Ziv Williams MD
Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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55 Fruit StMassachusetts General Hospital, Wac 745kBoston, MA 02114
Phone+1 617-643-4102
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Education & Training
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2000 - 2006- Massachusetts General HospitalInternship, Transitional Year, 1999 - 2000
Stanford University School of MedicineClass of 1999
Certifications & Licensure
NH State Medical License 2023 - 2027
MA State Medical License 2003 - 2026
MN State Medical License 2006 - 2008
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
Clinical Trials
- Studying the Neuronal Basis of Human Social Cognition Start of enrollment: 2022 May 20
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses.Erin M Kunz, Benyamin Abramovich Krasa, Foram Kamdar, Donald T Avansino, Nick Hahn
Cell. 2025-08-21 - 26 citationsStabilizing brain-computer interfaces through alignment of latent dynamics.Brianna M Karpowicz, Yahia H Ali, Lahiru N Wimalasena, Andrew R Sedler, Mohammad Reza Keshtkaran
Nature Communications. 2025-05-19 - 5 citationsRole of Prefrontal Cortex Circuitry in Maintaining Social Homeostasis.SeungHyun Lee, Ziv M Williams
Biological Psychiatry. 2025-05-15
Press Mentions
Autism-Linked Mutation May Blur Brain’s Boundary Between Self, OthersJuly 15th, 2021
Grant Support
- Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
- Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
- Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
- Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
- Neuroscience Resident Research ProgramMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2009–2029
- A formal group theory-based model in primates for studying interactive social behavior and its dysfunctionMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2023–2028
- Studying semantic processing during language comprehension in humans at the single-cellular levelMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2022–2027
- An Integrated Single-Neuronal, Population-, Local Network- and Stimulation-Based Prefrontal Investigation of Human Social CognitionMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL2021–2026
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