Dr. Ellen L Air
Address: 1 Ford Pace, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, United States, Wayne State University
Gender: Female
About the Doctor / Professional
Dr. Ellen Air-Neurosurgeon with clinical interests in Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, tremors, Deep brain stimulation (DBS), DBS with intraoperative MRI, dopamine disorders, dyskinesia, movement disorders, epilepsy, botox, cervical dystonia.
Qualification (Degree and Residency)
Degree: University of Cincinnati OH
Residency: University of Cincinnati, Neurosurgery
Professional Experience
- Dr. Ellen L Air, currently works with Henry Ford Health System.
Research
- Adapting to Space Limitations During Prone Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Stereotaxic Laser Ablation: Technical Pearls.
- Effects of surgical targeting in laser interstitial thermal therapy for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: A multicenter study of 234 patients.
- Commentary: What Is A Case Control Study?
- Post-operative nonketotic hyperglycemic induced focal motor status epilepticus related to treatment with corticosteroids following standard anterior temporallobectomy.
- Functional Neuroanatomy of Secondary Self-Injurious Behavior.
- Multimodal Imaging in a Patient with Hemidystonia Responsive to GPi Deep Brain Stimulation.
- Use of social media to assess the effectiveness of vagal nerve stimulation in Dravet syndrome: A caregiver's perspective.
- TLE lateralization using whole brain structural connectivity.
- DTI-based response-driven modeling of mTLE laterality.
- Racial disparities in the diagnosis and management of trigeminal neuralgia.
- Atypical meningiomas: is postoperative radiotherapy indicated?
- Exaggerated phase-amplitude coupling in the primary motor cortex in Parkinson disease.
- DTI values in key white matter tracts from infancy through adolescence.
- Management strategies after nondiagnostic results with frameless stereotactic needle biopsy: Retrospective review of 28 patients.
- Air EL, Warnick RE, McPherson CM.
- Electrophysiologic monitoring for placement of laminectomy leads for spinal cord stimulation under general anesthesia.
- Acute effects of thalamic deep brain stimulation and thalamotomy on sensorimotor cortex local field potentials in essential tremor.
- Deep brain stimulation in children: experience and technical pearls.
- Isolated cerebellar mucormycosis, slowly progressive over 1 year in an immunocompetent patient.
- Longitudinal comparison of pre- and postoperative diffusion tensor imaging parameters in young children with hydrocephalus.
- Anisotropic diffusion properties in infants with hydrocephalus: a diffusion tensor imaging study.
- Comparing the risks of frameless stereotactic biopsy in eloquent and noneloquent regions of the brain: a retrospective review of 284 cases.
- Management of vagal nerve stimulator infections: do they need to be removed?
- Clinical prediction of functional outcome after ischemic stroke: the surprising importance of periventricular white matter disease and race.
- Validity of a retrospective National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale scoring methodology in patients with severe stroke.
- Diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, and ischemic stroke: epidemiology and possible mechanisms.
- Diabetes: impact on stroke risk and poststroke recovery.
- Two novel paradigms for the simultaneous assessment of conditioned taste aversion and food intake effects of anorexic agents.
- Increased dietary fat attenuates the anorexic effects of intracerebroventricular injections of MTII.
- Assessment of the aversive consequences of acute and chronic administration of the melanocortin agonist, MTII.
- Intraventricular melanin-concentrating hormone stimulates water intake independent of food intake.
- The catabolic action of insulin in the brain is mediated by melanocortins.
- Eating elicited by orexin-a, but not melanin-concentrating hormone, is opioid mediated.
- Acute 3rd-ventricular amylin infusion potently reduces food intake but does not produce aversive consequences.
- Insulin and leptin combine additively to reduce food intake and body weight in rats.
- Acute third ventricular administration of insulin decreases food intake in two paradigms.
- Small molecule insulin mimetics reduce food intake and body weight and prevent development of obesity.
- Inhibition of central amylin signaling increases food intake and body adiposity in rats.
- The role of the hypothalamic melanocortin system in behavioral appetitive processes.
- Characterization of the mouse Ron/Stk receptor tyrosine kinase gene.
- Functional characterization of domains contained in hepatocyte growth factor-like protein.
- Hepatocyte nuclear factor-4 is responsible for the liver-specific expression of the gene coding for hepatocyte growth factor-like protein.
Specialties and Procedures
- Back and Neck Pain Treatment
- Brain Surgery
- Brain Tumor Surgery
- Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Surgery
- Dystonia
- Epilepsy Surgery
- Head Trauma
- Neurosurgery Consultation
- Parkinson's Disease Consultation and Treatment
- Spinal Cord Stimulator
- Surgery for Movement Disorders
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- Costotransversectomy
Memberships / Associations
- Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
- Epilepsy Foundation
- International Essential Tremor Foundation
- International League Against Epilepsy
- Parkinson's Disease Foundation
- Trigeminal Neuralgia - Facial Pain Association