Email Address:
makhtari@mednet.ucla.edu
Work Email Address:
makhtari@mednet.ucla.edu
Work Phone Number:
(310) 267-2782
Mailing Address:
760 Westwood Plaza
C8-836
Mail Code 175919
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Affiliations |
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences |
Member, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior |
Dr Akhtari is a Physicist with background in condensed mater as well as high-energy physics. In 1991, he started work in localizing brain sources of activity using magntoencephalography thus developing instrumentation and modeling. His current academic interests are studying the electromagnetic properties of the human brain and developing targeted and disease-specific MRI contrast agents as well as targeted drug delivery technology using nanotechnology. Dr Akhtari has numerous peer-reviewed publications and multiple international patents.