Contact: wfasaad [at] alum [dot] mit [dot] edu

2006-present            Post-Doctoral Fellow, Eskandar Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2004-present            Neurosurgery Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2003-2004               General Surgery Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
2001-2003               M.D., Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
2000-2003               Post-Doctoral Fellow / Research Affiliate, Miller Lab, Center for Learning & Memory, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
1996-2000               Ph.D., Systems Neuroscience, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
1994-1996               M.D. candidate, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1993-1994               Research Assistant, Dept. of Neurology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA          
1989-1993               B.A. Neuroscience & English, Magna Cum Laude, Amherst College, Amherst MA

Journal Publications

A flexible software tool for temporally-precise behavioral control in Matlab
                Wael F. Asaad & Emad N. Eskandar
                Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2008, Vol. 174, pp. 245-258.

Achieving behavioral control with millisecond resolution in a high-level programming environment
                Wael F. Asaad & Emad N. Eskandar
                Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2008, Vol. 173, pp. 235-240.

Prospective Assessment of Stereotactic Ablative Surgery for Intractable Major Depression
                Don C. Shields, Wael Asaad, Emad N. Eskandar, Felipe A. Jain, G. Reese Cosgrove, Alice W. Flaherty, Edward H. Cassem,
                Bruce H. Price, Scott L. Rauch, Daniel D. Dougherty
                Biological Psychiatry, 2008, Vol. 64 (6), pp. 449-454.

A Neural Model of Flexible Sensori-Motor Mapping: Learning and Forgetting on Multiple Time-Scales
                Stefano Fusi, Wael F. Asaad, Earl K. Miller, Xiao-Jing Wang
                Neuron, 2007, Vol. 54, pp. 319-333

Task-Specific Neural Activity in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex
                Wael F. Asaad, Gregor Rainer, and Earl K. Miller
                Journal of Neurophysiology, 2000, Vol. 84, pp. 451-459

Attenuation of NMDA Receptor Activity and Neurotoxicity by Nitroxyl Anion (NO-)
                Won Ki Kim, Yun-Beum Choi, Posina V. Rayadu, Prajnan Das, Wael Asaad, Derrick R. Arnelle, Jonathan S. Stamler, and Stuart A. Lipton
                Neuron, 1999, Vol.24, pp. 461-469

Neural Activity in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex during Associative Learning
                Wael F. Asaad, Gregor Rainer, and Earl K. Miller
                Neuron, 1998, Vol. 21, pp. 1399-1407

Selective Representation of Relevant Information by Neurons in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex
                Gregor Rainer, Wael F. Asaad, and Earl K. Miller
                Nature, 1998, Vol.393, pp. 577-579

Memory Fields of Neurons in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex
                Gregor Rainer, Wael F. Asaad, and Earl K. Miller
                Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 1998, Vol.95, pp. 15008-15013

Concentric Orientation Summation in Human Form Vision
                Hugh R. Wilson, Frances W. Wilkinson, and Wael Asaad
                Vision Research, 1997, Vol. 37 No.17, pp. 2325-2330

Reviews, Commentary & Book Chapters

Intra-Operative Neurophsyiological Monitoring of the Brainstem and Cranial Nerves
                Wael F. Asaad and Emad N. Eskandar
                Handbook of Neuromonitoring, In Press     

The Surgical Management of Trigeminal Neuralgia
                Wael F. Asaad and Emad N. Eskandar
                Bonica’s Management of Pain, 4th edition, In Press     

The Movers and Shakers of Deep Brain Stimulation
                Wael Asaad and Emad Eskandar
                Nature Medicine, 2008, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. 17-19

Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
                Wael F. Asaad and Emad N. Eskandar
                NeuroEngineering, 2007, pp. 91-96, D. DiLorenzo & J. Bronzino, eds. CRC Press

The Prefrontal Cortex: Conjunction and Cognition
                Earl K. Miller and Wael F. Asaad
                The Handbook of Neuropsychology (2nd ed.), 2002, pp. 29-54.  F. Boller & J. Grafman, eds. Elsevier Press

Singlet and triplet nitroxyl anion (NO-) lead to NMDA receptor downregulation and neuroprotection
                Stuart A. Lipton, Won-Ki Kim, Posina V. Rayadu, Wael Asaad, Derrick R. Arnelle and Jonathan S. Stamler
                The Biology of Nitric Oxide (Part 5), 1996, Moncada, Stamler, Gross & Higgs, eds.  Portland Press, London

Software

                MonkeyLogic - MATLAB code for real-time control of behavioral experiments in human and non-human subjects.