Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Alvaro Pascual -Leone ( born August 7, 1961 in Valencia, Spain ) is a Spanish professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. As one of the leading brain researcher, he managed to prove that free will is influenced by physical irritation.

Pascual -Leone studied medicine and neurophysiology at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. He then worked at the University of Minnesota and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Since 1997, Pascual -Leone Director of the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation ( CNBS ) (German Center for injury-free brain stimulation ) and compound Director of the General Clinical Research Center of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

He lives in Wayland, Massachusetts with his wife Elizabeth and their three children.

Awards

In 2000 he was awarded the Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award. In 2007 he received the Jean -Louis Signoret - Prize.

Publications

• Pascual -Leone A.: The Brain did Listens Music and is Changed by it. In, Zatorre R and Peretz I ( ed) Music and the Brain. New York Academy of Sciences ( 2001).
• Pascual -Leone A., R. Hamilton: The Metamodal Organization of the Brain. In, Casanova C. and Ptito M. ( Eds ): Vision: From neurons to cognition, Prog Brain Res Vol 134: 427-445 (2001)
• Pascual -Leone A., A. Amedi, Fregni F., Merabet L.: The plastic human brain cortex. Ann Rev Neurosci 28: 377-401 (2005)