Ognen A.C. Petroff, M.D.
Associate Professor

Department of Neurology
Yale University School of Medicine
P.O. Box 208018
New Haven, CT 06520-8018

Office: 203-688-2495
Lab: 203-785-6602
Fax: 203-737-2799

Email: ognen.petroff@yale.edu

Training:
Post-doctoral fellow in neurophysiology, Yale University, 1982-1984
Resident physician in Neurology, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1979-1982
Resident physician in Internal Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital, 1977-1979
Medical student, Johns Hopkins University, 1973-1977

Expertise:
Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (neurology) 1984
Diplomate of American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology 1986
Added Qualification in Clinical Neurophysiology (ABPN) 1994

Research Interests:
Epilepsy, cerebral metabolism, glutamate, glutamine, & GABA metabolism, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, stable isotope (13C) tracer studies, antiepileptic drug pharmacology

Selected Publications:
Errante LD, Petroff OAC. Acute effects of gabapentin and pregabalin on rat forebrain cellular GABA, glutamate, and glutamine concentrations. Seizure 2003;12:300-306.

Petroff OA, Errante LD, Rothman DL, Kim JH, Spencer DD. Neuronal and glial metabolite content of the epileptogenic human hippocampus. Ann Neurol 2002;52:635-642.

Petroff OA, Errante LD, Rothman DL, Kim JH, Spencer DD. Glutamate-glutamine cycling in the epileptic human hippocampus. Epilepsia 2002;43:703-710.

Errante LD, Williamson A, Spencer DD, Petroff OAC. Gabapentin and vigabatrin increase GABA in the human neocortical slice. Epilepsy Res 2002;49:203-210.

Petroff OAC, Pan JW, Rothman DL. Magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies of neurotransmitters and energy metabolism in epilepsy. Epilepsia 2002;43(suppl 1):40-50.

Petroff OAC, Hyder F, Rothman DL, Mattson RH. Homocarnosine and seizure control in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and complex partial seizures. Neurology 2001;56:709-715.