Aurelio A. Alonso, DDS, MS
Diplomate American Board of Orofacial Pain

Graduate Assistant, Brain Sciences Center

Ph. D. Student, Oral Biology, University of Minnesota

Specialties
Temporomandibular Disorder

Orofacial Pain

Magnetoencephalography ( MEG)

Education
DDS, University of Ribeirão Preto SP Brazil

M.S Program in Dentistry/ Temporomandibular Disorders Orofacial Pain, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA

Fellowship Prog., Orofacial Pain, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey

Certificate Prog., Temporomandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA

Certificate Program in Prosthodontics, Paulista State University, Araraquara, SP, Brazil

Selected Publications

Nixdorf DR, Velly AM, Alonso AA., Neurovascular pains: implications of migraine for the oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am. 2008 May;20(2):221-35.

Georgopoulos AP, Karageorgiou E, Leuthold AC, Lewis SM, Lynch JK, Alonso AA, Aslam Z, Carpenter AF, Georgopoulos A, Hemmy LS, Koutlas IG, Langheim FJ, McCarten JR, McPherson SE, Pardo JV, Pardo PJ, Parry GJ, Rottunda SJ, Segal BM, Sponheim SR, Stanwyck JJ, Stephane M, Westermeyer JJ., Synchronous neural interactions assessed by magnetoencephalography: a functional biomarker for brain disorders. Abstract Synchronous neural interactions assessed by magnetoencephalography: a functional biomarker for brain disorders. J Neural Eng. 2007 Dec;4(4):349-55. Epub 2007 Aug 27.

Alonso AA, Nixdorf DR, Four Different types of Headaches Presenting as Tooth Pain. J of Endod 32 (11):1110-1113 November 2006. .

Poster presentations 2006

Koutlas IG., Alonso AA., Karageorgiou E., Leuthold AC., Lewis SM., Georgopoulos AP.,  “Neural Mechanisms of Tactile Sensibility Studied Using Magnetoencephalography (MEG): Time-frequency Analysis” SFN - Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA, USA

Tsai P., Alonso A., Pinto M., Leigh D., Weiler E., Fricton J., Erickson M., Stone L, Kehl L.,“Substance P is co-localized with protein gene product 9.5-immunoreactive nerve fibers in intervertebral discs from patients with painful degenerative disc disease”, The American Pain Society's 25th Annual Scientific Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA

Koutlas IG., Alonso AA., Karageorgiou E., Leuthold AC., Georgopoulos AP.,  “Hierarchical Tree Clustering of Facial Tactile Stimuli: A Magnetoencephalography (MEG) study” AAOP - American Academy of Orofacial Pain, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Poster presentations 2005

Alonso A., Kaimal S., Li Y., Fricton J., Kehl L., Look J., Yakout A., Myers S.,  “Retrospective Study of Archived Human TMJ Tissues for Inflammatory Cell Types”, ICOT –4th International Conference of Orofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorders, Sidney, Australia

Alonso A., Nixdorf DR., “Case Series of Four different Headache Types Presenting as a Tooth Pain”, AAOP - American Academy of Orofacial Pain, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Alonso A., Fricton J., “A Case Report of Trigeminal Nerve Entrapment Presenting as Neuropathic Pain”,  AAOP – American Academy of Orofacial Pain, Phoenix, AZ, USA