Rory Piper

Clinical Lecturer in Neurosurgery

rory.piper@ucl.ac.uk

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Dr Rory Piper is a Clinical Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. His research focuses on optimising surgical outcomes for children with drug-resistant epilepsy, combining advanced brain connectivity techniques with cutting-edge neuromodulation approaches such as deep brain stimulation. He is a Co-Investigator on the CADET Project (Children’s Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy Trial), which is pioneering adaptive neuromodulation to transform the treatment of severe childhood epilepsy.

Recent Preprints

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Piper RJ, Fleming JE, van Rheede JJ, Marks VS, Landin K, Costache D, Hasegawa H, Selway R, Richardson H, Seunarine K, D'Arco F, Carter S, Arcaro C, Moeller F, Moulay-Dehbi H, Valentin A, Kaliakatsos M, Denison T, Tisdall MM

Pilot Trial of the Picostim® Deep Brain Stimulation System for Children With Epilepsy: A Prospective, Open-Label Medical Device Study of a System Optimised for Paediatric Neuromodulation

10.2139/ssrn.6153468

Tourigny K, Piper RJ, Tisdall MM, Neumann WJ, Green AL, Denison T, van Rheede JJ

A cardiac pulse signal affects local field potentials recorded from deep brain stimulation electrodes across clinical targets

10.64898/2026.02.10.704848

Benjaber M, Zamora M, Toth R, Fleming JE, Landin K, Marks VS, Crockett RA, Ryou J, Deli A, Green AL, Piper RJ, Tisdall MM, Dijk DJ, Schiff ND, Sharott A, Purpura KP, Baker JL, van Rheede JJ, Denison T

A clinical grade neurostimulation implant for hierarchical control of physiological activity

10.1101/2025.10.21.683630