Seth L. Pullman, MD
- Professor of Neurology at CUMC
- Director, Clinical Motor Physiology Laboratory
Dr. Pullman is the Founder and Director of the Clinical Motor Control Physiology Laboratory and Co-director of the Center for Movement Disorders Surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. His research interests include disorders of central motor control in Parkinson's disease and related disorders. Dr. Pullman is a regular reviewer for Neurology, EEG Clinical Neurophysiology, Movement Disorders, Archives of Neurology, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Muscle and Nerve, Neurobiology of Aging, and Epilepsia.
The Motor Control Physiology Laboratory is on the 11th floor of the Neurological Institute. Under Dr. Pullman's direction, the aim of the lab is to investigate normal and abnormal motor function using clinically-oriented physiological testing and experimentation. Areas of research include movement analysis, brainstem and spinal reflexes, botulinum toxin injections into limbs, intraoperative single unit recordings during functional neurosurgery, mathematical modeling, and artificial intelligence approaches to clinical and physiological data. Current projects include sophisticated diagnosis-oriented tremor analysis, back averaging EEG to EMG and polymyography, handwriting and spiral analysis, transcranial magnetic motor evoked responses, reaction time and movement speed analysis in patients undergoing surgery for Parkinson's disease, intraoperative monitoring during pallidotomy and diagnostic neural network paradigm development.
Dr. Pullman is Director of the Clinical Motor Physiology Laboratory
Departmental Appointments
- Department of Neurology
Division of Movement Disorders
Board Certifications
- Neurology
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Botulinum Toxin (Botox Injection)
- Clinical Neurophysiology Testing
- Spasticity Treatment
- Benign Essential Tremor
- Tremor
- Electrodiagnostic Testing
- Dystonia
- Electrophysiology
- Parkinson's Disease
- Electromyography (EMG)
- Stereotactic Neurosurgery
- Spasticity
Education & Training
- McGill University Faculty of Medicine
- Internship: Royal Victoria Hospital - Montreal
- Residency: Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
- Fellowship: Laboratory of Neurophysiology-National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
Locations
Neurological Institute of New York
710 West 168th Street
Suite: 1112
New York, NY 10032- Phone:
- (212) 305-1331
- For new and current patient appointments, call:
- (212) 305-1303
- Fax:
- (212) 305-5396
Centers/Institutes/Programs
- Clinical Motor Physiology Laboratory
Provider Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
Insurance Programs
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- Aetna [EPO, HMO, Medicare Managed Care, NY Signature, NYP Employee Plan, POS, PPO, Signature Administrators, Student Health]
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- Oxford Health Plans [Freedom, Liberty, Medicare Managed Care]
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- UnitedHealthcare [Columbia University Employee Plan, Essential Plan, HMO, Medicaid (Community Plan), Medicare Managed Care, POS, PPO]
- VNSNY CHOICE [Medicare Managed Care, SelectHealth]
- WellCare [Medicaid Managed Care, Medicare Managed Care]
This provider accepts new patients
Appointment Phone Number: (212) 305-1303
Links
Patents
United States Patent 6,454,706 for Spiral Analysis, labeled “System and Method for Clinically Assessing Motor Function.”
Covers broadly any geometric design drawn by a patient on a digitizing tablet, documented in the U.S. patent office as the “development of a computerized system and method for clinically assessing motor function comprising correlating geometric indices, computed from digital information obtained from a geometric shape drawn by a subject to be evaluated, with a rating score derived using a standard of reference generated by one or more clinical experts.”
