Robert Fisher

Title
Maslah Saul MD Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences

Department
Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Neurosurgery (by courtesy)

Research Interests
Basic mechanisms of the epilepsies, novel technologies for treating epilepsy, electrical brain stimulation, local drug delivery to brain, new antiepileptic drugs, epilepsy, driving and social limitations, non-epileptic seizures.

Email
rfisher@stanford.edu

Phone
498-3056

Fax
498-6236

Address
Stanford Epilepsy Center
Room H3113
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5235

Mail Code: 5235

Faculty Research Description
Novel therapies for treating epilepsy, incuding an NIH and FDA-approved study of electrical brain stimulation for epilepsy. Research interests include development of methods to detect seizures via brainwave changes and automatically apply drugs to the part of the brain responsible for seizures. Research is being done on mechanisms of epilepsies, including what causes young brain to seize with fever. Studies are done intermittently on new antiepileptic medications. Psychosocial problems of people with epilepsy are of concern to the Stanford Epilepsy Center, and we have done research on such issues as reasonable driving limitations for people with seizures.

Areas of Study
SBRC