[BIC-announce] FW: Killam lecture Jan 20

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU.  JENNIFER 
 

Jennifer Chew

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre

MNI - WB317

3801 University Street

Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4

Telephone:  514-398-8554

Fax:  514-398-2975

 

 

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On Tuesday January 20 at 4pm, the Killam speaker will be Hal Blumenfeld,
MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the departments of Neurology,
Neurobiology and Neurosurgery at Yale University. The title of his talk
is "Epilepsy and consciousness: why are patients with absence epilepsy
absent?" Hal has been working with behavioral, electrophysiological and
metabolic measurements during seizures in humans and experimental
animals. He has been particularly interested in the effect that seizure
discharges have at a distance and how they can affect brain function,
particularly attempting to tease out the different components of what we
simplistically call a "generalized" seizure. He has made use of
sophisticated techniques including combining measurements of EEG, fMRI,
blood flow and oxygen consumption. A few of his publications are listed
below.

1: 

	Negative BOLD with large increases in neuronal activity.
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18063563?ordinalpos=1&itool=Email.Em
ailReport.Pubmed_ReportSelector.Pubmed_RVDocSum> 

	
 

	Schridde U, Khubchandani M, Motelow JE, Sanganahalli BG, Hyder
F, Blumenfeld H.
Cereb Cortex. 2008 Aug;18(8):1814-27. Epub 2007 Dec 5.
PMID: 18063563 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related Articles
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=link&linkname=pu
bmed_pubmed&uid=18063563&ordinalpos=1:> 

	

 

2: 

	Remote effects of focal hippocampal seizures on the rat
neocortex.
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18768701?ordinalpos=2&itool=Email.Em
ailReport.Pubmed_ReportSelector.Pubmed_RVDocSum> 

	
 

	Englot DJ, Mishra AM, Mansuripur PK, Herman P, Hyder F,
Blumenfeld H.
J Neurosci. 2008 Sep 3;28(36):9066-81.
PMID: 18768701 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Related Articles
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=link&linkname=pu
bmed_pubmed&uid=18768701&ordinalpos=2:> 

	

 

3: 

	Consciousness and epilepsy: why are patients with absence
seizures absent?
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16186030?ordinalpos=3&itool=Email.Em
ailReport.Pubmed_ReportSelector.Pubmed_RVDocSum> 

	
 

	Blumenfeld H.
Prog Brain Res. 2005;150:271-86. Review.
PMID: 16186030 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

	

 

Jean Gotman

 

 

Jean Gotman, PhD
Professor
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
Tel: 514 398 1953
Fax:: 514 398 8106
Assistant: Toula Papadopoulos    514 398 1952
toula.papadopoulos at mcgill.ca <mailto:toula.papadopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

www.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/
<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/>