Michael R. Sperling, MD
Baldwin Keyes Professor, Neurology
Contact
900 Walnut Street
JHN 4th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-955-1222
215-503-4358 fax
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Michael R. Sperling, MD
Baldwin Keyes Professor, Neurology
Research and Clinical Interests
Clinical epilepsy, EEG
The research program in the Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center is multifaceted, reflecting the interests of the ten faculty members in the center. We are investigating various aspects of epilepsy, including novel treatments, autonomic effects of seizures, electrophysiology of seizures, new approaches to neuroimaging, and developing improved methods of prognostication in epilepsy. Pharmacologic studies investigate the metabolic consequences of antiepileptic medication, with specific attention to serologic markers of vascular risk. Neuroimaging studies are exploring connections between different brain areas in epilepsy, cognitive organization, memory, and language function in epilepsy. Electrographic studies of seizures hope to improve methods for mapping seizure spread within the brain with the goal of defining abnormal circuitry in epilepsy. Autonomic studies investigate cardiac rhythm disturbances in epilepsy, with companion epidemiologic studies of mortality in epilepsy. Long-term outcome studies of epilepsy surgery explore the consequences of cortical resection for this condition in medical, cognitive, linguistic, and psychosocial domains.
The techniques used in our research are those used in clinical studies, including MRI, fMRI, EEG, metabolic and pharmacologic measures, and epidemiologic methods.
Publications
- Association of Normative and Non-Normative Brain Networks With Cognitive Function in Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Exome sequencing of 20,979 individuals with epilepsy reveals shared and distinct ultra-rare genetic risk across disorder subtypes
- To plan efficacious epilepsy surgery
- Farewell from the Editor-in-Chief
- An interview with Marwa Elamin, 2024 Epilepsia prize winner for basic science research