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Ayako Ochi is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with notable contributions in the related subfields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including epilepsy research and treatment, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, vagus nerve stimulation research, genomics and rare diseases, as well as functional brain connectivity studies.

Ochi has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Epilepsia
  • Seizure
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Annals of Neurology
  • Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics

They have collaborated extensively with the following coauthors:

  • Hiroshi Otsubo
  • Elizabeth Donner
  • George M. Ibrahim
  • Elizabeth Kerr
  • Puneet Jain

Recent papers by Ayako Ochi include:

  • Add-On Deep Brain Stimulation versus Continued Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Childhood Epilepsy (ADVANCE): A Partially Randomized Patient Preference Trial, 2024, Annals of Neurology
  • Temporal-plus epilepsy in children: A connectomic analysis in magnetoencephalography, 2020, Epilepsia
  • Epilepsy surgery outcomes in patients with GATOR1 gene complex variants: Report of new cases and review of literature, 2023, Seizure
  • Surgical outcomes in children with bottom-of-sulcus dysplasia and drug-resistant epilepsy: a retrospective cohort study, 2021, Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics
  • Mechanical, Histological, and Scanning Electron Microscopy Study of the Effect of Mixed-Acid and Heat Treatment on Additive-Manufactured Titanium Plates on Bonding to the Bone Surface, 2020, Materials

Best Publications

  • Focal resection of fast ripples on extraoperative intracranial EEG improves seizure outcome in pediatric epilepsy

    Tomoyuki Akiyama;Bláthnaid McCoy;Cristina Y. Go;Ayako Ochi

  • Complications of invasive subdural grid monitoring in children with epilepsy.

    Çagatay Önal;Hiroshi Otsubo;Takashi Araki;Shiro Chitoku

  • Dynamic changes of ictal high-frequency oscillations in neocortical epilepsy: using multiple band frequency analysis.

    Ayako Ochi;Hiroshi Otsubo;Elizabeth J. Donner;Irene Elliott

  • MEG predicts epileptic zone in lesional extrahippocampal epilepsy: 12 pediatric surgery cases.

    Hiroshi Otsubo;Ayako Ochi;Irene Elliott;Sylvester H. Chuang

  • MEG predicts outcome following surgery for intractable epilepsy in children with normal or nonfocal MRI findings.

    Rajesh RamachandranNair;Hiroshi Otsubo;Manohar M. Shroff;Ayako Ochi

  • Temporal lobe surgery for intractable epilepsy in children: an analysis of outcomes in 126 children.

    Mony Benifla;Hiroshi Otsubo;Ayako Ochi;Shelly K. Weiss

  • Characterizing magnetic spike sources by using magnetoencephalography-guided neuronavigation in epilepsy surgery in pediatric patients

    Koji Iida;Hiroshi Otsubo;Yuuri Matsumoto;Ayako Ochi

  • Seizure identification in the ICU using quantitative EEG displays

    C.P. Stewart;H. Otsubo;A. Ochi;R. Sharma

  • Focal cortical high-frequency oscillations trigger epileptic spasms: Confirmation by digital video subdural EEG

    Tomoyuki Akiyama;Hiroshi Otsubo;Ayako Ochi;Taichi Ishiguro

  • Neurosurgical management of intractable rolandic epilepsy in children: role of resection in eloquent cortex. Clinical article.

    Mony Benifla;Francesco Sala;John Jane;Hiroshi Otsubo

  • Jeavons syndrome existing as occipital cortex initiating generalized epilepsy

    Sorawit Viravan;Cristina Go;Ayako Ochi;Tomoyuki Akiyama

  • Nonconvulsive Seizures in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Etiology, EEG, and Brain Imaging Findings

    Montri Saengpattrachai;Rohit Sharma;Amrita Hunjan;Manohar Shroff

  • Resilience of developing brain networks to interictal epileptiform discharges is associated with cognitive outcome

    George M. Ibrahim;Daniel Cassel;Benjamin R. Morgan;Mary Lou Smith

  • Predictors of nonconvulsive seizures among critically ill children.

    Bláthnaid McCoy;Rohit Sharma;Ayako Ochi;Cristina Go

  • Interictal high frequency oscillations correlating with seizure outcome in patients with widespread epileptic networks in tuberous sclerosis complex

    Tohru Okanishi;Tomoyuki Akiyama;Shin Ichi Tanaka;Ellen Mayo

  • Epileptic spasms in older pediatric patients: MEG and ictal high-frequency oscillations suggest focal-onset seizures in a subset of epileptic spasms.

    Rajesh RamachandranNair;Ayako Ochi;Katsumi Imai;Mony Benifla

  • Malignant rolandic-sylvian epilepsy in children: diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes.

    H. Otsubo;S. Chitoku;A. Ochi;V. Jay

  • High-frequency oscillations of ictal muscle activity and epileptogenic discharges on intracranial EEG in a temporal lobe epilepsy patient.

    Hiroshi Otsubo;Ayako Ochi;Katsumi Imai;Tomoyuki Akiyama

  • Characteristics of MEG and MRI between Taylor's focal cortical dysplasia (type II) and other cortical dysplasia: Surgical outcome after complete resection of MEG spike source and MR lesion in pediatric cortical dysplasia

    Elysa Widjaja;Hiroshi Otsubo;Charles Raybaud;Ayako Ochi

  • Characterizing Magnetoencephalographic Spike Sources in Children with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

    Koji Iida;Hiroshi Otsubo;Ismail S. Mohamed;Chiyuki Okuda

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Otsubo
Hiroshi Otsubo University of Toronto
O. Carter Snead
O. Carter Snead University of Toronto
James T. Rutka
James T. Rutka University of Toronto
Elizabeth J. Donner
Elizabeth J. Donner University of Toronto
Shelly K. Weiss
Shelly K. Weiss University of Toronto
Elysa Widjaja
Elysa Widjaja University of Toronto
Sam M. Doesburg
Sam M. Doesburg Simon Fraser University
Mary Lou Smith
Mary Lou Smith University of Toronto
Elizabeth W. Pang
Elizabeth W. Pang Hospital for Sick Children
Margot J. Taylor
Margot J. Taylor University of Toronto

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