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Itzhak Fried, M.D.,
Ph.D., FACS
Consortium Director and
Site Principal Investigator, UCLA
Dr. Fried is Professor of Neurosurgery and
Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los
Angeles. He is Director of the Adult Epilepsy Surgery Program there,
and is also Co-Director of the Seizure Disorder Center. Concurrently, he is
Associate Professor in Neurosurgery at Tel-Aviv University in Israel.
After obtaining a degree in physics at
Tel-Aviv University, Dr. Fried completed his
Ph.D. at UCLA,
and went on to a medical degree at Stanford and neurosurgery training,
specializing in epilepsy surgery, at Yale University. In 2001, Dr.
Fried was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Sciences for his contributions to understanding the physiology of
human cognition through unique studies of single-cell activity during
neurosurgery.
He heads the Cognitive Neurophysiology
Laboratory, which is centered on the opportunities to study the human
brain afforded by the epilepsy surgery program at UCLA. A small number
of these patients have depth electrodes inserted in order to evaluate
their seizures for subsequent surgery. It is this opportunity that is
used to record the responses of single neurons while the patient
performs cognitive tasks. Some aspects of brain function that he and his
collaborators have studied, particularly in the medial temporal lobe,
are visual perception, memory, navigation, imagery, and motor action.
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