
Overview
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.Dr. Pullman's aims have been 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 highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Drug Induced Dyskinesia, Familial Paroxysmal Nonkinesigenic Dyskinesia, Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC) Deficiency, Dopa-Responsive Dystonia, and Deep Brain Stimulation.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 23 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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710 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032
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Areas of Expertise
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- Drug Induced DyskinesiaDr. Pullman isElite. Learn about Drug Induced Dyskinesia.
- Distinguished
- Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC) Deficiency
- Congenital Mirror Movement DisorderDr. Pullman isDistinguished. Learn about Congenital Mirror Movement Disorder.
- Dopa-Responsive DystoniaDr. Pullman isDistinguished. Learn about Dopa-Responsive Dystonia.
- Dry MouthDr. Pullman isDistinguished. Learn about Dry Mouth.
- Essential TremorDr. Pullman isDistinguished. Learn about Essential Tremor.
- Familial Paroxysmal Nonkinesigenic DyskinesiaDr. Pullman isDistinguished. Learn about Familial Paroxysmal Nonkinesigenic Dyskinesia.
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- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease)
- Benign Essential BlepharospasmDr. Pullman isAdvanced. Learn about Benign Essential Blepharospasm.
- Movement DisordersDr. Pullman isAdvanced. Learn about Movement Disorders.
- Parkinson's DiseaseDr. Pullman isAdvanced. Learn about Parkinson's Disease.
- Primary Lateral SclerosisDr. Pullman isAdvanced. Learn about Primary Lateral Sclerosis.
- Progressive Hemifacial AtrophyDr. Pullman isAdvanced. Learn about Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy.
- Experienced
- Deep Brain StimulationDr. Pullman isExperienced. Learn about Deep Brain Stimulation.
- Focal DystoniaDr. Pullman isExperienced. Learn about Focal Dystonia.
- HemiplegiaDr. Pullman isExperienced. Learn about Hemiplegia.
- NeuralgiaDr. Pullman isExperienced. Learn about Neuralgia.
- Opsoclonus-Myoclonus SyndromeDr. Pullman isExperienced. Learn about Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome.
- ParaplegiaDr. Pullman isExperienced. Learn about Paraplegia.

