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Neurology (Board certified since 1980)

Parkinson's disease
cerebral palsy
dystonia
movement disorders
pallidotomy

Emory University Hospital
Grady Memorial Hospital
Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital

 Russian
 German

1990

Medical School
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 1966

Internship
Boston City Hospital, Boston, MA 1968

Residency
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 1976

Fellowship
National Insitute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 1971

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Neurological Association

National Institute of Mental Health

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Society for Neuroscience/Government & Public Affairs



Awards

American Top Doctors
Distinguished Leadership Award
Huntington's Disease Society of American, 1998

Distinguished Lecturer
Northwestern University Neuroscience

Edward B. Henderson Lecture Award
American Geriatrics Society, 2001

Fred Springer Award
American Parkinson's Disease Foundation

Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars
1998

Schneider Lecture
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1999

Special Lecture
Society for Neuroscience, 2000

The Arnold Carmichael Lecturer
Queens Square London

William Patterson Timmie
Chair of Neurology 1993



Major or Recent Publications

Motor Subcircuits Mediating the Control of Movement Velocity: A PET Study . Journal of Neurophysiology (1998),2162-78; vol 80(4).

Neuronal Activity in the Basal Ganglia in Patients with Generalized Dystonia and Hemiballimus . Annals of Neurology (1999),22-35; vol 46(1).

Reversal of Experimental Parkinsonism by Lesions of the Subthalamic Nucleus . Science (1990),1436-38; vol 249.