Depression in Neurologic Disorders

Andres Kanner, MD, Professor of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Rush Medical College at Rush University; Director, Laboratory of Electroencephalography and Video-EEG-Telemetry; Associate Director, Section of Epilepsy and Rush Epilepsy Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Professor Andres Kanner was educated in Mexico City but completed his training at the prestigious College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio. He specialized in psychiatry but took a special interest in neurologic disease, in particular epilepsy. As a result he is triple boarded in neurology, psychiatry and clinical neurophysiology. His research has focused on the surgical and pharmacologic treatment of refractory epilepsy and has become an internationally recognized authority in psychiatric issues in epilepsy.He has authored more than 100 articles and has co-edited textbooks on various aspects of epilepsy, psychiatry and depression.