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Yale
University
School of Medicine
Department of Neurology
P.O. Box 208018
New Haven, CT
06520-8018
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Faculty
Research Interests
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Black,
Joel A., Ph.D.
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Membrane structure in normal
and pathological neurons and glia. Ion channel
expression in normal and injured neurons. Neuro-glial
interactions. Cell biology of neurological disease.
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Blumenfeld, Hal, M.D., Ph.D.
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Combined electrophysiology and
neuroimaging. Human functional neuroanatomy. Epilepsy, human studies and animal
models, Cortical-subcortical mechanisms of
consciousness
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Booss, John, M.D.
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HIV neurology, HIV long term
care, and multiple sclerosis.
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Bracken, Michael,
M.D.
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Epidemiology of diseases of
pregnancy and newborns with an emphasis on environmental and genetic risk
factors for causation and iatrogenic factors in patient care.
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Dib-Hajj, Sulayman, Ph.D.
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Molecular biology of
voltage-gated sodium channels, quantitative analysis of gene expression in
normal and injured neurons, structure-function relationship of sodium
channel alpha subunits, identification of proteins that modulate channel
properties. Molecular pathophysiology of spinal
cord dysfunction and multiple sclerosis.
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Duckrow, Robert, M.D.
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Kocsis, Jeffrey D., Ph.D.
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Pathophysiology of
axonal regeneration and demyelination and
cellular transplantation. Intracellular Ca2+ signaling mechanisms, ion
channel and receptor plasticity in response to injury. Studies on cellular
mechanisms of anticonvulsants such as gabapantin
and vigabatrin, GABA metabolic modulations.
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Mattson, Richard H., M.D.
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Epilepsy, antiepileptic drug
pharmacology. Intensive EEG monitoring, epilepsy surgery, new antiepileptic
drugs. Women and epilepsy.
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Ment, Laura R., M.D.
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Neonatal intraventricular
hemorrhage: prevention and sequelae. Cellular and
molecular studies of germinal matric microvascular maturation and the effect of chronic sublethal hypoxia on the developing brain.
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Navaratnam, Kumar,
M.D., Ph.D.
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Novella, Steven, M.D.
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Peripheral neuropathy and
clinical neurophysiology. Clinical management of motor neuron disease.
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Petroff, Ognen A.C., M.D.
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Nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy and studies of cerebral metabolism. Glutamate and GABA
metabolism in epilepsy. In vivo brain pharmacology of antiepileptic drugs.
Apparent diffusion coefficient of brain water mapping in epilepsy. Brain
water relaxometry MRI in epilepsy. In vivo
cerebral metabolism measured by 13C labeled tracers.
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Rakic, Pasko, M.D., Ph.D.
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Cellular events and molecular
mechanisms that govern development of the mammalian CNS. Effects of various
epigenetic factors on the development of structural, molecular and
functional cell phenotypes, and their segregation into topographic maps and
synaptic neurotransmitters/receptors architecture in laminated structures
(cerebellum, hippocampus, neocortex).
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Richerson, George B.,
M.D., Ph.D.
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Effect of CO2 and pH on
neurological function. Control of breathing, and disorders of breathing.
Mechanisms of action of anticonvulsants. Role of serotonin on brain
function.
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Shaywitz, Bennett A.,
M.D.
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Functional organization of the
brain for reading and language using functional magnetic resonance imaging;
reading and language related processes: classification/definition of
learning and attention disorders.
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Strittmatter, Stephen.,
M.D., Ph.D.
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Axonal regeneration and
functional neurologic recovery after CNS injury, axon growth inhibitors in
adult CNS, signal transduction mechanisms underlying semaphorin-directed
neuronal development.
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Waxman, Stephen G.,
M.D., Ph.D.
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Molecular neurobiology of
neurobiological diseases, with emphasis on neural
plasticity, functional recovery, and regeneration. Ion channel organization
within normal and injured neurons and glial
cells.
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2009
   
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