Research Scientist, Center of Neurosciences The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System  Manhasset, New York

Miklos Argyelan received his M.D. degree from University of Szeged, Hungary in 2001.  He also finished his studies in physics and informatics in 2004 (M.S. Univerity of Szeged). Dr. Argyelan completed one year of psychiatry residency in Hungary in 2004-2005. While still an undergraduate, he took great interest in neuroimaging and participated in the clinical testing of a dopamine transporter binding radiopharmaceutical. Using 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT, he also investigated changes in regional cerebral blood flow associated with certain forms of dementia. His thesis focused on this topic (Title of Thesis: Acetazolamide combined rCBF 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT investigations in dementia). Starting in 2001, Dr. Argyelan worked as a researcher in the Department of Nuclear Medicine (University of Szeged), and had the opportunity to work with neuroreceptor binding radiopharmaceuticals, such as 99mTc-TRODAT, and 123I-IBZM. His MSc thesis was based on a pharmacokinetical study that used compartment methods to compare the distribution of these radiopharmaceuticals in healthy subjects, and in subjects diagnosed with depression, schizophrenia, or Parkinson’s disease. In 2005, he had the opportunity to spend 12 months in a cognitive electrophysiology lab at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, where he studied the possible role of gamma (EEG) during a well studied sensorimotor task, such as directed rapid eye-movement in PD. Since August of 2006, Dr. Argyelan has been working in the Center for Neurosciences, where he has been participating in cognitive PET and fMRI studies in Parkinson’s disease patients.

Dr. Argyelan's recent projects focus on learning and on the regulatory mechanism of dopamine. Understanding the circumstances under which L-dopa facilitates or impairs learning is important not only from a clinical perspective, but could also potentially provide important insights into the neural mechanisms underlying the role of dopamine in learning. He is also keenly interested in utilizing multivariate tools in the evaluation of neuroimaging data.

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