Faculty

Iahn Cajigas Gonzalez, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Department: Neurosurgery

Graduate Group Affiliations

Neuroscience

Contact information

801 Spruce St. Fl. 8
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Office: 2158296700
Fax: 2158296645

Email:
iahn.cajigas@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Publications

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Education:
BSc (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002.
MEng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003.
PhD (Electrical and Medical Engineering)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012.
MD (Medicine)
Harvard Medical School, 2014.

Links
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Research Website (RESTORE Lab)

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Description of Research Expertise

Signal processing, neuromodulation, brain computer interfaces, control systems, machine learning

Selected Publications

Howard SD, Karsalia R, Ghenbot Y, Qiu L, Pomeraniec IJ, Lee JYK, Zager EL, Cajigas I.: A surgical decision aid for occipital neuralgia with literature review and single center case series. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 236: 108082, Jan 2024.

Youngerman BE, Banu MA, Khan F, McKhann GM, Schevon CA, Jagid JR, Cajigas I, Theodotou CB, Ko A, Buckley R, Ojemann JG, Miller JW, Laxton AW, Couture DE, Popli GS, Buch VP, Halpern CH, Le S, Sharan AD, Sperling MR, Mehta AD, Englot DJ, Neimat JS, Konrad PE, Sheth SA, Neal EG, Vale FL, Holloway KL, Air EL, Schwalb JM, D'Haese PF, Wu C.: Long-term outcomes of mesial temporal laser interstitial thermal therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy and subsequent surgery for seizure recurrence: a multi-centre cohort study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 94(11): 879-886, Nov 2023.

Bernabei JM, Litt B, Cajigas I.: Editorial: Thalamic stereo-EEG in epilepsy surgery: where do we stand? Brain 146(7): 2663-2665, Jul 2023.

Cajigas I, Morrison MA, San Luciano M, Starr P.: Cerebellar Deep Brain Stimulation in Cerebral Palsy: Promising Early Results and a Look Forward to a Larger Clinical Trial. World Neurosurg 174: 223-224, Jun 2023.

Severini, Giacomo, Koenig, Alexander, Cajigas, Iahn, Lesniewski-Laas, Nicholas, Niemi, Jim, Bonato, Paolo: Subsensory stochastic electrical stimulation targeting muscle afferents alters gait control during locomotor adaptations to haptic perturbations. iScience 26(7): 107038, Jun 2023.

Cajigas I, Morrison MA, Luciano MS, Starr PA.: Cerebellar deep brain stimulation for the treatment of movement disorders in cerebral palsy. J Neurosurg 139(3): 605-614, Feb 2023.

Iahn Cajigas*†, Kevin C. Davis*†, Noeline W. Prins3, Sebastian Gallo, Jasim A. Naeem, Letitia Fisher, Michael E. Ivan, Abhishek Prasad, and Jonathan R. Jagid: Brain-Computer interface control of stepping from invasive electrocorticography upper-limb motor imagery in a patient with quadriplegia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16: 1077416, Jan 2023 Notes: eCollection 2022.

Elarjani T, Basil GW, Cajigas I, Lu VM, Chin CN, Alonzo A, Vallejo FA, Sparger C, Alonzo G, Levi AD.: Social Media Presence Across US Neurosurgical Residency Programs and Sub-specialties. World Neurosurg 168: e43-e49, Dec 2022.

Gunnarsdottir KM, Li A, Smith RJ, Kang JY, Korzeniewska A, Crone NE, Rouse AG, Cheng JJ, Kinsman MJ, Landazuri P, Uysal U, Ulloa CM, Cameron N, Cajigas I, Jagid J, Kanner A, Elarjani T, Bicchi MM, Inati S, Zaghloul KA, Boerwinkle VL, Wyckoff S, Barot N, Gonzalez-Martinez J, Sarma SV.: Source-sink connectivity: a novel interictal EEG marker for seizure localization. Brain 145(11): 3901-3915, Nov 2022.

Lee AT, Nichols NM, Speidel BA, Fan JM, Cajigas I, Knowlton RC, Chang EF.: Modern intracranial electroencephalography for epilepsy localization with combined subdural grid and depth electrodes with low and improved hemorrhagic complication rates. J Neurosurg 138(3): 821-827, Jul 2022.