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  • Jose Cavazos

Jose Cavazos, M.D., Ph.D.

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  • Neurology - Medical Arts & Research Center - MARC
    210-450-9700
cavazosj@uthscsa.edu

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Specialties

    • Neurology
    • Clinical Neurophysiology
    • Epilepsy

Other Languages Spoken

  • Spanish
Dr. Jose Cavazos

Dr. José Cavazos's lab studies activity-dependent plasticity in the hippocampal formation in the developing, adult, and aged brain using a variety of experimental models of epilepsy, seizures, and epileptogenesis. Previous studies from our laboratory have shown that repeated seizures induce progressive neuronal death and axon sprouting that permanently alter the hippocampal circuitry lending it more susceptible to additional seizures and memory dysfunction. 

We currently are investigating the molecular mechanisms that link the synchronous neuronal hyperexcitability with these morphological events. We investigate the features of seizure-induced axon sprouting in other limbic circuitries using anatomical tracing techniques, and their electrophysiological consequences in the neuronal excitability of the abnormally connected circuitry using brain slices and in-vivo using electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques. We also have several ongoing clinical projects about people with epilepsy, particularly, focusing on the utilization of anticonvulsants.

Education

2016 Certificate Business of Health (Summa Cum Laude - GPA 4.0) University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio , TX
1997 Clinical Fellowship Clinical Neurophysiology / Epilepsy Duke University
Durham , NC
1996 Residency Neurology (Chief Resident) Duke University
Durham , NC
1993 Internship Internal Medicine University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison , WI
1993 PhD Neuroscience (Cum Laude - GPA 3.98) University of Wisconsin at Madison
Madison , WI
1987 MD Medicine (Mencion Honorifica - Cum Laude) Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon , Mexico
Medical School: 
Instituto Tecnologico De Monterrey
Internship: 
University of Wisconsin
Residency: 
Duke University Hospital
Fellowship: 
Duke University Hospital
Graduate School: 
University of Wisconsin at Madison

Qualifications

Board Certification:
  • American Board of P&N/Neurology
  • American Board of P&N/Clinical Neurophysiology

Media

Dr. José E. Cavazos: Epilepsy research

More about this provider

  • UT Medicine San Antonio places faculty on top doctors lists
  • UT Medicine physicians recognized as Best Doctors in America®
  • Scientists develop 1st genetic mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy
  • Physician/researcher votes on FDA panel approving epilepsy neurostimulator
  • New study reveals combining antiepileptic drugs most effective treatment
  • M.D./Ph.D. students, Baptist nursing students celebrate Adler family’s gift of $1.5 million
  • M.D./Ph.D. student co-authors paper in Nature
  • Health Science Center’s M.D./Ph.D. Program in top 6 nationally
  • Dual-degree programs rank highly in number of NIH fellowships


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