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Fady Girgis

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Associate ProfessorDCNSUniversity of Calgary

Fady Girgis

Associate Professor

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University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Latest papers

Transcranial ultrasound stimulation for neuromodulation in movement disorders.
Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
Mindfulness meditation increases interictal epileptiform discharges in meditation-naïve surgical epilepsy patients.
Epilepsia · 2026 · senior author
Integrated neuronavigation and acoustic-thermal modeling for simultaneous transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) and functional MRI.
Journal of neural engineering · 2026

All 19 publications

Latest funding

Integrated functional MRI and Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation (TUS) for neuroscience research and personalized therapeutic interventions
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$1,514,700
Epidural stimulation as a hemodynamic therapy for spinal cord injury
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$826,200

All 2 grants and awards

19 publications.

Transcranial ultrasound stimulation for neuromodulation in movement disorders.

Pellow C, Aquino C, Girgis F, Kiss Z, Martino D, Pichardo S, Pike GB

Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2026.2111914 PMID: 42139882

Mindfulness meditation increases interictal epileptiform discharges in meditation-naïve surgical epilepsy patients.

Soni S, Brochu K, Federico P, Hader W, Kam JWY, Girgis F

Epilepsia2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/epi.70332 PMID: 42299691

Integrated neuronavigation and acoustic-thermal modeling for simultaneous transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) and functional MRI.

Jeong M, Zadeh AK, Coreas A, Girgis F, Pichardo S, Pike GB

Journal of neural engineering2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ae9347 PMID: 42537666

An implantable system to restore hemodynamic stability after spinal cord injury

Aaron Alexander Phillips, Aasta P. Gandhi, Nicolas Hankov, Sergio Daniel Hernandez‐Charpak, Julien Rimok, Anthony V. Incognito, Anouk E.J. Nijland, Marina D’Ercole, Anne Watrin, Maxime Berney, Aikaterini Damianaki, Grégory Dumont, Nicolò Macellari, Laura De Herde, Nadine Intering, Donovan Bernard Smith, Ryan Miller, Meagan N. Smith, Jordan B. Lee, Edeny Baaklini, Jean‐Baptiste Ledoux, Javier G. Ordonnez, Taylor Newton, Ettore Flavio Meliadò, Léa Duguet, Charlotte Jacquet, Léa Bole-Feysot, Markus Rieger, Kristen Gelenitis, Yoann Dumeny, et al. (109 authors)

Nature Medicine202520 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03614-w PMID: 40962906

A neuronal architecture underlying autonomic dysreflexia.

Soriano JE, Hudelle R, Mahe L, Gautier M, Teo AYY, Skinnider MA, Laskaratos A, Ceto S, Kathe C, Hutson T, Charbonneau R, Girgis F, Casha S, Rimok J, Tso M, Larkin-Kaiser K, Hankov N, Gandhi A, Amir S, Kang X, Vyza Y, Martin-Moraud E, Lacour S, Demesmaeker R, Asboth L, Barraud Q, Anderson MA, Bloch J, Squair JW, Phillips AA, Courtine G

Nature20257 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09487-w PMID: 40963010

A Case of Vertical Diplopia after Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor.

Far R, Subramaniam S, Aquino C, Girgis F

Movement disorders clinical practice2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/mdc3.70191 PMID: 40557446

The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain.

Cross ZR, Gray SM, Dede AJO, Rivera YM, Yin Q, Vahidi P, Rau EMB, Cyr C, Holubecki AM, Asano E, Lin JJ, Kim McManus O, Sattar S, Saez I, Girgis F, King-Stephens D, Weber PB, Laxer KD, Schuele SU, Rosenow JM, Wu JY, Lam SK, Raskin JS, Chang EF, Shaikhouni A, Brunner P, Roland JL, Braga RM, Knight RT, Ofen N, Johnson EL

Nature human behaviour2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02270-x PMID: 40670699

Episodic memory involves transient and sparse connectivity aligned to both internal and external events.

Dede AJO, Cross ZR, Gray SM, Kelly JP, Yin Q, Vahidi P, Asano E, Schuele SU, Rosenow JM, Wu JY, Lam SK, Raskin JS, Lin JJ, Kim McManus O, Sattar S, Shaikhouni A, King-Stephens D, Weber PB, Laxer KD, Brunner P, Roland JL, Saez I, Girgis F, Knight RT, Ofen N, Johnson EL

PLoS biology2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003481 PMID: 41289341

ChatGPT and neurosurgical education: A crossroads of innovation and opportunity.

Arfaie S, Sadegh Mashayekhi M, Mofatteh M, Ma C, Ruan R, MacLean MA, Far R, Saini J, Harmsen IE, Duda T, Gomez A, Rebchuk AD, Pingbei Wang A, Rasiah N, Guo E, Fazlollahi AM, Rose Swan E, Amin P, Mohammed S, Atkinson JD, Del Maestro RF, Girgis F, Kumar A, Das S

Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia202414 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2024.110815 PMID: 39236407

C2 Ganglionectomy for Pain Associated with Multiple Occipital Neurofibromas.

Girgis F, Adam E, Suppiah S, Umansky D, Midha R

The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques2024First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2024.282 PMID: 39268615

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Fady Girgis

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Transcranial ultrasound stimulation for neuromodulation in movement disorders.

Mindfulness meditation increases interictal epileptiform discharges in meditation-na&#xef;ve surgical epilepsy patients.

Integrated neuronavigation and acoustic-thermal modeling for simultaneous transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) and functional MRI.

An implantable system to restore hemodynamic stability after spinal cord injury

A neuronal architecture underlying autonomic dysreflexia.

A Case of Vertical Diplopia after Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor.

The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain.

Episodic memory involves transient and sparse connectivity aligned to both internal and external events.

ChatGPT and neurosurgical education: A crossroads of innovation and opportunity.

C2 Ganglionectomy for Pain Associated with Multiple Occipital Neurofibromas.

Integrated functional MRI and Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation (TUS) for neuroscience research and personalized therapeutic interventions

Epidural stimulation as a hemodynamic therapy for spinal cord injury

Frequent collaborators

Walter Hader

Camila Aquino

Aaron Phillips

Gilbert Pike

Samuel Pichardo

Rebecca Charbonneau

Julia Kam

Kelly Larkin-Kaiser

Mark Hamilton

Ashish Kumar

Suganth Suppiah

Rajiv Midha

Tolulope Sajobi

Colin Josephson

Farnaz Amoozegar

Khara Sauro

Davide Martino

Zelma Kiss

Penny Pexman

Penelope Pexman

Shaily Singh

Suresh Subramaniam

Scott Patten

Samuel Wiebe

Brian Kwon

Mindfulness meditation increases interictal epileptiform discharges in meditation-naïve surgical epilepsy patients.