Mahajan Abhimanyu

Abhimanyu Mahajan, MD, MHS is a movement disorders neurologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Cincinnati. His primary research interests lie in the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of dystonia. Broader areas of interest lie in the use of brain imaging to investigate non-motor features in disorders of motor function. He is also interested in factors affecting graduate medical education. For his work on cervical dystonia and substance abuse using the Dystonia coalition database, he received the 2018 AAN Young Investigators award. He received the 2018 junior investigator award from the Parkinson Study Group (PSG) for work using magnetoencephalography (MEG) in cervical dystonia. His effort on exploring the clinical relationship between cancer and Parkinson’s disease, biological opposites, led to the 2020 AAN Alliance Award: Founders. He is a member of the 2022 MDS LEAP class. He was acknowledged as an Emerging leader in Dystonia research by the DMRF in 2023. His research has received funding from the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF), Sunflower Parkinson’s disease Foundation and the Parkinson’s Foundation. Currently, he serves on the AAN Movement disorders Measurement Workgroup, MDS Dystonia Study Group, MDS Education committee and MDS Communications Oversight Committee.