia University's Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute has been chosen as the first site in the world to participate in phase II of a new clinical trial using ultrasound technology to help reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease, and allow doctors access to parts of the brain affected by it.[13][14]

Education

Rezai received an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and graduated with honors from the University of Southern California's School of Medicine to earn his MD degree in 1990. He completed his subspecialty training in functional neurosurgery at the University of Toronto.

Career

From 2011 to 2013, Rezai was president of the North American Neuromodulation Society. He is a past president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.[15][16] In September 2017, Rezai was appointed by West Virginia University and the Rockefeller family as the incoming director to lead neuroscience clinical studies and research for the new West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.[17][4]

Awards


Published Works

Rezai has published more than 175 peer-reviewed articles in peer reviewed journals, including Nature and Lancet Neurology. He serves on the editorial board of five scientific journals, including Neurosurgery.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Editor, By Peggy Peck MedPage Today Managing. "CNN.com - Doctor's specialty is re-wiring brain - Mar 22, 2006". www.CNN.com. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Bouton, Chad E.; Shaikhouni, Ammar; Annetta, Nicholas V.; Bockbrader, Marcia A.; Friedenberg, David A.; Nielson, Dylan M.; Sharma, Gaurav; Sederberg, Per B.; Glenn, Bradley C.; Mysiw, W. Jerry; Morgan, Austin G.; Deogaonkar, Milind; Rezai, Ali R. (13 April 2016). "Restoring cortical control of functional movement in a human with quadriplegia". Nature. 533 (7602): 247–250. doi:10.1038/nature17435. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Ohio State's Dr. Ali Rezai performs deep brain stimulation surgery to control Parkinson's – PHOTOS (Video) - Columbus - Columbus Business First
  4. 1 2 3 Ohio State's Ali Rezai leaves to form new neuroscience institute at West Virginia University - Columbus - Columbus Business First
  5. ↑ Carey, Benedict (13 April 2016). "Chip, Implanted in Brain, Helps Paralyzed Man Regain Control of Hand". Retrieved 7 November 2017 – via www.NYTimes.com.
  6. ↑ Ohio State's Ali Rezai: At the outer reaches of neuroscience, the search to end suffering - Columbus - Columbus Business First
  7. ↑ "Neurobridge device allows quadriplegic to move his own hand". CNET.com. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Tankersley, Jim (29 April 2014). "The 'bionic age' dawns in an Ohio hospital, with a chip aimed at giving a paralyzed man the use of his hands". Retrieved 7 November 2017 – via www.WashingtonPost.com.
  9. ↑ https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/high-tech-procedure-giving-w-va-patients-pace-maker-for/article_b0b63613-84f6-5fd2-8cfe-5588f0b5cbee.html
  10. ↑ https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/high-tech-procedure-giving-w-va-patients-pace-maker-for/article_b0b63613-84f6-5fd2-8cfe-5588f0b5cbee.html
  11. ↑ https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-disease/jad170082?resultNumber=0&totalResults=1&start=0&q=Scharre&dc_issued_year=2018&resultsPageSize=10&rows=10
  12. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/01/30/brain-pacemaker-alzheimers-helps-gives-life-back-patients/
  13. ↑ https://observer-reporter.com/living/health_wellness/could-new-wvu-study-lead-to-alzheimer-s-cure/article_3921f4a4-bb66-11e8-870e-878557e451ee.html/
  14. ↑ https://www.wboy.com/news/wvu-prepares-to-launch-alzheimer-s-trial/1439918119
  15. 1 2 "Ali Rezai, MD - Ohio State Neurological Institute Researchers". WexnerMedical.OSU.edu. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  16. ↑ stormtrooper (12 March 2014). "Ali Rezai - President". www.CNS.org. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  17. ↑ "WVU Medicine and Rockefeller family announce new neurosciences institute - WVU Medicine". WVUMedicine.org. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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