Position Title
Professor
Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery
- Department of Neurological Surgery
- Department of Neurology
- Center for Neuroscience
Dr. Shahlaie is a clinician-scientist with extensive experience in both pre-clinical and clinical research. Dr. Shahlaie directs the Bronte Research Laboratory at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, where his team is developing new neuromodulation techniques to improve learning and memory function in a variety of neurological disorders.
Dr. Shahlaie also directs multiple clinical studies at the UC Davis Medical Center, including drug trials for management of traumatic brain injury and brain and nerve stimulation trials to improve cognition in patients with epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. Dr. Shahlaie and his research team have published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and 18 book chapters, and his work has been presented at numerous national and international scientific and clinical conferences.
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Many patients with movement disorders like Parkinson's disease, Essential Tremor or Dystonia may reach a point where medication alone does not provide adequate treatment. UC Davis Health neurological disorder experts are using a state-of-the-art procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation to radically improve their patients' quality of life.
- MD
- PhD
- FAANS