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Dr. Robert Mark Richardson is a Visiting Professor in Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and serves as the Director of Functional Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a Charles Pappas Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Richardson's research primarily focuses on human systems neuroscience, particularly in brain electrophysiology and behavior in patients undergoing functional neurosurgery procedures. His clinical expertise includes comprehensive epilepsy surgery, awake brain mapping, responsive neurostimulation for movement disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and experimental gene-cell therapy. He leads the Brain Modulation Lab at MGH, aiming to develop and optimize electrical and biological brain modulation therapies to bridge critical gaps in understanding human brain function. His work includes examining basal ganglia-cortical dynamics in motor control, developing closed-loop brain stimulation systems for epilepsy, and mapping the olfactory perception network using advanced electrophysiological techniques.