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Orrin Devinsky

Physician

Orrin Devinsky is professor of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry at NYU Langone School of Medicine. He directs the NYU Epilepsy Center and St. Barnabas Institute of Neurology. His epilepsy research includes phenomic-genomic relations, sudden unexpected death, surgical therapies, new medicines and devices, collaborative translational research, quality-of-life, cognition and behavior, and neuroinflammation. His behavioral neurology research includes hyperfamiliarity, Klein-Levin syndrome, delusions, autonomic nervous function, and anterior cingulate gyrus functions. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed paper and written or edited more than 20 books. He founded Finding A Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures and co-founded epilepsy.com and the Epilepsy Therapy Project. He serves on the boards of these organizations and has served on the board of the American Epilepsy Society and Epilepsy Foundation. Other interests include the history of neuropsychiatry, evolution, anthropology, and animal intelligence.

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