Aristea S. Galanopoulou, MD
Dr. Galanopoulou is an Attending Physician at the Clinical Neuroscience Center and EMG lab at Montefiore and an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Galanopoulou received her MD from the National University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, in 1988, and her PhD in Molecular Neuroendocrinology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1995. She trained in Internal Medicine at Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD (1994-95), and Adult Neurology (1995-98) and Clinical Neurophysiology (Epilepsy/EEG, Neuromuscular/EMG, 1998-99) at Einstein.
Dr. Galanopoulou is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1999-2009) with special qualification in Clinical Neurophysiology (2000-2010).
Since 1999, she has been involved in research studying the effects of estrogens on seizure-induced hippocampal injury (funded by the Epilepsy Foundation of America), the sexual dimorphic features of the substantia nigra reticulata neurons involved in seizure control, and the design of gene delivery methods aiming to decrease the susceptibility of the immature brain to generalized seizures.
