Leon Morales-Quezada

Leon is an associate Research Director at the Neuromodulation Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital which is a Division of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Morales works with non-invasive brain stimulation to promote recovery of function in neurological patients and children with disabilities. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and lectures internationally.

His Interest is to investigate the mechanisms and effects of neuromodulation by means of non-invasive brain stimulation, to promote recovery by facilitating processes of plasticity and learning in patients with neurological conditions. IHis focus is research in the development of rehabilitative protocols using different neuromodulatory techniques, such as Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and Transcranial Pulsed Current Stimulation (tPCS), and Transcranial Alternate Current Stimulation (tACS) in combination with pharmacological interventions to promote and restore cognitive functioning and overcome disability. After finishing my masters in neuropsychology, He spent 5 years working as clinician in neurological rehabilitation, where he evaluated and treated patients with neurological and cognitive disabilities. It was clear for him that these patients lacked any real therapeutic option, for this reason he decided to start at the same time my doctoral degree so I could understand better the mechanisms associated with plasticity in severe brain damage, and how to use and apply different methods in order to reach this premise.

He was trained in clinical research and neuromodulation as research Fellow in the Neuromodulation Laboratory, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital where he completed his doctoral research. He also was a Fellow in the Neurobiology Department of Boston Children’s Hospital, where my work focused on translational research in animal models of brain stimulation and post traumatic damage, this fellowship was developed under the mentorship of Dr. Alexander Rotenberg.