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Department of Neurosciences Department of Neurosciences

UC San Diego Epilepsy Research  Faculty and Principal Investigators

 

PI list
PI Name Title Departments field(s) of interest Link to lab or profile homepage
Taha Gholipour, MD Associate Professor Neurosciences Functional MRI, multimodal imaging, clinical epileptology, clinical trials CITRUS Lab
Arjun Khanna, MD Assistant Professor Neurosurgery Intracranial EEG, human single-unit electrophysiology, speech, language, cognition
Olivia Kim-McManus, MD Associate Professor Neurosciences Precision genetic epilepsy therapy, antisense oligonucleotides, DEE, rare disease clinical trial, iEEG network analysis, pediatric SEEG Rady's Children Profile
Erik Kaestner, PhD Asst Project Scientist Radiation Medicine & Applied Science Functional and Structural MRI, Intracranial Electrophysiology, AI, Cognition (chiefly Language & Memory) Lab of Cognitive Imaging
Timothy Gentner, PhD Professor Psychology Auditory neuroscience, vocal communication, neurobiology of language Gentner Lab
Carrie McDonald, Ph.D. Professor Radiation Medicine & Applied Science & Psychiatry Neuropsychology, multimodal imaging, cognition, AI, pre-operative planning, brain tumors, aging and epilepsy

Lab of Cognitive Imaging

Alena Stasenko, Ph.D Assistant Professor Radiation Medicine & Applied Science neuropsychology, clinical neuroscience, behavioral interventions; bilingualism, neuroimaging Lab of Cognitive Imaging
Hoameng Ung, MD PhD Assistant Professor Neurosciences translational quantitative neurophysiology, EEG, ML, seizure detection Ung Translational Neurophysiology Lab
Stephanie Ries, PhD Associate Professor Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Neuroscience, psycholinguistics, speech and language disorders, brain plasticity, (i)EEG, seech production https://lbdl.sdsu.edu/
Eric Halgren, Ph.D. Professor Radiology and Neurosciences cortical integration