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Overview

Barbara C. Jobst is affiliated with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the United States and specializes in medical research with a strong focus on neuroscience and neurology. Their academic output spans primarily across the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, including subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work focuses on topics including epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, neurological disorders and treatments, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Michael R. Sperling, Bradley Lega, Robert E. Gross, Michael J. Kahana, and Elaine Kiriakopoulos.

Barbara C. Jobst has contributed to scholarly articles published in key venues such as Neurology, Epilepsy & Behavior, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Epiliepsy currents/Epilepsy currents, and Epilepsia. The number of publications in each of these venues indicates a regular presence in high-impact and specialized journals related to neurological research.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist include:

  • Nine-year prospective efficacy and safety of brain-responsive neurostimulation for focal epilepsy, 2020, Neurology
  • The effects of direct brain stimulation in humans depend on frequency, amplitude, and white-matter proximity, 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • Intracranial EEG in the 21st Century, 2020, Epiliepsy currents/Epilepsy currents
  • Real-world experience with direct brain-responsive neurostimulation for focal onset seizures, 2020, Epilepsia
  • Updated classification of epileptic seizures: Position paper of the International League Against Epilepsy, 2025, Epilepsia

Best Publications

  • Two‐year seizure reduction in adults with medically intractable partial onset epilepsy treated with responsive neurostimulation: Final results of the RNS System Pivotal trial

    Christianne N. Heck;David King-Stephens;Andrew D. Massey;Dileep R. Nair

  • Resective Epilepsy Surgery for Drug-Resistant Focal Epilepsy: A Review

    Barbara C. Jobst;Gregory D. Cascino

  • Long-term treatment with responsive brain stimulation in adults with refractory partial seizures

    Gregory K. Bergey;Martha J. Morrell;Eli M. Mizrahi;Alica Goldman

  • Nine-year prospective efficacy and safety of brain-responsive neurostimulation for focal epilepsy

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  • Closed-loop stimulation of temporal cortex rescues functional networks and improves memory.

    Youssef Ezzyat;Paul A. Wanda;Deborah F. Levy;Allison Kadel

  • Brain-responsive neurostimulation in patients with medically intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

    Eric B. Geller;Tara L. Skarpaas;Robert E. Gross;Robert R. Goodman

  • Direct Electrical Stimulation of the Human Entorhinal Region and Hippocampus Impairs Memory

    Joshua Jacobs;Jonathan Miller;Sang Ah Lee;Sang Ah Lee;Tom Coffey

  • Hippocampal interictal epileptiform activity disrupts cognition in humans

    Jonathan K. Kleen;Rod C. Scott;Gregory L. Holmes;David W. Roberts

  • Direct Brain Stimulation Modulates Encoding States and Memory Performance in Humans

    Youssef Ezzyat;James E. Kragel;John F. Burke;Deborah F. Levy

  • Intractable Seizures of Frontal Lobe Origin: Clinical Characteristics, Localizing Signs, and Results of Surgery

    B. C. Jobst;A. M. Siegel;V. M. Thadani;D. W. Roberts

  • Widespread theta synchrony and high-frequency desynchronization underlies enhanced cognition.

    E. A. Solomon;J. E. Kragel;Michael R. Sperling;Ashwini Sharan

  • Brain-responsive neurostimulation in patients with medically intractable seizures arising from eloquent and other neocortical areas.

    Barbara C. Jobst;Ritu Kapur;Gregory L. Barkley;Carl W. Bazil

  • Medically intractable, localization-related epilepsy with normal MRI: Presurgical evaluation and surgical outcome in 43 patients

    Adrian M. Siegel;Barbara C. Jobst;Vijay M. Thadani;C. Harker Rhodes

  • Lateralization of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with chronic ambulatory electrocorticography

    David King-Stephens;Emily Mirro;Peter B. Weber;Kenneth D. Laxer

  • Circadian and ultradian patterns of epileptiform discharges differ by seizure-onset location during long-term ambulatory intracranial monitoring.

    David C. Spencer;Felice T. Sun;Sarah N. Brown;Barbara C. Jobst

  • Electrical Stimulation Modulates High γ Activity and Human Memory Performance.

    Michal T. Kucewicz;Brent M. Berry;Vaclav Kremen;Vaclav Kremen;Laura R. Miller

  • Dynamic Theta Networks in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe Support Episodic Memory

    Ethan A. Solomon;Joel M. Stein;Sandhitsu Das;Richard Gorniak

  • Interictal PET and ictal subtraction SPECT: sensitivity in the detection of seizure foci in patients with medically intractable epilepsy

    Atman Desai;Kimon Bekelis;Vijay M. Thadani;David W. Roberts

  • Critical review of the responsive neurostimulator system for epilepsy.

    George P Thomas;Barbara C Jobst

  • Long-term seizure, cognitive, and psychiatric outcome following trans–middle temporal gyrus amygdalohippocampectomy and standard temporal lobectomy

    Krzysztof A. Bujarski;Fuyuki Hirashima;David W. Roberts;Barbara C. Jobst

  • Brain stimulation for the treatment of epilepsy.

    Barbara C. Jobst;Terrance M. Darcey;Vijay M. Thadani;David W. Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel M. Stein
Joel M. Stein University of Pennsylvania
Michael J. Kahana
Michael J. Kahana University of Pennsylvania
Kathryn A. Davis
Kathryn A. Davis University of Pennsylvania
Sameer A. Sheth
Sameer A. Sheth Baylor College of Medicine
Kareem A. Zaghloul
Kareem A. Zaghloul National Institutes of Health
Ashwini Sharan
Ashwini Sharan Thomas Jefferson University
Peter D. Williamson
Peter D. Williamson Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center
Nathan B. Fountain
Nathan B. Fountain University of Virginia
Gregory L. Holmes
Gregory L. Holmes University of Vermont

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