Brian Kopell
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Neurosurgery
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Psychiatry
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Neurology
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Neuroscience
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Specialty
Certifications
Neurological Surgery
Clinical Focus
- Benign Essential Tremor
- Cancer Pain Syndromes
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
- Depression
- Dystonia
- Facial Pain
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
- Hemifacial Spasm
- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Occipital Neuralgia
- Parkinson's Disease
- Spasticity
- Tourette Syndrome
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
Education
MD, New York University School of Medicine
Internship, Surgery
NYU Medical CenterResidency, Neurosurgery
NYU Medical CenterFellowship, Neurosurgery
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Biography
- A graduate of the NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Kopell completed his residency at NYU Medical Center. Dr. Kopell has undergone fellowship training in Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the University of Zurich. For the past eight years, he founded and has led the Restorative Neuroscience Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI) where his team performed over 400 Deep Brain Stimulation cases for movement disorders. Furthermore, Dr. Kopell has participated and has been principal investigator in several clinical trials of emerging Neuromodulation technologies targeting such disorders as Parkinson's Disease, tremor, tinnitus, and Major Depression. Now the Co-Director of the Center for Neuromodulation, Dr. Kopell has pioneered the use of intraoperative imaging during Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) cases to supplement the microelectrode recording typically done to make a procedure that is safer and quicker for patients.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is widely recognized as the gold-standard treatment for patients with disabling motor symptoms from idiopathic Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia that have become refractory to medical therapy. This neurosurgical procedure is available within a fully integrated multidisciplinary program through the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
In the News: Dr. Brian Kopell discusses the results of neuromodulation in The New York Daily News feature, The Daily Check Up.
Research
Intraoperative Image-Guidance for Deep Brain StimulationCortical Stimulation for TinnitusCortical and Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression and Obsessive Compulsive DisorderIndustry Relationships
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Dr. Kopell did not report having any of the following types of financial relationships with industry during 2012 and/or 2013: consulting, scientific advisory board, industry-sponsored lectures, service on Board of Directors, participation on industry-sponsored committees, equity ownership valued at greater than 5% of a publicly traded company or any value in a privately held company. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
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