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Matthew A. Howard, III - Joined the Department of Neurosurgery in 1993, following his residency and neurosurgical training at the University of Washington, Seattle, and was appointed as the Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Iowa in July, 2001. Doctor Howard holds a joint appointment with the Department of Neurology and specializes in epilepsy surgery. His research interests include studies of hearing impairment, clinical research in epilepsy treatments, clinical models of Alzheimer's disease, magnetic stereotaxis for the treatment of focal neurological disorders, and investigations of the mechanical properties of brain tissue. He is the principal investigator of an NIH-funded research group studying the functional organization of human auditory cortex.
Selected Publications
Gunnett CA, Lund DD, Howard MA, Chu Y, Faraci FM, Heistad DD. Gene transfer of inducible NO-synthase impairs vasorelaxation in human and rabbit cerebral arteries. Stroke 33:2292-2296, 2002.
Oya H, Kawasaki H, Howard MA, Adolphs R. Electrophysiological responses in the human amygdala discriminate emotion categories of complex visual stimuli. J Neuroscience 22:9502-9512, 2002.
Bakken HE, Kawasaki H, Oya H, Greenlee JD, Howard MA . A device for cooling localized regions of human cerebral cortex. J Neurosurg. 99:604-608, 2003.
Brugge J, Volkov I, Reale R, Garrell P, Howard M. Functional connections between auditory cortex on Heschl’s gyrus and on the lateral superior temporal gyrus in humans. J Neurophysiol 90:3750-3763, 2003.
Greenlee J, Hiroyuki O, Kawasaki H, Volkov I, Kaufman O, Kovach, C, Howard M, Brugge J. A functional connection between inferior frontal gyrus and orofacial motor cortex in human. J Neurophysiol (in Press)
Steinschneider M, Volkov IO, Fishman YI, Oya H, Arezzo JC, Howard MA. Intracortical responses in human and monkey primary auditory cortex support, a temporal processing mechanism for encoding of the voice onset time (VOT) phonetic parameter. Cerebral Cortex (in Press)