Matthew Howard, MD
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery Chair and DEO, John C. VanGilder Chair in Neurosurgery
Introduction
Epilepsy, Neural Basis of Audition
Current Positions
- Professor of Neurosurgery
- Professor of Otolaryngology
- Professor of Neurology
- Chair and DEO, Department of Neurosurgery
- John C. VanGilder Chair in Neurosurgery
Education
- BS in Physics and Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States
- MD, University of Virginia-Charlottesville, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
- Internship, General Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Fellow, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, London, England
- Fellow in Epilepsy, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Resident in Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Graduate Program Affiliations
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Licenses & Certifications
- Board Certified in Neurosurgery
- Iowa Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa
- Washington Medical License, Washington Board of Medicine, Washington
Selected Publications
- Nourski KV, Steinschneider M, Rhone AE, Kovach CK, Kawasaki H, Howard MA. Gamma activation and alpha suppression within human auditory cortex during a speech classification task. J Neuroscience 42:5034-5046, 2022.
- Shinozaki G, Yamanaski T, Nagao T, Wahba N, Marra P, Crutchley K, Meyer A, Andreasen A, Hellman M, Jellision S, Hughes C, Pandharipande P, Howard MA, Kawasaki H, Iwata M, Hefti M. DNA methylation in the inflammatory genes after neurosurgery and diagnostic ability of post-operative delirium. Translational Psychiatry 11:627, 2021.
- Seaman S, Greenlee J, Piscopo A, Ankrah N-K, Crompton D, Buatti J, Howard MA. Case series of sphenoid wing meningioma – what is a maximal safe resection? Neurochirurgie 67:547-555, 2021.
- Castellucci GA, Kovach CK, Howard MA 3rd, Greenlee JDW, Long MA. A speech planning network for interactive language use. Nature. 2022 Feb;602(7895):117-122. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04270-z. Epub 2022 Jan 5.PMID: 34987226
- Yamanashi T, Nagao T, Wahba NE, Marra PS, Crutchley KJ, Meyer AA, Andreasen AJ, Hellman MM, Jellison SS, Hughes CG, Pandharipande PP, Howard Iii MA, Kawasaki H, Iwata M, Hefti MM, Shinozaki G. DNA methylation in the inflammatory genes after neurosurgery and diagnostic ability of post-operative delirium. Transl Psychiatry. 2021 Dec 9;11(1):627. doi: 10.1038/s41398-021-01752-6.PMID: 34887385
- Schuerman WL, Nourski KV, Rhone AE, Howard MA, Chang EF, Leonard MK. Human intracranial recordings reveal distinct cortical activity patterns during invasive and non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation. Sci Rep. 2021 Nov 23;11(1):22780. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-02307-x.PMID: 34815529 Free PMC article.
- Makovac E, Venezia A, Hohenschurz-Schmidt D, Dipasquale O, Jackson JB, Medina S, O'Daly O, Williams SCR, McMahon SB, Howard MA. The association between pain-induced autonomic reactivity and descending pain control is mediated by the periaqueductal grey. J Physiol. 2021 Dec;599(23):5243-5260. doi: 10.1113/JP282013. Epub 2021 Nov 8.PMID: 34647321
- Ruffle JK, Hyare H, Howard MA, Farmer AD, Apkarian AV, Williams SCR, Aziz Q, Nachev P. The autonomic brain: Multi-dimensional generative hierarchical modelling of the autonomic connectome. Cortex. 2021 Oct;143:164-179. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.06.012. Epub 2021 Jul 23.PMID: 34438298
- Martins D, Dipasquale O, Veronese M, Turkheimer F, Loggia ML, McMahon S, Howard MA, Williams SCR . Transcriptional and cellular signatures of cortical morphometric remodelling in chronic pain. Pain. 2021 Sep 23. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002480. Online ahead of print.PMID: 34561394
- Yi HG, Chandrasekaran B, Nourski KV, Rhone AE, Schuerman WL, Howard MA 3rd, Chang EF, Leonard MK. Learning nonnative speech sounds changes local encoding in the adult human cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Sep 7;118(36):e2101777118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2101777118.PMID: 34475209