{"result":[{"lastName":"Fisher","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Epilepsy"},{"focus":"Neurology"},{"focus":"EEG"},{"focus":"Consciousness, Loss of"},{"focus":"Convulsion, Non-Epileptic"},{"focus":"Epilepsy, Complex Partial"},{"focus":"Epilepsy, Generalized"},{"focus":"Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe"},{"focus":"Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4638&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Fisher","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Robert_Fisher","researchInterest":"Dr. Fisher is interested in clincal, laboratory and translational aspects of epilepsy research.  Prior work has included: electrical deep brain stimulation for epilepsy, studied in laboratory models and clinical trials; drug delivery to a seizure focus; mechanisms of absence epilepsy studied with in vitro slices of brain thalamus; hyperthermic seizures; diagnosis and treatment of non-epileptic seizures, the post-ictal state; driving and epilepsy; new antiepileptic drugs; surgery for epilepsy."},{"lastName":"Hestrin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4343&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shaul Hestrin","firstName":"Shaul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Shaul_Hestrin","researchInterest":"The main interest of my lab is to understand how the properties of neocortical neurons and the circuits they form give rise to cortical activity and function. Our approach includes recordings from multiple cells, calcium imaging, two-photon imaging and viral-based optogenetic methods to activate  cortical neurons as well as cortical afferents."},{"lastName":"Olson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology - Child Neurology"},{"focus":"Neurology, Pediatric"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Pediatrics"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4427&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Donald Olson","firstName":"Donald","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Donald_Olson","researchInterest":"Epilepsy in children and adolescents. Particular interest in clinical neurophysiology (EEG and video EEG), differential diagnosis of seizures in children, and selection of patients who will benefit from epilepsy surger."},{"lastName":"Prince","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4531&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Prince","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/David_Prince","researchInterest":"Experiments examine \r\n1)intrinsic properties of neuronal membranes; actions of neurotransmitters that regulate neocortical and thalamic excitability\r\n2) chronic epileptogenesis following cortical injury; changes in intracortical connectivity and receptors; \r\n3) effects of early injury and activity on cortical development/maldevelopment Electrophysiological, anatomical and pharmacological techniques employed.\r\n4. prophylaxis of postraumatic epilepsy\r\n5. Neocortical interneuronal function/modulation"},{"lastName":"Morrell","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Clinical Neurophysiology"},{"focus":"Neurology"},{"focus":"Epilepsy"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6968&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Martha Morrell","firstName":"Martha","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Martha_Morrell","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Takahashi","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11433&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"D. Koji Takahashi","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Daniel_Takahashi","researchInterest":"I am interested in the mechanisms of epileptogenesis following a traumatic brain injury and also how astrocytes influence neuronal excitability in both the normal and injured cortex."},{"lastName":"Madhok","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine"},{"appointment":"USMLE Student Presenter,Dean's Office - Educational Programs and Services (EPS), Center of Excellence (COE) of Diversity in Medical Education"},{"appointment":"Other Tech - Graduate,Dean's Office - Educational Programs and Services (EPS), Center of Excellence (COE) of Diversity in Medical Education"}],"primaryAppointment":"MD Student, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18624&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jai Madhok","firstName":"Jai","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Jai_Madhok","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Marshel","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=34838&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James Marshel","firstName":"James","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/James_Marshel","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Boahen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Bioengineering"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7204&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kwabena Boahen","firstName":"Kwabena","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Kwabena_Boahen","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"MacIver","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4009&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"M Bruce MacIver","firstName":"M","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/M_MacIver","researchInterest":"We study drug effects on the nervous system. Cellular, synaptic and molecular drug actions are investigated using electrophysiological and pharmacological tools in cortical/hippocampal brain slice preparations. We are also interested in mechanisms of neuronal integration and synchronization, especially related to patterns of EEG activity seen in vivo and in brain slices."},{"lastName":"Porter","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology - Child Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=36943&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Brenda Porter","firstName":"Brenda","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Brenda_Porter","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Huguenard","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Molecular & Cellular Physiology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4124&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Huguenard","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/John_Huguenard","researchInterest":"We are interested in the neuronal mechanisms that underlie synchronous oscillatory activity in the thalamus, cortex and the massively interconnected thalamocortical system. Such oscillations are related to cognitive processes, normal sleep activities and certain forms of epilepsy. Our approach is an analysis of the discrete components (cells, synapses, microcircuits) that make up thalamic and cortical circuits, and reconstitution of components into in silico computational networks."},{"lastName":"Ge","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Developmental Biology","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=21246&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Xuecai Ge","firstName":"Xuecai","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Xuecai_Ge","researchInterest":"I am interested in how the Hedgehog signaling transduction is regulated, and how the mis-regulation of Hedgehog pathway leads to human diseases such as Medulloblastoma."},{"lastName":"Lee","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Bioengineering","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=23467&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Soo Yeun Lee","firstName":"Soo Yeun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Soo Yeun_Lee","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Malenka","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychiatry/Neuroscience/MSLS","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4670&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Robert Malenka","firstName":"Robert","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Robert_Malenka","researchInterest":"Long-lasting changes in synaptic strength are important for the modification of neural circuits by experience. A major goal of my laboratory is to elucidate the molecular events that trigger various forms of synaptic plasticity and the modifications in synaptic proteins that are responsible for the changes in synaptic efficacy."},{"lastName":"Lopez","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"},{"focus":"Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring"},{"focus":"Electromyography"},{"focus":"Botulinum Toxin Treatment"},{"focus":"Neurology, Pediatric"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4069&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jaime Lopez","firstName":"Jaime","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Jaime_Lopez","researchInterest":"My clinical interests are in the areas of Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring (IOM), clinical neurophysiology, electromyopgraphy and in the use of botulinum toxins in the treatment of neurologic disorders.  Our IOM group\u0092s research is in the development of new and innovative techniques for monitoring the nervous system during surgical and endovascular procedures and how these alter surgical management and patient outcomes.  I am also active in formulating national IOM practice guidelines."},{"lastName":"Shatz","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"},{"appointment":"Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=8146&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Carla Shatz","firstName":"Carla","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Carla_Shatz","researchInterest":"The goal of research in the Shatz Laboratory is to discover how brain circuits are tuned up by experience during critical periods of development both before and after birth by elucidating cellular and molecular mechanisms that transform early fetal and neonatal brain circuits into mature connections. To discover mechanistic underpinnings of circuit tuning, the lab has conducted functional screens for genes regulated by neural activity and studied their function for vision, learning and memory."},{"lastName":"Mariano","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=18726&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Edward R. Mariano, MD, MAS","firstName":"Edward","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Edward_Mariano","researchInterest":"My clinical research interests include the development of techniques and patient care pathways to improve postoperative pain control and other surgical outcomes in adults and children.  I am particularly interested in regional anesthesia, the specific application of local anesthetics and adjuvants at the site of peripheral nerves, in the context of producing target-specific pain relief."},{"lastName":"Kendig","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4161&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joan Kendig","firstName":"Joan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Joan_Kendig","researchInterest":"My laboratory tries to find out how pharmacologic agents used in the practice of anesthesia (general anesthetic and analgesic agents) lead to therapeutically desireable endpoints including unconsciousness, immobility and absence of pain. The old idea that general anesthetics are uniformly non-specific \"membrane stabilizers\" is giving way to a new realization that these agents exert specific actions on particular ion channels and intracellular signalling systems."},{"lastName":"Supekar","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19284&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kaustubh Supekar","firstName":"Kaustubh","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Kaustubh_Supekar","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Vrticka","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=29940&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Pascal Vrticka","firstName":"Pascal","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Pascal_Vrticka","researchInterest":"My research focuses on the normal as well as disturbed functioning of the human social brain, both in adults as well as in children / adolescents.  I am investigating many different aspects of social emotion processing, including elicitation, perception, expression, as well as regulation. Moreover, I am particularly interested in individual differences and how they shape social emotion processing. In so doing, I mainly  refer to the developmental psychological framework of attachment theory."},{"lastName":"Chen","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20934&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lu Chen","firstName":"Lu","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/stanfordhospital/researcher/Lu_Chen","researchInterest":"What distinguishes us humans from other animals is our ability to undergo complex behavior. The synapses are the structural connection between neurons that mediates the communication between neurons, which underlies our various cognitive function. My research program aims to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synapse function during behavior in the developing and mature brain, and how synapse function is altered during mental retardation."},{"lastName":"Paz","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Basic Life Science Research Associate,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10164&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jeanne T. Paz","firstName":"Jeanne","href":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/Jeanne_Paz","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Luoma","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurosciences Institute","imageUrl":"http://stanfordhospital.org/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=24597&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jessie Luoma","firstName":"Jessie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/postdocs/researcher/Jessie_Luoma","researchInterest":""}]}