Journal of Neurological Research And Therapy

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Neurological Research And Therapy-epilepsy-Gaetano Zaccara

Italy

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Gaetano Zaccara

Address:

Neurology,
Hospital S. Giovanni di Dio, 50100 Florence, Italy.

Research Interests:

epilepsy
antiepileptic drugs

Biography:

Dr. Gaetano Zaccara was born in Ancona, Italy on July 13th 1948.
Graduated in Medicine at the University of Florence on march 6th 1973, he specialized in Psychiatry in 1977 and Neurology in 1982.
In 1975 and 1976 he attended the clinical pharmacology unit at the Research Institute “M. Negri, in Milan.
In 1988 he attended the laboratories of neurophysiology at the John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
From September 1980 he was an assistant of Neurology at the Department of Neurological Sciences of the University of Florence
Since September 1992 he has been head of the Neurology Unit at S.M. Nuova hospital, Florence and since june 2010 head of Neurology Unit at S Giovanni di Dio Hospital.
Teacher at the University of Florence for specialization programs of Psychiatry and Neurology, as well as author of about 150 publications.
Main areas of interest are epilepsy and clinical pharmacology of antiepileptic drugs
Dr Zaccara has performed several studies on new antiepileptic drugs.
In the last five years he has been involved as principal investigator in four double-blind studies with the new drugs.
One study with retigabine, one with levetiracetam and two studies with pregabalin.