Thoru Yamada, MD
Professor
Electroencephalography/Evoked Potential (EEG) Laboratory
Sleep Disorders Center
Iowa Comprehensive Epilepsy Program (ICEP)
Address
Office location: 0181 Carver Pavilion
Phone: 319-356-8770
Fax: (319)
E-mail: thoru-yamada@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
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
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Sleep Disorders Medicine
- Epilepsy
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.