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Alzheimer's Disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Frontotemporal Dementia
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World Association of Sleep Medicine, Member; 2011 - present
International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group, Member; 2009 - present
Society for Neuroscience, Member; 1993 - present
Study section, NIH; 2010 - 2014
Advisory panel , US Private Foundations; 2010 - 2014
reviewers, foreign country funding agencies (Europe and Asia); 2010 - 2014
Pathophysiology and Animal Model of Dystonia; Seminar; University of Florida; 2011
Pathophysiology and Animal Model of Restless Legs Syndrome; Seminar; University of East Carolina; 2011
