Movement Disorders

BIOGRAPHY

Institution: Human Motor Control Section, NINDS

Academic positions:
- Chief of the Medical Neurology Branch
- Chief of its Human Motor Control Section

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr Hallett's research activities focus on the physiology of human voluntary movement and its pathophysiology in disordered voluntary movement and involuntary movement.

The general mission of the Human Motor Control Section is to understand the physiology of normal human voluntary movement and the pathophysiology of different movement disorders. The members of the Section work together on the different projects, each bringing special expertise to the tasks. The main techniques employed are transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electroencephalography (EEG), neuroimaging with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and other techniques of clinical neurophysiology. The principal diseases studied are dystonia, Parkinson's disease, cerebellar ataxia, myoclonus, essential tremor, tic, psychogenic movement disorders and startle disorders.

Any other information:
- Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Associate Editor of Brain.
- Past President of the Movement Disorder Society
- Past Vice-President of the American Academy of Neurology.
- In 2005, Awarded the Movement Disorder Research Award of the American Academy of Neurology

Mark Hallett was previously a Faculty Member for Motor Systems in the Neuroscience Faculty. His evaluations during that time can be viewed here.