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Birgit Frauscher

Lincoln Financial Group Distinguished Professor in Neurobiology
Neurology, Epilepsy and Sleep
2424 Erwin Rd, Hock Plaza 1 Office 10040, Durham, NC 27705

Selected Grants


The overlap of speech production and verbal working memory

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · 2023 - 2028

Influence of thalamic sleep spindles on epileptic activity

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation · 2025 - 2026

Intracranial Neurophysiological Signatures of Fear and Anxiety in Humans

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2026

Multi-center Epilepsy Data Platform: Advancing Outcomes by Deep Phenotyping

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Epilepsy Society · 2024 - 2025

Neurostimulation and Recording of Real World Spatial Navigation in Humans

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2025

External Relationships


  • Epileptic Disorders - Official Teaching Journal of the International League against Epilepsy
  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals
  • McGill University
  • Natus

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