Amy Tso, MD
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine
I am a Headache specialist who sees patients at the UCSF Headache Center. I have expertise in the management of migraine, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias including cluster headache, and other rare headache disorders. I also have expertise in inpatient treatments of headache.
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I completed my medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. During medical school, I spent 2 years at the National Institutes of Health doing stroke imaging research as part of the Clinical Research Training Program. I completed my Neurology training and Headache fellowship at UCSF. I then worked as a Specialty Doctor in Headache at King’s College Hospital in London, UK in the National Health Service. After spending a few years as a Senior Research Fellow at University College London, I returned to the UCSF Headache Center in 2023.
Currently, my focus is on clinical care. In the past, my research interests have included functional neuroimaging studies in migraine and machine learning applications in both clinical and hospital operational domains.
Education & Training
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- BA, Minor Human Biology, Psychology Stanford University
- MD Medical School UCLA
- Headache Fellowship UCSF
- Neurology Residency UCSF
Publications (14)
Top publication keywords:
Cluster HeadacheDihydroergotamineParoxysmal HemicraniaPontine TegmentumHeadache DisordersMigraine without AuraInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsIndomethacinFunctional NeuroimagingVenous ThrombosisGray MatterHeadache Disorders, PrimaryAnalgesics, Non-NarcoticVagus Nerve StimulationVerapamil
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Culture of Human Retinal Explants for Ex Vivo Assessment of AAV Gene Delivery.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2023 Wu WH, Tso A, Breazzano MP, Jenny LA, Levi SR, Tsang SH, Quinn PMJ -
Generation of Human iPSC-Derived Retinal Organoids for Assessment of AAV-Mediated Gene Delivery.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2023 Tso A, da Costa BL, Fehnel A, Levi SR, Jenny LA, Ragi SD, Li Y, Quinn PMJ -
Machine phenotyping of cluster headache and its response to verapamil.
Brain : a journal of neurology 2021 Tso AR, Brudfors M, Danno D, Grangeon L, Cheema S, Matharu M, Nachev P -
Noninvasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treatment of Indomethacin-Sensitive Headaches.
JAMA neurology 2017 Tso AR, Marin J, Goadsby PJ -
Anti-CGRP Monoclonal Antibodies: the Next Era of Migraine Prevention?
Current treatment options in neurology 2017 Tso AR, Goadsby PJ
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Increased rate of venous thrombosis may be associated with inpatient dihydroergotamine treatment.
Neurology 2017 Tso AR, Patniyot IR, Gelfand AA, Goadsby PJ -
Headache.
Seminars in neurology 2016 Tso AR, Goadsby PJ -
Aprepitant for the management of nausea with inpatient IV dihydroergotamine.
Neurology 2016 Chou DE, Tso AR, Goadsby PJ -
Morphological Abnormalities of Thalamic Subnuclei in Migraine: A Multicenter MRI Study at 3 Tesla.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2015 Magon S, May A, Stankewitz A, Goadsby PJ, Tso AR, Ashina M, Amin FM, Seifert CL, Chakravarty MM, Müller J, Sprenger T -
Recent neuroimaging advances in the study of primary headaches.
Current pain and headache reports 2015 Tso AR, Goadsby PJ -
The anterior insula shows heightened interictal intrinsic connectivity in migraine without aura.
Neurology 2015 Tso AR, Trujillo A, Guo CC, Goadsby PJ, Seeley WW -
New targets for migraine therapy.
Current treatment options in neurology 2014 Tso AR, Goadsby PJ -
Blood-brain barrier disruption after cardiac surgery.
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2012 Merino JG, Latour LL, Tso A, Lee KY, Kang DW, Davis LA, Lazar RM, Horvath KA, Corso PJ, Warach S -
Interleukin-6 174G/C polymorphism and ischemic stroke: a systematic review.
Stroke 2007 Tso AR, Merino JG, Warach S