Robert Mark Richardson

Robert Mark Richardson is a Visiting Professor at MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences department and the Charles Pappas Associate Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard Medical School. He serves as Director of Functional Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and co-director of the MGH-MIT InBRAIN Collaboration. His clinical expertise includes epilepsy surgery, awake brain mapping, responsive neurostimulation, deep brain stimulation for movement disorders/OCD, and experimental gene/cell therapy.

His research focuses on human systems neuroscience through the Brain Modulation Lab at MGH. Projects include studying basal ganglia-cortical dynamics during speech production, developing closed-loop brain stimulation for epilepsy via BRAINStim analysis platforms, and investigating olfactory perception networks to create an anosmia prosthesis. Collaborations include computational neuroscience of language processing under the BRAIN Initiative with Ev Fedorenko.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed. His advisory and grant activities are not detailed here. The Brain Modulation Lab integrates clinical practice with translational research to optimize brain therapies.