Edited by Donald L. Schomer, Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA, and Edited by Fernando H. Lopes da Silva, Emeritus Professor, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, The Netherlands
Donald L. Schomer received his MD degree from the University of Michigan in 1972. He joined the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard University in 1980 and is Full Professor at Harvard University. He developed the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and the Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology at BIDMC. He received the "Distinguished Life-time Achievement" awards from both the American Epilepsy Society and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and now serves as the Associate Editor for the Annals of Neurology for matters related to either epilepsy or central neurophysiology.
Fernando H. Lopes da Silva received his MD from the University of Lisbon and PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1970. In 1980, he moved to the University of Amsterdam as Full Professor of Physiology and Head of the Centre of Neurosciences of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences. He holds several Honoris Causa degrees, and a knighthood of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Contributors:
Florin Amzica, PhD
Department of Stomatology
Université de Montreal
Montreal, Canada
Jeffrey E. Arle MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
Associate Chief, Neurosurgery
Beth Israel Medical Center
Chief Neurosurgery, Mt. Auburn Hospital
Boston, MA
Harald Aurlien, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology
Haukeland University Hospital
Department of Clinical Medicine
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Claudio Babiloni, MD
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology <"Vittorio Erspamer>"
University of Rome <"La Sapienza>"
Department of Neuroscience
IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana
Rome, Italy
Jules Beal, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Director of the Pediatric Neurohospitalist Service
Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY
Sándor Beniczky, MD, PhD
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
Danish Epilepsy Centre
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
Adriana Bermeo-Ovalle, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences
Director, EEG Laboratory
Department of Neurological Sciences
Rush University Medical College
Chicago, IL
Jan Brøgger, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology
Haukeland University Hospital
Department of Clinical Medicine
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Clemens Brunner, MD
Institute of Psychology
University of Graz
Graz, Austria
Ana Buján, MD
Gerontology Research Group
Department of Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of A Coruña
A Coruña, Spain
Gastone G. Celesia, MD
Emeritus Professor, Department of Neurology, Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University of Chicago
Chicago Council for Science and Technology
Chicago, IL
Bernard S. Chang, MD, MMSc
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Department of Neurology, Division of Epilepsy and Electroencephalography
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
David K. Chen, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Neurophysiology Services
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Houston, TX
Sudhansu Chokroverty, MD
Professor, Neurology
New Jersey Neuroscience Institute at JFK
Edison, NJ
Marco Congendo, PhD
GIPSA-lab
CNRS
Grenoble Institute of Technology
Grenoble-Alpes University
Grenoble, France
Nathan E. Crone, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Frank W. Drislane, MD
Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Neurologist, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Barbara A. Dworetzky, MD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Epilepsy
Department of Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Claudio Del Percio
Department of Integrated Imaging
IRCCS SDN
Napoli, Italy
Jonathan Charles Edwards, MD
Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
Director MUSC Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Medical Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratories
The Medical University of South Carolina
Department of Neurology
Charleston, SC
Monika Eisermann, MD
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
Necker Enfants Malades Hospital
Research Unit "Infantile Epilepsies and Brain Plasticity"
Inserm
Paris, France
University Paris Descartes
CEA
Gif sur Yvette, France
Ronald Emerson, MD
Department of Neurology
Hospital for Special Surgery
Cornell University
New York, NY
Charles M. Epstein, MD
Professor of Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, GA
Joshua B. Ewen, MD
Department of Neurology and Developmental Medicine, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Bruce J. Fisch, MD
Professor of Neurology, University of New Mexico
Director, Neurodiagnostic Laboratories and MEG Center
University of New Mexico Hospital
Albuquerque, NM
John Gaitanis, MD
Chief, Pediatric Neurology Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
Marian Galovic, MD
Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
UCL Institute of Neurology
Queen Square
London, United Kingdom
Luis Garcia-Larrea, MD
NEUROPAIN - Intégration Centrale de la douleur chez l'Homme
INSERM, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences
Groupement Hospitalier Est, Hôpital Neurologique
BRON Cedex, France
Howard Goodkin, MD
Shure Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Jean Gotman, PhD
Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cecil D. Hahn, MD, MPH
Division of Neurology
The Hospital for Sick Children
Department of Paediatrics
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eric Halgren, PhD
Departments of Radiology
Neurosciences and Psychiatry
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA
Mark Hallett, MD
Chief, Human Motor Control Section
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institute of Health
Bethesda, MD
Abeer J. Hani, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Neurology
Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine
Lebanese American University
Beirut, Lebanon
Riitta Hari, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Art
School of Art, Design and Architecture
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
School of Science
Aalto University
Aalto, Finland
Adam L. Hartman, MD
Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Bin He, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Engineering in Medicine
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Susan T. Herman, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Neurologist, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Lawrence J. Hirsch, MD
Professor of Neurology
Chief, Division of Epilepsy and EEG
Co-Director, Yale Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Co-Director, Critical Care EEG Monitoring Program
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Aatif M. Husain, MD
Department of Neurology
Duke University Medical Center and Neurodiagnostic Center
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Stiliyan Kalitzin, PhD
Clinical Physicist
Principal Advisor in Medical Technology
Foundation Epilepsy Institute in The Netherlands (SEIN)
External Faculty
Image Sciences Institute
University Medical Center
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Andres M. Kanner, MD, FANA
Professor of Clinical Neurology
Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Head, Epilepsy Division
Department of Neurology
University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Peter W. Kaplan, MB, BS, FRCP
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Baltimore, MD
Mena Kerolus, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Rush University
Chicago, IL
Ryan Kochanski, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Rush University
Chicago, IL
Vaishnav Krishnan MD, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Department of Neurology, Division of Epilepsy and Electroencephalography
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Ekrem Kutluay, MD
Professor of Neurology
Associate Director, MUSC Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Medical Director, Neuro-Intraoperative Monitoring
The Medical University of South Carolina
Department of Neurology
Charleston, SC
W. Curt LaFrance, Jr., MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
Brown University
Director, Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology
Rhode Island Hospital
Staff Physician
Providence VA Medical Center
Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University
Providence, RI
Alan D. Legatt, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY
Ronald P. Lesser, MD
Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Fernando H. Lopes da Silva, MD, PhD
Center of Neuroscience
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Department of Bioengineering
Higher Technical Institute
University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
François Mauguière, MD
Service de Neurologie fonctionnelle et d'épileptologie,
Université Claude Bernard Lyon I
Hôpital Neurologique Pierre-Wertheimer de Lyon
Lyon, France
Christoph M. Michel, PhD
Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory
Department of Basic Neuroscience
University of Geneva
Campus Biotech
Geneva, Switzerland
Sunita Misra, MD, PhD
Department of Pediatric Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Eli M. Mizrahi, MD
Chief of the Neurophysiology Service
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Chair, Department of Neurology
Professor, Neurology and Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Solomon L. Moshe, MD
Professor of Neurology
The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology
Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Neuroscience
The Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Charles Frost Chair in Neurosurgery and Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Director, Division of Pediatric Neurology
Director of Clinical Neurophysiology
The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology
Director of the Division of Neurology
Department of Pediatrics
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Bronx, NY
Masatoshi Nakamura, MD
Emeritus Professor, Saga University Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Saga, Japan
Christa Neuper, MD
Institute of Neural Engineering
Graz University of Technology
Institute of Psychology
University of Graz
Graz, Austria
Douglas R. Nordli, Jr., MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Co-director
Director of the Neurosciences Institute
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Marc R. Nuwer, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Department Head, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Gamaleldin M. Osman, MD
ICU-EEG Research Fellow
Yale University
New Haven, CT
J.Matias Palva, MD
Neuroscience Center
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Trudy Pang, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD
Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation
Department of Neurology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Neal S. Peachey, MD
Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Cleveland, OH
Phillip L. Pearl, MD
William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology
Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
Gert Pfurtscheller, MD, PhD
Institute of Knowledge Discovery
Graz University of Technology
Graz, Austria
Perrine Plouin, MD
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
Necker Enfants Malades Hospital
Paris, France
Ronit Pressler, MD, PhD, MRCPCH
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Neuroscience
UCL Institute of Child Health
London, UK
Claus Reinsberger, MD, PhD
Institute of Sports Medicine
Department of Sports and Health
Faculty of Science, Paderborn University
Padeborn, Germany
James J. Riviello, Jr., MD
Chief of the Division of Child Neurology
Sergievsky Family Professor of Pediatric Neurology
Neurology and the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY
Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology
Fegan 9, Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
Sepehr Sani, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Rush University
Chicago, IL
Bettina Schmitz, MD
Professor, Chair, Department of Neurology
Vivantes Humbolt-Klinikum
Berlin, Germany
Andrew Schomer, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Divisions of Epilepsy and Neurocritical Care
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Donald L. Schomer, MD
Director, Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology
Chief, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
Department of Neurology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Stephan Schuele MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Medical Director, Neurological Testing Center
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL
Margitta Seeck, MD
EEG and Epilepsy Unit, Neurology Clinic
Dept of Clinical Neurosciences
Geneva, Switzerland
Mouhsin M. Shafi, MD, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Department of Neurology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Hiroshi Shibasaki, MD
Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
Kyoto, Japan
Jay L. Shils PhD, DABNM, FASNM, FACNS
Director of Intraoperative Neurophysiology
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia
Rush University
Chicago, IL
L. Spinelli, PhD
EEG & Epilepsy Unit
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
University Hospital of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
Raoul Sutter, MD
Department of Neurology and Intensive Care Medicine
University Hospital Basel
Basel, Switzerland
William O. Tatum, DO
Department of Neurology
Mayo College of Medicine
Jacksonville, FL
Phillip D. Thompson, MD
Emeritus Professor of Neurology
University of Adelaide
Department of Neurology Royal Adelaide Hospital
Adelaide, Australia
Barbara Tettenborn, MD
Professor, Chair, Department of Neurology
Kantonspital St. Gallen
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sampsa Vanhatalo, MD
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
Children's Hospital
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
HUS Medical Imaging Center
Helsinki University Central Hospital
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Robert Vertugno, MD
Unit of Neurology and Neurophysiology
Casa di Cura Madre Fortunata Toniolo
Bologna, Italy
Wytse J. Wadman, PhD
Center of Neuroscience
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fabrice Wendling, Eng., PhD
LTSI - Inserm
Université de Rennes 1
Campus de Beaulieu
Rennes Cedex, France
M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
