Brian Litt is a Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Bioengineering at the

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and

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. He is the former director of the Penn Epilepsy Center, and is director of the Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics. He earned an A.B.(1982) in engineering and applied science from

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and an M.D. degree (1986) from

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His residency in neurology was at

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from 1988–1991. Litt's research team focuses on epilepsy but also conducts research in functional neurosurgery, network and computational neuroscience, movement disorders, intra-operative and ICU monitoring, machine learning, high-speed data, and other related areas. He holds several patents and has co-founded medical device companies.

Most cited papers

*Kim DH, Viventi J, Amsden JJ, Xiao J, Vigeland L, Kim YS, Blanco JA, Panilaitis B, Frechette ES, Contreras D, Kaplan DL. tc/Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics. Nature materials. 2010 Jun;9(6):511-7. According to

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, it has been cited 1364 times.
Google Scholar Author page, Accessed April 15 2021 * Viventi J, Kim DH, Vigeland L, Frechette ES, Blanco JA, Kim YS, Avrin AE, Tiruvadi VR, Hwang SW, Vanleer AC, Wulsin DF. tcFlexible, foldable, actively multiplexed, high-density electrode array for mapping brain activity in vivo. Nature neuroscience. 2011 Dec;14(12):1599. According to

, it has been cited 935 times. *Litt B, Echauz J. Prediction of epileptic seizures. The Lancet Neurology. 2002 May 1;1(1):22-30. According to

, it has been cited 474 times. *Kerrigan JF, Litt B, Fisher RS, Cranstoun S, French JA, Blum DE, Dichter M, Shetter A, Baltuch G, Jaggi J, Krone S. Electrical stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus for the treatment of intractable epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2004 Apr;45(4):346-54. . According to

, it has been cited 433 times.

Awards and recognition

* 2020:

NIH Director's Pioneer Award National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award is a research initiative first announced in 2004 designed to support individual scientists' biomedical research. The focus is specifically on "pioneering" research that is highly innovative ...

*2015:

American Epilepsy Society The American Epilepsy Society (AES) is a nationwide 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for medical professionals and scientific investigators dedicated to finding the prevention, treatment, and cure of epilepsy. History ...

's Research Recognition Award for Clinical Science *2013: Brain Research Foundation's Scientific Innovations Award

References

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania faculty Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni Harvard College alumni 1960 births Living people {{academic-stub American medical academics American medical researchers Epileptologists American bioengineers