Tao, James, MD PhD

Assistant Professor
Director, EEG Laboratory

Address: 5841 S. Maryland Ave., MC 2030
Chicago, IL 60637-1470
Telephone: 773-834-9896
Secretary: TBD
Patient Calls: 773-834-9896
Fax: 773-834-4800
Education & Training
  • M.D., 1987, Wannan Medical College/Capital Institute of Medicine, China
  • Ph.D. (Neuroscience), 1997, University of Cincinnati
  • Residency, 2001, The University of Chicago
  • Fellowship (Epilepsy), 2002, The University of Chicago
  • Board Certified, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 2003
  • Board Certified, American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology 2004
Clinical Interests
  • Diagnosis and management of seizure disorders and epilepsy syndromes
  • Epilepsy surgery and vagal nerve stimulation for medically resistant epilepsy
  • Clinical neurophysiology: Electroencephalograph (EEG) and evoked potentials
Research Interests
  • Roles of scalp and intracranial EEG in the localization of epileptogenic focus
  • Multimodality imaging guided epilepsy surgery
  • Synaptic plasticity and epileptogenesis
Teaching
  • Residency neuroscience course: EEG Fundamentals and epilepsy syndromes.
  • Fellow lectures: 1) EEG instrumentation; 2) Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy Therapy; 3) EEG Epileptiform interictal and ictal patterns.
  • Neuroscience teaching course in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology: Diagnosis and management of seizure disorder.
Selected Publications
  1. Tao JX, Baldwin M, Ray A, Hawes-Ebersole S, Ebersole JS. The impact of cerebral source area and synchrony on recording scalp EEG ictal patterns. Epilepsia 2007; 48(11):2167-2176.
  2. Tao JX, Baldwin M, Hawes-Ebersole S, Ebersole JS. Cortical substrates of scalp EEG epileptiform discharges. J Clin Neurophysiol 2007; 24: s1-5.
  3. Ray A, Tao JX, Hawes-Ebersole S, Ebersole JS. Localizing value of scalp EEG spikes: A simultaneous scalp and intracranial study. Clin Neurophysiol. 2007 Jan;118(1):69-79.
  4. Tao JX, Ray A, Hawes-Ebersole S, Ebersole JS. Intracranial EEG substrates of scalp EEG interictal spikes. Epilepsia 2005; 46(5):669-676.
  5. Hewitt EW, Tao JX, Strausser JE, Cutler DF, Dean GE. Synaptotagmin I-DeltaC2B. A novel synaptotagmin isoform with a single C2 domain in the bovine adrenal medulla. Biochem Biophys Acta. 2002 Mar 19:156(1):76-90
  6. Tao JX, Ip W. Site-specific antibodies block kinase A phosphorylation of desmin in vitro and inhibit incorporation f myoblasts into myotubes. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 1991; 19(2):109-20.
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