24 Years of Experience
Affiliated with a Castle Connolly Top Hospital
Who is Dr. Parvizi, Epilepsy Specialist in Stanford, CA?
Dr. Josef Parvizi, MD, PHD is an Epilepsy Specialist, who primarily practices in Stanford, CA with 2 additional practice locations. He has been practicing for over 24 years and is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Parvizi graduated from Medical Faculty, University Of Oslo and completed his residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Program. Dr. Parvizi is fluent in English, Norwegian, and Turkish, and is currently seeing new patients. Dr. Parvizi’s practice accepts Kaiser Permanente, Medicaid, Medicare, UnitedHealthcare and other major insurance plans. To book an appointment or to confirm insurance options, please call Dr. Parvizi’s office.
Where did Dr. Parvizi go to medical school and complete their residency?
Fellowship: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA | UCLA, Epilepsy / Clinical Electrophysiology | UCLA CA
Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Program
Medical School: Medical Faculty, University Of Oslo | Universitetet i Oslo Medisinske Fakultet | Medical Faculty, University Of Oslo | University of Oslo Medical School Norway
Is Dr. Parvizi board certified in Epilepsy Specialist?
Yes, Dr. Josef Parvizi, MD, PHD is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology since 2008
What languages does Dr. Parvizi speak?
Dr. Parvizi and their clinical team can communicate with patients in the following languages:
English
Norwegian
Turkish
What conditions does Dr. Parvizi treat?
As a Epilepsy Specialist, Dr. Parvizi diagnoses, treats, and manages a wide range of conditions. This condition information is derived from anonymized insurance claims and highlights the medical conditions most commonly treated by Dr. Parvizi. It provides insight into the doctor’s areas of experience and expertise based on real-world patient encounters from the past two years, updated quarterly.
Also known as:
- Simple Partial Seizures
- Intractable Focal Epilepsy with Complex Partial Seizures
- Generalized Epilepsy
- Epilepsy
- Intractable Focal Epilepsy with Simple Partial Seizures
- Complex Partial Seizures
- Intractable Generalized Epilepsy
- Intractable Focal Epilepsy
- Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
- Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
- Focal Aware Seizures
- Aura Seizures
- Symptomatic Partial Seizures
- Drug-resistant complex partial epilepsy
- Refractory focal impaired awareness seizures
- Hard-to-treat complex partial seizures
- Idiopathic generalized epilepsy
- Primary generalized epilepsy
- Generalized seizure disorder
- Seizure disorder
- Convulsive disorder
- Falling sickness
- Drug-resistant simple partial epilepsy
- Refractory focal seizures
- Hard-to-treat partial epilepsy
- Focal Impaired Awareness Seizures
- Temporal Lobe Seizures
- Psychomotor Seizures
- Drug-resistant generalized epilepsy
- Refractory generalized seizures
- Hard-to-treat generalized epilepsy
- Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy
- Difficult-to-Treat Partial Seizures
- Refractory Focal Epilepsy
- JME
- Impulsive petit mal
- Janus-Kaufmann syndrome
- Generalized seizures
- Grand mal seizures
- Tonic-clonic seizures
ICD-10 Codes:
- G40109: Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures, not intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40219: Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with complex partial seizures, intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40309: Generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, not intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40919: Epilepsy, unspecified, intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40909: Epilepsy, unspecified, not intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40119: Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with simple partial seizures, intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40209: Localization-related (focal) (partial) symptomatic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with complex partial seizures, not intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40319: Generalized idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40019: Localization-related (focal) (partial) idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with seizures of localized onset, intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40B09: Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, not intractable, without status epilepticus
- G40409: Other generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, not intractable, without status epilepticus
Also known as:
- Seizures
- Epilepsy
- Convulsions
- Fits
ICD-10 Codes:
- R569: Unspecified convulsions
Also known as:
- Changes in Mental State
- Mental Disorder
- Confusion
- Disorientation
- Changes in awareness
ICD-10 Codes:
- R4182: Altered mental status, unspecified
Also known as:
- Other Nervous System Symptoms
- Neurologic Disease
- Unusual Neurological Symptoms
- Nerve Problems
- Brain and Nerve Issues
ICD-10 Codes:
- R29818: Other symptoms and signs involving the nervous system
Also known as:
- Abnormal EEG
- Irregular Electroencephalogram
- Unusual Brain Wave Test
- EEG Abnormalities
ICD-10 Codes:
- R9401: Abnormal electroencephalogram [EEG]
Also known as:
- Fainting
- Syncope
- Passing out
- Collapse
ICD-10 Codes:
- R55: Syncope and collapse
Also known as:
- Brain disease (encephalopathy)
- Brain Disease
- Brain disorder
- Brain dysfunction
- Encephalopathy
ICD-10 Codes:
- G9340: Encephalopathy, unspecified
Also known as:
- Aphasia
- Difficulty speaking
- Language impairment
- Loss of speech
ICD-10 Codes:
- R4701: Aphasia
Also known as:
- Conversion Disorder with Seizures
- Mental Disorder
- Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures
- Stress-Induced Seizures
- Functional Seizures
ICD-10 Codes:
- F445: Conversion disorder with seizures or convulsions
Also known as:
- Tremor
- Shaking
- Involuntary Shaking
- Essential Tremor
- Parkinsonian Tremor
ICD-10 Codes:
- R251: Tremor, unspecified
Which procedures does Dr. Parvizi perform as a Epilepsy Specialist?
As a Epilepsy Specialist, procedures performed by an Dr. Josef Parvizi may include:
- Aging Brain (Neuropsychological Testing)
- Cortical Basal Ganglionic Degeneration (CBGD)
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Disturbance of Skin Sensation
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Evoked Potential Testing
- Gait Simulation
- Greater Occipital Nerve (GON) Block
For detailed information, please contact Dr. Parvizi's office.
Does Dr. Parvizi accept my insurance?
Dr. Parvizi accepts most major insurance plans. Important: Please call our office at before your appointment to verify that your specific plan and network are accepted.
What insurance plans does Dr. Parvizi accept in Stanford, CA?
Dr. Parvizi in Stanford, CA accepts plans from many carriers. While this list is updated regularly, it is not a guarantee of coverage.
Top Insurances
All Other Third Party
Blue Shield of California
Central California Alliance for Health
CVS Health (formerly Aetna)
Kaiser Permanente
Medicaid
Medicare
Santa Clara Family Health Plan
State of California
UnitedHealthcare
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Where is Dr. Parvizi's office located?
Recognitions
Awards
Stanford Leadership Development Program, Stanford University
Early Career Physician-Scientist Award, Milken Family / American Epil
Young Investigator Award, American Neuropsychiatric Association
Spriestersbach Award - Best PhD Dissertation in Biological Sciences,
Scholar Award,
Student Research Award, Norwegian Research Council
Research Award, Carver Trust Foundation
Neurology Clerkship Teaching Award, Stanford University School of Med
Lysia Forno Award for Teaching Excellence, Stanford University - Depa
Publications
A Brain Area for Visual Numerals
JOURL OF NEUROSCIENCE, 2013
Numerical processing in the human parietal cortex during experimental and tural conditions.
ture communications, 2013
Electrical Stimulation of Human Fusiform Face-Selective Regions Distorts Face Perception
JOURL OF NEUROSCIENCE, 2012
Neural populations in human posteromedial cortex display opposing responses during memory
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TIOL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AM, 2012
Differential electrophysiological response during rest, self-referential
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TIOL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AM, 2011
Corticocentric myopia: old bias in new cognitive sciences
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES, 2009
The will to persevere induced by electrical stimulation of the human cingulate gyrus.
Neuron, 2013
Quantifying the local tissue volume
TURE MEDICINE, 2013
Proceedings of the Fourth Intertiol Workshop on Advances in Electrocorticography
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR, 2013
Human hippocampal increases in low-frequency power during associative prediction violations.
Neuropsychologia, 2013
Asynchronous Broadband Sigls Are the Principal Source of the BOLD Response in Human Visual Cortex
CURRENT BIOLOGY, 2013
Human Retrosplenial Cortex Displays Transient Theta Ph
jourl of neuroscience, 2013
Hand posture classification using electrocorticography sigls
JOURL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING, 2013
Proceedings of the Third Intertiol Workshop on Advances in Electrocorticography
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR, 2012
Position sensitivity in the visual word form area
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TIOL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AM, 2012
Functiol MRI of sleep spindles and K-complexes
CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, 2012
Disinhibition: More than a misnomer
SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE, 2012
Proceedings of the Second Intertiol Workshop on Advances in Electrocorticography
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR, 2011
Problem of sigl contamition in interhemispheric dual-sided subdural electrodes
EPILEPSIA, 2011
Illusions of Visual Motion Elicited by Electrical Stimulation of Human MT Complex
PLOS ONE, 2011
Functiol imaging of sleep vertex sharp transients
CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, 2011
Automatisms: Bridging clinical neurology with crimil law
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR, 2011
Disinhibition: More than a misnomer.
Social neuroscience
Shifts in gamma phase
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE, 2010
Electrical stimulation of the human brain
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE, 2010
Neural connections of the posteromedial cortex in the macaque
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TIOL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AM, 2006
Differential distribution of calbindin D28K
JOURL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY, 2003
Neuroatomical correlates of brainstem coma
BRAIN, 2003
Pathological laughter and crying - A link to cerebellum
BRAIN, 2001
Consciousness and the brainstem
COGNITION, 2001
The selective vulnerability of brainstem nuclei to Alzheimer's disease
ANLS OF NEUROLOGY, 2001
Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions
TURE NEUROSCIENCE, 2000
Selective pathological changes of the periaqueductal gray matter in Alzheimer's disease
ANLS OF NEUROLOGY, 2000
Orbitofrontal cortex pathology in Alzheimer's disease
CEREBRAL CORTEX, 2000
What is Dr. Parvizi's NPI number?An National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique ID number that identifies doctors and healthcare providers nationwide.
Dr. Parvizi's National Provider Identifier (NPI) number is 1386864734.
What common questions do patients ask about Dr. Parvizi?
Here are answers to patients Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) about Dr. Parvizi
What is Dr. Josef Parvizi's specialty?
Dr. Parvizi is a Epilepsy Specialist near Stanford, CA. Epilepsy is a subspecialty of neurology dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with various forms of epilepsy, including new-onset epilepsy, medically refractory epilepsy, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, and epilepsy in special populations such as the elderly, women, and individuals with co-morbidities. This multidisciplinary field offers comprehensive care tailored to the specific needs of each patient. Contact Dr. Parvizi to book an appointment today.
Is this Dr. Josef Parvizi affiliated with a ranked Castle Connolly Top Hospital?
Yes, Dr. Parvizi is affiliated with Stanford Health Care - Stanford Hospital which is a Castle Connolly Top Hospital. Castle Connolly Top Hospitals are healthcare institutions recognized for their excellence in specific medical procedures and overall patient care. They are identified through a rigorous peer nomination process, evaluating factors like patient outcomes, quality of care, and expertise. The list recognizes hospitals that excel in 20 or more specific medical procedures, representing the top 25% nationwide. Castle Connolly Top Hospitals
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Is Josef Parvizi accepting new patients in Stanford, CA?
Yes, Dr. Josef Parvizi is accepting new patients at this time.
Does Dr. Josef Parvizi offer online booking?
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How can I make an appointment with Josef Parvizi?
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Which board certifications does Dr. Josef Parvizi have?
Dr. Josef Parvizi is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
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