{"result":[{"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://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6968&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Martha Morrell","firstName":"Martha","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Martha_Morrell","researchInterest":""},{"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://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=36943&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Brenda Porter","firstName":"Brenda","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Brenda_Porter","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"MacIver","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Anesthesia"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4009&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"M Bruce MacIver","firstName":"M","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/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":"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://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4124&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"John Huguenard","firstName":"John","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/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":"Prince","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4531&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"David Prince","firstName":"David","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/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":"Hestrin","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Comparative Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4343&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Shaul Hestrin","firstName":"Shaul","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/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://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4427&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Donald Olson","firstName":"Donald","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/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":"Henderson","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurological Surgery"},{"focus":"Movement Disorders"},{"focus":"Pain"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurosurgery"},{"appointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy),Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Associate Professor - Med Center Line,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6330&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jaimie Henderson","firstName":"Jaimie","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jaimie_Henderson","researchInterest":"My research interests encompass several areas of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, including frameless stereotactic approaches for therapy delivery to deep brain nuclei; deformable patient-specific atlases for targeting brain structures; cortical physiology and its relationship to normal and pathological movement; neural prostheses; and the development of novel neuromodulatory techniques for the treatment of movement disorders, pain, and other neurological diseases."},{"lastName":"Wusthoff","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology - Child Neurology"},{"focus":"Neonates"},{"focus":"EEG"},{"focus":"Intensive Care Units, Neonatal"},{"focus":"Intensive Care, Neonatal"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"},{"appointment":"MS, Dean's Office"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35104&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Courtney Wusthoff","firstName":"Courtney","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Courtney_Wusthoff","researchInterest":"My projects focus on clinical research in newborns with, or at risk, for brain injury. I use EEG in at-risk neonates to better understand the underlying pathophysiology of risk factors that may lead to worse outcomes. I am particularly interested in neonatal seizures and how they may exacerbate perinatal brain injury with a goal to identify treatments that might protect the vulnerable brain. I am also interested in EEG in other pediatric populations, as well as medical ethics and global health."},{"lastName":"Kendig","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Anesthesia"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Anesthesia","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4161&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Joan Kendig","firstName":"Joan","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/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":"Takahashi","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=11433&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"D. Koji Takahashi","firstName":"Daniel","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/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":"Cai","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=36382&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Weidong Cai","firstName":"Weidong","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Weidong_Cai","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Williams","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Stanford/VA Aging Clinical Research Center"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Stanford/VA Aging Clinical Research Center","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=32444&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Leanne Williams","firstName":"Leanne","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Leanne_Williams","researchInterest":"I research Applied Personalized Neuroscience focusing on mood, anxiety and attention disorders by discovering novel ways of classifying these psychiatric conditions using human neuroscience. The overarching goal is to apply the findings in clinical practice by identifying treatments best suited to the individual. To achieve this goal, clinic and research collaboration is essential. I rely on technology to integrate multiple measures of behavior, brain function, imaging and genetics."},{"lastName":"Sommer","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Geriatric Psychiatry"},{"focus":"Psychiatry"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor Emeritus,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychopharmacology"},{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychopharmacology"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor Emeritus,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychopharmacology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4455&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Barbara Sommer","firstName":"Barbara","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Barbara_Sommer","researchInterest":"I am interested in the clinical investigation of cognitive stresses during younger adulthood that may give rise to frank intellectual impairment with older age.  Examples may include specific kinds of chronically taken medications."},{"lastName":"Kerchner","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Alzheimer's Disease"},{"focus":"Mild Cognitive Impairment"},{"focus":"Dementia"},{"focus":"Behavioral Neurology"},{"focus":"Neurodegenerative Disease"},{"focus":"Neuropsychology"},{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor - Med Center Line,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=15338&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Geoffrey Kerchner","firstName":"Geoffrey","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Geoffrey_Kerchner","researchInterest":"Dr. Kerchner is a behavioral neurologist who cares for patients with Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurodegenerative illnesses. He studies the use of ultra-high field MRI and other advanced neuroimaging technologies to reveal how these diseases affect the microscopic structure and circuitry of the brain, with the intent of creating new strategies for early diagnosis. Dr. Kerchner also supervises the participation of patients in clinical trials for Alzheimer\u0092s disease."},{"lastName":"Ryu","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurological Surgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Consulting Professor,Electrical Engineering - Integrated Circuits Laboratory Operations"}],"primaryAppointment":"Consulting Professor,Electrical Engineering - Integrated Circuits Laboratory Operations","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7564&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Stephen Ryu, MD","firstName":"Stephen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Stephen_Ryu","researchInterest":"Clinical research involves minimally invasive spine surgery techniques and outcomes. Also interested in spine radiosurgery. Scientific research involved brain-machine interface research with the application of neural motor prosthetic systems."},{"lastName":"Graber","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Associate Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=6061&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kevin Graber, M.D.","firstName":"Kevin","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kevin_Graber","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Giocomo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurobiology"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurobiology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=35065&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lisa Giocomo","firstName":"Lisa","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Lisa_Giocomo","researchInterest":"My laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the organization of cortical circuits important for spatial navigation and memory. We are particularly focused on medial entorhinal cortex, where many neurons fire in spatially specific patterns and thus offer a measurable output for molecular manipulations. We combine electrophysiology, genetic approaches and behavioral paradigms to unravel the mechanisms and behavioral relevance of non-sensory cortical organization. Our fi"},{"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://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=20934&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Lu Chen","firstName":"Lu","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/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":"Yu","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Neurological Surgery"},{"focus":"Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Neurosurgery"}],"primaryAppointment":"Clinical Assistant Professor,Neurosurgery","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=14214&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Hong Yu","firstName":"Hong","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Hong_Yu","researchInterest":"My research interests include the development of a statistical, physiologic brain atlas based on novel image registration technology, and its application in deep brain stimulation (DBS)targeting and programming for the treatment of movement disorders.  I'm also interested in advancing the application of DBS for the treatment of other neurologic and psychiatric diseases."},{"lastName":"Kraemer","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council,Psychiatry & Behavioral Science","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4163&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Helena Chmura Kraemer","firstName":"Helena","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Helena_Kraemer","researchInterest":"I am interested in the methodology pertinent to dealing with research problems where biological and behavioral interests meet. These interests have been applied not only in psychiatric research, but in those areas of Cardiology, Pediatrics and other fields of medicine in which behavioral research is becoming ever more salient."},{"lastName":"Ding","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Assistant Professor,Neurology & Neurological Sciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=32293&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Jun Ding","firstName":"Jun","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jun_Ding","researchInterest":"Neural circuits of movement control in health and movement disorders"},{"lastName":"Sullivan","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Neurosciences"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor (Research),Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Neurosciences","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=4158&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Edith Vioni Sullivan","firstName":"Edith","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Edith_Sullivan","researchInterest":"Application of magnetic resonance imaging modalities and component process analysis of cognitive, sensory, and motor functions to identify brain structural and functional mechanisms disrupted in neurodegenerative conditions:  alcoholism, Alzheimer's disease, HIV infection, and normal aging.  Our laboratory is applying structural MRI, MR spectroscopy, and MR diffusion tensor imaging to animal models of aging and alcoholism in parallel with the human studies."},{"lastName":"Feldman","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics"},{"focus":"General Pediatrics"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine"},{"appointment":"Member,Child Health Research Institute"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor - Med Center Line,Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=7783&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Heidi M. Feldman","firstName":"Heidi","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Heidi_Feldman","researchInterest":"Language allows people to participate fully in the human social experience. My research centers on language development in children with disorders that put language learning at risk, including children with chronic ear infections, early focal neural injuries, intellectual disability, autism, and prematurity.  In addition to describing behavioral outcomes, my research uses diffusion tensor imaging to describe brain structure and functional magnetic resonance to evaluate brain function."}]}