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Mojgan Hodaie

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ProfessorDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of Toronto

Mojgan Hodaie

Professor

Department of Surgery

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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66 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 16 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervisor on 3 trainee awards (3 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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209

Publications

284

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Grants

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Education

Harvard Surgical Leadership Program
MD
MSc, Molecular & Medical Genetics (Neurosciences)
BSc

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Amygdala Cognition Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Hippocampus Neuropathic Pain Pain-Related Fear Trigeminal Neuralgia

Latest papers

A systematic review exploring the safety of deep brain stimulation at MRI field strengths beyond conventional field strengths: Opening the door to new imaging tools for neuromodulation.
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2026
Microstructural alterations of the human fornix in trigeminal neuralgia.
The journal of pain · 2026 · senior author
Transcranial ultrasound stimulation of motor networks in Parkinson's disease informed by local field potential dynamics.
Science translational medicine · 2026

All 209 publications

Latest funding

Precision Medicine in Parkinson's Disease: Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Individualized DBS Outcome Prediction and Patient Selection
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$841,500
Transcranial Ultrasound Neuromodulation of Deep Brain Nuclei in Parkinson's Disease
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,290,225
The Role of Limbic Structures, Memory and Emotion in Chronic Neuropathic Pain
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$1,071,000

All 17 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 209 publications.

A systematic review exploring the safety of deep brain stimulation at MRI field strengths beyond conventional field strengths: Opening the door to new imaging tools for neuromodulation.

Au HCT, Louka A, Kashyap S, Zhang R, Mohammed G, Loh A, Su YH, Martinez D, Rodrigues TA, Matossian G, Germann J, Hodaie M, Uludağ K, Valiante T, Kalia SK, Lozano AM, Wintermark M, Connell I, Boutet A

AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology2026

DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a9487 PMID: 42323197

Microstructural alterations of the human fornix in trigeminal neuralgia.

Srisaikaew P, Latypov TH, Jörgens D, Walker MR, Flores EG, Millar BA, Hodaie M

The journal of pain2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2026.106325 PMID: 42208748

Transcranial ultrasound stimulation of motor networks in Parkinson's disease informed by local field potential dynamics.

Sarica C, Darmani G, Ramezanpour H, Callister M, Santyr B, Grippe T, Annirood R, Raies N, Nankoo JF, Samuel N, Ding MYR, Vetkas A, Fomenko A, Schall JD, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Abrahao A, Munhoz RP, Fasano A, Pichardo S, Chen R, Lozano AM

Science translational medicine2026

DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.ady1883 PMID: 42160449

Comparison of neuropsychological side effects between contemporary radiofrequency ablative neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders and conventional neurosurgical procedures: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Vilela-Filho O, Bannach MA, Lino-Filho AM, Hamani C, Nuttin B, Hariz M, Schulder M, Greenberg BD, Cosgrove R, De Oliveira-Souza R, Horn A, Sheth SA, Kubu C, Salem S, Zaccariotti AJ, Tavares NO, Damasceno BP, Mayberg HS, Lozano AM, Visser-Vandewalle V, Kuhn J, Falkai P, Slavin K, Doshi P, Lopes AC, Vattimo EF, Coyne T, Akram H, Toda H, Halpern CH, Coenen VA, Gorgulho AA, Andrade P, Blomstedt P, Wu H, Zrinzo L, Sun B, De Quevedo JL, Belmonte-De-Abreu P, Cosyns P, Mclaughlin N, Alkhani A, Giordano J, Berk M, Yatham LN, Chabardes S, Abbadi NE, De Salles AAF, Enslin N, De Sousa MB, Oliveira JO, Labruna R, Reis AM, Jiménez-Ponce F, Ferragut MA, Chang JW, Régis J, Torres CV, Taira T, Lipsman N, Barcia JA, Rezai A, Schuurman R, Martinez-Alvarez R, Dougherty DD, Broggi G, Huys D, Bervoets C, Oliveira PM, Ragazzo PC, Giacobbe P, Lazaro-Munoz G, Polosan M, Naesström M, Johansson V, Schlaepfer T, Ribeiro TM, Lee KH, Neimat JS, Hodaie M, Sitnikov A, Yilmaz A, Almahariq F, Lopez Rios AL, Gonçalves-Ferreira A

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2025-337800 PMID: 41946555

Frequency-Dependent Inhibition during Deep Brain Stimulation of Thalamic Ventral Intermediate Nuclei.

Paraskevopoulos Z, Tian Y, Crompton D, Kalia SK, Hodaie M, Lozano AM, Milosevic L, Hutchison WD, Lankarany M

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2026

DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1859-25.2026 PMID: 41942271

Transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation: A registry-based analysis of global clinical trials.

Loh A, Attalla G, Darmani G, Sarica C, Boutet A, Germann J, Elias GJ, Su S, Fan H, Iskin S, Pijar J, Yuen J, Ibrahim GM, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Chen R, Lozano AM

Brain stimulation2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2026.103076 PMID: 41856430

Letter to the Editor. Functional MRI of DBS using monopolar stimulation: contextualizing recent phantom findings.

Loh A, Matossian GA, Santyr B, Ajala A, Madhavan R, Germann J, Elias G, Munhoz RP, Fasano A, Louka A, Yang B, Jech R, Hancu I, DiMarzio M, Pilitsis JG, Graham SJ, Davidson B, Uludag K, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Milosevic L, Connell IRO, Kashyap S, Lozano AM, Boutet A

Journal of neurosurgery2026

DOI: 10.3171/2026.4.jns26766 PMID: 42600178

Clinical pain increased with older brain age, yet placebo effects were preserved.

Cundiff-O'Sullivan RL, Wang Y, Li J, Latypov TH, Chen S, Hodaie M, Colloca L

Pain2026

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003901 PMID: 41494156

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

Safety of 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Active Peripheral Nerve Field Stimulation Device for Facial Pain.

Chow CT, Sarica C, Yang B, Santyr B, Ludovichetti R, Pourhossein K, Kashyap S, Colditz M, Loh A, Germann J, Naheed A, Vetkas A, Uludağ K, Iorio-Morin C, Paff M, Graham SJ, Boutet A, Lozano AM, Hodaie M

Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1159/000551467 PMID: 41945489

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Mojgan Hodaie

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

A systematic review exploring the safety of deep brain stimulation at MRI field strengths beyond conventional field strengths: Opening the door to new imaging tools for neuromodulation.

Microstructural alterations of the human fornix in trigeminal neuralgia.

Transcranial ultrasound stimulation of motor networks in Parkinson's disease informed by local field potential dynamics.

Comparison of neuropsychological side effects between contemporary radiofrequency ablative neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders and conventional neurosurgical procedures: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Frequency-Dependent Inhibition during Deep Brain Stimulation of Thalamic Ventral Intermediate Nuclei.

Transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation: A registry-based analysis of global clinical trials.

Letter to the Editor. Functional MRI of DBS using monopolar stimulation: contextualizing recent phantom findings.

Clinical pain increased with older brain age, yet placebo effects were preserved.

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

Safety of 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Active Peripheral Nerve Field Stimulation Device for Facial Pain.

Frequent collaborators

Alfonso Fasano

Alexandre Boutet

Robert Chen

Luka Milosevic

Clement Hamani

Christian Iorio-Morin

Jurgen Germann

David Mikulis

Andres Lozano

Melanie Cohn

Gelareh Zadeh

Mark Bernstein

Nir Lipsman

Jiwon Oh

Frank Rudzicz

Milad Lankarany

Benjamin Davidson

Suneil Kalia

Massieh Moayedi

Thomas Looi

Connie Marras

Peter Giacobbe

Catherine Coolens

Shannon Kolind

Michael Cusimano

Alexandre Prat

Daipayan Guha

Udi Blankstein

Iqbal Jaffer

Jonathan Sherbino

Cynthia Hawkins

Fei-Fei Liu

Gabor Fichtinger

Karolinah Lukitto

Faizan Amin

Quang Ngo

Matthew Sibbald

Ereny Bassilious

Elif Bilgic