Photo: Attending our 2024 UCSF Epilepsy Research Retreat on a particularly windy day, Fort Mason Center on the San Francisco Bay - March 1st 2024
Clinical Trials
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Researchers
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Kurtis Auguste
Epilepsy and neuronal migration disorders, as well as state-of-the-art advances in epilepsy surgery
Danilo Bernardo
Computational approaches to guide the diagnosis and treatment of severe childhood-onset epilepsy
Edward Chang
Innovative neurophysiology technologies to understand, preserve and restore speech, movement and cognition (Lab site, Github site)
Ernesto Gonzalez-Giraldo
Treatment for infantile spasms, ketogenic dietary therapies, medical education
Manu Hegde
Epilepsy biomarkers, links to autoimmune disease, improving mental health care and safety for people with seizures (HEP site)
Heidi Kirsch
New methods of mapping epileptic activity and functional areas in the brain, and effects of epilepsy on cognitive function
Jon Kleen
Memory and cognition neurophysiology, machine learning, and data visualization in epilepsy (Lab site, Github site)
Robert Knowlton
Neuroimaging and clinical decision-making in the surgical treatment of seizure disorders and brain tumors
Adam Numis
Evaluating the connection between inflammation and epilepsy in children with genetic disorders or brain injuries
Mercedes Paredes
Cortical development and understanding the molecular and cellular basis of epilepsy and brain malformations (Lab site)
Vikram Rao
Using direct brain electrical recordings to understand how abnormal patterns of brain electricity give rise to seizures
Tina Shih
Anti-seizure drugs in nursing homes, racial and ethnic disparities in epilepsy
Nilika Singhal
Health care disparities, hospital system improvements for children with epilepsy (PELHS site)
Joseph Sullivan
New medicines and other groundbreaking treatments as well as language development research in children with epilepsy
Joline Fan
Sleep and epilepsy neurophysiology, non-invasive methods to modulate brain activity, neuropsychiatric applications of deep brain stimulation
Clare Timbie
Pre-clinical models to study limbic and thalamic circuits and how they are disrupted in epilepsy and cognitive comorbidities (Profile)
Patrick Hullett
Neural mechanisms of emotion