Frederick Lenz MD

Professor of Neurosurgery




JH Kim, JD Greenspan, RC Coghill, S Ohara, FA Lenz. Lesions limited to the human thalamic principal somatosensory nucleus (ventral caudal) are associated with loss of cold sensation and central pain. J. Neurosci 27:4995-5005, 2007.  (Featured article on Neurobiology of Disease). [PDF]

J.I. Lee, L. Verhagen Metman, P. Chen, P.M. Dougherty, J.H. Kim, F.A. Lenz.  Neuronal activity in the sensorimotor area of the globus pallidus internus in Parkinsonian patients: single cell recordings during ‘off, ‘on’, and ‘on-with-dyskinesia’.  J. Neurophysiol. 97: 2627-2641, 2007.  Jan 2007; doi:10.1152/jn.00443.2006.  2007.  [PDF]

Ohara S, Crone N, Weiss N, Kim, JH, Lenz FA. Analysis of synchrony demonstrates that the presence of ‘pain networks’ prior to a noxious stimulus can enable the perception of pain in response to that stimulus.  Exp Brain Res. 185: 353-358, 2008. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1284-1.[PDF]

JD Greenspan, RC Coghill,  I Gilron, E Sarlani, D Veldhuijzen, and FA Lenz.  Quantitative somatic sensory testing and functional imaging of the response to painful stimuli before and after cingulotomy for psychiatric disease.  European J of Pain, epub ahead of print, doi:10.1016/ejpain_2008.01.007. [LINK]