Dr. Debopam Samanta is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UAMS & Arkansas Children’s Hospital and attending child neurologist and pediatric epileptologist/clinical neurophysiologist. He is currently board certified in Pediatrics, Neurology with special qualification in child neurology, and clinical neurophysiology.

Medically intractable epilepsy and Tuberous sclerosis

Dr. Hassaan Tohid MBBS is a public speaker, medical professional, researcher, book editor and a published author. His areas of interest include neurosurgery, spinal surgery, general surgery,human behavior, behavioral neurology, neuropsychiatry, general psychiatry, human psychology, neurology and clinical neurosciences. After graduating from Sindh Medical College, Karachi (Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan) as a medical doctor. He then moved to the US and started his career as a researcher in neurology & psychiatry. He gained experience from the top notch universities of the world the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and still holds a prestigious title of a visiting scholar at the Center of Mind & Brain (UC Davis). He is also involved in various research projects nationally and internationally in the countries like Australia and England. Tohid delivers lectures in Spanish, Urdu, Hindi and English languages

Neuroimaging, fMRI, EEG, denial ( defense mechanism ), epilepsy, psychogenic seizures, neurodegeneration ,mirror neurons, autism and autism spectrum, psychosomatics, psychodermatology telemedicine/tele psychiatry, psychiatrist- patient relationship ,neurosurgery, cultural psychiatry, social psychiatry, different techniques of neuroimaging, nanotechnology and its relevance to neuroimaging, Psychopharmacology, Anti-GAD syndrome and Stiff person syndrome, Schizophrenia, psychosis ,dissociative Identity disorder, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Stroke.

Has Bachelor in Physiotherapy from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He is currently a researcher at the UFBA, conducting research focusing on neurological rehabilitation at the Clinic of Neuroscience (Complex University Hospital Professor Edgard Santos/UFBA). It’s research group member of Division of Neurology and Epidemiology (DINEP/UFBA), directed by Dr. Nildo Ribeiro, as well as a special student of Master of the Graduate Program in Medical and Health (PPGMS/UFBA), and Physiotherapist of Neuro functional Group Care and Research (GNAP).
He was a fellow of the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia (FAPESB) for the project: "Mechanisms of induction of hypertension after exposure to chronic intermittent hypoxia.” Directed by Dr. Ana Quênia Gomes da Silva, in the Neurosciences Laboratory of the Institute of Health Sciences. Has experience in the area of neurological rehabilitation and neurosciences, as well as scientific articles published in the area.

The current focus of scientific research are the main therapeutic strategies related to the rehabilitation of patients with neurological disorders: Stroke
Parkinson's Disease
Multiple sclerosis

Lucio Tremolizzo, MD, PhD, works as clinical neurologist at the San Gerardo Hospital (Monza, Italy) and as assistant professor of neurology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Previous appointments included post-doctoral research assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2001-2003) and he obtained the PGDip in Clinical Neurology at the University College London in 2006. Dr. Tremolizzo wrote more than 100 peer-reviewed papers on topics related to neuropsychiatric disorders and his main clinical focus is related to the intersection between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dementias.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Dementia, Neurobiology and Pharmacology

Mónica Sousa is a Ph.D. student at University of Aveiro (Portugal). Completed the MSc in Clinical Psychology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Has a postgraduate degree in Integrated Dynamic Psychotherapy and Assessment and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Clinic. Member of Group Cognitive Decline of Action Group 3, European Innovation Partnership On Active And Healthy Ageing, EIP-AHA. Coordinator of Psychological Support Program for the elderly people (PAPI). Identified in the Hotspots of Neuroscience Map 2010-2015. He received research grants “Hayashi de Investigação” in 2013. Moreover, she is a member of the editorial boards of several journals.

Aging, subjective memory complain, cognitive decline, Functional impairment, Geriatric assessment and Neuropsychological tests

Dr. Vijay K Sharma is currently working as Associate Professor at YLL School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Senior Consultant, Division of Neurology, National University Hospital, Singapore. He is the current recipient of the prestigious Clinician Scientist Award from National Medical Research Council, Singapore. He has published 220 peer reviewed scientific papers and 19 book chapters. Dr. Sharma is Associate Editor for BMC Neurology and serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals including Stroke, Journal of Stroke, Recent Patents on Medical Imaging, World Journal of Hypertension, American Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, World Journal of Neurology, Neurological Research and Therapy etc.

Assessment of cerebral hemodynamics in patients with cerebrovascular steno-occlusive disease. Advanced applications of transcranial Doppler in cerebrovascular diseases.
Thrombolysis in acute stroke, especially sonothrombolysis.
Blood pressure management in acute ischemic stroke.
Intracranial stenosis
Risk stratification in carotid and intracranial stenosis.

Yoshiaki Kikuchi, D. Med. Sci. & Ph.D. is Professor of Neuroscience, Chairperson of Frontier Health Science, and Professor of Research Center of Language, Brain and Genetics, at Graduate School of Tokyo Metropolitan University. He is recently interested in the neural basis of ‘humanity’, and he has studied its bodily, mental, emotional and interoceptive aspects. His neuroimaging studies of humanity include many fields: Body Instability (PLoS ONE, 2014, etc.), Imitation (Exp Brain Res, 2013, etc.), Mental Rotation (Neuroimage, 2007, etc.), Maternal Love (Biological Psychiatry, 2008; Scientific American, 2008, Le Monde de l’enfance, 2008, TED, 2013etc.), Happiness, Nostalgia (SCAN, 2015), Self-esteem (PLoS ONE , 2012), and so on. Find out more about his study reports at his ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yoshiaki_Kikuchi).

Neuroimaging, Psychiatry, Brain Science, Humanity, Love, Nostalgia, Self-esteem, reward system, resilience, homeostasis, interoception, emotion, Beauty, Brain, etc.

I am a graduating Neurology resident and future Vascular Neurology Fellow at Northwestern University. My research goals include: 1) bridging the divide of acute stroke management and stroke rehabilitation in clinical care and research, 2) developing a research grant in stroke rehabilitation involving multi-disciplinary collaboration with the rehabilitation facility 3) gaining expertise in acute and sub acute stroke care and rehabilitation. My current research includes predictive outcomes of stroke recovery using advanced imaging techniques and using novel devices to improve neurorehabilitation.

My current research includes predictive outcomes of stroke recovery using advanced imaging techniques and using novel devices to improve neurorehabilitation.

- Mario Francesco Fraioli
- Fraioli MF and Fraioli M in www.Pubmed.com
- Born in Rome, 1977
- Graduated in Medicine in 2002 (University of Rome La Sapienza)
- Specialist Neurosurgery: 2007 (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
- 2008 - 2011: Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery University of Rome Tor Vergata
- 2011 - present: Aggregate Professor of Neurosurgery University of Rome Tor Vergata
- 2008 – present: more than 1.500 operations as primary operator
- 75 scientific publications (43 in international periodicals)
- Reviewer for International periodicals
- Twelve communications in international congresses
- Thirty-nine communications in national congresses
- Skills: skull base tumours, transsphenoidal surgery, trigeminal neuralgia, spinal surgery, brain tumours.

Skull base tumours, Transsphenoidal surgery, Trigeminal neuralgia, Spinal surgery, Brain tumours.

Rajkumar Verma is a senior researcher in the Department of Neurosciences at the UCONN Health, Farmington CT since 2003. Prior to joining UCONN he worked as an Assistant professor of Pharmacology in Poona College of pharmacy at Pune, India.
Rajkumar completed his PhD work at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India and earned his doctoral degree in Pharmacy from Birla institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. His research interests involve stroke and drug discovery investigation, ranging from studying ischemic pathology to identification of translationally relevant drug targets using murine models, with a focus on improving quality of life after stroke insult. In recent years, he has focused on several diverse and exciting projects such as "Social isolation and its impact on stroke outcome," "Impact of aging in stroke"and "Role of glutamate transporter proteins in cerebral ischemia".

My research focuses on the investigation of cause-effect-relationships of stroke outcome and social factor. Myparticular interest was to analyze the effects of social isolation and social interaction on poststroke recovery,disease progression, behavior, and how translationally relevant strategies can be developed to reducethese deficits by applying different coping strategies. To date, I have focused on “Social isolation and its impact on stroke outcome,” “Impact of aging in stroke” and “Role of glutamate transporter proteins in cerebral ischemia”. I have recently begun to use more mechanistic and chronic behavior oriented approaches such as exploring the neuro-immune and growth factorscomponent in stroke pathology. In my studies on social isolation, I have validated new parameters to assess the impact of social isolation on stroke outcome and correlated the results with involvement of neuro -immune response and neurotrophins in post stroke recovery. My masters’ thesis was involved in the study of various survival and death biomolecules following cerebral ischemia/ reperfusion injury. Thereafter, I continued my work on this devastating disorder till Doctorate. During my PhD I focused on glutamate transporter-1 (GLT-1) protein as it was one of the most promising drug targets not only for stroke but also for other neurodegenerative disorders like ALS and Huntington’s disease. To explore the role of GLT-1 and to validate this target for therapeutic purpose I used various surgical, biochemical and molecular techniques like Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion, RT-PCR, western blotting, Immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence as well as radiolabeled ligand uptake study. I was also deeply involved in screening of various new chemical entities for their anti-stroke potential and anti-hypertensive activity in SHR rats using carotid artery cannulation technique. My current research focuses primarily on exploring the role of sirtuin3 protein in ischemic injury. I am interested in not only developing methods to measure sirt3 induced deacetylation in vivo model of stroke , but also in examining its interaction with physiologically relevant proteins in stroke. This project is funded by American Heart Association (14POST20380612) and located at the University of Connecticut Health, Farmington CT USA.

Turhan Kahraman is a research assistant in the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation at Dokuz Eylül University. He completed his MSc at the same university with the thesis entitled "Determination of the factors affecting the level of physical activity in the patients with multiple sclerosis". He is still doing his PhD at the same university. His PhD dissertation is about tele-rehabilitation in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Turhan Kahraman’s research interests mainly lie in the area of multiple sclerosis as well as the other neurological diseases. He is a founder and former board member of Multiple Sclerosis Research Association. He is also working in the musculoskeletal and orthopaedics field. He has served on several conferences, courses, and workshops.

Rehabilitation on the patients with neurological diseases (especially with multiple sclerosis) as well as patients with orthopaedic and musculoskeletal problems.

Dr. Vikas Dhikav did his undergraduate medical (MBBS) training from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India and postgraduate training in pharmacology and therapeutics from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (MD), New Delhi India. He also did he Neurology training (PhD) from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), New Delhi, INDIA. His primary research interests are Alzheimer’s disease and yoga and sexuality. He has to his credit 20 International and 50 National papers. He has also authored one dozen books in pharmacology and therapeutics, clinical research, clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, basic and clinical epidemiology. He has been invited as a Visiting Faculty by various Russian, Chinese and Nepalese universities. His name features in World’s leading Whos’ Who and was nominated by British Medical Journal group to promote Academic Medicine in 2004. In 2010, he was nominated as one of the outstanding intellectuals of the 21st contrary by International Biographical Institute, Cambridge, UK.

Yoga and Sexuality, Alzheimer’s disease, Neurology, Pharmacology, Pharmacovigilance

I am fulfilled the requirement of study of the college of medicine ; al-mustansiryia university in The academic year 1995-1996 and I has been awarded on M.B.Ch.B on 28-6-1996 with grading Of good and an average mark of (74.45).The graduation rank was (2) among class (248) of students At first attempt. Then at the same college I have been rewarded the degree of master in clinical pharmacology in current year 2004-2005 with average grade as very good. From 2007-2009 I am become permanent and consultant in the department of clinical neurology, in Al-Yarmook teaching hospital. My thesis in the master was (effects of ß-adrenoceptor blocker on the psychomotor performances).

Clinical Neurology
Psychomotor Performances

It all began with a senior college course in neuropsychopharmacology that ignited a curiosity in neuroscience. After completing a bachelor’s degree in pharmacology and toxicology, Dr. Abdelmalik began to explore his research interests in pharmacology and biochemistry, using in vivo models of seizures such as kindling, maximal electroconvulsive shock and pentylenetetrazole. This progressed naturally to in vitro models where extracellular and intracellular patch clamp recordings were used to characterize seizures in hippocampus and neocortex, noting significant differences in networks between them. He also characterized hypoglycemic seizures in work that was funded by the JDRF.
Through his research work, Dr. Abdelmalik began to have an interest in clinical neurology and went on to complete medical training in neurology, which also sparked an interest in critical care.
Today Dr. Abdelmalik is a fellow in neurocritical care with continued interests in neurophysiology, neurochemistry, seizures, traumatic brain injury and intracranial haemorrhage.

Clinical neurology
Neurocritical care
Neurology
Neurophysiology
Neurochemistry
Seizures
Traumatic brain injury
Intracranial haemorrhage
Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuroscience
Pharmacology and toxicology

I am fulfilled the requirement of study of the college of medicine ; al-mustansiryia university in The academic year 1995-1996 and I has been awarded on M.B.Ch.B on 28-6-1996 with grading Of good and an average mark of (74.45).The graduation rank was (2) among class (248) of students At first attempt. Then at the same college I have been rewarded the degree of master in clinical pharmacology in current year 2004-2005 with average grade as very good. From 2007-2009 I am become permanent and consultant in the department of clinical neurology, in Al-Yarmook teaching hospital. My thesis in the master was (effects of ß-adrenoceptor blocker on the psychomotor performances).

Clinical Neurology
Psychomotor Performances

GyuChang Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at Kyungnam University since 2011. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Therapy from Sahmyook University in 2010. He is currently working to get DPT degree in Doctor Physical Therapy from Wayne State University. He worked as a physical therapist at Kangdong Sacred Hospital, Hallym University Medical Center from 2002 to 2008. He is primarily interested in a variety of pathological movements of patients with neurological or musculoskeletal problems using electromyography techniques and motion analysis systems. In addition, He is interested in developing assistive technology for the disabled and elderly.

Biostatistics
Therapeutic Exercise
Medical terminology
Neurological Physical Therapy
Evidence-Based Physical Therapy
Clinical Neurology
Physiology
He is primarily interested in a variety of pathological movements of patients with neurological or musculoskeletal problems using electromyography techniques and motion analysis systems. In addition, He is interested in developing assistive technology for the disabled and elderly.

Dr. Inada graduated from the Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan, in 1984. After the completion of his internship at the Keio University Hospital (1984-1985), he worked as a clinical psychiatrist at Sakuragaoka Memorial Hospital in Tokyo (1985-1989). From 1989 to 1991, he had been engaged in studying basic neuroscience on central dopaminergic systems as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. After he returned to Japan, he had been working as Associate Director at the National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (1994-2002), as Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Psychobiology, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine (2002-2005), as Professor at the Teikyo University School of Medicine and as Head at the Department of Psychiatry, Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center (2005-2007), as Vice President, Seiwa Hospital, Institute of Neuropsychiatry (2008-2015). He has been working as President, Seiwa Hospital, Institute of Neuropsychiatry, Tokyo, since September 2015. He received the Rafaelsen Fellowship Award from the 19th Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP) meeting in 1994 and the Paul Janssen Research Encouragement Award from the 18th Japanese Society of Clinical Neuropsychopharmacology meeting in 2008. His major research topics include Clinical and Molecular neuropsychopharmacology, especially diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic and molecular genetic studies on neuroleptic induced movement disorders. He has been an opinion leader on these fields. He developed a new rating scale for drug-induced extrapyramidal symptoms scale (DIEPSS) in 1994 when he had been working as visiting scientist at McLean Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, under the supervision of Dr. George Gardos. The DIEPSS is now translated into more than 18 languages and is widely used in the clinical trials of the psychotropic agents in the treatment of psychoses conducted in Asia. Current his academic activity includes: Japanese Society of Psychiatric Rating Scales (President, Representative trustee), Japanese Society of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (Trustee), Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology (Councilor), Japanese Society of Geriatric Psychiatry (Councilor), Japanese Society of Biological Psychiatry (Councilor), Japanese Society of Clinical Neuropsychopharmacology (Councilor), Japanese Society of Schizophrenia (Councilor), Japanese Society of Depression (Councilor).

Major research topics include Clinical and Molecular neuropsychopharmacology, especially diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic and molecular genetic studies on neuroleptic induced movement disorders.