Human Motor Control Section - Division of Intramural Research
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Mark Hallett M.D., Senior Investigator
Dr. Hallett obtained his A.B. and M.D. at Harvard University, had his internship in Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and his Neurology training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He had fellowships in neurophysiology at the NIH and in the Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry in London, where he worked with C. David Marsden. Before coming to NIH in 1984, Dr. Hallett was the Chief of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is currently Chief of the Medical Neurology Branch and Chief of its Human Motor Control Section. He is now Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology and Associate Editor of Brain. He has been President of the Movement Disorder Society and Vice-President of the American Academy of Neurology. Among many awards, in 2005 he won the Movement Disorder Research Award of the American Academy of Neurology. His research activities focus on the physiology of human voluntary movement and its pathophysiology in disordered voluntary movement and involuntary movement.
Laboratory Staff
Muslimah Ali, B.A. Special Volunteer - -
Ou Bai, Ph.D. Research Fellow
Sandra Beck, Special Volunteer
Beth Belluscio, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Claudia Bonin, Special Volunteer
Elaine Considine, R.N. Nurse
Celia Gallea, Ph.D. Special Volunteer
Noriaki Hattori, M.D. Special Volunteer
Suk-Yun Kang, Special Volunteer
Barbara Kimber, Patient Coordinator 301-496- 0600
Gottfried Kranz, M.D. Special Volunteer
Peter Lin, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Mikhail Lomarev, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Masao Matsuhashi, M.D. Special Volunteer
Fatah Nahab, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Elizabeth Peckham, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Sarah Pirio Richardson, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Heike Russmann, M.D. Special Volunteer
Ejaz Shamim, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Valerie Voon, M.D. Special Volunteer
Research Interests
The general mission of the Human Motor Control Section is to understand the physiology of normal human voluntary movement and the pathophysiology of different movement disorders. The members of the Section work together on the different projects, each bringing special expertise to the tasks. The main techniques employed are transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electroencephalography (EEG), neuroimaging with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and other techniques of clinical neurophysiology. The principal diseases studied are dystonia, Parkinson's disease, cerebellar ataxia, myoclonus, essential tremor, tic, psychogenic movement disorders and startle disorders. Selected Recent PublicationsFridman EA, Immisch I, Hanakawa T, Bohlhalter S, Waldvogel D, Kansaku K,Wheaton L, Wu T, Hallett M
The role of the dorsal stream for gesture - Neuroimage 29 417-428 2006 Bohlhalter S, Goldfine A, Matteson S, Garraux G, Hanakawa T, Kansaku K, Wurzman R, Hallett M
Neural correlates of tic generation in Tourette syndrome: an event-related functional MRI study - Brain Aug;129(Pt 8) 2029-37 2006 Lomarev MP, Kanchana S, Bara-Jimenez W, Iyer M, Wassermann EM, Hallett M.
Placebo-controlled study of rTMS for the treatment of Parkinson's disease - Mov 21 325-331 2006 Wu, T, Hallett, M
A functional MRI study of automatic movements in patients with Parkinson's disease - Brain 2005 Garraux G, McKinney C, Wu T, Kansaku K, Nolte G, Hallett M
Shared brain areas but not functional connections controlling movement timing and order - Journal of Neuroscience 25 5290-7 2005 Voller B, St Clair Gibson A, Lomarev M, Kanchana S, Dambrosia J, Dang N, Hallett M
Long-latency afferent inhibition during selective finger movement - Journal of Neurophysiology 2005
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Human Motor Control Section Medical Neurology Branch, NINDS NIH, Building 10, Room 5N226 10 Center Drive, MSC 1428 Bethesda MD 20892-1428
Telephone: 301-496- 9526 (office), 301- 496-9526 (laboratory), 301-480- 2286 (fax), Email: hallettm@ninds.nih.gov
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Mark Hallett M.D., Senior Investigator
Dr. Hallett obtained his A.B. and M.D. at Harvard University, had his internship in Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and his Neurology training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He had fellowships in neurophysiology at the NIH and in the Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry in London, where he worked with C. David Marsden. Before coming to NIH in 1984, Dr. Hallett was the Chief of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is currently Chief of the Medical Neurology Branch and Chief of its Human Motor Control Section. He is now Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology and Associate Editor of Brain. He has been President of the Movement Disorder Society and Vice-President of the American Academy of Neurology. Among many awards, in 2005 he won the Movement Disorder Research Award of the American Academy of Neurology. His research activities focus on the physiology of human voluntary movement and its pathophysiology in disordered voluntary movement and involuntary movement.
Laboratory Staff
Muslimah Ali, B.A. Special Volunteer - -
Ou Bai, Ph.D. Research Fellow
Sandra Beck, Special Volunteer
Beth Belluscio, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Claudia Bonin, Special Volunteer
Elaine Considine, R.N. Nurse
Celia Gallea, Ph.D. Special Volunteer
Noriaki Hattori, M.D. Special Volunteer
Suk-Yun Kang, Special Volunteer
Barbara Kimber, Patient Coordinator 301-496- 0600
Gottfried Kranz, M.D. Special Volunteer
Peter Lin, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Mikhail Lomarev, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Masao Matsuhashi, M.D. Special Volunteer
Fatah Nahab, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Elizabeth Peckham, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Sarah Pirio Richardson, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Heike Russmann, M.D. Special Volunteer
Ejaz Shamim, M.D. Clinical Fellow
Valerie Voon, M.D. Special Volunteer
Research Interests
The general mission of the Human Motor Control Section is to understand the physiology of normal human voluntary movement and the pathophysiology of different movement disorders. The members of the Section work together on the different projects, each bringing special expertise to the tasks. The main techniques employed are transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electroencephalography (EEG), neuroimaging with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and other techniques of clinical neurophysiology. The principal diseases studied are dystonia, Parkinson's disease, cerebellar ataxia, myoclonus, essential tremor, tic, psychogenic movement disorders and startle disorders. Selected Recent PublicationsFridman EA, Immisch I, Hanakawa T, Bohlhalter S, Waldvogel D, Kansaku K,Wheaton L, Wu T, Hallett M
The role of the dorsal stream for gesture - Neuroimage 29 417-428 2006 Bohlhalter S, Goldfine A, Matteson S, Garraux G, Hanakawa T, Kansaku K, Wurzman R, Hallett M
Neural correlates of tic generation in Tourette syndrome: an event-related functional MRI study - Brain Aug;129(Pt 8) 2029-37 2006 Lomarev MP, Kanchana S, Bara-Jimenez W, Iyer M, Wassermann EM, Hallett M.
Placebo-controlled study of rTMS for the treatment of Parkinson's disease - Mov 21 325-331 2006 Wu, T, Hallett, M
A functional MRI study of automatic movements in patients with Parkinson's disease - Brain 2005 Garraux G, McKinney C, Wu T, Kansaku K, Nolte G, Hallett M
Shared brain areas but not functional connections controlling movement timing and order - Journal of Neuroscience 25 5290-7 2005 Voller B, St Clair Gibson A, Lomarev M, Kanchana S, Dambrosia J, Dang N, Hallett M
Long-latency afferent inhibition during selective finger movement - Journal of Neurophysiology 2005
Contact Information
Human Motor Control Section Medical Neurology Branch, NINDS NIH, Building 10, Room 5N226 10 Center Drive, MSC 1428 Bethesda MD 20892-1428
Telephone: 301-496- 9526 (office), 301- 496-9526 (laboratory), 301-480- 2286 (fax), Email: hallettm@ninds.nih.gov