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Chifaou Abdallah

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Chifaou Abdallah is a neurologist specialized in epilepsy and neurophysiology. She did her medical training at Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris, her residency in neurology and clinical fellowship in epilepsy at the University Hospital of Nancy and the Lorraine University in France. Then, she joined Dr Christophe Grova’s lab at McGill University. Her research activity is focused on two projects related to epilepsy: (1) Clinical value of magnetoencephalography and EEG/fMRI in the presurgical workup of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, comparison with intracranial EEG finding. (2) Investigation of the relationship between sleep patterns and neurovascular coupling processes occurring at the time of epileptic discharges, using simultaneous EEG-Near Infrared Spectroscopy recordings. Using a multimodal approach (magnetoencephalography, EEG-HD, fMRI), her research interest is mainly to elaborate criteria for a better understanding and use of these non-invasive tools in order to improve the postsurgical outcomes and to select good patients for epilepsy surgery.

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