Dr. Sameer Sheth is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Vice-Chair of Clinical Research at Baylor College of Medicine. He specializes in the treatment of patients with Movement Disorders, Epilepsy, Brain Tumors, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Hydrocephalus, and certain Psychiatric Disorders. He utilizes a variety of techniques, including stereotactic neurosurgery, deep brain stimulation, ablative techniques, awake brain mapping, electrode recordings, computer-guided navigation, and microsurgery. His research interests are centered on a desire to better understand brain function. Dr. Sheth’s research focuses on the study of human decision-making and cognition, as well as on the development of novel therapies for neuropsychiatric disorders. His lab uses a two-fold approach that includes work with neurosurgical patients and development of neuromodulatory treatments for refractory neurological and psychiatric disorders. In recent work, his group analyzed single neurons and local field potentials in human neurosurgical patients, finding that coordination of these neural responses in prefrontal cortex was linked to behavioral adjudication between conflicting strategies or courses of action.
After receiving his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, Dr. Sheth completed his M.D. and Ph.D. at University of California Los Angeles. He then returned to Boston for residency in neurological surgery and fellowship in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery, both at Massachusetts General Hospital.