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Faculty Detail     Name ERWIN BERT MONTGOMERY   Campus Address SC 350 Zip 0021 Phone 205-934-0683 E-mail emontgom@uab.edu Other websites

Faculty Appointment(s) Appointment Type Department Division Rank Primary  Neurology   Neurology Chair Office Professor Secondary  Pediatrics   Ped - Neurology Professor Center  General Clinical Research Center  Comprehensive Neuroscience Center Professor Center  Cell, Developmntl, & Integrative Biology  Ctr for Exercise Medicine Professor

Biographical Sketch  State University of New York Buffalo, New York 1968 1972 B.S. in Biochemistry. State University of New York School of Medicine Buffalo, New York 1972 1976 M.D. Fellow, Laboratory of Neurophysiology State University of New York at Buffalo Dr. Gary Allen, supervisor Sir John Eccles, Director 1975-1976 Intern in Internal Medicine Barnes Hospital Washington University St. Louis, Missouri 1976 1977 Resident in Neurology Barnes Hospital Washington University St. Louis, Missouri 1977 1980. Fellow in Motor Neurophysiology and Movement Disorders under Dr. William Landau Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, (Neurology) Washington University July, 1980 June, 1982 Graduate Student - Department of Philosophy Washington University, St. Louis July 1980 to June 1990 Executive Program in Practice Management Cleveland Clinic Foundation September 2001 to March 2002 Dr. Sigmund Rosen Scholar in Neurology University of Alabama at Birmingham

Society Memberships Organization Name Position Held Org Link American Academy of Neurology      American Neurological Association      Society for Neuroscience

Research/Clinical Interest Title Physiology and Pathophysiology of the basal ganglia-thalamic-cortical system Description The laboratory is interested the neural mechanisms within the basal ganglia-thalamic-cortical system underlying normal movement and in abnormalities induced by movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease. In addition, we are interested in the therapeutic mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation as a probe to understanding brain functions. Techniques include microelectrode recordings from the brains of patients undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation surgery, EEG, EMG, and behavioral effects of different types of stimulation, and computational modeling and simulations.

Selected Publications  Publication PUBMEDID 1. Takeshita D, Gale JT, Montgomery, EB Jr., Bahar S, Moss F Analyzing spike trains with circular statistics American Journal of Physics. 77(5) 424-429 2. Montgomery, Jr., EB. Theorizing about the role of the basal ganglia in speech and language: the epidemic of miss-reasoning and an alternative. Communicative Disorders Review, 2008;2:1-15. 3. Montgomery, Jr. EB. Point of View: Basal Ganglia Physiology and Pathophysiology: A Reappraisal. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 2007;13:455-465 4. Montgomery, Jr. EB. Subthalamic Nucleus Neuronal Activity in Parkinson’s Disease and Epilepsy Subjects. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 2008;14:120–125, doi:10.1016/j.parkreldi.2007.06.014 5. Montgomery, Jr. EB, Gale, JT. Mechanisms of Action of Deep Brain Stimulation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2008;32:388–407. 6. Montgomery EB Jr. Deep Brain Stimulation and Speech: A New Model of Speech Function and Dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology 2007;15:ix-xxv. 7. Montgomery EB Jr., Turkstra LS. Judgment in Evidence Based Practice. Perspectives on Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia) 2006;15:11-15. 8. Montgomery EB Jr. Effects of Globus Pallidus Interna Stimulation on Human Thalamic Neuronal Activity. Clinical Neurophysiology 2006:117;2691-2702. 9. Gallagher CL, Garell PC and Montgomery Jr EB, Hemi tics and deep brain stimulation Neurology 2006;66:12 10. Watson PJ, Montgomery EB Jr. The relationship of neuronal activity within the sensori-motor region of the subthalamic nucleus to speech. Brain and Language 2006;97:233–240 11. Kuncell, Alexis M., Cooper, Scott E., Wolgamuth, Barbara R., Clyde Merlise A., Montgomery Jr., Erwin B., Rezai, Ali R., Grill Warren M. Clinical response to varying the stimulus parameters in deep brain stimulation for essential tremor. Movement Disorders Clinical 2006;21:1920-8 12. Montgomery EB Jr, Effect of subthalamic nucleus stimulation patterns on motor performance in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 2005;11:167-171 13. Grill WM, Simmons AM, Cooper SE, Miocinovic S, Montgomery EB, Baker KB, Rezai AR. Temporal excitation properties of paresthesias evoked by thalamic microstimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology 2005;116:1227-34. 14. Montgomery Jr. EB, Huang H, Assadi A. Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm for N-dimensional Data Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2005;144:19-24. 15. Montgomery Jr. EB, Gale J, Huang H. Methods for Isolating Extracellular Action Potentials and Removing Stimulus Artifacts from Microelectrode Recordings of Neurons Requiring Minimal Operator Intervention. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2005;144: 107-125. 16. Montgomery Jr. EB, Rehabilitative Approaches in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2004;10:S43-S47. 17. Montgomery Jr. EB, Deep brain stimulation for hyperkinetic disorders. Neurosurgical Focus. 2004;17(1):E1. 18. Montgomery Jr. EB, Dynamically Coupled, High-Frequency Reentrant, Non-linear Oscillators Embedded in Scale-Free Basal Ganglia-Thalamic-Cortical Networks Mediating Function and Deep Brain Stimulation Effects. Nonlinear Studies 2004;11:385-421.

Keywords basal ganglia, deep brain stimulation, neurophysiology, pathophysiology

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