Michael Fox
@foxmdphd
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Neurology Prof and Neuroscientist focused on brain imaging and brain stimulation @harvardmed @brighamWomens @brain_circuits
Boston, MA
Joined July 2018
Iron is not a 'villain' just rusting the brain, it may be trying to heal it. Check out this 2025 update on brain iron in Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and beyond. Ferroptosis is a form of cell death that is driven by iron and lipid peroxidation and is increasingly recognized as a key
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Full link/cite here. Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance U...
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BD² has awarded $18M to four new Discovery Research teams to study neuromodulation and brain circuits in #BipolarDisorder. 🔗Learn more: https://t.co/6MgJOAsbGn Hear from Daniel Pham, PhD, Program Director, and the new teams on what their projects entail 👇
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Win LA, win the world. 🌎 @flyarcher's strategic acquisition of Hawthorne Airport will give us an incredible asset in one of the world’s most important eVTOL markets. We’ll look to transform the airport into our hub for Archer’s Los Angeles air taxi network as we ready for
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@foxmdphd @Brain_Circuits We’re proud to support you and your team, Dr. Fox, as you map brain circuits driving #Bipolar symptoms 🧩 Your integration of lesion, stimulation & imaging data is paving the way for circuit-based treatments that can transform care.
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Can we identify brain circuit targets to treat symptoms of bipolar disorder? Thanks to funding from @BD2Discoveries our team @Brain_Circuits will be working hard to find out! Honored to be one of these excellent teams. https://t.co/adhipr2ao1
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Today, BD², or Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving with Bipolar Disorder, announced its third round of Discovery Research grants, totaling nearly $18 million – expanding a comprehensive global...
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Antidepressants have a range of adverse cardiometabolic and physiologic side effects, as seen in a new systematic review of 30 such drugs https://t.co/8VxIzW8JwQ
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Inspired by the impact of @MarkHallett007 on movement disorders, brain stimulation, and the lives of his students. Joined a call today with colleagues and mentees that spanned 6 countries. Great reminder that science is about the people.
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Management of Anxiety in Parkinson's Disease - Berry - 2025 - Movement Disorders Clinical Practice - Wiley Online Library
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Background Anxiety is a common, distressing, hard-to-diagnose and hard-to-treat symptom in Parkinson's disease. No formal guidelines exist to assist management. Objective We provide a pragmatic gu...
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Thank you @NolanRyWilliams for your friendship and for inspiring so many of us @Brain_Circuits to take risks and innovate to develop better treatments for psychiatric disorders. You will be dearly missed.
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Is there an impostor in the brain? Is Capgras more common in Alzheimer's, Lewy Body Dementia or Parkinson's? Spoiler alert: Lewy Body is the most common presentation. Capgras can teach us both about identity and neurodegeneration. Capgras syndrome refers to a delusional
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How do brain lesions affect personality? The Iowa Lesion Retreat will be open to a zoom audience for the first time this year. Our topic this year: The Neuropsychology of Personality Join us! Friday Oct, 17, 9 am - 5pm central time https://t.co/5Ele0iEgAF
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Manohar et al. show that wearable sensors tracking everyday movements combined with machine learning models can accurately capture symptoms and disease progression in cerebellar ataxias. https://t.co/3wJECzabJE
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Announcing the Boston Pain Society’s First Annual Conference—Saturday, October 25, 2025 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School! Dr. Sarno and Dr. Zaidi are honored to serve on the Board of Directors of this nonprofit organization, dedicated to
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New Letter: Non-motor regions of motor cortex may be key targets for chronic pain treatment. Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur et al. discuss using navigated TMS to map inter-effector regions for optimized rTMS therapy. Read:
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A recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study [1] showed that the primary motor cortex includes non-motor regions, interspersed between effector motor regions. Effector motor regions...
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Pruckner et al. show that the structural effects of neurosurgery extend beyond the resected tissue into connected networks through transneuronal degeneration. They were able to reliably predict these changes from preoperative MRI. https://t.co/F1oVVY5k1S
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Whiteside et al. find that brain imaging can reveal temporal lobe atrophy related to semantic dementia around 3–5 years before symptom onset. https://t.co/9m6wqGxzFM
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Pescoller et al. show in Alzheimer's disease that higher tau levels are associated with accelerated atrophy of white matter tracts connected to tau-harbouring regions. https://t.co/vbdmVfhdpc
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Abstract Submission for the 2026 NYC Neuromodulation Conference is open. #NYCN2026 Special opportunity: Abstracts submitted by Oct. 1 will be reviewed for acceptance by Oct. 8. This allows registration before early bird rates expire on Oct. 15, 2025. 👉 https://t.co/ckCp2EaWKv
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We're happy to have Dr. Tanner McMahon from neurosurgery at @BrighamWomens collaborating with our team! The multidisciplinary cooperation of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry at @Brain_Circuits is really special. 🧠🙌
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Avalos-Alais et al. present a high-resolution probabilistic map of bidirectional effective connectivity between the human lateral PFC and widespread cortical and subcortical regions, based on analysis of intracranial evoked potentials. https://t.co/jETNbmpitx
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