BenjaminFreezeMDPhD

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Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Clinical, 2019
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Neuroradiology, 2019 - 2021
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Residency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 2015 - 2019
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 2014, MD, PhD
University of California, San FranciscoPhD, Neurobiology, 2012
University of ChicagoB.A., Biological Sciences with Specialization in Neuroscience, With honors, 2001 - 2005

Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award RSNA, 2019
Best Scientific Presentation, ACR-AUR Research Scholar Program 2019
Outstanding Clinical Performance Award Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2015
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society University of Chicago Chapter, 2005
Phi Beta Kappa (Junior Year), University of Chicago Chapter 2004
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship 2004
Student Marshal (Highest honor awarded to undergraduates) University of Chicago, 2004
National Merit Scholarship 2001
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PubMed

1254 citations
Regulation of parkinsonian motor behaviours by optogenetic control of basal ganglia circuitry
Alexxai V. Kravitz, Benjamin S. Freeze, Philip R.L. Parker, Kenneth Kay, Myo T. Thwin
Nature. 2010-07-29
48 citations
Predictive model of spread of Parkinson's pathology using network diffusion
Sneha Pandya, Yashar Zeighami, Benjamin S. Freeze, Mahsa Dadar, D.L. Collins
Neuroimage. 2019-05-15
10 citations
Modeling seeding and neuroanatomic spread of pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Sneha Pandya, Pedro D Maia, Benjamin Freeze, Ricarda A L Menke, Kevin Talbot
Neuroimage. 2022-05-01

Journal Articles

Predictive model of spread of Parkinson's pathology using network diffusion
Sneha Pandya, Yashar Zeighami, Benjamin Freeze, Mahsa Dadar, Louis Collins, Alain Dagher, Ashish Raj, NeuroImage, 1/15/2019
Regional expression of genes mediating trans-synaptic alpha-synuclein transfer predicts regional atrophy in Parkinson disease
Benjamin Freeze, Diana Acosta, Sneha Pandya, Yize Zhao, Ashish Raj, NeuroImage: Clinical, 1/31/2018
Control of basal ganglia output by direct and indirect pathway projection neurons
Benjamin S. Freeze, Alexxai V. Kravitz, Nora Hammack, Joshua D. Berke, Anatol C. Kreitzer, Journal of Neuroscience, 1/20/2013
Glastonbury Differentiation of skull base chordomas from chondrosarcomas by diffusion-weighted MRI
Benjamin S. Freeze and Christine M, American Journal of Neuroradiology, 1/1/2013
State-dependent verapamil block of the cloned human CaV31 T-type Ca2+ channel
Benjamin S. Freeze, Megan M. McNulty, Dorothy A. Hanck, Molecular Pharmacology, 1/1/2006
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Books/Book Chapters

Youmans and Winn Neurological Surgery
Chapter: Genetics of traumatic brain injury
Englot DJ, Freeze BS, Winkler EA, Yue JK, Mukherjee P, Manley GTEditors: Winn HR.Elsevier (in press)Edition 7,

Abstracts/Posters

Regional transcriptional architecture of Parkinson disease pathogenesis
Benjamin Freeze, Sneha Pandya, Yashar Zeighami, Ashish Raj, Association of University Radiologists Abstract s, 1/1/2019
Prediction of Parkinson disease regional atrophy by combined network diffusion and genetic expression modeling
Benjamin Freeze, Sneha Pandya, Yashar Zeighami, Ashish Raj, Association of University Radiologists Abstract s, 1/1/2018
Optogenetic dissection of basal ganglia circuit function in normal and parkinsonian mice
Alexxai V. Kravitz, Benjamin S. Freeze, Philip R.L. Parker, Kenneth Kay, Myo T. Thwin, Karl Deisseroth, Anatol C. Kreitzer, Society for Neuroscience Meeting Abstracts, 1/1/2010
A kinetic model of the CaV3.1 T-type Ca2+ channel
Benjamin S. Freeze, Megan M. McNulty, Dorothy A. Hanck, Biophysical Society Meeting Abstracts, 1/1/2006
Verapamil block of human T-type calcium channels
Benjamin S. Freeze, Megan M. McNulty, Dorothy A. Hanck, Biophysical Society Meeting Abstracts, 1/1/2004
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Other

Traumatic retropharyngeal pseudomeningocele
Benjamin Freeze and C. Douglas Phillips, Case of the Week, American Society of Head and Neck Radiology
1/1/2019