Dr. Pascual-Leone obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology from the Faculty of Medicine of Albert Ludwigs University in Germany. He also trained at the University of Minnesota and the US National Institutes of Health.
In 2000, he won the Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award.
Pascual-Leone lives in Wayland, Massachusetts with his wife Elizabeth and their three children.