Hideki Shimazu
Email: hshimazu@mit.edu
Hideki received an MD from Shimane University, Japan in 1992 and a PhD in Neurology/Medical Science from Kyoto University in 2000. Most recently Hideki served as the Director of Clinical Neurology at the Itsuki Hospital in Tokushima, Japan, a lecturer for Tokushima University's Department of Neurology, and a Research Fellow for the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki.
He has studied the physiological interaction between the premotor cortex (area F5) and the primary motor cortex (M1); the treatment, physiological mechanisms and histological changes in various types of dystonia; as well as a physiological study of the changes in somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) that occur in the thalamus.