Koorosh Mirpour, M.D., Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Schools Medical School | Graduate School Departments Neurological Surgery Graduate Programs Neuroscience Biography Dr. Koorosh Mirpour is an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, specializing in electrophysiology and cognitive neuroscience. With over two decades of experience in neuroscience research, Dr. Mirpour focuses on uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease, treatment-resistant depression (TRD), and cerebellar disorders. He is currently working closely with Pouratian Lab, directed by Dr. Nader Pouratian MD, PhD, Professor of Functional Neurosurgery and Chair of the Department. Dr. Mirpour previously conducted extensive research at UCLA, where he published influential studies on visual search behavior and neuronal processing. He holds an MD and PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM). Research Interests: Dr. Mirpour's research employs advanced electrophysiological methods, including local field potentials (LFP) and single-cell recordings, to study beta-frequency oscillations within the basal ganglia and their role in motor dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. He actively participates in pioneering research studies examining deep brain stimulation (DBS) for motor disorders and treatment-resistant depression, collaborating closely with institutions such as Baylor College of Medicine. His work integrates statistics, modeling, and machine learning techniques to investigate neural mechanisms underlying brain diseases and develop individualized treatments aimed at enhancing patient outcomes. Publications Featured Publications Interaction of motor behaviour, cortical oscillations and deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease. Mirpour K, Pouratian N, Brain 2024 Sep Behavior in a visual search task with moving dot stimuli. Alkan Y, Mirpour K, Bisley JW, J Neurophysiol 2022 May 127 6 1564-73 Functional neuroanatomy of cognition in Parkinson's disease. Mirpour K, Wolfe C, Florence TJ, Pouratian N, Prog Brain Res 2022 269 1 289-307 Neurons in FEF Keep Track of Items That Have Been Previously Fixated in Free Viewing Visual Search. Mirpour K, Bolandnazar Z, Bisley JW, J Neurosci 2019 Mar 39 11 2114-2124 Cortical-to-pallidal beta cascade underlies network pathophysiology in Parkinson's disease. Choi JW, Alijanpourotaghsara A, Mirpour K, Chilukuri S, Pouratian N, Cell Rep Med 2026 Aug 103001 Parkinson's disease severity is encoded by non-linear oscillatory interactions across cortical-subcortical networks. Chilukuri S, Alijanpourotaghsara A, Sharma VD, Bordelon Y, Pouratian N, Mirpour K, Sci Rep 2026 May Linking cortical morphology and neurophysiological dynamics in Parkinson's disease. Mirpour K, Alijanpourotaghsara A, Pouratian N, Sci Rep 2026 Mar A priority map is all you need: Exploring the roots of neural mechanisms underlying transformer-based large language models. Mirpour K, Bisley JW, Pouratian N, Psychol Rev 2026 Feb A Canonical Neural Map and Its Deviations Shape Parkinson's Disease Phenotypes. Mirpour K, Alijanpourotaghsara A, Sharma V, Bordelon Y, Pouratian N, Res Sq 2026 Jan Combinatorial effects of multi-site stimulation on depression-related brain regions: clinical data analysis and predictive modeling. Ghazavi A, Mirpour K, Soroush M, Bartoli E, Giridharan N, Oswalt D, Provenza NR, Allawala A, Goodman W, Sheth SA, Pouratian N, Front Psychiatry 2026 17 1808486 Results 1-10 of 16 1 2 Next Last
