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BASIC EPILEPSY RESEARCH

Laboratory of Cellular Neurophysiology and Pharmacology

Helen E. Scharfman Ph.D., 914.947.3000
Electrophysiological and neuroanatomical studies in experimental epilepsy. Mechanisms of epileptic brain damage and functional consequences of brain lesions. Pathogenesis of temporal lobe epilepsy. Structure and function of rodent hippocampus, physiological effects of growth factors, and neurotrophins.

Derek J Chong, MD MSc:

Positron Emission Tomography in animal models of epilepsy. Imaging of the cause of medically refractory epilepsy.

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