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NEUROPHYSIOLOGY UNIT

Dr. Rajesh Valmiki, Associate Professor, Acting Head

Dr. R.V. Rajesh joined the Department of Neurological Sciences in 2013 as faculty after completing PhD program at School of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. He did his first postdoctoral research at National Institute of Animal Science, South Korea and second at Baylor College of Medicine, USA in the field of Cancer Biology. Currently he is involved in both basic and clinical research and his areas of interest includes, understanding the molecular mechanisms in memory and long term potentiation, genetic markers for drug resistant epilepsy, neuronal networking in hippocampus during seizures and microarray studies in intractable temporal lobe epilepsy.

Dr. Sajo Thomas, Assistant Professor

Dr. Sajo Thomas completed his M.D. (Physiology) from CMC, Vellore and joined the Neurophysiology Unit in Dec’2020. My areas of interest include, Neuroelectrophysiology, Intraoperative monitoring, and neural signal processing.