
Neurosurgeon
Dr. Doris Wang is a neurosurgeon at UCSF who specializes in treating movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. She’s an expert in deep brain stimulation and other advanced techniques like focused ultrasound and Gamma Knife. Alongside her surgical work, she leads research on brain circuits and motor control to improve therapies for neurological conditions.
Honors and Awards
Chen Scholar, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, 2024-2029
Weill Pilot Award for Junior Investigators in the Neurosciences, UCSF, 2020-2021
The Muriel Steele Society Influential Women in Surgery Honor Roll, UCSF Muriel Steel Society, 2020
Career Award for Medical Scientists, Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, 2019-2024
K12 Neurosurgeon Research Career Development Program, NIH NINDS, 2019-2021
Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation: Seeding Bold Ideas, UCSF, 2018-2020
Journal of Neuro-oncology Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 2017
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Resident Award, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2015
Publications
Motor learning leverages coordinated low-frequency cortico-basal ganglia activity to optimize motor preparation in humans with Parkinson's disease.
Frontiers in neuroscience
465 Classifying At-Home Movement States Using Cortical-Pallidal Neural Activity in Parkinson's Disease.
Neurosurgery
At-Home Movement State Classification Using Totally Implantable Bidirectional Cortical-Basal Ganglia Neural Interface.
Research square
Pallidal and motor cortical interactions determine gait initiation dynamics in Parkinson's disease.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Modeling and Optimizing Deep Brain Stimulation to Enhance Gait in Parkinson's Disease: Personalized Treatment with Neurophysiological Insights.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Lesioning the Brain-From Serendipity to Science.
JAMA neurology
A Systematic Review Comparing Radiofrequency versus Focused Ultrasound Pallidotomy in the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease.
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
Human Cervical Epidural Spinal Electrogram Topographically Maps Distinct Volitional Movements.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Unraveling the threads of stability: A review of the neurophysiology of postural control in Parkinson's disease.
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics
Focused Ultrasound for Treatment of Movement Disorders: A Review of Non-Food and Drug Administration Approved Indications.
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
A Systematic Review Comparing Focused Ultrasound Surgery With Radiosurgery for Essential Tremor.
Neurosurgery
Proceedings of the 10th annual deep brain stimulation think tank: Advances in cutting edge technologies, artificial intelligence, neuromodulation, neuroethics, interventional psychiatry, and women in neuromodulation.
Frontiers in human neuroscience
Improved psychotic symptoms following resection of amygdalar low-grade glioma: illustrative case.
Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons
Seizure outcome after resection of insular glioma: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and institutional experience.
Journal of neurosurgery
Ventral Intermediate Nucleus of the Thalamus versus Posterior Subthalamic Area: Network Meta-Analysis of DBS Target Site Efficacy for Essential Tremor.
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
Use of Topical Vancomycin Powder to Reduce Surgical Site Infections after Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery: UCSF Experience and Meta-Analysis.
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
Epidural Spinal Electrogram Provides Direct Spinal Recordings in Awake Human Participants.
Frontiers in human neuroscience
Long-term wireless streaming of neural recordings for circuit discovery and adaptive stimulation in individuals with Parkinson's disease.
Nature biotechnology
DBS targeting for essential tremor using intersectional dentato-rubro-thalamic tractography and direct proton density visualization of the VIM: technical note on 2 cases.
Journal of neurosurgery
Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease: Invasive and Noninvasive Neuromodulation.
Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society
Brain Network Oscillations During Gait in Parkinson's Disease.
Frontiers in human neuroscience
Treatment of Post-Hypoxic Myoclonus using Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation Placed Using Interventional MRI Methods.
Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)
Long-term pain outcomes in elderly patients with trigeminal neuralgia: comparison of first-time microvascular decompression and stereotactic radiosurgery.
Neurosurgical focus
Eight cylindrical contact lead recordings in the subthalamic region localize beta oscillations source to the dorsal STN.
Neurobiology of disease
Comparison of Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiofrequency Ablation for Trigeminal Neuralgia in Multiple Sclerosis Patients.
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
Trends in safety and cost of deep brain stimulation for treatment of movement disorders in the United States: 2002-2014.
British journal of neurosurgery
Cortical Basal Ganglia Network Interactions During Sequence Learning in Parkinson's Disease.
Neurosurgery
Pallidal Thermolesion Unleashes Gamma Oscillations in the Motor Cortex in Parkinson's Disease.
Neurosurgery
Pallidal thermolesion unleashes gamma oscillations in the motor cortex in Parkinson's disease.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society
Long-term pain outcomes for recurrent idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia after stereotactic radiosurgery: a prospective comparison of first-time microvascular decompression and repeat stereotactic radiosurgery.
Journal of neurosurgery
Multiple Subpial Transections for Medically Refractory Epilepsy: A Disaggregated Review of Patient-Level Data.
Neurosurgery
Pallidal Deep-Brain Stimulation Disrupts Pallidal Beta Oscillations and Coherence with Primary Motor Cortex in Parkinson's Disease.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
326 Characterization of Synchronization Between Globus Pallidus Neurons and Motor Cortex in Parkinson's Disease.
Neurosurgery
Changing Operating Room Culture: Implementation of a Postoperative Debrief and Improved Safety Culture.
World neurosurgery
Neurosurgical "Squeeze Play": Single Incision with Dual Ipsilateral Craniotomies Versus 2 Separate Approaches for Intracranial Aneurysm Treatment.
World neurosurgery
Prospective comparison of long-term pain relief rates after first-time microvascular decompression and stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia.
Journal of neurosurgery
Anterior Transposition of Anomalous Tortuous Vertebral Artery Causing Cervical Radiculopathy: A Report of 2 Cases and Review of Literature.
World neurosurgery
Spinal cavernous malformations.
Handbook of clinical neurology
206 Spikes, Slowing, and Functional Connectivity.
Neurosurgery
206 Spikes, Slowing, and Functional Connectivity: Multimodal Magnetoencephalography in Epilepsy Surgery.
Neurosurgery
Subthalamic local field potentials in Parkinson's disease and isolated dystonia: An evaluation of potential biomarkers.
Neurobiology of disease
The sensitivity and significance of lateralized interictal slow activity on magnetoencephalography in focal epilepsy.
Epilepsy research
Corpus callosotomy versus vagus nerve stimulation for atonic seizures and drop attacks: A systematic review.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Cervicomedullary neurocysticercosis causing obstructive hydrocephalus.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Fast dynamic imaging technique to identify obstructive lesions in the CSF space: report of 2 cases.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics
National trends and complication rates for invasive extraoperative electrocorticography in the USA.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Unilateral holohemispheric central nervous system lesions associated with medically refractory epilepsy in the pediatric population: a retrospective series of hemimegalencephaly and Rasmussen's encephalitis.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics
Pain experience using conventional versus angled anterior posts during stereotactic head frame placement for radiosurgery.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Trends in surgical treatment for trigeminal neuralgia in the United States of America from 1988 to 2008.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Seizure outcomes after temporal lobectomy in pediatric patients.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics
Transmantle sign in focal cortical dysplasia: a unique radiological entity with excellent prognosis for seizure control.
Journal of neurosurgery
Relationship between hospital surgical volume, lobectomy rates, and adverse perioperative events at US epilepsy centers.
Journal of neurosurgery
Efficacy of vagus nerve stimulation in posttraumatic versus nontraumatic epilepsy.
Journal of neurosurgery
Minocycline- and tetracycline-class antibiotics are protective against partial seizures in vivo.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Comparison of seizure control outcomes and the safety of vagus nerve, thalamic deep brain, and responsive neurostimulation: evidence from randomized controlled trials.
Neurosurgical focus
Rates and predictors of long-term seizure freedom after frontal lobe epilepsy surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of neurosurgery
Predictors of seizure freedom after surgery for malformations of cortical development.
Annals of neurology
Spontaneous otogenic pneumocephalus presenting with occipital subcutaneous emphysema as primary symptom: could tension gas cause the destruction of cranial bones?
Journal of neurosurgery
Homotopic organization of essential language sites in right and bilateral cerebral hemispheric dominance.
Journal of neurosurgery
Advanced Neuroimaging for Modern Epilepsy Surgery.
European Neurological Review
Advanced Neuroimaging for Modern Epilepsy Surgery.
US Neurology
Blocking early GABA depolarization with bumetanide results in permanent alterations in cortical circuits and sensorimotor gating deficits.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
Defining the role of GABA in cortical development.
The Journal of physiology
The astrocyte odyssey.
Progress in neurobiology
GABA regulates stem cell proliferation before nervous system formation.
Epilepsy currents
GABA regulates excitatory synapse formation in the neocortex via NMDA receptor activation.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Bergmann glial GlyT1 mediates glycine uptake and release in mouse cerebellar slices.
The Journal of physiology
GABA depolarizes neuronal progenitors of the postnatal subventricular zone via GABAA receptor activation.
The Journal of physiology
Biophysical properties and ionic signature of neuronal progenitors of the postnatal subventricular zone in situ.
Journal of neurophysiology
Carrier-mediated uptake and release of taurine from Bergmann glia in rat cerebellar slices.
The Journal of physiology