Itzhak Fried, MD, PhD. is Professor of Neurosurgery at UCLA. He is the Director of the Epilepsy Surgery Program and Co-Director of the Seizure Disorder Center at UCLA and member of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA. He directs the Cognitive Neurophysiological Laboratory at UCLA and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Fried’s research centers on the basic mechanisms and neuromodulation of brain networks underlying cognition in health and in disease. Dr. Fried uses single neuron recordings in the human brain to study memory and volition and has implemented closed-loop modulation of memory encoding and consolidation during wake-sleep cycles.