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Aileen McGonigal

Aileen McGonigal

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10124
World Ranking
5318
National Ranking
225

Overview

Aileen McGonigal is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their research primarily focuses on epilepsy and related neurological fields, contributing extensively to literature in medicine and neuroscience.

McGonigal's published work spans medicine with 118 publications and neuroscience with 84 publications. Their subfields of study include psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology. The main topics covered by their research include epilepsy research and treatment, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, neurological disorders and treatments, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Frequent publication venues for McGonigal's work consist of:

  • Epilepsia
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Neurophysiologie Clinique
  • Epilepsy Research
  • Epileptic Disorders

Recent papers where McGonigal is either author or co-author include:

  • On seizure semiology, 2021, Epilepsia
  • The Ictal Signature of Thalamus and Basal Ganglia in Focal Epilepsy, 2020, Neurology
  • Updated classification of epileptic seizures: Position paper of the International League Against Epilepsy, 2025, Epilepsia
  • A brain atlas of axonal and synaptic delays based on modelling of cortico-cortical evoked potentials, 2021, Brain
  • Electrical stimulation for seizure induction during SEEG exploration: a useful predictor of postoperative seizure recurrence?, 2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

McGonigal collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Fabricē Bartolomei
  • Stanislas Lagarde
  • Agnès Trébuchon
  • Romain Carron
  • Bernard Giusiano

Best Publications

  • Defining epileptogenic networks: Contribution of SEEG and signal analysis

    Fabrice Bartolomei;Stanislas Lagarde;Fabrice Wendling;Fabrice Wendling;Aileen McGonigal

  • Comparative risk of major congenital malformations with eight different antiepileptic drugs: a prospective cohort study of the EURAP registry

    Torbjörn Tomson;Torbjörn Tomson;Dina Battino;Erminio Bonizzoni;John Craig

  • Validation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) among Chinese people with epilepsy

    Xin Tong;Dongmei An;Aileen McGonigal;Sung-Pa Park

  • The role of corticothalamic coupling in human temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Maxime Guye;Jean Régis;Manabu Tamura;Fabrice Wendling

  • French guidelines on stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG).

    Jean Isnard;Delphine Taussig;Fabrice Bartolomei;Pierre Bourdillon

  • Semiologic and electrophysiologic correlations in temporal lobe seizure subtypes.

    Louis Maillard;Jean-Pierre Vignal;Martine Gavaret;Maxime Guye

  • Stereoelectroencephalography in presurgical assessment of MRI-negative epilepsy

    Aileen McGonigal;Fabrice Bartolomei;Jean Régis;Maxime Guye

  • Frontal lobe seizures: From clinical semiology to localization

    Francesca Bonini;Aileen McGonigal;Aileen McGonigal;Agnès Trébuchon;Agnès Trébuchon;Martine Gavaret;Martine Gavaret

  • Rapid detection of generalized anxiety disorder and major depression in epilepsy: Validation of the GAD-7 as a complementary tool to the NDDI-E in a French sample.

    Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi;Stanislas Lagarde;Gérald Barkate;Boris Dufournet

  • Smart phone, smart science: how the use of smartphones can revolutionize research in cognitive science.

    Stephane Dufau;Jon Andoni Duñabeitia;Carmen Moret-Tatay;Aileen McGonigal

  • Deep brain activities can be detected with magnetoencephalography

    Francesca Pizzo;N. Roehri;S. Medina Villalon;A. Trébuchon

  • High-frequency oscillations are not better biomarkers of epileptogenic tissues than spikes.

    Nicolas Roehri;Francesca Pizzo;Stanislas Lagarde;Isabelle Lambert

  • The dreamy state: hallucinations of autobiographic memory evoked by temporal lobe stimulations and seizures.

    Jean-Pierre Vignal;Louis Maillard;Aileen McGonigal;Patrick Chauvel

  • Cortical stimulation study of the role of rhinal cortex in déjà vu and reminiscence of memories

    F. Bartolomei;E. Barbeau;M. Gavaret;M. Guye

  • The repertoire of seizure onset patterns in human focal epilepsies: Determinants and prognostic values.

    Stanislas Lagarde;Sinziana Buzori;Agnès Trebuchon;Romain Carron

  • Interictal stereotactic-EEG functional connectivity in refractory focal epilepsies.

    Stanislas Lagarde;Nicolas Roehri;Isabelle Lambert;Agnès Trebuchon

  • Local and remote epileptogenicity in focal cortical dysplasias and neurodevelopmental tumours

    Sandrine Aubert;Fabrice Wendling;Fabrice Wendling;Jean Regis;Aileen McGonigal

  • Seizure-onset patterns in focal cortical dysplasia and neurodevelopmental tumors: Relationship with surgical prognosis and neuropathologic subtypes.

    Stanislas Lagarde;Francesca Bonini;Aileen McGonigal;Patrick Chauvel

  • From mesial temporal lobe to temporoperisylvian seizures: a quantified study of temporal lobe seizure networks.

    Fabrice Bartolomei;Delphine Cosandier-Rimele;Aileen McGonigal;Sandrine Aubert

  • Outpatient video EEG recording in the diagnosis of non-epileptic seizures: a randomised controlled trial of simple suggestion techniques

    A. Mcgonigal;M. Oto;A. J. C. Russell;J. Greene

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrice Bartolomei
Fabrice Bartolomei Aix-Marseille University
Patrick Chauvel
Patrick Chauvel University of Pittsburgh
Martine Gavaret
Martine Gavaret Université Paris Cité
Romain Carron
Romain Carron Hôpital de la Timone
Fabrice Wendling
Fabrice Wendling University of Rennes
Nathalie Villeneuve
Nathalie Villeneuve Hôpital Européen
Mathieu Milh
Mathieu Milh Aix-Marseille University
Maxime Guye
Maxime Guye Aix-Marseille University
Sylvain Rheims
Sylvain Rheims Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Roderick Duncan
Roderick Duncan Christchurch Hospital

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