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Thoru Yamada, MD

Professor
Electroencephalography/Evoked Potential (EEG) Laboratory
Sleep Disorders Center
Iowa Comprehensive Epilepsy Program (ICEP)

Medical School
Nagoya University, School of Medicine (Nagoya, Japan)

Residency
Residency (Neurology) Kansas City General Hospital
Residency (Neurology) Wayne State University

Fellowship
Fellowship (EEG/Clinical Neurophysiology) University of Michigan

Honors and Awards

Professional Activities/ Editorial Boards

  • Board member, American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Chair, Joint Review Committee on Education in Electrodiagnostic Technology (JRCEND)
  • Editorial Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (formerly "The EEG Journal")
  • Editorial Board of Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Editorial Board of Sleep Medicine

Professional Affiliations

  • American Academy of Neurology
  • American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • American Academy of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • American Sleep Disorders Association
  • Central Association of Electroencephalographers
  • Japan Clinical Neurophysiology Society

Clinical Interests

Research Interests

  • Brain, spinal cord electrical activities and responses
  • Computer application of brain physiology
  • Somatosensory evoked potentials
  • Brain response in sleep
  • Computer application of quantitative EEG

Recent Publications
Yamada T. Neuroanatomic substrates of lower extremity somatosensory evoked potentials. J. Clinical neurophysiology. 17:269-279, 2000.

Yamada T, Dyken MD. Narcolepsy Update. Acta Neurologica Taiwanica 10:233-240, 2001.

Yamada T. Presurgical evaluation for intractable epilepsy patients: non-invasive to invasive studies. Jpn J. Clin Neurophysiol 30:276-282, 2002.

Yamada T. History and perspective of Clinical Neurophysiology for Central Nervous System. Jpn. J. Rehabil. Med. 39:634-641, 2002.

Dyken ME, Yamada T, Berger HA. Transient obstruction sleep apnea and asystole in association with presumed visual encephalopathy. Neurology 60:1692-1694, 2003.

Hada Y, Yamazalki H, Yamada T, Shiga Y. N60, P100 and N140 somatosensory evoked potentials under very weak stimulus intensity. Jpn J. Clin Neurophysiol. 43:377-388, 2003.

Yamada T. Somatosensory Evoked Potentials. In Encyclopedia of the Neurological Science. Aminoff M, Daroff R, (Eds). Vol. 4 pp324-332, Academic Press, San Diego, 2003.

Address
Office location: 0181 Carver Pavilion
Phone: 319-356-8770
Fax: (319)
E-mail: thoru-yamada@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu

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