Basic Research Faculty

Kevin Behar

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, MRRC Neurometabolism Research Laboratory

Research Interests:NMR; 1H NMR; 13C NMR; In vivo brain metabolism; Glutamate; Gamma-aminobutyrate; Glutamine; Neuron-glial trafficking

Hal Blumenfeld

Professor of Neurology, of Neurobiology and of Neurosurgery
Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC)

Research Interests:Impaired consciousness in epilepsy; Epilepsy neuroimaging and electrophysiology

Angelique Bordey

Professor of Neurosurgery and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Research Interests:Neurogenesis; stem cells; mTOR; Neural stem cell; Cognitive functions; autism

Nihal deLanerolle

Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neurobiology

Research Interests:Molecular and cellular neuropathology of human seizure foci; development of animal models of human temporal lobe epilepsy; neuropathology of Traumatic brain injury

Tore Eid

Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and of Neurosurgery
Assistant Director, Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Director, Human Brain Microdialysis Program

Research Interests:Epilepsy; Neuropathology; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Mass spectrometry; Clinical chemistry and toxicology; Therapeutic drug monitoring

David McCormick

Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology
Vice Director, Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience

Research Interests:Cellular mechanisms of cortical function; thalamocortical function and modulation

Anne Williamson

Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Neurosurgery

Research Interests:Cellular physiology of human epilepsy and animal models, neurometabolism of brain tumors; Brain Slices; Electrophysiology; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Viral Vectors