Léorah Freeman
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
The University of Texas Health Science Center
United States of America
Biography
Léorah Freeman, M.D., Ph.D is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Multiple Sclerosis Research Group and the Magnetic Resonance Image Analysis Center at the McGovern Medical School. Dr. Freeman received her Doctorate of Medicine as well as her Doctorate of Philosophy in Neurosciences from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France. Following a residency in Neurology, she completed a 2-year clinical fellowship specializing in the diagnosis, management and treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neuroimmunological disorders of the central nervous system at La Pitié Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. Dr. Freeman went on to complete her post-doctoral research training in Neuroimaging at the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris, France and subsequently in the Department of Neurology at McGovern Medical School in Houston, Texas. Her research has been funded by the French National Institute of Health (INSERM) as well as the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). Dr. Freeman’s current research focuses on the application of advanced imaging techniques to explore and delineate the mechanisms driving disability progression in MS. She is also deeply committed to the development of new technology to bring state-of-the-art MRI analysis to the bedside.
Research Interest
Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in MS
Publications
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Brandel JP, Galanaud D, Freeman L, Laplanche JL, Haik S. Variant or sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? Lancet. 2010 Mar 13;375(9718):889
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Louapre C, Perlbarg V, GarcÃa-Lorenzo D, Urbanski M, Benali H, Assouad R, Galanaud D, Freeman L, Bodini B, Papeix C, Tourbah A, Lubetzki C, Lehéricy S, Stankoff B. Brain networks disconnection in early multiple sclerosis cognitive deficits: an anatomofunctional study. Hum Brain Mapp. 2014 Sep;35(9):4706-17.
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Freeman L, Garcia-Lorenzo D, Bottin L, Leroy C, Louapre C, Bodini B, Papeix C, Assouad R, Granger B, Tourbah A, Dollé F, Lubetzki C, Bottlaender M, Stankoff B. The neuronal component of gray matter damage in multiple sclerosis: A [(11) C]flumazenil positron emission tomography study. Ann Neurol. 2015 Oct;78(4):554-67.
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Bodini B, Veronese M, GarcÃa-Lorenzo D, Battaglini M, Poirion E, Chardain A, Freeman L, Louapre C, Tchikviladze M, Papeix C, Dollé F, Zalc B, Lubetzki C, Bottlaender M, Turkheimer F, Stankoff B. Dynamic imaging of individual remyelination profiles in multiple sclerosis. Ann Neurol. 2016 Feb 18.
