Anujan Poologaindran University positionPhD student DepartmentsInstitutesBehavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Brain Mapping Unit Research ThemesInterestsOriginally from Toronto (Canada), I am a neuroscientist at Cambridge (UK) working on building a life in academic medicine. My scientific work intersects at functional neurosurgery, behavioural neuroscience, and brain mapping with a special focus on the frontal lobes and thalami. Specifically, I am currently working on mapping brain networks governing complex functions such as sadness, pain, and attention. Through minimally-invasive surgical techniques, I hope these maps will help alleviate suffering in individuals living with neurological and psychiatric illnesses. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Deep Brain Stimulation/Lesioning Imaging Transcriptomics Randomised control trials Resting-state functional connectivity Surgical Tractography CollaboratorsNo collaborators listed Associated News ItemsKey publicationsHoney CR, et al. (2021), “Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Spasmodic Dysphonia: a Phase I Prospective Randomized Double-blind Crossover trial.” Neurosurgery Poologaindran A, Honey CR. (2017), “The Neurosurgical Treatment of Spasmodic Dysphonia: Thinking outside the Voice Box. ” University of British Columbia Library. PDF Publications2022Poologaindran A, et al. (2022), “Gradients Mapping Stratifies Long-Term Cognitive Trajectories following Neurosurgery.” medRxiv Poologaindran A, et al. (2022), “Presurgical Mapping of Mesoscale Cortical Dynamics to Preserve Higher-Order Cognition. ” medRxiv Poologaindran A, et al. Sughrue ME. (2022), “Interventional Neurorehabilitation for Promoting Functional Recovery Post-Craniotomy: A Proof-of-Concept.” Scientific Reports 2021Briggs RG et al. (2021), “The Frontal Aslant Tract and Supplementary Motor Area Syndrome: Moving towards a Connectomic Initiation Axis.” Cancers Doyen S, Nicholas P, Poologaindran A, et al. (2021), “Connectivity-based Parcellation of Normal and Anatomically Distorted Human Cerebral Cortex” Human Brain Mapping Lopez-de-Ipina K et al. (2021), “Analysis of Fine Motor Skills in Essential Tremor: combining Neuroimaging and Handwriting biomarkers for early management.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2020Poologaindran A, Lowe SR, Sughrue ME. (2020), “The Cortical Organisation of Language: Distilling Human Connectome Insights for Supratentorial Neurosurgery.” Journal of Neurosurgery. Poologaindran A, Suckling J, Sughrue ME. (2020), “Elucidating the Principles of Brain Network Organisation through Neurosurgery.” Neurosurgery Romero-Garcia R, Erez Y, Oliver G, Owen M, Merali S, Poologaindran A, Morris RC, Price SJ, Santarius T, Suckling J, Hart MG. (2020), “Practical Application of Networks in Neurosurgery: Combined 3-Dimensional Printing, Neuronavigation, and Preoperative Surgical Planning.” World Neurosurgery Wu H, Hariz M, et al. (2020), “Deep Brain Stimulation for Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Emerging or Established Therapy? ” Molecular Psychiatry 2019Hurwitz TA, Honey CR, McLeod KR, Poologaindran A, Kuan AJ. (2019), “Hypoactivity in the Paraterminal Gyrus Following Bilateral Anterior Capsulotomy.” Canadian J Psychiatry. 2018Avecillas-Chasin JM, Poologaindran A, Morrison MD, Rammage LA, Honey CR. (2018), “Unilateral Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Voice Tremor.” Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 96(6):392-39 Poologaindran A, Ivanishvili Z, Morrison MD, Rammage LA, Sandhu MK, Polyhronopoulos NE, Honey CR. (2018), “The effect of unilateral thalamic deep brain stimulation on the vocal dysfunction in a patient with spasmodic dysphonia: interrogating cerebellar and pallidal neural circuits.” Journal of Neurosurgery. 128(2):575-582 2017Ivanishvili Z, Poologaindran A, Honey CR. (2017), “Cyclization of Motor Cortex Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain: A Prospective, Randomized, Blinded Trial.” Neuromodulation Jul;20(5):497-503 2015Honey CM, Poologaindran A, Mayhew M, Steen LV, Gillis CC. (2015), “A refugee's perspective on their neurosurgical care in North America.” Surg Neurol Int. 30;6:168. Slotty PJ, Poologaindran A, Honey CR. (2015), “A prospective, randomized, blinded assessment of multitarget thalamic and pallidal deep brain stimulation in a case of hemidystonia.” Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 138:16-9 |