Mark Bower

Yale

Dr. Mark R. Bower is an Associate Professor Adjunct in the Department of Neurosurgery at Yale University in New Haven, CT. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and then an MS in Applied Math from the University of Central Florida, while working first as an optical physicist and then as an image and signal processing engineer at Martin Marietta. He received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Arizona working with Dr. Bruce McNaughton on place cells and the formation of cognitive maps encoding repeated sequential elements in freely-moving animals. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow in epilepsy with Dr. Paul Buckmaster at Stanford University recording the activity of multiple, single neurons prior to and during seizures in the pilocarpine model of epilepsy, where he was awarded the Eric W. Lothman Fellowship by the Epilepsy Foundation. He then worked as a post-doc and then Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic, where he translated his findings from animal models to long-term, continuous recordings acquired from patients undergoing treatment for epilepsy, for which he was awarded the Morris-Coole Epilepsia prize. At Mayo Clinic, he identified the phenomenon of Seizure-Related Consolidation (SRC), in which pre-ictal changes in neuronal and field potential activity are reactivated during post-seizure sleep, similar to learned behaviors during post-behavioral sleep. His current research at Yale focuses on understanding the mechanistic relationship between single neuron activity and field potentials underlying SRC, along with promoting advances in real-time signal processing algorithms for systems neurophysiology.