Pavlos Gourtzelidis, MD, PhD
Director, Neurology Department, 401 Army General Hospital of Athens, Greece. Visiting Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, University of Minnesota. gourt001@umn.edu

Specialties
Funtional neuroimaging, EEG recordings, psychophysics and modeling to study motor behavior and cognitive processing.  

Education
MD, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Medical Residency - Neurology, Eginition Hospital, University of Athens, Greece
PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept of Neurology, University of Athens, Greece   

Selected Publications

Jerde TA, Lewis SM, Goerke U, Gourtzelidis P, Tzagarakis C, Lynch J, Moeller S, Van de Moortele PF, Adriany G, Trangle J, Uğurbil K, Georgopoulos AP. (2008) Ultra-high field parallel imaging of the superior parietal lobule during mental maze solving. Exp Brain Res. DOI 10.1007/s00221-008-1318-8  

Gourtzelidis P, Tzagarakis C, Lewis S M, Crowe D A, Auerbach E, Jerde T A, Ugurbil K, Georgopoulos A P (2005) Mental maze solving: directional fMRI tuning and population coding in the superior parietal lobule. Exp Brain Res 165: 273-82  

Gourtzelidis P., Smyrnis N., Evdokimidis I., Balogh A. (2001) Systematic errors of planar arm movements provide evidence for space categorization effects and interaction of multiple frames of reference. Experimental Brain Research 139:59-69