William D Gaillard
Neurologist (Pediatric) | Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
3800 Reservoir Rd Nw Washington DC, 20007About
William Davis Gaillard, MD, an internationally recognized expert in pediatric epilepsy and imaging, is Chief of the Division of Epilepsy and Neurophysiology at Children's National. He also is the dire ...
Education and Training
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1985
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- 1990
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Association between hippocampal volume and epilepsy duration.
- Brain chirps: spectrographic signatures of epileptic seizures.
- Structural and functional imaging in children with partial epilepsy.
- Cortical function in epilepsy.
- The use of fMRI in neocortical epilepsy.
- Positron emission tomography in neocortical epilepsies.
- Developmental aspects of pediatric fMRI: considerations for image acquisition, analysis, and interpretation.
- Hippocampal volume and glucose metabolism in temporal lobe epileptic foci.
- Conjoint and extended neural networks for the computation of speech codes: the neural basis of selective impairment in reading words and pseudowords.
- The utility of functional magnetic resonance imaging in epilepsy and language.
- A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of left hemisphere language dominance in children.
- Neuroimaging and the progression of epilepsy.
- Practice parameter: treatment of the child with a first unprovoked seizure: Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.
- Total cerebral volume is reduced in patients with localization-related epilepsy and a history of complex febrile seizures.
- Organization of language networks in children: functional magnetic resonance imaging studies.
Professional Memberships
- Member Center for Neuroscience Research
Fellowships
- neurology, johns hopkins, baltimore, md USA 1990
- Clinical Neurophysiology, NIH, Bethesda, MD USA 1993
- National Institutes of Health
- Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology & Neuroimaging, Clinical Epilepsy Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders at the National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC 1990
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