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In collaboration with Dr. C. Dekker of the Stanford-LPCH Vaccine Program and with Dr. J. 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Our overall goal is to understand the role of the basal ganglia electrical activity in the pathogenesis of movement disorders.  We have developed novel computerized technology to measure fine, limb and postural movement.  With these we are measuring local field potentials in basal ganglia nuclei in patients with Parkinson's disease and dystonian and correlating brain signalling with motor behavior."},{"lastName":"Smith","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7015&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Marion Smith","firstName":"Marion","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Marion_Smith","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Rolls","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=10602&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Asya Rolls","firstName":"Asya","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Asya_Rolls","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Palmer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Member,Cancer Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=5930&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Theo Palmer","firstName":"Theo","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Theo_Palmer","researchInterest":"For most areas of the mammalian brain, neurogenesis concludes at birth but there are exceptions to the rule. In rodents and humans, some areas of the brain continue to make new neurons throughout life. This process is mediated by neural stem cells and our research goals are to understand how stem cell activity is regulated and whether the nascent potential of resident stem cells can be harnessed for brain repair."},{"lastName":"Murphy","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Psychiatry"},{"focus":"Geriatric Psychiatry"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Neurosciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Neurosciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4515&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Greer Murphy M.D., Ph.D.","firstName":"Greer","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Greer_Murphy","researchInterest":"Glial cell neurotoxicity and neuroprotection in Alzheimer's disease. Genome wide expression analysis of mouse models for Alzheimer's disease. 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We are identifying prostaglandin receptor pathways that are involved in these disease models, and our objective is to identify which receptors will be translationally relevant in human neurological disease."},{"lastName":"Olzmann","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9630&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"James Olzmann","firstName":"James","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/James_Olzmann","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Gupta","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, School of Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Medical fellow, School of Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=9724&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Anurag Gupta, MD","firstName":"Anurag","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Anurag_Gupta","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Barres","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Ophthalmology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor,Developmental Biology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4239&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Ben Barres","firstName":"Ben","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ben_Barres","researchInterest":"Our lab is interested in the neuronal-glial interactions that underlie the development and function of the mammlian central nervous system."},{"lastName":"Steinberg","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurological Surgery"},{"focus":"Neurosurgery"},{"focus":"Neurosurgery, Pediatric"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Professor (By courtesy),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4646&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Gary Steinberg","firstName":"Gary","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Gary_Steinberg","researchInterest":"Our laboratory investigates the pathophysiology and treatment of acute cerebral ischemia, as well as methods to restore neurologic function after stroke. 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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."}]}