Visitors

1.Dr. Shashank Chaturvedi, Director, Institute of Plasma Research, Gujrat delivered a lecture on the topic " Technologies developed at Institute of Plasma Research relevant to Biological/Medical application. - 07-01-2017.

2. Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India & Chairman SAC-C visited the lab. - 21.09.2016.

3. Prof. Samden Lhatoo Professor, Neurology, Epilepsy Centre, UH Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA delivered a lecture on SUDEP in Epilepsy - 09.07.2016

4. Prof. P N Tandon visited and inspected the lab after shifting of lab at 7th Floor, Convergence Block.

5. World renowned expert in electrical source imaging,Dr. Goran Lantz from Geneva, Switzerland presented a talk on high density EEG source imaging in clinical and research investigations. Some possible new applications of high density EEG, such as transcranial electrical neuromodulation, were also presented.

6. Prof Arthur Cukiert, Director, Clinica de Epilepsia de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Affiliated Professor of Neurosurgery, ABC Faculty of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil delivered a lacture on the topic Lessons learnt from over 1500 cases of epilepsy surgery. - 02.09.2015

7. Dr. Jayant N. Acharya, MD, DM, FANA, Professor of Neurology, Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy CenterDirector, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Co-Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Lab, Penn State University, Hershey Medical Center gave a talk on SEEG (Stereo EEG) and neurostimulation – 26.06.2015.

8. Dr. Vinita Acharya, MD, DM, FANA, Professor of Neurology, gave a talk Clinical Significance of Epileptic Auras – 26.06.2015.

9. Dr. Prasanna Jayakar, M.B.B.S, M.D, Ph.D, is the founding Chairman of the Brain Institute, Miami Children's Hospital and the Director of its Neuroscience Center gave a talk on Epilepsy – 23.01.2015.

10. Dr. Raman Sankar, a distinguished Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles visited Centre of Excellence for Epilepsy on 29.10.2014. He discussed about the mechanisms of seizure-induced injury and epileptogenicity in the developing brain and also about his recent work with Dr. Mazarati demonstrating connections between the epileptic state, physiologic stress, inflammation and how these factors modify the serotonergic tone in the brain stem-hippocampal pathways.

11. Visit by Prof. Srinivas Sridhar, CAS Professor of Physics, Director, NSF Nanomedicine Sciences and Technology Center, Director, Electronic Materials Research Institute and Lecturer on Radiation Oncology Harvard Medical School at Centre of Excellence for Epilepsy on 27.12.2013. He Presented the talk on new modalities of electrophysiology recordings. He mentioned about Electrical Field Encephalography (EFEG) as a new and more sensitive technique for localizing epileptogenic leisons.

12. Visit by Prof. Harry T Chughani, Chief, Pediatric Neurology & Developmental Pediatrics, Director, P.E.T. , Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology & Radiology. He presented the talk on PET imaging in brain development and epilepsy.

13. Prof. P N Tandon, President, National Brain Research Centre visited the Centre of Excellence for Epilepsy on 18/02/2014. He has discussed the ongoing research at COE especially about the Cellular Electrophysiology facility. A brief presentation was made to highlight the preliminary data which Prof. Tandon has suggested to be further investigated.