Matthew Johnson, Ph.D.

E-MAIL: [email protected]

Research Interests:
We innovate neuromodulation technologies to improve the quality of life for people with neurological disorders. Our active research projects develop patient-specific computational models and couple them with optimization algorithms to program neuromodulation systems in humans with the goal of personalizing therapy for each individual person.

Selected Publications:

• Butler RD, Brinda AK, Blumenfeld M, Bryants MN, Grund PM, Pandey SR, Cornish CKS, Sullivan D, Krieg J, Umoh M, Vitek JL, Almeida L, Orcutt T, Cooper SE, and Johnson MD. (2025) “Differentiating postural and kinetic tremor responses to deep brain stimulation in Essential Tremor.” Movement Disorders: Clinical Practice, 12(2): 166.
• Sretavan K, Braun H, Liu Z, Bullock D, Palnitkar T, Patriat R, Chandrasekaran J, Brenny S, Johnson MD, Widge AS, and Harel N. (2024). “A reproducible pipeline for parcellation of the anterior limb of the internal capsule.” Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 9(12), pp.1249-1261.
• Lecy E, Linn-Evans M, Amundsen-Huffmaster S, Palnitkar T, Patriat R, Chung JW, Noecker A, Park M, McIntyre C, Vitek JL, Cooper S, Harel N, Johnson MD, and MacKinnon C. (2024) “Neural pathways associated with reduced rigidity during pallidal deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease." Journal of Neurophysiology.
• Herbers C, Zhang R, Erdman A, and Johnson MD. (2024) “Distinguishing features of Parkinson’s disease fallers based on wireless insole plantar pressure monitoring.” NPJ Parkinson’s Disease.
• Herbers C, Schroeder J, Lu C, Geng H, Zhang R, Mehregan J, Malakowsky K, Erdman A, Johnson MD, and Cooper SE. (2023) "Dopamine replacement therapy reactive step length to postural perturbations in Parkinson's disease." Gait & Posture, 101:95:100.
• Brinda A, Slopsema JP, Butler RD, Ikramuddin S, Beall T, Guo W, Chu C, Patriat R, Braun H, Goftari M, Palnitkar T, Aman J, Schrock L, Cooper SE, Matusumoto J, Vitek JL, Harel N, and Johnson MD. (2023) “Lateral cerebellothalamic tract activation underlies DBS therapy for Essential tremor.” Brain Stimulation, 16(2):445-455.

Current Graduate Students:
Karianne Sretavan Wong