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Benjamin Davidson

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of Toronto

Benjamin Davidson

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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46 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2026.

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Publications

108

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Research

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Clinical Neuroscience Focused Ultrasound Magnetic Resonance Imaging Major Depressive Disorder Mri-Guided Intervention Neuromodulation Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Treatment-Resistant Depression

Latest papers

Deep Brain Stimulation for Substance Use Disorder: Case Report of Fentanyl Use Disorder and Review of the Literature
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences · 2026
Focused Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Opening for Targeted Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Biological psychiatry · 2026
Pre-operative neural substrates of deep brain stimulation outcomes: A systematic review and cross-disorder network synthesis.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026

All 79 publications

Latest funding

Network-Guided Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
$550,800
Parallel Radiofrequency Transmission for Safe 3 Tesla MRI of Patients with Deep Brain Stimulation Devices
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$918,000

All 2 grants and awards

79 publications.

Deep Brain Stimulation for Substance Use Disorder: Case Report of Fentanyl Use Disorder and Review of the Literature

Yang AZ, MacKillop J, Boutet A, Fomenko A, Vetkas A, Sloan ME, Sarica C, Santyr B, Hafeez DA, Villafuerte S

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences20262 citations

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2025.12

Focused Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Opening for Targeted Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Halabian N, Park C, Omoto L, Bocca LF, Palacios G, Wu K, Hamani C, Rabin J, Abrahao A, Davidson B, Lipsman N, Meng Y

Biological psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2026.07.008 PMID: 42468901

Pre-operative neural substrates of deep brain stimulation outcomes: A systematic review and cross-disorder network synthesis.

Bai Y, Rodrigues TA, Yang AZ, Hu CK, Buongermini R, Hajiabadi MM, Son A, Keon K, Davidson B, Lipsman N, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Fan H, Shi L, Yang A, Ibrahim GM, Gorodetsky C, Tang VM, Vetkas A, Fasano A, Zhang J, Lozano AM, Germann J, Boutet A

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2026.106977 PMID: 42753347

Successful MRgFUS VIM Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor Nearby Cavernous Malformation: Image Case Report.

Favi Bocca L, Davidson B, Lam B, Endre R, Huang Y, Hamani C, Lipsman N

Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery2026

DOI: 10.1159/000553173 PMID: 42348493

Beyond Skull Density Ratio for Magnetic Resonance‑Guided Focused Ultrasound: A Literature Review of the Alternatives.

Arora V, Sadeghi A, Lim B, Germann J, Shah B, Davidson B, Lipsman N, Buongermini R, Su YH, Ibrahim GM, Pichardo S, Chen R, Lozano AM, Darmani G, Boutet A

Neurosurgery2026

DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000004118 PMID: 42283469

Focused Ultrasound Ablation for Psychiatric Disorders.

Xhima K, Davidson B, Rabin J, Hossain R, Richter MA, Nestor S, Hamani C, Giacobbe P, Lipsman N

Biological psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2026.05.018 PMID: 42242456

Microstructural, Morphological, and Metabolic Changes Following Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy.

Davidson B, Clappison A, Mithani K, Bocca LF, Giacobbe P, Nestor S, Meng Y, Ottoy J, Rabin JS, Burke M, Uludag K, Hamani C, Lipsman N, Goubran M

Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2026First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2026.01.011 PMID: 41672276

Long-term outcome of subgenual cingulum and uncinate fasciculus deep brain stimulation for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Hamani C, Baskaran A, Marawi T, Corchs F, Abrahao A, Nestor SM, Rabin JS, Giacobbe P, Lipsman N, Davidson B

Journal of affective disorders2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.121119 PMID: 41485505

An exploratory study of glycemic biomarkers and rTMS treatment outcomes in treatment-resistant depression.

Silver D, Vasileiadi M, Menon T, Pople CB, Musa L, Rabin JS, Giacobbe P, Hamani C, Davidson B, Lipsman N, Nestor SM

BMC psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12888-026-07999-x PMID: 41872771

Predicting Return Home After Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.

Malhotra AK, Nathens AB, Shakil H, Karthikeyan V, Lozano CS, Badhiwala JH, Mathieu F, Davidson B, He Y, Kulkarni AV, Witiw CD, Thorpe K, Wilson JR

Neurology2026

DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000214571 PMID: 41604614

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Benjamin Davidson

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Deep Brain Stimulation for Substance Use Disorder: Case Report of Fentanyl Use Disorder and Review of the Literature

Focused Ultrasound Blood-Brain Barrier Opening for Targeted Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Pre-operative neural substrates of deep brain stimulation outcomes: A systematic review and cross-disorder network synthesis.

Successful MRgFUS VIM Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor Nearby Cavernous Malformation: Image Case Report.

Beyond Skull Density Ratio for Magnetic Resonance&#x2011;Guided Focused Ultrasound: A Literature Review of the Alternatives.

Focused Ultrasound Ablation for Psychiatric Disorders.

Microstructural, Morphological, and Metabolic Changes Following Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Capsulotomy.

Long-term outcome of subgenual cingulum and uncinate fasciculus deep brain stimulation for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

An exploratory study of glycemic biomarkers and rTMS treatment outcomes in treatment-resistant depression.

Predicting Return Home After Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.

Network-Guided Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Parallel Radiofrequency Transmission for Safe 3 Tesla MRI of Patients with Deep Brain Stimulation Devices

Frequent collaborators

Nir Lipsman

Clement Hamani

Peter Giacobbe

Ying Meng

Maged Goubran

Kullervo Hynynen

Alexandre Boutet

Anthony Levitt

Luka Milosevic

Sean Nestor

Alfonso Fasano

Mojgan Hodaie

Robert Chen

Julie Ottoy

Kamil Uludag

Walter Swardfager

Jurgen Germann

Jennifer Rabin

Isabelle Aubert

Daipayan Guha

Mark Bernstein

Francois Mathieu

Arun Seth

Pascal Tyrrell

Beyond Skull Density Ratio for Magnetic Resonance‑Guided Focused Ultrasound: A Literature Review of the Alternatives.