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Yale University
School of Medicine
Department of Neurology
P.O. Box 208018
New Haven, CT
06520-8018

Susan S. Spencer, MD
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery


Department of Neurology
Yale University School of Medicine
P.O. Box 208018
New Haven, CT 06520-8018

Office: 203-785-3865
Lab: 203-737-4370; 203-737-5407
Fax: 203-737-2799

email: susan.spencer@yale.edu

Training:
Epilepsy fellowship, Yale School of Medicine, 1978-1981
Residency (neurology), Yale School of Medicine, 1975-1978
Internship (internal medicine), Dartmouth Scxhool of Medicine, 1974-75

Expertise:
Epilepsy, medically intractable, surgical treatment, imaging evaluation, quantitative EEG analysis


Research Interests: see above

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Representative Publications:
Zubal G, Avery RA, Stokking R, Studholme C, Corsi M, Dey H, Seibyl J, Spencer SS. Ratio-images calculated from interictal pet and SPECT for quantifying the uncoupling of brain metabolism and perfusion in epilepsy. Epilepsia 2000;41:1560-1566.

Zaveri H, Duckrow RB, Spencer SS. Distinguishing subtypes of temporal lobe epilepsy with background hippocampal activity. Epilepsia, 2001;42:225-230.

Spencer SS. Neural networks in human epilepsy: evidence and implications for treatment. Epilepsia 2002;43:219-227.

Yoon HH, Kwon HL, Mattson RH, Spencer DD, Spencer SS. Long-term seizure outcome in patients initially seizure free after resective epilepsy surgery. Neurology, 2003; 61: 445-450.

Berg AT, Vickrey BG, Langfitt J, Sperling MR, Walczak T, Shinnar S, Bazil C, Pacia SV, Spencer SS. The multicenter study of epilepsy surgery: recruitment and selection for surgery. Epilepsia, 2003;44:1425-1433.

Spencer SS, Berg AT, Vickrey BG, Sperling MR, Bazil CW, Shinnar S, Langfitt JT, Walczak TS, Pacia SV, Ebrahimi N, Frobish D. Initial outcomes in the multicenter study of epilepsy surgery. Neurology, 2003;61:1680-1685.



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