Faculty Research Interests
James Bernat - Ethical issues in neurology, palliative care in neurology, neurophilosophical studies of consciousness, coma, and death
Kris Bujarski - Epilepsy, cognitive disturbances following epilepsy surgery, social cognition and epilepsy, self-perception of cognitive disturbances in epilepsy, cognitive dysfunction following selective and standard temporal lobectomy
David Coffey - Parkinson's disease, deep brain stimulation, clinical neurophysiology
- Perioperative and longitudinal assessments of DBS in PD, dystonia and tremor
- NINDS center grant to study neuroprotective agents in Parkinson's disease
- fMRI in MCI, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease
- Merck study of MK-0677 in SDAT
Jeffrey Cohen - Neuromuscular diseases, clinical neurophysiology, diabetic neuropathy, ALS, autonomic neuropathy
Camilo Fadul - Neurooncology
- Chemotherapy trials in brain gliomas
- Hyperbaric oxygen in brain tumor radiation induced necrosis
- GBM vaccine project
James Filiano - Pediatric neurology, intensivist, inherited metabolic disease
- Role of the brainstem raphe in respiratory control in piglets
- Genetic causes of illness in patients with unknown presumed neurogenetic syndromes
- Prevalence of dopa responsive dystonia in patients who carry the diagnosis of of cerebral palsy
Richard Goddeau, Jr. - Stroke, Intracranial hemorrhage
Glen Greenough - Sleep disorders, assessment of alertness, restless leg syndrome
- Coexistence of sleep disorders in IPD and ALS
Gregory Holmes - Section Chief, pediatric neurology, pediatric epilepsy
- Consequences of seizures on the neonatal brain. We are interested in the basic mechanisms of seizure- induced cognitive dysfunction. We are particularly interested in the alteration of neuronal circuits through activity-dependent mechanisms. The laboratory has expertise in both in-vivo and in-vitro electrophysiology, behavior testing, and immunohistochemistry.
- Evaluation of potential neuroprotective agents in seizure-induced brain injury.
- We plan to start a multicenter AED trial in very young children destined to develop pharmacoresistant epilepsy.
- I also have a research interest on the effects of "subclinical" EEG discharges on cognitive function.
Barbara Jobst
- Frontal lobe epilepsy and SMA Epilepsy
- Long-term outcomes after temporal lobectomy
- Electroclinical correlation of secondary generalized seizures and their propagation patterns
- FLAIR - Imaging after failed epilepsy surgery
- Alternative motor stimulation for cortical motor mapping
- Natural progesteron in catamenial epilepsy
Lloyd Kasper - MS, infectious disease
- MS treatment trials
- Toxoplasmosis, cerebral malaria and grp B strep studies.
Stephen Lee - Movement disorders
Morris Levin - Headache, pain, medical education
- Botulinum toxin in the treatment of cervicogenic headache, and chronic daily headache
- Therapeutic exercise in migraine
- Relationship between MS and recurrent headache
- Handedness, pain and migraine
- PFO and migraine
- Novel agents for acute migraine
Timothy Lukovits - Stroke
- PFO closure trial
- Carotid stenting trials
- Quality research grant in acute stroke response team
- Stroke patient management database
- Visual effects of stroke
Richard Morse - Pediatric neurology, pediatric epilepsy, neurogenetic disorders, migrational anomalies
- Pediatric epilepsy drug trials
- Head injury and seizures in a piglet model
- Neonatal seizure-related projects
Elijah Stommel - Neuromuscular disease, axonal transport, ALS
- The role of Toxoplasma gondii in cryptogenic epilepsy
- The role of axonal transport in diabetic neuropathy.
- Microimaging of Toxoplasma gondii with MRI.
Rand Swenson - Spine disease, neuroanatomy
Vijay Thadani - Epilepsy, conversion disorders
- Outcome of temporal lobectomy
- Outcome of Vagal nerve stimulation
- Use of ictal SPECT in the evaluation of patients for epilepsy surgery
Parker Towle - General neurology, neurologic psychosomatics, stroke
Thomas Ward - Headache, dystonia
- Botulinum toxin in the treatment of cervicogenic headache, and chronic daily headache
- PFO and migraine
