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Dr. Brian Kopell is a Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience. He serves as Director of the Center for Neuromodulation and Co-Director, The Bonnie and Tom Strauss Center for Movement Disorders at the Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Kopell has pioneered the use of intraoperative imaging during Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) cases to supplement the microelectrode recording typically done to make a procedure that is safer and quicker for patients. He has performed over 2,000 DBS procedures.
A graduate of the NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Kopell completed his residency at NYU Medical Center. He has undergone fellowship training in Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the University of Zurich. He founded and has led the Restorative Neuroscience Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI) where his team performed over 400 DBS cases for movement disorders. Furthermore, Dr. Kopell has participated and has been principal investigator in several clinical trials of emerging neuromodulation technologies targeting disorders such as Parkinson's disease, tremor, tinnitus, Tourette's syndrome and major depression.
DBS is widely recognized as the gold standard treatment for patients with disabling motor symptoms from idiopathic Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia that have become refractory to medical therapy. This neurosurgical procedure is available within a fully-integrated multidisciplinary program through the Mount Sinai Health System.
In the News: Dr. Brian Kopell discusses the results of neuromodulation in The New York Daily News feature, The Daily Checkup.
Follow the Center for Neuromodulation on Twitter: @MountSinaiDBS
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- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Morningside
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai West
About Me
Dr. Brian Kopell is a Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience. He serves as Director of the Center for Neuromodulation and Co-Director, The Bonnie and Tom Strauss Center for Movement Disorders at the Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Kopell has pioneered the use of intraoperative imaging during Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) cases to supplement the microelectrode recording typically done to make a procedure that is safer and quicker for patients. He has performed over 2,000 DBS procedures.
A graduate of the NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Kopell completed his residency at NYU Medical Center. He has undergone fellowship training in Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the University of Zurich. He founded and has led the Restorative Neuroscience Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI) where his team performed over 400 DBS cases for movement disorders. Furthermore, Dr. Kopell has participated and has been principal investigator in several clinical trials of emerging neuromodulation technologies targeting disorders such as Parkinson's disease, tremor, tinnitus, Tourette's syndrome and major depression.
DBS is widely recognized as the gold standard treatment for patients with disabling motor symptoms from idiopathic Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia that have become refractory to medical therapy. This neurosurgical procedure is available within a fully-integrated multidisciplinary program through the Mount Sinai Health System.
In the News: Dr. Brian Kopell discusses the results of neuromodulation in The New York Daily News feature, The Daily Checkup.
Follow the Center for Neuromodulation on Twitter: @MountSinaiDBS
The state of Florida requires out-of-state professionals who are registered to provide telehealth services to display a hyperlink to the Florida Department of Health telehealth web page. This allows Florida patients who are receiving medical care by telehealth to confirm the provider’s licensure and Florida registration.
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Position
Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Morningside
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai West
Clinical Focus
- Benign Essential Tremor
- Cancer Pain Syndromes
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
- Depression
- Dystonia
- Facial Pain
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
- Hemifacial Spasm
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Education
MD, New York University School of Medicine
Internship, Surgery (General Surgery)
NYU Medical Center
Residency, Neurosurgery
NYU Medical Center
Fellowship, Neurosurgery
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Certifications
American Board of Neurological Surgery
Awards
2015-2019
Top Doctors - New York Metro Area
Castle Connolly
Research
Cortical Stimulation for Tinnitus
Cortical and Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Intraoperative Image-Guidance for Deep Brain Stimulation
Cortical and Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Intraoperative Image-Guidance for Deep Brain Stimulation
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Selected Publications
- Co-stimulating the left vmPFC compensates for apathy after levodopa withdrawal in Parkinson's patients with STN DBS.. Jip de Bruin, Ki Sueng Choi, Helen S. Mayberg, Joohi Jimenez-Shahed, Christina A. Palmese, Juna Khang, Ha Neul Song, Brian H. Kopell, Martijn Figee. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders
- Blood–brain-barrier-crossing lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery to the central nervous system. Chang Wang, Yonger Xue, Tamara Markovic, Haoyuan Li, Siyu Wang, Yichen Zhong, Shi Du, Yuebao Zhang, Xucheng Hou, Yang Yu, Zhengwei Liu, Meng Tian, Diana D. Kang, Leiming Wang, Kaiyuan Guo, Dinglingge Cao, Jingyue Yan, Binbin Deng, David W. McComb, Ramon E. Parsons, Angelica M. Minier-Toribio, Leanne M. Holt, Jiayi Pan, Alice Hashemi, Brian H. Kopell, Alexander W. Charney, Eric J. Nestler, Paul C. Peng, Yizhou Dong. Nature Materials
- Correction to: Divergent landscapes of A-to-I editing in postmortem and living human brain (Nature Communications, (2024), 15, 1, (5366), 10.1038/s41467-024-49268-z). Miguel Rodriguez de los Santos, Brian H. Kopell, Ariela Buxbaum Grice, Gauri Ganesh, Andy Yang, Pardis Amini, Lora E. Liharska, Eric Vornholt, John F. Fullard, Pengfei Dong, Eric Park, Sarah Zipkowitz, Deepak A. Kaji, Ryan C. Thompson, Donjing Liu, You Jeong Park, Esther Cheng, Kimia Ziafat, Emily Moya, Brian Fennessy, Lillian Wilkins, Hannah Silk, Lisa M. Linares, Brendan Sullivan, Vanessa Cohen, Prashant Kota, Claudia Feng, Jessica S. Johnson, Marysia Kolbe Rieder, Joseph Scarpa, Girish N. Nadkarni, Minghui Wang, Bin Zhang, Pamela Sklar, Noam D. Beckmann, Eric E. Schadt, Panos Roussos, Alexander W. Charney, Michael S. Breen. Nature Communications
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Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Kopell during 2024 and/or 2025. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Consulting or Other Professional Services Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership
- Turing Medical
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Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Kopell during 2024 and/or 2025. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Consulting or Other Professional Services Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership
- Turing Medical
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.