James L. Burchfiel, Ph.D. is Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester, New York. Director of the Strong Epilepsy Center 2000-2006 and Co-Director 1989-2000. His clinical interest is in the neurophysiology of epilepsy and other neurological disorders. His research interest is in the dev...
James L. Burchfiel, Ph.D. is Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester, New York. Director of the Strong Epilepsy Center 2000-2006 and Co-Director 1989-2000. His clinical interest is in the neurophysiology of epilepsy and other neurological disorders. His research interest is in the development of epilepsy in neonatal animal models.
Dr. Burchfiel received both his undergraduate (with honors) and graduate education at Stanford University. After serving for 2 years as a Captain in the US Army, working in the research laboratories of Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, he joined the faculty of the Seizure Unit, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital, Boston and the Harvard Medical School. There, he completed fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology and served as an attending clinical neurophysiologist. In addition, he conducted independent NIH-sponsored basic research in epilepsy.
In 1989, Dr. Burchfiel, with his long-time colleague Dr. Giuseppe Erba, moved to the University of Rochester to found the Strong Epilepsy Center. Dr. Burchfiel served as Co-Director with Dr. Erba until 2000 and was Director from 2000 to 2006.
Dr. Burchfiel has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and reviews and continues to have an active interest in both basic and clinical research in epilepsy. Most recently, he has been working with basic researchers in the Department of Developmental Epileptology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
He is an active member of the Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers, the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the American Epilepsy Society and has held offices and served on committees and boards for these organizations. In addition, he is a past member of an NIH grant review study section.
Faculty Appointments
Professor Emeritus
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Department of Neurology, Epilepsy (SMD)
Credentials
Education
PhD | Stanford University.Pharmacology.1969
BS | Stanford University.Chemistry.1963
Awards
Practice of Clinical Neurophysiology Committee.1996
Investigators' Workshop Committee.1994 - 1997
Medical Instrumentation Committee.1993 - 1995
Consultant, NINDS Neurological Disorders Program Project Review A Committee,.1991
Childhood Epilepsy Committee.1990 - 1992
Chair, Long-Range Planning Committee.1990 - 1993
President, Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers.1988 - 1989
President-Elect, Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers.1986 - 1987
Chartered Member, Neurology A Study Section.1986 - 1990
Program Committee.1985 - 1986
Program Committee, Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers.1985 - 1990
Special Reviewer, Neurological Sciences Study Section.1983
Special Research Program Review Committee.1983
Secretary/Treasurer.1983 - 1986
Committee on Technical Matters, Long-term Monitoring.1983 - 1990
Member, Site Visit Committee.1982
Junior to Senior Councilor.1982 - 1983
Member, Special Site Visit Study Section.1981
Member, Special Study Section.1981
Member, Special Study Section.1980
Special Reviewer, Neurological Sciences Study Section.1979
Vondrakova K, Novotny P, Kubova H, Posusta A, Boron J, Faberova V, Fabene PF, Burchfiel J, Tsenov G
Experimental neurology.. 2020 June 328 :113255. Epub 02/19/2020.
Electrographic seizures induced by activation of ETA and ETB receptors following intrahippocampal infusion of endothelin-1 in immature rats occur by different mechanisms.
Selioutski O, Seltzer LE, Burchfiel J, Paciorkowski AR, Erba G
Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society.. 2015 August 32 (4):e23-9. Epub 1900 01 01.
Extraction of clinical information from electroencephalographic background activity - the combined use of brain electrical activity mapping and intravenous sodium thiopental.
Brain research.. 1981 February 16206 (2):479-84. Epub 1900 01 01.
Comparison of the effects of dark rearing and binocular suture on development and plasticity of cat visual corted.
Mower GD, Berry D, Burchfiel JL, Duffy FH.
Brain Res. 1981; 220: 225-267.
Kindling in the rat hippocampus: studies of neurotransmitter mechanisms and transfer mechanisms.
Burchfiel JL.
In: Wada JA, ed. Kindling 2. 1981; : 295-302.
The effects of dark-rearing on the development and plasticity of the lateral geniculate nucleus.
Mower GD, Burchfiel JL, Duffy FH.
Developmental Brain Res. 1981; 1: 418-424.
The combined discriminating power of quantitative electroencephalography and neuropsychologic measures in evaluating CNS effects of lead at low dose.In: Needleman HH, ed. Low Level Lead Exposure: The Clinical Implications of Curremt Research
Burchfiel JL, Duffy FH, Bartels PH, Needleman HH.
New York: Raven Press. 1980; : 75-89.
Long-term effects of the organophosphate sarin on EEGs in monkeys and human.
