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Blaise F. D. Bourgeois

Blaise F. D. Bourgeois

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Neuroscience

D-Index
54
Citations
13677
World Ranking
4868
National Ranking
2195

Overview

Blaise F. D. Bourgeois is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broader areas, their work delves into specialized subfields including Clinical Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Epidemiology.

The main topics of Bourgeois's research encompass Metabolism and Genetic Disorders, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Congenital Heart Defects Research, Streptococcal Infections and Treatments, Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management, and Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders.

Among their recent publications are two papers: "Exome Sequencing and the Identification of New Genes and Shared Mechanisms in Polymicrogyria" (2023) published in JAMA Neurology, and "90 Diagnostic dilemma: a pediatric case of suspected rheumatologic disease with cardiac involvement complicated by bacteriemia at presentation" (2025) published in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences.

  • Exome Sequencing and the Identification of New Genes and Shared Mechanisms in Polymicrogyria, 2023, JAMA Neurology
  • 90 Diagnostic dilemma: a pediatric case of suspected rheumatologic disease with cardiac involvement complicated by bacteriemia at presentation, 2025, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Bourgeois has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Muna Al Saffar (2 collaborations)
  • Dina Amrom (2 collaborations)
  • Shyam K. Akula (1 collaboration)
  • Allen Y. Chen (1 collaboration)
  • Jennifer E. Neil (1 collaboration)

Their publications have appeared in venues such as JAMA Neurology and The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, reflecting an engagement with clinical and biomedical research communities.

Best Publications

  • Antiepileptic drugs—best practice guidelines for therapeutic drug monitoring: A position paper by the subcommission on therapeutic drug monitoring, ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies

    Philip N. Patsalos;David J. Berry;Blaise F. D. Bourgeois;James C. Cloyd

  • ILAE treatment guidelines: evidence-based analysis of antiepileptic drug efficacy and effectiveness as initial monotherapy for epileptic seizures and syndromes.

    Tracy Glauser;Elinor Ben-Menachem;Blaise Bourgeois;Avital Cnaan

  • Gating of Human Theta Oscillations by a Working Memory Task

    Sridhar Raghavachari;Michael J. Kahana;Michael J. Kahana;Daniel S. Rizzuto;Jeremy B. Caplan

  • Efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs I: treatment of new onset epilepsy: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee and Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society.

    J. A. French;A. M. Kanner;J. Bautista;B. Abou-Khalil

  • Updated ILAE evidence review of antiepileptic drug efficacy and effectiveness as initial monotherapy for epileptic seizures and syndromes

    Tracy Glauser;Elinor Ben-Menachem;Blaise Bourgeois;Avital Cnaan

  • Patient-specific seizure onset detection

    A. Shoeb;H. Edwards;J. Connolly;B. Bourgeois

  • Somatic Activation of AKT3 Causes Hemispheric Developmental Brain Malformations

    Annapurna Poduri;Annapurna Poduri;Gilad D. Evrony;Gilad D. Evrony;Xuyu Cai;Xuyu Cai;Princess Christina Elhosary

  • The Current Etiologic Profile and Neurodevelopmental Outcome of Seizures in Term Newborn Infants

    Hasan Tekgul;Kimberlee Gauvreau;Janet Soul;Lauren Murphy

  • Intelligence in epilepsy: a prospective study in children.

    Blaise F. D. Bourgeois;Arthur L. Prensky;Helen S. Palkes;Barbara K. Talent

  • Efficacy and Tolerability of the New Antiepileptic Drugs, II: Treatment of Refractory Epilepsy: Report of the TTA and QSS Subcommittees of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society

    Jacqueline A. French;Andres M. Kanner;Jocelyn Bautista;Bassel W. Abou-Khalil

  • Pediatric Epilepsy: Diagnosis and Therapy

    John M. Pellock;Blaise F.D. Bourgeois;W. Edwin Dodson

  • Practice guideline update summary: Efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs I: Treatment of new-onset epilepsy: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society

    Andres M. Kanner;Eric Ashman;David Gloss;Cynthia Harden

  • The value of multichannel MEG and EEG in the presurgical evaluation of 70 epilepsy patients.

    S. Knake;S. Knake;E. Halgren;H. Shiraishi;K. Hara

  • Antiepileptic drugs, learning, and behavior in childhood epilepsy.

    Blaise F. D. Bourgeois

  • Ganaxolone for treating intractable infantile spasms: a multicenter, open-label, add-on trial

    John F Kerrigan;W.Donald Shields;Teresita Y Nelson;Daniel L Bluestone

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in Early Childhood

    Elaine Wyllie;Michael Chee;Marja‐Liisa Granstrom;Ennio DelGiudice

  • Subtemporal transparahippocampal amygdalohippocampectomy for surgical treatment of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Technical note.

    T. S. Park;B. F. D. Bourgeois;D. L. Silbergeld;W. E. Dodson

  • Aggravation of epilepsy by antiepileptic drugs.

    Mona Sazgar;Blaise F.D. Bourgeois

  • Practice guideline update summary: Efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs II: Treatment-resistant epilepsy

    Unknown

  • Monotherapy with Valproate in Primary Generalized Epilepsies

    B. Bourgeois;A. Beaumanoir;B. Blajev;N. Cruz

  • Appendix D: Efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs II: Treatment of refractory epilepsy: Report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee and Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society

    J. A. French;A. M. Kanner;J. Bautista;B. Abou-Khalil

  • Pediatric Epilepsy: Diagnosis and Therapy

    Steven M. Wolf;Solomon L. Moshe

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip N. Patsalos
Philip N. Patsalos University College London
Joseph R. Madsen
Joseph R. Madsen Boston Children's Hospital
Steven M. Stufflebeam
Steven M. Stufflebeam Harvard University
Jacqueline A. French
Jacqueline A. French New York University
Tobias Loddenkemper
Tobias Loddenkemper Boston Children's Hospital
Sanjeev V. Kothare
Sanjeev V. Kothare Boston Children's Hospital
Alexander Rotenberg
Alexander Rotenberg Boston Children's Hospital
Andres M. Kanner
Andres M. Kanner University of Miami
Frank H. Duffy
Frank H. Duffy Boston Children's Hospital
John M. Stern
John M. Stern University of California, Los Angeles

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