Ausaf Bari MD PhD FACS FAANS (He/Him)

PubMed

• Spontaneous pain dynamics characterized by stochasticity in neural recordings of awake humans with chronic pain.
  Jihye Ryu, Jonathan C Kao, Ausaf Bari
  Pain. 2025-03-20
• Gamma knife versus linear accelerator thalamotomy for essential tremor and Parkinson's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Renuka Chintapalli, Stephano Chang, Tania Kaprealian, Ricky Savjani, Stephen Tenn
  Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 2025-03-01
• Predicting Post-Operative Side Effects in VIM MRgFUS Based on THalamus Optimized Multi Atlas Segmentation (THOMAS) on White-Matter-Nulled MRI: A Retrospective Study.
  Sonoko Oshima, Asher Kim, Xiaonan R Sun, Ziad Rifi, Katy A Cross
  AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2025-02-03

Journal Articles

• Brain imaging correlates of peripheral nerve stimulation.  
  Bari A., Pouratian N., Surgical Neurology International, Stereotactic Supplement, 1/1/2012
• Multi-institutional evaluation of deep brain stimulation targeting using probabilistic connectivity-based thalamic segmentation.  
  Zheng Z., Bari A., Behnke E., Elias J., BS, Desalles A., Pouratian N., Journal of Neurosurgery, 1/1/2011
• From the bench to the bedside: Gene Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease, Habenula Neurons Provide Insight into Depression, The Nucleus Accumbens, Anhedonia, and Depression...  
  Bari A., Hauptman J., Surgical Neurology International, 1/1/2011
• Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and colored fractional anisotropy (FA) mapping of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and the globus pallidus interna (GPi).  
  Sedrak M, Gofgulho A, Bari A., Behnke E., Frew A., Gevorkyan I., Pouratian N., Desalles A., Acta Neurochirurgica, 1/1/2010
• D1-like and D2 dopamine receptor antagonists administered into the shell subregion of the rat nucleus accumbens decrease cocaine, but not food, reinforcement.  
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce R. C., Neuroscience, 1/1/2005
• Administration of the D1-like dopamine receptor antagonist SCH-23390 into the medial nucleus accumbens shell attenuates cocaine priming-induced reinstatement of drugs...  
  Anderson, S. M., Bari, A. A., and Pierce R. C., Psychopharmacology, 1/1/2003
• Cocaine administered into the medial prefrontal cortex reinstates cocaine-eeeking behavior by increasing AMPA receptor-mediated glutamate transmission in the nucleus ...  
  Park, W., Bari, A. A., Jey, A. R., Anderson, S. M., Spealman, R. D., Rowlett J. K., and Pierce R. C, Journal of Neuroscience, 1/1/2002
• The role of neurotrophic factors in psychostimulant-induced behavioral and neuronal plasticity.  
  Pierce, R. C. and Bari, A. A., Reviews in the Neurosciences, 1/1/2001
• Characterization of the malonyl-/acetyltransacylase domain of the multifunctional animal fatty acid synthase by expression in Escherichia coli and refolding in vitro.  
  Rangan, V. S., Serre, L.,Witkowska, H. E., Bari, A., Smith, S., Protein Engineering, 1/1/1997
• In vitro screening for resistance in lettuce to lettuce root aphid Pemphigus bursarius (L.)  
  Bari, A, 49th Annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search, 1/1/1990
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Abstracts/Posters

• Multi-institutional Validation of a Patient- Specific Probabilistic Diffusion Tractography-Based Method of Thalamic Targeting for the Surgical Treatment of Tremor.
  Bari A., Elias J., Sedrak M., Zheng A., BS, Desalles A., Pouratian N., AANS Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 4/1/2011
• Intra-accumbal microinjection of D1, D2, AMPA, or CAM-KII antagonists but not D3, NMDA, or MEK antagonists decreases the breakpoint on a progressive ratio schedule for...
  Bari, A. A., Silva, D. and Pierce, R. C., New England Pharmacologists, 33rd Annual Meeting, Portland, ME, 1/1/2004
• Administration of D2-like dopamine receptor antagonists into the nucleus accumbens shell attenuates cocaine-priming induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior.
  Anderson, S. M., Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R. C., Society for Neuroscience, 33rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 11/1/2003
• Intra-accumbal microinjection of a D1/5 or D2 dopamine receptor antagonist or AMPA antagonist but not a D3 or NMDA receptor antagonist decreases breakpoint on a progre...
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R. C., Society for Neuroscience, 33nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 11/1/2003
• The role of nucleus accumbens dopamine receptor subtypes in processing cocaine reward.
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R.C., 36th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowbird, UT, 2/1/2003
• Antagonism of dopamine receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell attenuates cocaine priming-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior.
  Anderson, S. M., Bari, A. A., Pierce, R. C., Society for Neuroscience, 32nd Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 11/1/2002
• Intra-accumbal microinjection of selective dopamine receptor antagonists lowers the breakpoint on a progressive ratio schedule for intravenous cocaine.
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R. C., 8th Annual Student Achievement Day, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 4/1/2002
• Intra-accumbal microinjection of selective dopamine receptor antagonists lowers the breakpoint on a progressive ratio schedule for intravenous cocaine.
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R. C., Science and Technology Day, Boston University, Boston, MA, 3/1/2002
• Intra-accumbal microinjection of selective dopamine receptor antagonists or a MAP kinase inhibitor lowers the breakpoint on a progressive ratio schedule for intravenou...
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R. C., New England Pharmacologists, 31st Annual Meeting, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, 1/1/2002
• Cocaine administered into the medial prefrontal cortex reinstates cocaine-seeking behavior by increasing glutamate and dopamine transmission in the nucleus accumbens...
  Park, W., Bari, A. A., Jey, A. R. A., Spealman, R. D., Rowlett, J. K., and Pierce, R. C., Society for Neuroscience, 31st Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 11/1/2001
• Intra-accumbal microinjection of selective dopamine receptor antagonists or a MAP kinase inhibitor lowers the breakpoint on a progressive ratio schedule for intravenou...
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R. C., Society for Neuroscience, 31st Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 11/1/2001
• The L-type calcium channel antagonist diltiazem attenuates the development of cocaine-induced behavioral sensitization and blocks the reinstatement of cocaine-seeking ...
  Licata, S. C., Bari, A. A., and Pierce, R. C., Society for Neuroscience, 31st Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 11/1/2001
• Administration of cocaine reinstates cocaine-seeking behavior by increasing glutamate and dopamine transmission in rat nucleus accumbens.
  Jey, A. R. A., Bari, A. A., Park, W., and Pierce, R. C., 7th Annual Student Achievement Day, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 4/1/2001
• Increases in calcium channel mRNA in the ventral tegmental area contribute to behavioral sensitization to cocaine.
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R. C., Society for Neuroscience, 29th Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, 10/1/1999
• Increases in N-type calcium channel mRNA in the ventral tegmental area contribute to the expression of behavioral sensitization to cocaine.
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R. C., 5th Annual Student Achievement Day, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 4/1/1999
• Increases in N-type calcium channel mRNA in the ventral tegmental area contribute to the expression of behavioral sensitization to cocaine.
  Bari, A. A. and Pierce, R. C., New England Pharmacologists, 28th Annual Meeting, Wakefield, MA, 2/1/1999
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Lectures

• In-Vivo Segmentation of the Human Nucleus Accumbens Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Probabilistic Tractography. 
  Chicago, IL - 10/1/2012
• In-Vivo Segmentation of the Human Amygdala using Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Probabilistic Tractography. 
  Washington, DC - 10/1/2011
• Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation Targeting Using Probabilistic Tractography. 
  San Francisco, CA - 6/8/2011
• Neurosurgical Emergencies. 
  6/1/2011
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Other

• Thesis: Modulation of Reward by Dopamine and Glutamate Receptors in the Nucleus Accumbens Areas of Study: Behavioral Neuroscience, Addiction, Neuropharmacology, Cocai... 
  Ausaf A. Bari, M.D. Ph.D.
  1/1/2005
• Increases in N-type calcium channel mRNA in the ventral tegmental area contribute to behavioral sensitization to cocaine. 
  Bari, A. A.
  1/1/1999