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Overview

Anna B. Smith is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their academic work focuses on several subfields, including psychiatry and mental health, genetics, rheumatology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research covers multiple main topics, with primary interests in epilepsy research and treatment, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, glycogen storage diseases and myoclonus, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, diet and metabolism studies, bipolar disorder and treatment, as well as neurological disorders and treatments.

Anna B. Smith has authored several recent papers, including:

  • Phenotypic and genetic spectrum of epilepsy with myoclonic atonic seizures (2020) published in Epilepsia
  • Trait impulsivity in Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (2020) published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • Meta-analysis of response inhibition in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (2020) published in Epilepsy & Behavior
  • A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled (2020) published in PeerJ
  • SLCO5A1 and synaptic assembly genes contribute to impulsivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (2023) published in npj Genomic Medicine

Smith collaborates frequently with other researchers in their field. Their most common coauthors include:

  • Deb K. Pal
  • Mark P. Richardson
  • Kheng Seang Lim
  • Amy Shakeshaft
  • Alessandro Orsini

They publish regularly in several scholarly venues, notably:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Epilepsia
  • Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • PeerJ
  • npj Genomic Medicine

Overall, Anna B. Smith's body of work spans diverse aspects of neurological and genetic research, with a particular emphasis on epilepsy and related neurodevelopmental conditions.

Best Publications

  • Right inferior prefrontal cortex mediates response inhibition while mesial prefrontal cortex is responsible for error detection

    Katya Rubia;Anna B Smith;Michael J Brammer;Eric Taylor

  • Progressive increase of frontostriatal brain activation from childhood to adulthood during event-related tasks of cognitive control.

    Katya Rubia;Anna B. Smith;James Woolley;Chiara Nosarti

  • Abnormal Brain Activation During Inhibition and Error Detection in Medication-Naive Adolescents With ADHD

    Katya Rubia;Anna B. Smith;Michael J. Brammer;Brian Toone

  • A review of fronto-striatal and fronto-cortical brain abnormalities in children and adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and new evidence for dysfunction in adults with ADHD during motivation and attention

    Ana Cubillo;Rozmin Halari;Anna Smith;Eric Taylor

  • Linear age-correlated functional development of right inferior fronto-striato-cerebellar networks during response inhibition and anterior cingulate during error-related processes

    Katya Rubia;Anna B. Smith;Eric Taylor;Michael Brammer

  • Evidence for a pure time perception deficit in children with ADHD

    Anna Smith;Eric Taylor;Jody Warner Rogers;Stuart Newman

  • Neural correlates of executive function in autistic spectrum disorders

    Nicole Schmitz;Katya Rubia;Eileen Daly;Anna Smith

  • Disorder-Specific Dissociation of Orbitofrontal Dysfunction in Boys With Pure Conduct Disorder During Reward and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Dysfunction in Boys With Pure ADHD During Sustained Attention

    Katya Rubia;Anna B. Smith;Rozmin Halari;B.A. Fumie Matsukura

  • Task-Specific Hypoactivation in Prefrontal and Temporoparietal Brain Regions During Motor Inhibition and Task Switching in Medication-Naive Children and Adolescents With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

    Anna B Smith;Eric Taylor;Mick Brammer;Brian Toone

  • Effects of Stimulants on Brain Function in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Katya Rubia;Analucia A. Alegria;Ana I. Cubillo;Anna B. Smith

  • Neuropsychological analyses of impulsiveness in childhood hyperactivity

    Rubia K;Taylor E;Smith Ab;Oksanen H

  • Disorder-specific functional abnormalities during sustained attention in youth with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and with Autism

    Anastasia Christakou;Clodagh Murphy;Kaylita Chantiluke;Ana Cubillo

  • Performance of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on a Test Battery of Impulsiveness

    Katya Rubia;Anna Smith;Eric Taylor

  • Disorder-specific dysfunction in right inferior prefrontal cortex during two inhibition tasks in boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder compared to boys with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Katya Rubia;Ana Cubillo;Anna B. Smith;James Woolley

  • Motor timing deficits in community and clinical boys with hyperactive behavior: the effect of methylphenidate on motor timing.

    Katya Rubia;Janet Noorloos;Anna Smith;Boudewijn Gunning

  • The neural correlates of cognitive time management: a review.

    Katya Rubia;Anna Smith

  • Temporal lobe dysfunction in medication-naïve boys with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during attention allocation and its relation to response variability

    Katya Rubia;Anna B. Smith;Michael J. Brammer;Eric Taylor

  • Dissociated Functional Brain Abnormalities of Inhibition in Boys With Pure Conduct Disorder and in Boys With Pure Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

    Katya Rubia;Rozmin Halari;Anna B. Smith;Majeed Mohammed

  • Neural correlates of switching set as measured in fast, event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Anna B. Smith;Eric Taylor;Mick Brammer;Katya Rubia

  • A right hemispheric frontocerebellar network for time discrimination of several hundreds of milliseconds.

    Anna B. Smith;Eric Taylor;Karen Lidzba;Katya Rubia

Frequent Co-Authors

Katya Rubia
Katya Rubia King's College London
Michael Brammer
Michael Brammer King's College London
Deb K. Pal
Deb K. Pal King's College London
Vincent Giampietro
Vincent Giampietro King's College London
Mark P. Richardson
Mark P. Richardson King's College London
Steve C.R. Williams
Steve C.R. Williams King's College London
Eileen Daly
Eileen Daly King's College London
Andre F. Marquand
Andre F. Marquand Radboud University
Isobel Heyman
Isobel Heyman University College London
Ingo Helbig
Ingo Helbig Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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