Mark Hallett MD

Education

Harvard College, BA; Harvard Medical School, MD, Residency Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Biography

Dr. Hallett is an NIH Distinguished Investigator and the Chief of the Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda. He trained at Harvard Medical School, NIH, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry in London. From 1976 to 1984, Dr. Hallett was the Chief of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and rose to Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. From 1984, he has been at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke where he also served as Clinical Director of NINDS until July 2000. He is currently past President of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology and the President of the newly founded Functional Neurological Disorder Society. Dr. Hallett is also remote past President of the Movement Disorder Society and past Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology. He has won many awards including, in October 2019, the World Federation of Neurology Medal for Contributions to Neuroscience. His work mainly deals with principles of motor control and the pathophysiology of movement disorders. The work in his Section has a major focus on Functional Movement Disorders.

Representative Bibliography

Spagnolo PA, Parker J, Horovitz S, Hallett M. Corticolimbic Modulation via Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation as a Novel Treatment for Functional Movement Disorder: A Proof-of-Concept Study. Brain Sci. 2021 Jun 15;11(6):791. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11060791. PMID: 34203993; PMCID: PMC8232716.

Shin HW, Cho HJ, Lee SW, Shitara H, Hallett M. Sensory tricks in cervical dystonia correlate with enhanced brain activity during motor preparation. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2021 Mar;84:135-138. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2021.02.005. Epub 2021 Feb 9. PMID: 33611075.

Pirio Richardson S, Triggiani AI, Matsuhashi M, Voon V, Peckham E, Nahab F, Mari Z, Hallett M. Timing of the Sense of Volition in Patients With Schizophrenia. Front Neurosci. 2020 Oct 30;14:574472. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.574472. PMID: 33192259; PMCID: PMC7662453.

Panyakaew P, Cho HJ, Lee SW, Wu T, Hallett M. The Pathophysiology of Dystonic Tremors and Comparison With Essential Tremor. J Neurosci. 2020 Nov 25;40(48):9317-9326. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1181-20.2020. Epub 2020 Oct 23. PMID: 33097635; PMCID: PMC7687063.

Chung CL, Mak MK, Hallett M. Transcranial magnetic stimulation promotes gait training in Parkinson's disease. Ann Neurol. 2020 Nov;88(5):933-945. doi: 10.1002/ana.25881. Epub 2020 Sep 8

Ni Z, Leodori G, Vial F, Zhang Y, Avram AV, Pajevic S, Basser PJ, Hallett M. Measuring latency distribution of transcallosal fibers using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Brain Stimul. 2020 Sep-Oct;13(5):1453-1460. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2020.08.004. Epub 2020 Aug 11. PMID: 32791313

Spagnolo PA, Norato G, Maurer CW, Goldman D, Hodgkinson C, Horovitz S, Hallett M. Effects of TPH2 Gene Variation and Childhood Trauma on the Clinical and Circuit-Level Phenotype of Functional Movement Disorders. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2020 Aug;91(8):814-821. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2019-322636. Epub 2020 Jun 23. PMID: 32576619

Merchant SHI, Frangos E, Parker J, Bradson M, Wu T, Vial-Undurraga F, Leodori G, Bushnell MC, Horovitz SG, Hallett M, Popa T. The Role of the Inferior Parietal Lobule in Writer's Cramp. Brain. 2020 Jun 1;143(6):1766-1779. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa138.