Aneeta Saxena, MD, and David L. Perez, MD, MMSc, FAAN, FANPA

The Guest Editors of this issue of Seminars in Neurology are Drs. Aneeta Saxena and David L. Perez.

Dr. Saxena is Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. She received her BA in Religion from Barnard College at Columbia University. She then received her MD from St. George's University in Grenada, followed by residency training in Neurology at Tulane University in New Orleans, fellowship in Neurophysiology at New York University, and a second fellowship in ICU EEG at Yale University in New Haven, CT. She then came to Boston, where she first joined the Department of Neurology at the VA Boston Healthcare System, and then the Department of Neurology at Boston University, where she currently serves as Division Chief for the Epilepsy Service. Dr. Saxena has quickly built an exceptional Functional Neurological Disorder program at Boston University/Boston Medical Center, and has evolved as a strong, emerging leader in the field of Neuropsychiatry.

Dr. Perez is Associate Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his BA in Neuroscience and Behavior at Columbia University, followed by his MD from New York University and an MMSc degree at Harvard Medical School. He did his internship in Medicine from New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College, and both Neurology and Psychiatry residencies/fellowships at Harvard. He has been on faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2014, and has been a renowned neurobehavioral/neuropsychiatry specialist. He has served as guest editor for several well-regarded journals, and has received innumerable awards for his work in the field of Neuropsychiatry. His research focuses on neuroimaging biomarkers in functional neurological disorder, for which he receives NIH funding. He is a gifted teacher and mentor to many in both Neurology and Psychiatry, and has helped blaze a trail in the field of Neuropsychiatry for many others to follow.

I greatly appreciate the efforts of Drs Saxena and Perez, as well as all of the contributing authors, for their important work in this issue on Neuropsychiatry, which I'm sure will be of great interest to the readers of Seminars. This is an underrecognized and underappreciated field of neurology, and yet one that touches nearly every patient we see, and thus of high importance to our readers. The writing in this issue is especially insightful and guiding, and I personally learned a great deal in reading the excellent work. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Publication History

Article published online:
08 June 2022