I was appointed Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience in 1985. Soon thereafter, I applied for and received an equipment grant for a computer-controlled image analysis system. I was interested in basal ganglia neuroanatomy as it related to disorders of the motor system, such as Parkinsons disease and dystonia. The image analysis system greatly improved our ability to define functional units in the basal ganglia. 
My interest in metabolic mapping of the basal ganglia extends to questions related to epilepsy, and a possible modulatory role of the basal ganglia in epilepsy. For these studies I have collaborated with Solomon Moshe, M.D., a pediatric neurologist and Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. 
For a year I attended the Movement Disorders Clinic with Dr. David Kaufman at Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Kaufman is an excellent teacher and I saw a wide range of movement disorder cases with him. 
In 1995, I received an appointment to Professor in Neurology and Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I continue to work on the anatomy and function of the basal ganglia. 
An overall research goal is to develop a diagnostic probe for PET metabolic mapping in human neurologic disorders, especially movement disorders and epilepsy. A current clinical/basic neuroscience project uses metabolic PET scans and corticostriate anatomic principles to improve surgical outcome for intractable epilepsy

Currently, I am working on my NIH grant: Functional Neuroanatomy of Movement Disorders

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