Khalaf Bushara, MD

Dr. Bushara is a movement disorders specialist with special interest in ataxia and diseases of the cerebellum. Dr. Bushara is a graduate of the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He was trained in internal medicine and neurology in the United Kingdom, where he was elected as a member of the Royal College of Physicians (London). He completed a neurology residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a fellowship in Movement Disorders at the human motor control section at the National Institutes of Health gaining experience with ataxia patients and functional imaging research. Dr. Bushara is currently conducting clinical research to explore the wheat-ataxia association and to use functional MRI focusing on the functions of the cerebellum, including movement control and cognition.

Selected Publications

    Xu D, Liu T, Ashe J, Bushara KO. Role of the olivo-cerebellar system in timing. J Neurosci 2006;26(22):5990-5995.

    Bushara KO, Malik T, Exconde RE. The effect of levetiracetam on essential tremor. Neurology 2005;64(6):1078-1080.

    Muley SA, Bushara KO. Isolated gait ataxia due to cerebellar vermis infarct. Arch Neurol 2004;61(9):1461.

    Bushara KO, Goldstein SR, Grimes GJ, Jr., Burstein AH, Hallett M. Pilot trial of 1-octanol in essential tremor. Neurology 2004;62(1):122-124.

    Bushara KO, Nance M, Gomez CM. Antigliadin antibodies in huntington's disease. Neurology 2004;62(1):132-133.

    Bushara KO, Hanakawa T, Immisch I, Toma K, Kansaku K, Hallett M. Neural correlates of cross-modal binding. Nature Neurosci 2003;6(2):190-195.

    Bushara KO, Grafman J, Hallett M. Neural correlates of auditory-visual stimulus onset asynchrony detection. J Neurosci 2001;21(1):300-304.

    Bushara KO, Goebel SU, Shill H, Goldfarb LG, Hallett M. Gluten sensitivity in sporadic and hereditary cerebellar ataxia. Ann Neurol 2001;49(4):540-543.

    Bushara KO, Wheat JM, Khan A, Mock BJ, Turski PA, Sorenson J, Brooks BR. Multiple tactile maps in the human cerebellum. Neuroreport 2001;12(11):2483-2486.

    Bushara KO, Weeks RA, Ishii K, Catalan MJ, Tian B, Rauschecker JP, Hallett M. Modality-specific frontal and parietal areas for auditory and visual spatial localization in humans. Nature Neurosci 1999;2(8):759-766.