Edward Merricks is an instructor in Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Kennedy Krieger Institute. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University and earned his PhD and MRes in Neuroscience from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, following a BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics from the University of Reading.
His research focuses on the activity of populations of single neurons in patients with epilepsy, examining how the firing patterns of individual cells contribute to seizure onset, propagation, and termination, as well as how seizures may be restrained from spreading through the cortex. This work involves maintaining continuous micro-electrode recordings in patients undergoing surgery to localize pathological tissue and also enables investigation into broader interests, including the neuronal basis of cognition, consciousness and sleep.