Department: Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy, Amrita Comprehensive Sleep Centre, Neurology
Qualification: MD (General Medicine), DNB (Neurology), MNAMS (Neurology)
Email: sibygopinath@aims.amrita.edu
Clinical Professor
Department: Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy, Amrita Comprehensive Sleep Centre, Neurology
Qualification: MD (General Medicine), DNB (Neurology), MNAMS (Neurology)
Email: sibygopinath@aims.amrita.edu
Dr. Siby Gopinath is a clinical neurologist, epileptologist, and electrophysiologist working since 2001 Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. She completed her neurology residency from Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. Her special interest is in epilepsy sub-specialty, neuroelectrophysiology and sleep medicine. She underwent a specialised overseas training in epilepsy in Cleveland Clinic, Ohio and Toronto West Hospital, Canada. With this background she developed state-of-the-art Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy (AACE) and Sleep Medicine, which subsequently became the largest epilepsy monitoring centre in the country and the first centre in the country to start a stereo-EEG program. It remains a centre with the highest number of stereo-EEGs done in the country. Stereo EEG is a minimally invasive technique (meaning not requiring open brain surgery) for recoding electrical activity from the brain and also for mapping the seizure and brain functions. She is currently Professor of Neurology and the director of Adult division of Epilepsy unit, at Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy and Sleep medicine. She treats patients with epilepsy and has expertise in the management of patients with medically refractory epilepsy. Epilepsy surgery remains the mainstay of treatment for this difficult to treat group of epilepsy patients. She plays an integral role in the surgical treatment of epilepsy. Apart from the medical and surgical management, she is also experienced in treating epilepsy with dietary modifications (ketogenic diet), Deep Brain Stiumulation and minimally invasive surgical technique like radiofrequency ablation (a technique similar to Laser therapy).
She did her neurology residency from Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. She has a special interest in epilepsy sub specialty, neuroelectrophysiology and sleep medicine. She underwent a specialised overseas training in epilepsy in Cleveland Clinic Ohio and Toronto West Hospital, Canada. She also underwent a short training in high-density EEG from University Hospital, Geneva under Dr. Margitta Seeck.
She has multiple publications in national and international journals. She has been invited as a speaker in various national and international conferences. She has received travel bursary for World Epilepsy Congress held at Montreal. She has been a guide to 10 DM Neurology students, several post-doctoral fellows in epilepsy (2 fellows every year), program director for multiple undergraduate and postgraduate students of neuroelectrophysiology. She contributes as an external expert for the post-doctoral Epilepsy fellowship at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad. She has a vast experience in electroencephalography, and is currently working in advanced EEG techniques including high-density EEG and electrical source localisation. She has a huge experience in stereo-EEG (intracranial EEG), and is involved in the projects for developing computational analysis of stereo-EEG. She also has a vast experience in functional brain mapping including seizure mapping, functional mapping, neurostimulation techniques. She has successfully established the intra-operative neurophysiology program. Her current research interests involve post-processing analysis of neuroimaging including neuromorphometry, asymmetric PET subtraction, SISCOM. She is currently working on multiple clinical epilepsy projects in collaboration with other centres of the country. She is also in-charge of the Sleep Laboratory at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi and has worked for projects in narcolepsy and sleep apnea.