
Prof of Clinical Neurology
M_Neurology
+1 415 353-2437
I am a neurologist specializing in the treatment of epilepsy. Much of my professional life has been dedicated to building the clinical programs of the UCSF Epilepsy Center. My research is aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of people with hard-to-treat epilepsy. My teaching is centered on clinical epilepsy education for fellows, residents and students. My university service has been focused on assuring opportunity for students and faculty across the campus. In my role as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, I am involved with academic review and faculty development for the School of Medicine.
Publications
Influences of electrode density on intracranial seizure localisation: a single-blinded randomised crossover study.
EBioMedicine
The imprint of dissociative seizures on the brain.
NeuroImage. Clinical
Surgical outcomes following resection in patients with language dominant posterior quadrant epilepsy.
Epilepsy & behavior reports
Abnormal gamma phase-amplitude coupling in the parahippocampal cortex is associated with network hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's disease.
Brain communications
An Innovative Faculty Travel Award Program to Support Child, Elder, or Dependent Care.
JAMA pediatrics
Factors associated with preoperative and postoperative seizures in patients undergoing resection of brain metastases.
Journal of neurosurgery
Impact of COVID-19 on Medical School Faculty.
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry
Neuronal synchrony abnormalities associated with subclinical epileptiform activity in early onset Alzheimer's disease.
Brain : a journal of neurology
Sexual Harassment in Medical Schools: The Challenge of Covert Retaliation as a Barrier to Reporting.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Identifying and Mitigating Risk of Violence in the Scientific Workplace.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Memory and mood outcomes after anterior thalamic stimulation for refractory partial epilepsy.
Seizure
Incidence and impact of subclinical epileptiform activity in Alzheimer's disease.
Annals of neurology
Timing and significance of pathological features in C9orf72 expansion-associated frontotemporal dementia.
Brain : a journal of neurology
Corpus callosotomy versus vagus nerve stimulation for atonic seizures and drop attacks: A systematic review.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Long-term efficacy and safety of thalamic stimulation for drug-resistant partial epilepsy.
Neurology
Unilateral holohemispheric central nervous system lesions associated with medically refractory epilepsy in the pediatric population: a retrospective series of hemimegalencephaly and Rasmussen's encephalitis.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics
Enzyme-inducing anticonvulsants increase plasma clearance of dexmedetomidine: a pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study.
Anesthesiology
Seizure types and frequency in patients who "fail" temporal lobectomy for intractable epilepsy.
Neurosurgery
Distinguishing language and race disparities in epilepsy surgery.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Exaggerated phase-amplitude coupling in the primary motor cortex in Parkinson disease.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Transmantle sign in focal cortical dysplasia: a unique radiological entity with excellent prognosis for seizure control.
Journal of neurosurgery
Differential diagnosis of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease.
Archives of neurology
Seizure exacerbation in two patients with focal epilepsy following marijuana cessation.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Relationship between hospital surgical volume, lobectomy rates, and adverse perioperative events at US epilepsy centers.
Journal of neurosurgery
Minocycline- and tetracycline-class antibiotics are protective against partial seizures in vivo.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Clinical overlap between Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease and Lewy body disease.
The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques
Characteristics and treatment of seizures in patients with high-grade glioma: a review.
Neurosurgery clinics of North America
Impact of methodologic choice for automatic detection of different aspects of brain atrophy by using temporal lobe epilepsy as a model.
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology
Predictors of seizure freedom after surgery for malformations of cortical development.
Annals of neurology
Different structural correlates for verbal memory impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy with and without mesial temporal lobe sclerosis.
Human brain mapping
Widespread extrahippocampal NAA/(Cr+Cho) abnormalities in TLE with and without mesial temporal sclerosis.
Journal of neurology
Electrical stimulation of the anterior nucleus of thalamus for treatment of refractory epilepsy.
Epilepsia
Seizure control outcomes after resection of dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor in 50 patients.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics
Characteristics of auras in patients undergoing temporal lobectomy.
Journal of neurosurgery
Involvement of the thalamocortical network in TLE with and without mesiotemporal sclerosis.
Epilepsia
Examination of volunteer bias in research involving patients diagnosed with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Seizure characteristics and control after microsurgical resection of supratentorial cerebral cavernous malformations.
Neurosurgery
Widespread neocortical abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy with and without mesial sclerosis.
NeuroImage
A multicenter, prospective pilot study of gamma knife radiosurgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: seizure response, adverse events, and verbal memory.
Annals of neurology
Correlating DWI MRI with pathologic and other features of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease.
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders
Patients with seizure clusters--identification of a high-risk group.
Epilepsy currents
Is seizure surgery an option for patients with very low IQ?
Epilepsy currents
Imaging depression in epilepsy: hints at the biology of despair.
Epilepsy currents
Dexmedetomidine does not reduce epileptiform discharges in adults with epilepsy.
Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology
Nonconvulsive seizures in the pediatric intensive care unit: out of sight, out of mind?
Epilepsy currents
Brain stimulation for epilepsy: stimulating results?
Epilepsy currents
Medical intractability and imaging: can MRI predict the future?
Epilepsy currents
Surgery for heterotopia: a second look.
Epilepsy currents
Magnetoencephalography source localization and surgical outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy.
Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
Potentially misleading extratemporal lobe lesions in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
Vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of bilateral independent temporal lobe epilepsy.
Epilepsia
Management of seizures and epilepsy.
American family physician
Correlation of seizure frequency with N-acetyl-aspartate levels determined by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging.
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Neuroimaging clinics of North America
Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging in patients with frontal lobe epilepsy.
Annals of neurology
Application of spectroscopic imaging in epilepsy.
Magnetic resonance imaging
Drug-induced seizures.
Neurologic clinics
Phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging in patients with frontal lobe epilepsy.
Annals of neurology
Neurological reactions in HIV-infected patients treated with trichosanthin.
Neuropathology and applied neurobiology