Alvaro Pascual-Leone

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Alvaro Pascual-Leone (born 7 August 1961 in Valencia, Spain) is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, with which he has been affiliated since 1997. He is the Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and Program Director of the General Clinical Research Center of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Dr. Pascual-Leone obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology from the Faculty of Medicine of Albert Ludwigs University in Germany. He also trained at the University of Minnesota and the US National Institutes of Health.

In 2000, he won the Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award.

Pascual-Leone lives in Wayland, Massachusetts with his wife Elizabeth and their three children.

[edit] External links

• Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation
• Minds and Magnets: An experimental treatment offers promise for some patients whose depression resists standard medications and shock therapy., Newsweek, December 11, 2006 - features Dr. Pascual-Leone and transcranial magnetic stimulation