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Dr. Seyal is Director of the EEG laboratory and Director of the UC Davis Comprehensive Epilepsy Program that is designated as Level 4 Center (the highest level) by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. Dr. Seyal’s current research interest is in defining the mechanisms underlying sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). In the recent past he has explored aspects of human cortical physiology using transcranial magnetic pulse stimulation.

He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and provides editorial review for Clinical Neurophysiology, The Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsia and Muscle and Nerve.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

1965 - 1970 University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan M.B., B.S. (1970)

1971 - 1972 Monmouth Medical Center, New Jersey Internship

1972 - 1976 University of California, Berkeley, California Ph.D. (Physiology)

1976 - 1979 University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas Residency, Neurology

1979 - 1980 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Clinical Associate

1980 - 1982 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Fellow in Clinical

Columbia University, New York, New York Neurophysiology

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

1982- 1989 University of California, Davis, California Assistant Professor

Department of Neurology

1989 - 1997 University of California, Davis, California Associate Professor

Department of Neurology

1997 - Present University of California, Davis, California Professor

Department of Neurology

CERTIFICATION

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology)

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

(Added Qualifications in Clinical Neurophysiology)

American Board of Qualification in Electroencephalography

American Board of Sleep Medicine

MEMBERSHIPS:

American Academy of Neurology, Elected Fellow, 1986

Elected Fellow of American EEG Society, 1986

The American Neurological Association, 1991

American Sleep Disorders Association, 1992

American Epilepsy Society

OTHER APPOINTMENTS:

1. Director, UC Davis Comprehensive Epilepsy Program

2. Established a new Sleep Disorders Center at UC Davis Medical Center. The Center was accredited in 1994.

3. Director, Neurology Residency Training Program, UCDMC 1991-1996.

4. Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Training Program, UCDMC 1993-2010

5. Director, Sleep Disorders Center, UCDMC 1994 - 2009

AD HOC REVIEWER

Muscle and Nerve

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Epilepsia

MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

33. 2001. Mull, B. and Seyal, M. Transcranial magnetic pulse stimulation of the left prefrontal cortex impairs

working memory. Clinical Neurophysiology. 112 (2001) 1672-1675.

34. 2002. Seyal, M. and Mull, B. Mechanisms of signal change during intraoperative somatosensory evoked

potential monitoring. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 19 (2002) 409-415.

35. 2005. Farias, S. Harrington, G., Broomand, C., and Seyal. M. Differences in fMRI activation patterns associated with confrontation naming and responsive naming. AJNR 26 (2005):2492-2499

2005. Seyal, M., Shatzel A., and Pirio Richardson S. Crossed inhibition of sensory cortex by 0.3 Hz transcranial magnetic stimulation of motor cortex. J. Clin. Neurophysiology 22 (2005): 418-421

2006. Hardin, K., Seyal, M., Stewart, T., and Bonekat H. Sleep in critically-Ill chemically paralyzed patients on mechanical ventilation. Chest 129(6) 2006 : 1468-1477

2007. Kile SJ, Kim J. and Seyal, M. Complex partial status epilepticus in a patient with Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis associated with lung carcinoma. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 38 (2007):172-174

2008. Bateman LM, Li C-S and Seyal, M. Ictal hypoxemia in localization-related epilepsy: Analysis of incidence, severity and risk factors. Brain, 131. 2008: 3239-3245

2009. Seminario N.A., Farias T.S., Jorgensen J., Bourgeois J.A, Seyal. M. Prevalence of Depression in an Epilepsy Clinic Using a Brief DSM-IV Based Self Report Questionnaire. Epilepsy and Behavior. Epilepsy Behav. 2009 15(3):362-6

2009. Seyal M and Bateman LM. Ictal Apnea Linked to Contralateral Spread of Temporal Lobe Seizures: Intracranial EEG Recordings in Refractory Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Epilepsia. Epilepsia. 2009Dec;50(12):2557-62
2010. Bateman L.M., Spitz M., and Seyal M. Ictal hypoventilation contributes to cardiac arrhythmia and SUDEP: Report on two deaths in video-EEG monitored patients. Epilepsia. Epub ahead of Print. 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02513.