Publications

Safety, feasibility, and outcomes of deep brain stimulation in young children excluded from the FDA HDE: Analysis of the CHILD-DBS registry

Jung S, Molot-Toker S, Dinger T, Balachandar A, et al.

Neuromodulation for Gait Disorders

Balachandar A, Sorrento G, Moraud E, Bonizzato M, Fasano A.

Nat Rev Bioeng. 2026. doi: 10.1038/s44222-026-00431-9.

Beyond the homunculus - SCAN-AMN as a shared action-oriented neural substrate across movement disorders

Balachandar A, Hernandez-Guillen A, Dosenbach N, Lang AE, Ganos C.

Mov Disord. 2026 Mar 5. doi: 10.1002/mds.70259.

Beta-band and aperiodic activity across new and chronic STN DBS in Parkinson's disease

Balachandar A, Boogers A, Naghdlou S, Lozano A, Kalia S, Tinkhauser G, Fasano A.

Mov Disord. 2026 Jan 14. doi: 10.1002/mds.70198.

Status dystonicus is a distinct state characterized by pallidal beta-band activity

Balachandar A, Vogt L, Mithani K, Coleman S, Ebden M, Fasano A, Gorodestky C, Ibrahim G.

Nat Commun. 2025 Oct 22;16(1):9352. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-64416-9.

Surgical complications of deep brain stimulation in children across targets and indications: Multicenter CHILD-DBS registry analysis

Balachandar A, Verhey LH, Mithani K, et al.

Neurology. 2025 Nov 11;105(9):e214201. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000214201.

Tics and Tic-like phenomena as compulsive acts

Grippe T, Chen JC, Balachandar A, et al.

Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2026 Jan;13(1):278-279. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.70264.

Cerebellar dentate cavernoma enlargement and tremor emergence: Longitudinal neuroimaging analysis of case report and literature review

Yang AZ, Rodrigues T, Kashyap S, Patel Y, Balachandar A, et al.

Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2025 Sep;12(9):1410-1414. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.70130.

Misophonia in tic disorders and their neuropsychiatric associations

Balachandar A, Grippe TC, Lim WK, Malaty IA, Lang AE, Ganos C.

Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2025 Jun;12(6):858-859. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.70017.

Advances in deep brain stimulation for neuropsychiatric disorders

Balachandar A, Phokaewvarangkul O, Fasano A.

Expert Rev Med Devices. 2024 Dec;21(12):1141-1152. doi: 10.1080/17434440.2024.2438309.

Automated sleep detection in movement disorders using DBS and machine learning

Balachandar A, Hashim Y, Vaou E, Fasano A.

Mov Disord. 2024 Nov;39(11):2097-2102. doi: 10.1002/mds.29987.

Frequency coding in essential tremor - The olivocerebellar orchestra conducts its own symphony

Balachandar A, Fasano A.

Mov Disord. 2024 Oct;39(10):1729-1730. doi: 10.1002/mds.29984.

Closed Loop Systems

Phokaewvarangkul O, Balachandar A, Fasano A.

Tuning In: Analysis of audio classifier performance in clinical settings with limited data

Mahdi H, Nashnoush E, Saab R, Balachandar A, et al.

Machine-learning assisted swallowing assessment for post-stroke dysphagia screening

Saab R, Balachandar A (co-first author), Mahdi H, et al.

Front Neurosci. 2023 Nov 24;17:1302132. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1302132.

Reply regarding glioblastoma associated with deep brain stimulation

Balachandar A, Boutet A, Vetkas A, et al.

Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2023 Feb 16;10(3):529-530. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.13673.

Safe MRI diagnosing a high-grade glioma adjacent to DBS electrode

Balachandar A, et al.

Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2022 Oct 8;10(1):138-140. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.13574.

Are smartphones and machine learning enough to diagnose tremor?

Balachandar A, et al.

J Neurol. 2022 Nov;269(11):6104-6115. doi: 10.1007/s00415-022-11293-7.

Subdural hematoma-induced cortical perforator thrombosis causing ischemic strokes

Balachandar A, Carpani F, Del Campo M, Mandell D.

Stroke. 2022 Aug;53(8):e381-e382. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.039482.

Effect of public interest in MR-guided focused ultrasound on DBS enrolment

Balachandar A, Matta R, Shetty A, et al.

Mov Disord. 2022 May;37(5):1103-1104. doi: 10.1002/mds.28963.

Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease and retro-odontoid pseudotumor rupture

Malhotra A, Landry A, Balachandar A, et al.

J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2022 Feb 21;3(8):CASE21662. doi: 10.3171/CASE21662.

OCT ganglion cell complex in diagnosing LHON masquerading as functional vision loss

Balachandar A, Sundaram A.

Disseminated nocardiosis with multisite involvement in an immunocompetent patient

Balachandar A, Zhabokritsky A, Matukas LM.

CMAJ. 2020 Aug 17;192(33):E956-E959. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.200153.

Origin of heterogeneous spiking patterns from ion channel density distributions

Balachandar A, Prescott SA.

J Physiol. 2018 May 1;596(9):1681-1697. doi: 10.1113/JP275240.

Characterizing orthostatic tremor using a smartphone application

Balachandar A, Fasano A.

Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2017 Jul 18;7:488. doi: 10.7916/D8V12GRJ.