Epilepsy & Treatment

Dr. Felix-Martin Werner studied human medicine at the university of Bonn. He has been working as a medical teacher in the formation of geriatric nurses, occupational therapists and assistents of the medical doctor at the Euro Academy in Pößneck since 1999. He has been doing scientific work at the Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla and León (INCYL) in Salamanca (Spain) since 2002. With Prof. Rafael Coveñas, he assisted at over 30 national and 12 international congresses of neurology and published over 40 reviews about neural networks in neurological and psychiatric diseases. Since 2014, Dr. Werner has belonged to the editorial board of the Journal of Cytology & Histology.

Neurology and psychiatry or psycho-and Neuropharmacology.

Raffaele Pilla, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Doctor Europaeus, received his Master’s degree in Pharmacy at G. d’Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy in 2005, where he also served internships at the Cell Physiology Laboratory and Molecular Biology Laboratory. Prior, he was an Erasmus Student at Faculté de Pharmacie de Reims in Reims, France. He received his Doctor Europaeus in 2010 from Pitié-Salpétrière Institute in Paris, France. Also in 2010, he received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Physiology, and Pathology of Muscle at G. d’Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He was hired as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, on two research grants funded by the Office of Naval Research (US Navy) and Divers’ Alert Network. He has written and lectured widely worldwide. He has been involved in ongoing research at the University of South Florida with the use of ketone esters.

Epileptic seizures and Brain cancer, Ketogenic diets, Oxygen toxicity, Physiology, Ketone Esters adopted in the metabolic treatment of epilepsy and cancer, Ketogenic Diet administered in patients affected by epilepsy and cancer.

Natalia Rodríguez Álvarez is the Postdoctoral research Scientist in the department of Physiology and Medical Physics in the Epilepsy Research Group at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Combining the principles of molecular biology and neurobiology, electroencephalography, pharmacology and genetics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level has led to a broad knowledge base in a multidisciplinary field with additional experience in drug discovery and biomarkers.

Epilepsy,Medicine

Joseph I. Sirven, M.D., is a professor of neurology and editor-in-chief of Epilepsy.com. He is currently chair of the AAN Education Meeting Subcommittee and he is on the board of directors for the American Brain Foundation and the editorial board of Neurology Now. Previously, he served as director of education for Mayo Clinic's Arizona campus with oversight over all educational activities at the Arizona campus, including medical student rotations, residencies, fellowships, Ph.D. candidates, nursing, allied health and continuing medical education programs. He was the previous chair of Neurology at Mayo Clinic's campus is Arizona and the previous vice chair of the Epilepsy Section of the American Academy of Neurology, chair of the Communication Council for the American Epilepsy Society and former chair of the Professional Advisory Board for the Epilepsy Foundation.

Epilepsy and seizure treatments in adults and children (particularly older adults) Epilepsy surgery Electroencephalography Investigational anti-epilepsy drugs Status epilepticus Vagal nerve stimulator Ketogenic diet.

Marco Carotenuto graduated from Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. He is Senior Researcher from 2011 to November 2017in Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at the Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitell. In December 2017 he was appointed as the Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at the Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitell. He was awarded with Best scientific contribution oral presentations from X Congress Italian Society of Orthopedics And Medicine, Florence, Best Oral Communication Award from Napule é Congress and he is one of the Honorary member of the New Medical School Salernitana. He had published totally 114 articles in reputed journals.

Epilepsy, Idiopathic generalized epilepsy, Childhood absence epilepsy, EEG, Sleep, Memory and Learning, Electroencephalography, Neurological Diseases, Clinical Neurology, Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology.