Tipu Aziz
Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery
Professor Tipu Aziz was the founder and head of Oxford Functional Neurosurgery. His primate work was central to confirming the subthalamic nucleus as a possible surgical target for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease and more recently the pedunculopontine nucleus. OFN is currently one of the busiest centres for such surgery in the UK and academically very productive.
Research Interests were the role of the upper brain stem in the control of movement, the clinical neurophysiology of movement disorders and neuropathic pain and autonomic responses to deep brain stimulation, use of MR and MEG imaging in functional neurosurgery.
Recent publications
Deep Brain Stimulation of the Nucleus Accumbens in Severe Enduring Anorexia Nervosa: A Pilot Study.
Journal article
Scaife JC. et al, (2022), Front Behav Neurosci, 16
Neural Oscillatory Characteristics of Feedback Associated Activity in Globus Pallidus Interna
Preprint
Choubdar H. et al, (2021)
Neuroablative surgical treatments for pain due to cancer.
Journal article
Farrell SM. et al, (2021), Neurochirurgie, 67, 176 - 188
Invasive Electrical Neuromodulation for the Treatment of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Journal article
Raghu ALB. et al, (2021), Neuromodulation, 24, 13 - 21
Evidence-Based Neuroethics, Deep Brain Stimulation and Personality - Deflating, but not Bursting, the Bubble.
Journal article
Pugh J. et al, (2021), Neuroethics, 14, 27 - 38