John Thompson, PhD

Professional Titles

• Associate Professor

Recognitions

• Boettcher Investigator Award, Webb-Waring Biomedical Research (2017)

Publications

• Tanabe J, Hickman J, Tekriwal A, Sakai J, Abosch A, Ojemann S, Schacht JP, Thompson JA. Electrophysiology and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cue Craving: Potential Biomarkers for Therapeutic Neuromodulation in Addiction. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci. 2026 Jan;6(1):100622. PubMed PMID: 41321424
• Zheng J, Pavarino EC, Skelin I, Yebra M, Schwencke J, Zhu W, Reed CM, Kalia SK, Valiante TA, Ojemann SG, Kramer DR, Thompson JA, Mamelak AN, Kreiman G, Rutishauser U. Order-Selective Cells Tile Temporal Space and Predict Order Memory in Humans. bioRxiv. 2025 Oct 24. PubMed PMID: 41279043
• Thompson JA, Radcliffe EM, Ojemann S, Kramer DR, David-Gerecht P, Case M, Zarns C, Holt-Becker A, Raike RS, Baumgartner AJ, Kern DS. Unipolar recordings of beta power inform initial programming of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2025 Dec;141:108078. PubMed PMID: 41124960
• Kowalski RG, Ledreux A, Violette JE, Paustian W, Sillau S, Thompson JA, Neumann RT, Ornelas D, Monte AA, Dylla L, Ginde AA, Farcas AM, Coughlan CM, Jones WJ, Grotta JC, Graner MW. Circulating Interleukin-6 Levels and Timing of Acute Ischemic Stroke Onset. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2025 Sep;12(9):1926-1931. PubMed PMID: 40878870
• Gault JM, Cascella N, Moukaddam N, Lehto S, Hosokawa P, Appelbaum PS, Sawa A, Lippman-Bell J, Anderson WS, Goodman W, Sheth SA, Kramer D, Thompson JA, Saks ER, Davis RA. Ethical considerations of deep brain stimulation for treatment refractory schizophrenia: surveying stakeholders. BMC Psychiatry. 2025 Aug 19;25(1):796. PubMed PMID: 40830450
• Ryan MV, Satzer D, Hu H, Litwiller DV, Rettmann DW, Tanabe J, Thompson JA, Ojemann SG, Kramer DR. Delineation of the Centromedian Nucleus for Epilepsy Neuromodulation Using Deep Learning Reconstruction of White Matter-Nulled Imaging. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2025 Sep 2;46(9):1868-1874. PubMed PMID: 40813213
• Zenk M, Baid U, Pati S, Linardos A, Edwards B, Sheller M, Foley P, Aristizabal A, Zimmerer D, Gruzdev A, Martin J, Shinohara RT, Reinke A, Isensee F, Parampottupadam S, Parekh K, Floca R, Kassem H, Baheti B, Thakur S, Chung V, Kushibar K, Lekadir K, Jiang M, Yin Y, Yang H, Liu Q, Chen C, Dou Q, Heng PA, Zhang X, Zhang S, Khan MI, Azeem MA, Jafaritadi M, Alhoniemi E, Kontio E, Khan SA, Mächler L, Ezhov I, Kofler F, Shit S, Paetzold JC, Loehr T, Wiestler B, Peiris H, Pawar K, Zhong S, Chen Z, Hayat M, Egan G, Harandi M, Isik Polat E, Polat G, Kocyigit A, Temizel A, Tuladhar A, Tyagi L, Souza R, Forkert ND, Mouches P, Wilms M, Shambhat V, Maurya A, Danannavar SS, Kalla R, Anand VK, Krishnamurthi G, Nalawade S, Ganesh C, Wagner B, Reddy D, Das Y, Yu FF, Fei B, Madhuranthakam AJ, Maldjian J, Singh G, Ren J, Zhang W, An N, Hu Q, Zhang Y, Zhou Y, Siomos V, Tarroni G, Passerrat-Palmbach J, Rawat A, Zizzo G, Kadhe SR, Epperlein JP, Braghin S, Wang Y, Kanagavelu R, Wei Q, Yang Y, Liu Y, Kotowski K, Adamski S, Machura B, Malara W, Zarudzki L, Nalepa J, Shi Y, Gao H, Avestimehr S, Yan Y, Akbar AS, Kondrateva E, Yang H, Li Z, Wu HY, Roth J, Saueressig C, Milesi A, Nguyen QD, Gruenhagen NJ, Huang TM, Ma J, Singh HSH, Pan NY, Zhang D, Zeineldin RA, Futrega M, Yuan Y, Conte GM, Feng X, Pham QD, Xia Y, Jiang Z, Luu HM, Dobko M, Carré A, Tuchinov B, Mohy-Ud-Din H, Alam S, Singh A, Shah N, Wang W, Sako C, Bilello M, Ghodasara S, Mohan S, Davatzikos C, Calabrese E, Rudie J, Villanueva-Meyer J, Cha S, Hess C, Mongan J, Ingalhalikar M, Jadhav M, Pandey U, Saini J, Huang RY, Chang K, To MS, Bhardwaj S, Chong C, Agzarian M, Kozubek M, Lux F, Michálek J, Matula P, Ker Kovský M, Kopr Ivová T, Dostál M, Vybíhal V, Pinho MC, Holcomb J, Metz M, Jain R, Lee MD, Lui YW, Tiwari P, Verma R, Bareja R, Yadav I, Chen J, Kumar N, Gusev Y, Bhuvaneshwar K, Sayah A, Bencheqroun C, Belouali A, Madhavan S, Colen RR, Kotrotsou A, Vollmuth P, Brugnara G, Preetha CJ, Sahm F, Bendszus M, Wick W, Mahajan A,... Towards fair decentralized benchmarking of healthcare AI algorithms with the Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) challenge. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 8;16(1):6274. PubMed PMID: 40628696
• Sakai JT, Tanabe J, Battula S, Zipperly M, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, Kern DS, Thompson JA, Ojemann S, Raymond K, Gerecht PD, Foster K, Abosch A. Corrigendum: Deep brain stimulation for the treatment of substance use disorders: a promising approach requiring caution. Front Psychiatry. 2025;16:1559114. PubMed PMID: 40475950
• Baumgartner AJ, Hirt L, Kern DS, Thompson JA. Anodic stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus rescues cathodic stimulation-induced mood symptoms in Parkinson disease. Brain Stimul. 2025 Jul-Aug;18(4):1085-1087. PubMed PMID: 40340021
• Timmermann O, Ojemann SG, Thompson JA, Treat L, Kern DS. Case Report of Bilateral Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation in an Adolescent TUBB4A Patient: She Can Sit on a Horse. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2025 Sep;12(9):1432-1435. PubMed PMID: 40331309
• Platt JP, Radcliffe EM, Klimczak SL, Gliske SV, Kovach CK, Maroni D, Abosch A, Thompson JA. Multi-day recordings and adaptive stimulation protocols for in-home collection of deep brain stimulation intracranial recordings. J Neurosci Methods. 2025 Jun;418:110442. PubMed PMID: 40188880
• Bayman E, Anigbogu C, Razmara A, Ojemann SG, Thompson JA, Kramer DR. Comparison of Deep Brain Stimulation and Responsive Neurostimulation Wound Complication Rates and Risk Factors: A Single-Center Retrospective Study. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2025;103(3):147-153. PubMed PMID: 40188819
• Satzer D, Kaye LC, Ojemann SG, Kramer DR, Thompson JA. Aperiodic activity as a biomarker of seizures and neuromodulation. Brain Stimul. 2025 May-Jun;18(3):738-744. PubMed PMID: 40180220
• Satzer D, Kaye LC, Ryan MV, Ojemann SG, Thompson JA, Kramer DR. Mapping Healthy and Epileptic States in the Centromedian Nucleus Region. Neuromodulation. 2025 Mar 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 40152848
• Pascual M, Bisarad P, Kelbert J, Chinander S, Gelineau-Morel R, Gorodetsky C, Hewitt AL, Larsh T, Lucente N, O'Malley J, Sanger TD, van der Werf L, Hauptman JS, Ponce FA, Kruer MC, Thompson JA. Stimulation-related increases in power spectral density covary with clinical evidence of overstimulation during deep brain stimulation for pediatric dystonia. medRxiv. 2025 Mar 7. PubMed PMID: 40093213
• Baumgartner AJ, Hirt L, Amara AW, Kern DS, Thompson JA. Diurnal fluctuations of subthalamic nucleus local field potentials follow naturalistic sleep-wake behavior in Parkinson's disease. Sleep. 2025 Jun 13;48(6). PubMed PMID: 39798074
• Das R, Gliske SV, Maroni D, Situ-Kcomt M, West LC, Summers MO, Tang S, Vaswani PA, Halpern CH, Thompson JA, Kushida CA, Abosch A. Sleep spindle variation in patients with Parkinson's disease on first nights of sub-optimal deep brain stimulation. Clin Neurophysiol. 2025 Feb;170:91-97. PubMed PMID: 39705860
• Kelbert J, Guest A, Bisarad P, Larsh TR, Bhatia P, Chinander S, Cornejo P, van der Werf L, Ponce FA, Thompson JA, Kruer MC. Local Field Potential-Based Programming for Deep Brain Stimulation in Pediatric DYT1 Dystonia. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2025 Feb;12(2):249-252. PubMed PMID: 39628113
• Das R, Gliske SV, Maroni D, Situ-Kcomt M, West LC, Summers MO, Tang S, Vaswani PA, Halpern CH, Thompson JA, Kushida CA, Abosch A. Sleep spindle variation in patients with Parkinson's disease on first nights of sub-optimal deep brain stimulation. Clin Neurophysiol. 2024 Dec 6;170:91-97. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39705860
• Kelbert J, Guest A, Bisarad P, Larsh TR, Bhatia P, Chinander S, Cornejo P, van der Werf L, Ponce FA, Thompson JA, Kruer MC. Local Field Potential-Based Programming for Deep Brain Stimulation in Pediatric DYT1 Dystonia. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2024 Dec 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39628113
• Martinez-Perez R, Casanova-Martinez D, Thompson JA, Hirt L, Kortz M, Labib MAM, Razmara A, Youssef AS. Circumferential exposure of the cavernous sinus and parasellar region through a combined open and endoscopic endonasal transcavernous approach, a morphometric study. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2024 Oct 9;166(1):399. PubMed PMID: 39382802
• Baker SK, Radcliffe EM, Kramer DR, Ojemann S, Case M, Zarns C, Holt-Becker A, Raike RS, Baumgartner AJ, Kern DS, Thompson JA. Comparison of beta peak detection algorithms for data-driven deep brain stimulation programming strategies in Parkinson's disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2024 Aug 9;10(1):150. PubMed PMID: 39122725
• Sakai JT, Tanabe J, Battula S, Zipperly M, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, Kern DS, Thompson JA, Raymond K, Gerecht PD, Foster K, Abosch A. Deep brain stimulation for the treatment of substance use disorders: a promising approach requiring caution. Front Psychiatry. 2024;15:1435109. PubMed PMID: 39071229
• Ryan MV, Satzer D, Ojemann SG, Kramer DR, Thompson JA. Neurophysiologic Characteristics of the Anterior Nucleus of the Thalamus during Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Epilepsy. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2024;102(5):293-307. PubMed PMID: 39008968
• Bayman E, Chee K, Mendlen M, Denman DJ, Tien RN, Ojemann S, Kramer DR, Thompson JA. Subthalamic nucleus synchronization between beta band local field potential and single-unit activity in Parkinson's disease. Physiol Rep. 2024 May;12(9):e16001. PubMed PMID: 38697943
• Das R, Gliske SV, West LC, Summers MO, Tang S, Hirt L, Maroni D, Halpern CH, Thompson JA, Kushida CA, Abosch A. Sleep macro-architecture in patients with Parkinson's disease does not change during the first night of neurostimulation in a pilot study. J Clin Sleep Med. 2024 Sep 1;20(9):1489-1496. PubMed PMID: 38652493
• Freeman LM, Ung TH, Thompson JA, Ovard O, Olson M, Hirt L, Hosokawa P, Thaker A, Youssef AS. Refining the predictive value of preoperative apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) by whole-tumor analysis for facial nerve outcomes in vestibular schwannomas. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2024 Apr 5;166(1):168. PubMed PMID: 38575773
• Chee K, Hirt L, Mendlen M, Machnik J, Razmara A, Bayman E, Thompson JA, Kramer DR. Brain Shift during Staged Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2024;102(2):83-92. PubMed PMID: 38286119
• Liu Y, Bainbridge J, Sillau S, Rajkovic S, Adkins M, Domen CH, Thompson JA, Seawalt T, Klawitter J, Sempio C, Chin G, Forman L, Fullard M, Hawkins T, Seeberger L, Newman H, Vu D, Leehey MA. Short-Term Cannabidiol with ?-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol in Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized Trial. Mov Disord. 2024 May;39(5):863-875. PubMed PMID: 38487964
• Lewis S, Radcliffe E, Ojemann S, Kramer DR, Hirt L, Case M, Holt-Becker AB, Raike R, Kern DS, Thompson JA. Pilot Study to Investigate the Use of In-Clinic Sensing to Identify Optimal Stimulation Parameters for Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy in Parkinson's Disease. Neuromodulation. 2024 Apr;27(3):509-519. PubMed PMID: 36797194
• Duffy KA, Fenstermacher EA, Thompson JA, Tanabe J, Patel MS, Ojemann S, Davis RA. Case report: Clinical efficacy of deep brain stimulation contacts corresponds to local field potential signals in a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Front Psychiatry. 2023;14:1279972. PubMed PMID: 38076699
• Thompson JA, Hirt L, David-Gerecht P, Fasano A, Kramer DR, Ojemann SG, Kern DS. Comparison of Monopolar Review to Fixed Parameter Fractionation in Deep Brain Stimulation. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2023 Jun;10(6):987-991. PubMed PMID: 37332654
• West LC, Summers M, Tang S, Hirt L, Halpern CH, Maroni D, Das R, Gliske SV, Abosch A, Kushida CA, Thompson JA. Evaluation of consensus sleep stage scoring of dysregulated sleep in Parkinson's disease. Sleep Med. 2023 Jul;107:236-242. PubMed PMID: 37257366
• Ung TH, Freeman L, Hirt L, Kortz M, Belanger K, Baird-Daniel E, Hosokawa P, Thaker A, Thompson JA, Youssef AS. Surgical outcomes in large vestibular schwannomas: should cerebellopontine edema be considered in the grading systems?. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2023 Jul;165(7):1749-1755. PubMed PMID: 37204532
• Radcliffe EM, Baumgartner AJ, Kern DS, Al Borno M, Ojemann S, Kramer DR, Thompson JA. Oscillatory beta dynamics inform biomarker-driven treatment optimization for Parkinson's disease. J Neurophysiol. 2023 Jun 1;129(6):1492-1504. PubMed PMID: 37198135
• Gault JM, Hosokawa P, Kramer D, Saks ER, Appelbaum PS, Thompson JA, Olincy A, Cascella N, Sawa A, Goodman W, Moukaddam N, Sheth SA, Anderson WS, Davis RA. Postsurgical morbidity and mortality favorably informs deep brain stimulation for new indications including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Front Surg. 2023;10:958452. PubMed PMID: 37066004
• Chee K, Razmara A, Geller AS, Harris WB, Restrepo D, Thompson JA, Kramer DR. Corrigendum: The role of the piriform cortex in temporal lobe epilepsy: A current literature review. Front Neurol. 2023;14:1148230. PubMed PMID: 36908616
• Lewis S, Radcliffe E, Ojemann S, Kramer DR, Hirt L, Case M, Holt-Becker AB, Raike R, Kern DS, Thompson JA. Pilot Study to Investigate the Use of In-Clinic Sensing to Identify Optimal Stimulation Parameters for Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy in Parkinson's Disease. Neuromodulation. 2023 Feb 14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36797194
• McDermott D, Darwin ML, Fetrow K, Coulter I, Biesecker K, Thompson JA. Cannabis use patterns in drug-resistant and pharmacoresponsive epilepsy: Single tertiary referral center survey investigation. PLoS One. 2023;18(1):e0281040. PubMed PMID: 36706124
• Chee K, Razmara A, Geller AS, Harris WB, Restrepo D, Thompson JA, Kramer DR. The role of the piriform cortex in temporal lobe epilepsy: A current literature review. Front Neurol. 2022;13:1042887. PubMed PMID: 36479052
• Tekriwal A, Baker S, Christensen E, Petersen-Jones H, Tien RN, Ojemann SG, Kern DS, Kramer DR, Felsen G, Thompson JA. Quantifying neuro-motor correlations during awake deep brain stimulation surgery using markerless tracking. Sci Rep. 2022 Oct 27;12(1):18120. PubMed PMID: 36302865
• Baker S, Tekriwal A, Felsen G, Christensen E, Hirt L, Ojemann SG, Kramer DR, Kern DS, Thompson JA. Automatic extraction of upper-limb kinematic activity using deep learning-based markerless tracking during deep brain stimulation implantation for Parkinson's disease: A proof of concept study. PLoS One. 2022;17(10):e0275490. PubMed PMID: 36264986
• Serva SN, Bernstein J, Thompson JA, Kern DS, Ojemann SG. An update on advanced therapies for Parkinson's disease: From gene therapy to neuromodulation. Front Surg. 2022;9:863921. PubMed PMID: 36211256
• Kern D, Korsmo M, Baumgartner AJ, Kramer D, Ojemann S, Case M, Holt-Becker AB, Raike R, Thompson JA. Methylphenidate effects on a clinically informative oscillatory signal within the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease during deep brain stimulation programming. Brain Stimul. 2022 May-Jun;15(3):747-749. PubMed PMID: 35526817
• Baumgartner AJ, Thompson JA, Kern DS, Ojemann SG. Novel targets in deep brain stimulation for movement disorders. Neurosurg Rev. 2022 Aug;45(4):2593-2613. PubMed PMID: 35511309
• Hirt L, Kern DS, Ojemann S, Grassia F, Kramer D, Thompson JA. Use of Three-Dimensional Printed Brain Models During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Consultation for Patient Health Literacy: A Randomized Controlled Investigation. World Neurosurg. 2022 Jun;162:e526-e533. PubMed PMID: 35306197
• Tekriwal A, Felsen G, Ojemann SG, Abosch A, Thompson JA. Motor context modulates substantia nigra pars reticulata spike activity in patients with Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2022 Apr;93(4):386-394. PubMed PMID: 35193951
• Murcia D, D'Souza S, Abozeid M, Thompson JA, Djoyum TD, Ormond DR. Investigation of Asleep versus Awake Motor Mapping in Resective Brain Surgery. World Neurosurg. 2022 Jan;157:e129-e136. PubMed PMID: 34619401
• Ung TH, Kahn L, Hirt L, Chatain G, Humes E, David-Gerecht P, Drees C, Thompson JA, Ojemann S, Abosch A. Using a Robotic-Assisted Approach for Stereotactic Laser Ablation Corpus Callosotomy: A Technical Report. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2022;100(1):61-66. PubMed PMID: 34515241
• Hirt L, Grassia F, Feuerstein J, Thompson JA, Ojemann S, Kern DS. Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Intermediate Nucleus of the Thalamus in Writer's Cramp: A Case Report. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2021;11:46. PubMed PMID: 34824889
• Baumgartner AJ, Kushida CA, Summers MO, Kern DS, Abosch A, Thompson JA. Basal Ganglia Local Field Potentials as a Potential Biomarker for Sleep Disturbance in Parkinson's Disease. Front Neurol. 2021;12:765203. PubMed PMID: 34777232
• Ung TH, Kahn L, Hirt L, Chatain G, Humes E, David-Gerecht P, Drees C, Thompson JA, Ojemann S, Abosch A. Using a Robotic-Assisted Approach for Stereotactic Laser Ablation Corpus Callosotomy: A Technical Report. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2021 Aug 17;:1-6. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34515241
• Tekriwal A, Lintz MJ, Thompson JA, Felsen G. Disrupted basal ganglia output during movement preparation in hemiparkinsonian mice is consistent with behavioral deficits. J Neurophysiol. 2021 Oct 1;126(4):1248-1264. PubMed PMID: 34406873
• Fringuello A, Tatman PD, Wroblewski T, Thompson JA, Yu X, Lillehei KO, Kowalski RG, Graner MW. Cytokine-Laden Extracellular Vesicles Predict Patient Prognosis after Cerebrovascular Accident. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Jul 22;22(15). PubMed PMID: 34360613
• Belanger K, Grassia F, Kortz MW, Thompson JA, DeStefano S, Ojemann S. Management of post-operative delirium following stereoelectroencephalography electrode placement for drug resistant epilepsy: Lessons learned from two case reports. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2021;16:100438. PubMed PMID: 33997756
• Thaker AA, Reddy KM, Thompson JA, Gerecht PD, Brown MS, Abosch A, Ojemann SG, Kern DS. Coronal Gradient Echo MRI to Visualize the Zona Incerta for Deep Brain Stimulation Targeting in Parkinson's Disease. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2021;99(5):443-450. PubMed PMID: 33902054
• Kahn L, Sutton B, Winston HR, Abosch A, Thompson JA, Davis RA. Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Real World Experience Post-FDA-Humanitarian Use Device Approval. Front Psychiatry. 2021;12:568932. PubMed PMID: 33868034
• D'Souza S, Hirt L, Ormond DR, Thompson JA. Retrospective analysis of hemispheric structural network change as a function of location and size of glioma. Brain Commun. 2021;3(1):fcaa216. PubMed PMID: 33501423
• Kern DS, Fasano A, Thompson JA, Abosch A, Ojemann S, Munhoz RP. Constant Current versus Constant Voltage: Clinical Evidence Supporting a Fundamental Difference in the Modalities. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2021;99(2):171-175. PubMed PMID: 33227781
• Kern DS, Fasano A, Thompson JA, Abosch A, Ojemann S, Munhoz RP. Constant Current versus Constant Voltage: Clinical Evidence Supporting a Fundamental Difference in the Modalities. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2020 Nov 23;:1-5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33227781
• Kern DS, Uy D, Rhoades R, Ojemann S, Abosch A, Thompson JA. Discrete changes in brain volume after deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2020 Sep;91(9):928-937. PubMed PMID: 32651244
• Youssef AS, Arnone GD, Farell NF, Thompson JA, Ramakrishnan VR, Gubbels S, Cohen-Gadol AA, Cass S, Labib MA. The Combined Endoscopic Endonasal Far Medial and Open Postauricular Transtemporal Approaches As a Lesser Invasive Approach to the Jugular Foramen: Anatomic Morphometric Study With Case Illustration. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2020 Sep 15;19(4):471-479. PubMed PMID: 32510567
• George DD, Ojemann SG, Drees C, Thompson JA. Stimulation Mapping Using Stereoelectroencephalography: Current and Future Directions. Front Neurol. 2020;11:320. PubMed PMID: 32477236
• Gault JM, Thompson JA, Maharajh K, Hosokawa P, Stevens KE, Olincy A, Liedtke EI, Ojemann A, Ojemann S, Abosch A. Striatal and Thalamic Auditory Response During Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor: Implications for Psychosis. Neuromodulation. 2020 Jun;23(4):478-488. PubMed PMID: 32022409
• Pang Y, Christenson J, Jiang F, Lei T, Rhoades R, Kern D, Thompson JA, Liu C. Automatic detection and quantification of hand movements toward development of an objective assessment of tremor and bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease. J Neurosci Methods. 2020 Mar 1;333:108576. PubMed PMID: 31923452
• Kern DS, Picillo M, Thompson JA, Sammartino F, di Biase L, Munhoz RP, Fasano A. Interleaving Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease, Tremor, and Dystonia. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2019 Jan 17;:1-13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30654368
• Kern DS, Picillo M, Thompson JA, et al. Interleaving Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease, Tremor, and Dystonia. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2018;96(6):379–391. doi:10.1159/000494983
• Christensen E, Abosch A, Thompson JA, Zylberberg J. Inferring sleep stage from local field potentials recorded in the subthalamic nucleus of Parkinson's patients. J Sleep Res. 2019;28(4):e12806. doi:10.1111/jsr.12806
• Costabile JD, Alaswad E, D'Souza S, Thompson JA, Ormond DR. Current Applications of Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Tractography in Intracranial Tumor Resection. Front Oncol. 2019;9:426. Published 2019 May 29. doi:10.3389/fonc.2019.00426
• Winter M, Costabile JD, Abosch A, Thompson JA. Method for localizing intraoperative recordings from deep brain stimulation surgery using post-operative structural MRI. Neuroimage Clin. 2018;20:1123–1128. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2018.10.016
• Lora Kahn, Aviva Abosch, Drew S. Kern, Clete A. Kushida, Casey H. Halpern, John A. Thompson, Chapter 49 - Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder: Pathological Neural Circuits and Association with Parkinson's Disease, Editor(s): Hans C. Dringenberg, Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience, Elsevier, Volume 30, 2019, Pages 723-730
• Christensen E, Abosch A, Thompson JA, Zylberberg J. Inferring sleep stage from local field potentials recorded in the subthalamic nucleus of Parkinson's patients. J Sleep Res. 2018 Dec 13;:e12806. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30549130
• Winter M, Costabile JD, Abosch A, Thompson JA. Method for localizing intraoperative recordings from deep brain stimulation surgery using post-operative structural MRI. Neuroimage Clin. 2018;20:1123-1128. PubMed PMID: 30380519
• Weinkle LJ, Hoyt B, Thompson JA, Sillau S, Tanabe J, Honce J, Klepitskaya O. Association of MRI Measurements with Cognitive Outcomes After STN-DBS in Parkinson's Disease. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2018 Jul-Aug;5(4):417-426. PubMed PMID: 30363383
• Thompson JA, Oukal S, Bergman H, Ojemann S, Hebb AO, Hanrahan S, Israel Z, Abosch A. Semi-automated application for estimating subthalamic nucleus boundaries and optimal target selection for deep brain stimulation implantation surgery. J Neurosurg. 2018 May 1;:1-10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29775152
• Tekriwal A, Felsen G, Thompson JA. Modular auditory decision-making behavioral task designed for intraoperative use in humans. J Neurosci Methods. 2018 Jul 1;304:162-167. PubMed PMID: 29746889
• Vasquez CA, Thompson JA, Youssef AS. The Tentorial Bridge to Deep Skull Base Exposure: Anatomic Morphometric Study. World Neurosurg. 2018 Jun;114:e588-e596. PubMed PMID: 29551719
• Gault JM, Davis R, Cascella NG, Saks ER, Corripio-Collado I, Anderson WS, Olincy A, Thompson JA, Pomarol-Clotet E, Sawa A, Daskalakis ZJ, Lipsman N, Abosch A. Approaches to neuromodulation for schizophrenia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018 Jul;89(7):777-787. PubMed PMID: 29242310
• Brown MG, Drees C, Nagae LM, Thompson JA, Ojemann S, Abosch A. Curative and palliative MRI-guided laser ablation for drug-resistant epilepsy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018 Apr;89(4):425-433. PubMed PMID: 29084870
• Thompson JA, Tekriwal A, Felsen G, Ozturk M, Telkes I, Wu J, Ince NF, Abosch A. Sleep patterns in Parkinson's disease: direct recordings from the subthalamic nucleus. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018 Jan;89(1):95-104. PubMed PMID: 28866626
• 4. Yin D, Thompson JA, Ojemann S, Pelak V, Drees C, Nagae L, Abosch A (2016) Optic radiation tractography and visual field deficits in laser interstitial thermal therapy for amygdalo-hippocampectomy in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
• Liedtke EI, Zhang S, Thompson JA, Sillau S, Gault J. (2017) Correlated expression analysis of genes implicated in schizophrenia: identification of putative disease related pathways. New Horizons in Translational Medicine, 3 (5) 224-232
• Stratford JM, Thompson JA, Finger TE (2017) Immunocytochemical organization and sour taste activation in the rostral nuc. Solitary tract of mice. Journal of Comparative Neurology 525: 271-290
• Yin D, Thompson JA, Ojemann S, Pelak V, Drees C, Nagae L, Abosch A (2017) Optic radiation tractography and visual field deficits in laser interstitial thermal therapy for amygdalo-hippocampectomy in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 95:107-113
• Kolb R, Felsen G, Abosch A, Thompson JA (2017) Use of intraoperative local field potential spectral analysis to differentiate basal ganglia structures in Parkinson's disease patients. Physiological Reports, 5 (12), e13322
• Thompson JA, Yin D, Ojemann S, Abosch A (2017) Use of the putamen as a surrogate anatomical marker for the internal segment of globus pallidus in deep brain stimulation surgery. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 95 (2), 229-235
• Tekriwal A, Kern D, Tsai J, Ince NF, Wu J, Thompson JA, Abosch A (2017) REM sleep behavior disorder: prodromal and mechanistic insights for Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 88:445-451
• Ormond DR, D’Souza S, Thompson JA (2017) Global and targeted pathway impact of gliomas on white matter integrity based on lobar localization, Cureus 9 (9)
• Stratford JM, Thompson JA, Finger TE. Immunocytochemical organization and sour taste activation in the rostral nucleus of the solitary tract of mice. J Comp Neurol. 2017 Feb 1;525(2):271-290. PubMed PMID: 27292295
• Stratford JM, Thompson JA. MSG-Evoked c-Fos Activity in the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract Is Dependent upon Fluid Delivery and Stimulation Parameters. Chem Senses. 2016 Mar;41(3):211-20. PubMed PMID: 26762887
• Correlated expression analysis of genes implicated in schizophrenia: identification of putative disease-related pathways Erin I. Liedtke · Sirey Zhang · John A. Thompson · [...] · Judith Gault Article · Dec 2016 New Horizons in Translational Medicine
• Tekriwal A, Kern DS, Tsai J, Ince NF, Wu J, Thompson JA, Abosch A. REM sleep behaviour disorder: prodromal and mechanistic insights for Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2016 Dec 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27965397
• Dondzillo A, Thompson JA, Klug A. Recurrent Inhibition to the Medial Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body in the Mongolian Gerbil (Meriones Unguiculatus). PLoS One. 2016 Aug 4;11(8):e0160241. PubMed PMID: 27489949
• Thompson JA, Costabile JD, Felsen G. Mesencephalic representations of recent experience influence decision making. Elife. 2016 Jul 25;5. PubMed PMID: 27454033
• Stubblefield EA, Thompson JA, Felsen G. (2015) Optogenetic cholinergic modulation of the mouse superior colliculus in vivo. Journal of Neurophysiology 114:978-88
• Wolf AB, Lintz MJ, Costabile JD, Thompson JA, Stubblefield EA, Felsen G. (2015) An integrative role for the superior colliculus in selecting targets for movements. Journal of Neurophysiology 114(4):2118-31.
• Winter M, Thompson JA. Electrophysiological topography of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease. American Association of Clinical Anatomists. 2015
• Stratford JM, Thompson JA. Beta-galactosidase staining in the nucleus of the solitary tract of Fos-Tau-LacZ mice is unaffected by monosodium glutamate taste stimulation. PLoS One. 2014;9(9):e107238. PubMed PMID: 25192442
• Thompson JA, Lanctin D, Ince NF, Abosch A. Clinical implications of local field potentials for understanding and treating movement disorders. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2014;92(4):251-63. PubMed PMID: 25170784
• Albrecht O, Dondzillo A, Mayer F, Thompson JA, Klug A. Inhibitory projections from the ventral nucleus of the trapezoid body to the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body in the mouse. Front Neural Circuits. 2014;8:83. PubMed PMID: 25120436
• Thompson JA, Felsen G. Activity in mouse pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus reflects action and outcome in a decision-making task. J Neurophysiol. 2013 Dec;110(12):2817-29. PubMed PMID: 24089397

Professional Memberships

• Society for Neuroscience, Member
• American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Member

Practice Locations

UCHealth Neurosciences Center - Anschutz Medical Campus
1635 Aurora Ct
4th Floor
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-2080

Hospital Affiliation

• University of Colorado Hospital

Center Affiliations

• University of Colorado Movement Disorders Center
• Neurotechnology Center

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Neurological Surgery