Publications

  1. Mink JW, Walkup J, Frey KA, Como P, Cath D, DeLong MR, Erenberg G, Jankovic J, Juncos J, Lecman JF, Swerdlow N, Visser-Vandewalle V, Vitek, JL for the Tourette Syndrome Association.  Patient selection and assessment recommendations for Deep Brain Stimulation in Tourette Syndrome. Movement Disorders 21:1831-1838, 2006.
  2. Kopell BH, Rezai AR, Chang JW, Vitek JL.  Anatomy and Physiology of the Basel Ganglia:  Implications for Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease.  Movement Disorders, 21: Suppl. 14:S238-S246, 2006.
  3. Deuschl G, Herzog J, Kleiner-Fisman G, Kubu C, Lozano AM, Lyons KE, Rodriguez-Oroz MC, Tamma F, Troster AI, Vitek JL, Volkmann J, Voon V.  Deep Brain Stimulation:  Postoperative Issues.  Movement Disorders, 21: Suppl. 14:S219-S237, 2006.
  4. McDonald WM, Holtzheimer PE, Haber M, Vitek JL, Beyer K, DeLong M.  Validity of the 30-item geriatric depression scale in patients with Parkinson’s disease.  Movement Disorders, 21(10): 1618-1622, 2006.
  5. Zhang J, Russo GS, Mewes K, Rye DB, Vitek JL. Lesions in monkey globus pallidus externus exacerbate parkinsonian symptoms. Exp Neurol. 2006.
  6. Grafton ST, Turner RS, Desmurget M, Bakay R, DeLong M, Vitek JL, Crutcher M.  Normalizing motor-related brain activity: subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson’s disease.  Neurology 66: 1192-1199, 2006.
  7. Miocinovic S, Parent M, Butson C, Hahn P, Russo G, Vitek JL, McIntyre C.  Computational analysis of the subthalamic nucleus and lenticular fasciculus during therapeutic deep brain stimulation.  Journal of Neurophysiology 96 (3): 1569-1580, 2006.
  8. Rezai AR, Kopell BH, Gross RE, Vitek JL, Sharan AD, Lemousin P, Benabid AL, Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease:  Surgical Issues.  Movement Disorders 21 Suppl. 14:S197-218, 2006.
  9. Elder CM, Hashimoto T, Zhang J, Vitek JL. Chronic implantation of deep brain stimulation leads in animal models of neurological disorders. J Neurosci Methods. 2005;142(1):11-6.
  10. Stover NP, Okun MS, Evatt ML, Raju DV, Bakay RA, Vitek JL. Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in a patient with Parkinson disease and essential tremor. Arch Neurol. 2005; 62(1):141-3.
  11. Alvarez L, Macias R, Lopez G, Alvarez E, Pavon N, Rodriguez-Oroz MC, et al.  Bilateral subthalamotomy in Parkinson’s disease:  initial and long-term response.  Brain 128 (Pt. 3): 570-583, 2005.
  12. Alberts JL, Elder CM, Okun MS, Vitek JL. Comparison of pallidal and subthalamic stimulation on force control in patient's with Parkinson's disease. Motor Control. 2004; 8(4):484-99.
  13. Walter BL, Vitek JL. Surgical treatment for Parkinson's disease. Lancet Neurol. 2004; 3(12):719-28.
  14. Vitek JL, Hashimoto T, Peoples J, DeLong MR, Bakay RA. Acute stimulation in the external segment of the globus pallidus improves parkinsonian motor signs. Movement Disorders. 2004; 19(8):907-15.
  15. Okun MS, Raju DV, Walter BL, Juncos JL, DeLong MR, Heilman K, McDonald WM, Vitek JL. Pseudobulbar crying induced by stimulation in the region of the subthalamic nucleus. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2004; 75(6):921-3.
  16. McIntyre CC, Savasta M, Kerkerian-Le Goff L, Vitek JL. Uncovering the mechanism(s) of action of deep brain stimulation: activation, inhibition, or both. Clin Neurophysiol. 2004; 115(6):1239-48.
  17. McIntyre CC, Savasta M, Walter BL, Vitek JL. How does deep brain stimulation work? Present understanding and future questions. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2004; 21(1):40-50.
  18. Vitek JL.  Deep brain stimulation.  J Clinical Neurophysiology 2(1): 1, 2004.
  19. Okun MS, Vitek JL. Lesion therapy for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders: update and
    controversies. Movement Disorders. 2004; 19(4):375-89.
  20. McIntyre CC, Mori S, Sherman DL, Thakor NV, Vitek JL. Electric field and stimulating influence generated by deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus. Clin Neurophysiology. 2004; 115(3):589-95.
  21. Okun MS, Crucian GP, Fischer L, Walter BL, Testa CM, Vitek JL, DeLong MR,
    Hanfelt J, Huang X. Testosterone deficiency in a Parkinson's disease clinic: results of a survey. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2004; 75(1):165-6.
  22. Okun MS, Green J, Saben R, Gross R, Foote KD, Vitek JL. Mood changes with deep brain stimulation of STN and GPi: results of a pilot study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003; 74(11):1584-6.
  23. Okun MS, Bakay RA, DeLong MR, Vitek JL. Transient manic behavior after pallidotomy. Brain Cogn. 2003; 52(2):281-3.
  24. Lopez-Lores G, Miguel-Morales J, Teijeiro-Amador J, Vitek JL, Perez-Parra S, Fernandez-Melo R, Maragoto C, Alvarez E, Alvarez L, Macias R, Obeso JA.  Anatomic and Neurophysiological methods for the targeting and lesioning of the subthalamic nucleus: Cuban experience and review.  Neurosurgery 52(14): 817-830, discussion 831, 2003.
  25. Vitek JL, Bakay RA, Freeman A, Evatt M, Green J, McDonald W, Haber M, Barnhart H, Wahlay N, Triche S, Mewes K, Chockkan V, Zhang JY, DeLong MR. Randomized trial of pallidotomy versus medical therapy for Parkinson's disease. Ann Neurol. 2003; 53(5):558-69.
  26. Vitek JL. Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. A critical re-evaluation of STN versus GPi DBS.
    Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2002; 78(3-4):119-31.
  27. Hashimoto T, Elder CM, Okun MS, Patrick SK, Vitek JL. Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus changes the firing pattern of pallidal neurons. J Neurosci. 2003; 23(5):1916-23.
  28. Green J, McDonald WM, Vitek JL, Evatt M, Freeman A, Haber M, Bakay RA, Triche S, Sirockman B, DeLong MR.  Cognitive impairments in advanced PD without dementia. Neurology. 2002; 59 (9):1320-4.
  29. Okun MS, Vitek JL, DeLong MR. Not our knife: gamma knife surgery for Parkinson disease. Archives of Neurology. 2002;59(8):1334-5;
  30. Okun MS, Heilman KM, Vitek JL. Treatment of Pseudobulbar laughter after gamma knife thalamotomy. Movement Disorders. 2002; 17(3):622-4.
  31. Okun MS, Vitek JL, DeLong MR.  In reply:  is the reporting of complications a disservice to neurology and neurosurgery?  Complications of gamma knife surgery for Parkinson’s disease.  Archives of Neurology 59 (10): 1662-1664, 2002.
  32. Vitek JL. Mechanisms of deep brain stimulation: excitation or inhibition. Movement Disorders. 2002; 17 (3):S69-72.
  33. Vitek JL. Pathophysiology of dystonia: a neuronal model. Movement Disorders. 2002; 17(3):S49-62.
  34. Krack P, Dostrovsky J, Ilinsky I, Kultras-Ilinsky K, Lenz F, Lozano A, and Vitek JL. Surgery of the motor thalamus:  problems with the present nomenclatures.  Movement Disorders 17 (Suppl. 3) S2-S8, 2002.
  35. Green J, McDonald WM, Vitek JL, Haber M, Barnhart H, Bakay RA, Evatt M, Freeman A, Wahlay N, Triche S, Sirockman B, DeLong MR. Neuropsychological and psychiatric sequelae of pallidotomy for PD: clinical trial findings. Neurology. 2002; 58(6):858-65.
  36. Hashimoto T, Elder CM, Vitek JL. A template subtraction method for stimulus artifact removal in high-frequency deep brain stimulation. J Neurosci Methods. 2002; 113(2):181-6.
  37. The Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease Study Group (includes JL Vitek). Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus or globus pallidus pars interna in Parkinson’s disease.  New England Journal of Medicine 345 (13): 956-963, 2001.
  38. Rodriquez-Oroz M, Rodriques M, Guridi J. Klaus M, Chockkran V, Vitek JL, DeLong MR, Obeso JA.  The subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson’s disease:  somatotopic organization and physiological characteristics.  Brain 124 (Pt 9): 1777-1790, 2001.
  39. Okun MS, Stover NP, Subramanian T, Gearing M, Wainer BH, Holder CA, Watts RL, Juncos JL, Freeman A, Evatt ML, Schuele SU, Vitek JL, DeLong MR. Complications of gamma knife surgery for Parkinson disease.   Arch Neurol. 2001;58(12):1995-2002.
  40. Vitek JL, Giroux M. Physiology of hypokinetic and hyperkinetic movement disorders: model for
    dyskinesia. Ann Neurol. 2000; 47(1):S131-40.
  41. Baron MS, Vitek JL, Bakay RA, Green J, McDonald WM, Cole SA, DeLong MR. Treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease by unilateral posterior GPi pallidotomy: 4-year results of a pilot study. Movement Disorders. 2000; 15(2):230-7.
  42. Obeso JA, Rodriquez-Oroz MC, Rodriquez M, Macias R, Alvarez L, Guridi J, Vitek JL, DeLong MR.  Pathophysiologic basis of surgery for Parkinson’s disease.  Neurology 55(Suppl. 6): S7-S12, 2000.
  43. Lenz FA, Jaeger CJ, Seike MS, Lin YC, Reich SG, DeLong MR, Vitek JL. Thalamic single neuron activity in patients with dystonia: dystonia-related activity and somatic sensory reorganization. J Neurophysiol. 1999; 82(5):2372-92.
  44. Bakay RAE, Vitek JL, Evatt M, Zhang JY, Chockkran V, DeLong MR, Triche S. Pallidotomy and deep brain stimulation as a treatment for dystonia. Neurosurgery 45(3):696, 1999.
  45. Vitek JL, Bakay RAE, DeLong MR.  Crusade for microelectrode guidance in pallidotomy.  Journal of Neurosurgery 90: 175-179, 1999.
  46. Vitek JL, Chockkan V, Zhang JY, Kaneoke Y, Evatt M, DeLong MR, Triche S,
    Mewes K, Hashimoto T, Bakay RA.  Neuronal activity in the basal ganglia in patients with generalized dystonia and hemiballismus. Ann Neurol. 1999; 46(1):22-35.
  47. Starr PA, Vitek JL, Bakay RAE, DeLong M, Meves K.  Pallidotomy: theory and technique.  Techniques in Neurosurgery Vol. 5:31-45, 1999.
  48. Starr PA, Vitek JL, DeLong M, Bakay RA. Magnetic resonance imaging-based stereotactic localization of the globus pallidus and subthalamic nucleus. Neurosurgery. 1999; 44(2):303-13.
  49. Starr PA, Vitek JL, Bakay RA. Ablative surgery and deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.
    Neurosurgery. 1998; 43(5):989-1013.
  50. Vitek JL, Zhang J, Evatt M, Mewes K, DeLong MR, Hashimoto T, Triche S, Bakay RA. GPi pallidotomy for dystonia: clinical outcome and neuronal activity.
    Adv Neurol. 1998; 78:211-9.
  51. Vitek JL, Bakay RA, Hashimoto T, Kaneoke Y, Mewes K, Zhang JY, Rye D, Starr P, Baron M, Turner R, DeLong MR. Microelectrode-guided pallidotomy: technical approach and its application in medically intractable Parkinson's disease. J Neurosurg. 1998; 88(6):1027-43.
  52. Starr PA, Vitek JL, Bakay RA. Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 1998; 9(2):381-402.
  53. Vitek JL. Surgery for dystonia. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 1998;9(2):345-66.
  54. Biousse V, Newman NJ, Carroll C, Mewes K, Vitek JL, Bakay RA, Baron MS, DeLong MR.
    Visual fields in patients with posterior GPi pallidotomy.
    Neurology. 1998; 50(1):258-65.
  55. Rodriguez MC, Guiridi OJ, Alvarez L, Mewes K, Macias R, Vitek J, DeLong MR, Obeso JA.  The subthalamic nucleus and tremor in Parkinson’s disease.  Movement Disorders 13 Suppl 3:111-118, 1998.
  56. Samuel M, Ceballos-Baumann AO, Turjanski N, Boecker H, Gorospe A, Linazasoro G, Holmes AP, DeLong MR, Vitek JL, Thomas DG, Quinn NP, Obeso JA, Brooks DJ. Pallidotomy in Parkinson's disease increases supplementary motor area and prefrontal activation during performance of volitional movements an H2 (15) O PET study.
    Brain. 1997; 120 (8):1301-13.
  57. Vitek JL, Bakay RA. The role of pallidotomy in Parkinson's disease and dystonia. Curr Opin Neurol. 1997; 10(4):332-9.
  58. Sathian K, Zangaladze A, Green J, Vitek JL, DeLong MR. Tactile spatial acuity and roughness discrimination: impairments due to aging and Parkinson's disease. Neurology. 1997; 49(1):168-77.
  59. Bakay RA, Starr PA, Vitek JL, DeLong MR. Posterior ventral pallidotomy: techniques and theoretical considerations. Clin Neurosurg. 1997; 44:197-210.
  60. Vitek JL, Bakay RA, DeLong MR. Microelectrode-guided pallidotomy for medically intractable Parkinson's
    disease. Adv Neurol. 1997; 74:183-98.
  61. Barron MS, Vitek JL, Bakay RAE, Green J, Kaneoke Y, Hashimoto T, Turner RS, Woodard JL, Cole SA, McDonald WM, DeLong MR.  Neuropsychological and behavioral changes and weight gain after medial pallidotomy. Annals of Neurology 41(6):835-836, 1997.
  62. Baron MS, Vitek JL, Bakay RAE, Green J, Kaneohe Y, Hashimoto T, Turner RS, Woodward JL, Cole SA, McDonald WM, DeLong MR.  Levodopa-inhibiting effect of pallidal surgery. Annals of Neurology 42(7):129-130 1997.
  63. Kaneohe Y, Vitek JL. Burst and oscillation as disparate neuronal properties. J Neurosci Methods. 1996; 68(2):211-23.
  64. Baron MS, Vitek JL, Bakay RA, Green J, Kaneohe Y, Hashimoto T, Turner RS, Woodard JL, Cole SA, McDonald WM, DeLong MR. Treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease by posterior GPi pallidotomy: 1-year results of a pilot study. Ann Neurol. 1996; 40(3):355-66.
  65. Vitek JL, Ashe J, DeLong MR, Kaneoke Y. Micro stimulation of primate motor thalamus: somatotopic organization and differential distribution of evoked motor responses among subnuclei. J Neurophysiol. 1996; 75(6):2486-95.
  66. Kaneoke Y, Vitek JL. The role of the basal ganglia in movement control. Rinsho Shinkeigaku. 1995; 35(12):1518-21.
  67. Wichmann T, Vitek JL, DeLong MR. Functional anatomy of Parkinson’s disease – lessons from the laboratory and from neurosurgery.  The Neuroscientist 1:236-244, 1995.
  68. Ceballos-Baumann AO, Obeso JA, Vitek JL, Delong MR, Bakay R, Linazasoro G, Brooks DJ. Restoration of thalamocortical activity after posteroventral pallidotomy in Parkinson's disease. Lancet 1994; 344(8925):814.
  69. Vitek JL, Ashe J, DeLong MR, Alexander GE. Physiologic properties and somatotopic organization of the primate motor thalamus. J Neurophysiol. 1994; 71(4):1498-513.
  70. Lenz FA, Vitek JL, DeLong MR. Role of the thalamus in parkinsonian tremor: evidence from studies in patients and primate models. Stereotact Functional Neurosurg. 1993; 60(1-3):94-103.
  71. Bakay RA, DeLong MR, Vitek JL. Posteroventral pallidotomy for Parkinson's disease. J Neurosurgery. 1992; 77(3):487-8.
  72. Skala I, Prat V, Mareckova O, Dite P, Vitek J, Prik F, et al.  Cysts in the liver and pancreas in polycystic kidney in adults. Vnitr Lek 31:677-681, 1985.
  73. Vitek JL.  Effects of dentate nuclear output via pathways not involving the sensorimotor cortex on the amplitude and organization of the stretch reflex in decerebrate cats.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physiology, University of Minnesota, 1984.
  74. Blackwell RE, Bradley, Jr., EL, Kline LB, Duvall ER, Vitek JL, deVane GW, et al.  Comparison of dopamine agonists in the treatment of hyperprolactinemic syndromes:  a multi-center study.  Fertil Steril 39:744-748, 1983.
  75. Ebner TJ, Bloedel JR, Vitek JL, Schwartz AB. The effects of cerebellar stimulation on the stretch reflex in the spastic monkey. Brain. 1982; 105 (3):425-42.
  76. Ebner TJ, Vitek JL, Bloedel J.  Effects of cerebellar stimulation on EMG activity during passive movements in spastic primates.  Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting Scientific Manuscripts 90-92, 1980.
  77. Ebner TJ, Vitek JL, Schwartz AB, Bloedel JR. Effects of cerebellar stimulation on abnormal proprioceptive reflexes in spastic primates.
    Exp Neurology. 1980; 70(3):721-5.

 

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