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Adrian W. Laxton, MD

Adrian W. Laxton, MD

  • Professor, Neurological Surgery (Winston-Salem)

Research Interests

  • Deep Brain Stimulation
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Radiosurgery
  • Brain Neoplasms
  • Parkinson Disease
  • Epilepsy
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Education
MD, University of Toronto, 2002
Residency
Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, 2011
Fellowship
Functional/Epilepsy Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, 2012
Memberships
Congress of Neurological Surgery
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Positions
Professor, Neurological Surgery (Winston-Salem)
Departments and Affiliations
Neurological Surgery (Winston-Salem)
Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC)

Research

  • Publications
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  • Fractionated Radiotherapy With Stereotactic Radiosurgery Boost Controls Gross Disease in Grade 2 Meningioma. Calafiore RL, Helis CA, Marcet P, Smith E, Ramsey B, Pacholke H, Kittel CA, Benayoun M, Ververs JD, Cramer CK, Laxton AW, Tatter SB, Chan MD, White JJ. World Neurosurg. 2025 Feb; 194:123429.
  • Gamma Knife radiosurgery for relapsing trigeminal neuralgia following microvascular decompression. Horn AC, Kolahi Sohrabi A, Chan MD, Kittel C, Helis CA, Bourland D, Ververs JD, Cramer CK, White JJ, Tatter SB, Laxton AW. J Neurosurg. 2024 Nov; :1-9.
  • Distributed Temporal Coding of Visual Memory Categories in Human Hippocampal Neurons. She X, Moore BJ, Roeder BM, Nune G, Robinson BS, Lee B, Shaw S, Gong H, Heck CN, Popli G, Couture DE, Laxton AW, Marmarelis VZ, Deadwyler SA, Liu C, Berger TW, Hampson RE, Song D. Res Sq. 2024 Nov;
  • Genomic signature for oligometastatic disease in non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases. Choi AR, D'Agostino RB, Farris MK, Abdulhaleem M, Hunting JC, Wang Y, Smith MR, Ruiz J, Lycan TW, Petty WJ, Cramer CK, Tatter SB, Laxton AW, White JJ, Li W, Su J, Whitlow C, Xing F, Chan MD. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2024; 15:1364021.
  • Subjective feelings associated with expectations and rewards during risky decision-making in impulse control disorder. Liebenow B, Jiang A, DiMarco EK, Sands LP, Moya-Mendez M, Laxton AW, Siddiqui MS, Ul Haq I, Kishida KT. Sci Rep. 2024 Mar; 14(1):4627.
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  • Learning More About the NeuroBlate System to Treat Cancer that Has Spread to the Brain

Research Interests

  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Brain Neoplasms
  • Deep Brain Stimulation
  • Epilepsy
  • Movement Disorders
  • Parkinson Disease
  • Radiosurgery
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia
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