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Tejas Sankar

ResearcherNeurosurgeryUniversity of Alberta

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Tejas Sankar

Researcher

Neurosurgery

Health Sciences

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
18 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 12 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Research

Biomarker Chronic Pain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mri Neuroimaging Neurosurgery Prediction Prognosis

Latest papers

Bilateral microstructural changes in the trigeminal nerve in classical trigeminal neuralgia.
The journal of pain · 2026 · senior author
Muscular torque variability in Parkinson's Disease with and without dopaminergic medication.
Neurophysiologie clinique = Clinical neurophysiology · 2026 · senior author
Characterization of Subthalamic Nucleus Boundary and Trajectory Recommendations From a Commercially Available Microelectrode Recording Algorithm During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson Disease.
Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) · 2026 · senior author

All 54 publications

Latest funding

Understanding and predicting response to surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia
CIHR · 2022 · Nominated PI
$929,475
Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$268,000
Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$160,000

All 3 grants and awards

54 publications.

Bilateral microstructural changes in the trigeminal nerve in classical trigeminal neuralgia.

Ayri A, Danyluk H, Dhillon A, Beaulieu C, Xie H, Yang Z, Kong L, Sankar T

The journal of pain2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2026.106444 PMID: 42749100

Muscular torque variability in Parkinson's Disease with and without dopaminergic medication.

Afsharipour B, Roy FD, Xie H, Schindle M, Ba F, Kong L, Gorassini M, Sankar T

Neurophysiologie clinique = Clinical neurophysiology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2026.103190 PMID: 42526408

Characterization of Subthalamic Nucleus Boundary and Trajectory Recommendations From a Commercially Available Microelectrode Recording Algorithm During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson Disease.

Roy FD, Afsharipour B, King A, Waldron M, Ba F, Shetty A, Sankar T

Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1227/ons.0000000000001708 PMID: 40637396

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson's Disease.

Ba F, Poonja S, Torabi P, Yen K, Daud Shah B, Noyes E, Dimapilis G, Corrick S, Sankar T, Rajput A, Monchi O, Vitali AM, Salami B, Shetty A, Miyasaki JM

Movement disorders clinical practice2026

DOI: 10.1002/mdc3.70312 PMID: 40904041

Ultra-early Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia (URGEnt-TN): study protocol for a single-center, two-arm, parallel group design, pragmatic, noninferiority, phase II, randomized controlled trial with intention-to-treat analysis for pre-refractory GK-SRS in classical or idiopathic TN.

Lussoso A, Patel S, Hussain W, Knash M, Bowden G, Wheatley M, Vu NK, Sankar T

Trials2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-025-09321-8 PMID: 41345955

Nerve matters: Longitudinal microstructural change in the trigeminal nerve is associated with durable pain relief after surgery for trigeminal neuralgia.

Danyluk HJ, Dhillon A, Ayri A, Beaulieu C, Sankar T

Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/03331024251369827 PMID: 40891642

Biomarker changes associated with fornix deep brain stimulation in Alzheimer's disease.

Germann J, Amaral RSC, Tomaszczyk J, Yamamoto K, Elias GJB, Gouveia FV, Vasilevskaya A, Taghdiri F, Devenyi GA, Sankar T, Leoutsakos JM, Munro CA, Rosenberg PB, Lyketsos CG, Oh ES, Anderson WS, Mari Z, Fosdick L, Drake KE, Targum SD, Pendergrass JC, Burke A, Salloway S, Asaad WF, Ponce FA, Sabbagh M, Wolk DA, Baltuch G, Okun MS, Foote KD, Giacobbe P, McAndrews MP, Tang-Wai DF, Smith GS, Tartaglia MC, Chakravarty MM, Lozano AM, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2025

DOI: 10.1002/alz.70394 PMID: 40566800

Peer-Reviewing for the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.

Mahjoub Y, Yu AYX, Roberts JI, Sankar T

The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2025.10131 PMID: 40442989

Different Scale, Different Pain? Discordant Pain Measurements After Surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia.

Granzer-Corno L, Rana R, Dick BD, Sankar T

World neurosurgery2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2024.11.064 PMID: 39577641

Trigeminal Neuralgia: Disease Characterization and Prediction of Response to Surgical Intervention.

Lam JLW, Sankar T, Sekula RF, Senatus PB, Patil PG

Current pain and headache reports2025

DOI: 10.1007/s11916-024-01316-5 PMID: 39873810

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Tejas Sankar

Research

Latest papers

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Bilateral microstructural changes in the trigeminal nerve in classical trigeminal neuralgia.

Muscular torque variability in Parkinson's Disease with and without dopaminergic medication.

Characterization of Subthalamic Nucleus Boundary and Trajectory Recommendations From a Commercially Available Microelectrode Recording Algorithm During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson Disease.

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson's Disease.

Nerve matters: Longitudinal microstructural change in the trigeminal nerve is associated with durable pain relief after surgery for trigeminal neuralgia.

Biomarker changes associated with fornix deep brain stimulation in Alzheimer's disease.

Peer-Reviewing for the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.

Different Scale, Different Pain? Discordant Pain Measurements After Surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia.

Trigeminal Neuralgia: Disease Characterization and Prediction of Response to Surgical Intervention.

Understanding and predicting response to surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

Frequent collaborators

Clement Hamani

Christian Beaulieu

Peter Giacobbe

Davide Martino

Eric Racine

Zelma Kiss

Ying Meng

Christian Iorio-Morin

Sanjay Kalra

Michel Panisset

Oury Monchi

Monica Gorassini

Mojgan Hodaie

Judy Illes

Oury Monchi

Jennifer Chandler

Melanie Cohn

Vijay Ramaswamy

Alfonso Fasano

Nir Lipsman

Bukola Salami

Bukola Salami

Bill Wang

Emily Bell

Daipayan Guha