Neurology (Brain)
The goal of the Department of Neurology is to develop programmatic areas of relevance to the developing brain and to integrate clinical and basic neuroscience. Research areas within our department include clinical departments:
- Developmental Neurophysiology Laboratory (through the Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology)
- Electromyography (EMG) Laboratory
- Neuromuscular Program
- Center for Pediatric Epilepsy Research (through the Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology)
Basic science research primarily takes place within the laboratories of the Division of Neuroscience and in the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC).
Featured researchers in the Department of Neurology hold faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School.
Latest Research in Neurology:
| Researcher | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| Irina Anselm, MD | Mitochondrial disorders and general neurology |
| David Bellinger, PhD | CNS toxicity |
| Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD | Synaptic plasticity |
| Gabriel Corfas, PhD | Neuron-glia interactions and their roles in development and disease |
| Michael Costigan, PhD | Pain and regeneration |
| Basil Darras, M.D. | Neuromuscular disorders |
| Michael Do, PhD | Regulation of physiology and behavior by light |
| Elizabeth Engle, MD | Congenital eye movement disorders |
| Michela Fagiolini, PhD | Experience-dependent visual plasticity; neurodevelopmental disorders, including Rett syndrome |
| Zhigang He, PhD, BM | Axon regeneration |
| Xi He, PhD | Cell-cell communication; early nervous system development; Wnt family of secreted morphogens and signaling; cancer; skeletal and neurologic diseases |
| Takao Hensch, PhD | Critical periods in brain development |
| Frances Jensen, MD | Epileptogenesis, Neonatal seizures, Perinatal Brain Injury |
| Peter Kang, MD | Genetics of neuromuscular disorders |
| Walter Kaufmann, MD | Rett syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome and other genetic disorders associated with intellectual disability and autism |
| Sanjeev Kothare, MD | Neurology |
| Carole Landisman, PhD | Electrical and chemical signaling in the thalamus and cortex |
| Alan Leviton, MD | Epidemiology of brain damage in preterm newborns |
| Tobias Loddenkemper, MD | Outcome in status epilepticus, epileptic encephalopathies |
| Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD | Molecular and cellular biology of brain tumors |
| Michael Rivkin, MD | Cognitive disorders and brain development |
| Paul Rosenberg, MD, PhD | Physiology and pathology of glutamate transporters in the central nervous system; molecular mechanisms of brain injury; mechanisms of homeostatic sleep regulation |
| Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD | Noninvasive brain stimulation; traumatic brain |
| Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD | Axon development and neurologic disease |
| Thomas Schwarz, PhD | Neurotransmitter secretion, membrane trafficking, synapse development, axonal transport; Parkinson's disease |
| Janet Soul, MD | Brain injury in premature infants |
| Beth Stevens, PhD | Neuron-glia signaling, synapse development, and plasticity |
| Nicole J. Ullrich, MD, PhD | Dr. Ullrich?s research focuses on the neurologic effects of neurofibromatosis, systemic cancer and brain tumor treatment in children, and on translating her findings into cutting-edge therapies for this vulnerable population. |
| Joseph Volpe, MD | Brain injury in premature infants |
| Clifford Woolf MB, BCh, PhD | Pain, Formation of neural circuits, Regeneration |
