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Jurg L. Jaggi

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Associate Director

Department: Neurosurgery

Contact information

University of Pennsylvania
Department of Neurosurgery
330 S. Ninth Street, 4th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Office: 215-829-5375
Fax: 215-829-6645

Email:
jaggi@med.upenn.edu

Education:
B.S. (Electrical Engineering)
Hochschule für Technik NTB, Buchs, Switzerland, 1973.
B.S. (Bioengineering )
Hochschule für Technik NTB, Buchs, Switzerland, 1974.
M.Sc. (Radiation Physics )
University of London, England, 1976.
Ph.D. (Bioengineering)
University of Pennsylvania, USA, 1985.

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Selected Publications

Wong S, Baltuch G H, Jaggi J L, Danish S F: Functional localization and visualization of the subthalamic nucleus from microelectrode recordings acquired during DBS surgery with unsupervised machine learning. Journal of neural engineering 6(2): 026006, Apr 2009.

Zaghloul Kareem A, Blanco Justin A, Weidemann Christoph T, McGill Kathryn, Jaggi Jurg L, Baltuch Gordon H, Kahana Michael J: Human substantia nigra neurons encode unexpected financial rewards. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323(5920): 1496-9, Mar 2009.

Weaver Frances M, Follett Kenneth, Stern Matthew, Hur Kwan, Harris Crystal, Marks William J, Rothlind Johannes, Sagher Oren, Reda Domenic, Moy Claudia S, Pahwa Rajesh, Burchiel Kim, Hogarth Penelope, Lai Eugene C, Duda John E, Holloway Kathryn, Samii Ali, Horn Stacy, Bronstein Jeff, Stoner Gatana, Heemskerk Jill, Huang Grant D, : Bilateral deep brain stimulation vs best medical therapy for patients with advanced Parkinson disease: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 301(1): 63-73, Jan 2009.

Sanborn Matthew R, Danish Shabbar F, Ranalli Nathan J, Grady M Sean, Jaggi Jurg L, Baltuch Gordon H: Thalamic deep brain stimulation for midbrain tremor secondary to cystic degeneration of the brainstem. Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery 87(2): 128-33, 2009.

Connolly Patrick J, Kilpatrick Michaux, Jaggi Jurg L, Church Ephraim, Baltuch Gordon H: Feasibility of an operational standardized checklist for movement disorder surgery. A pilot study. Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery 87(2): 94-100, 2009.

Halpern Casey H, Wolf John A, Bale Tracy L, Stunkard Albert J, Danish Shabbar F, Grossman Murray, Jaggi Jurg L, Grady M Sean, Baltuch Gordon H: Deep brain stimulation in the treatment of obesity. Journal of neurosurgery 109(4): 625-34, Oct 2008.

Danish Shabbar F, Baltuch Gordon H, Jaggi Jurg L, Wong Stephen: Determination of subthalamic nucleus location by quantitative analysis of despiked background neural activity from microelectrode recordings obtained during deep brain stimulation surgery. Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society 25(2): 98-103, Apr 2008.

Heuer Gregory G, Zaghloul Kareem A, Jaggi Jurg L, Baltuch Gordon H: Use of an integrated platform system in the placement of deep brain stimulators. Neurosurgery 62(3 Suppl 1): 245-7; discussion 247-8, Mar 2008.

Halpern, Casey H. Samadani, Uzma. Litt, Brian. Jaggi, Jurg L. Baltuch, Gordon H.: Deep brain stimulation for epilepsy. Neurotherapeutics 5(1): 59-67, Jan 2008.

Halpern, Casey H. Danish, Shabbar F. Baltuch, Gordon H. Jaggi, Jurg L.: Brain shift during deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson's disease. Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery 86(1): 37-43, 2008.