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Dang Khoa Nguyen

Dang Khoa Nguyen

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Neuroscience

D-Index
46
Citations
8000
World Ranking
6700
National Ranking
397

Overview

Dang Khoa Nguyen is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on medical and neuroscience fields, with a significant body of work spanning medicine and neuroscience disciplines.

Their research interests cover several subfields including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Neurology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Dang Khoa Nguyen has contributed to numerous publications in prominent academic venues such as:

  • Brain Sciences
  • Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
  • Epilepsia
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Some of their recent research articles include:

  • Learnings from 30 years of reported efficacy and safety of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for epilepsy treatment: A critical review (2020) - Seizure
  • Expected value and sensitivity to punishment modulate insular cortex activity during risky decision making (2020) - Scientific Reports
  • Increased frequency of proinflammatory CD4 T cells and pathological levels of serum neurofilament light chain in adult drug-resistant epilepsy (2020) - Epilepsia
  • Deep Brain Stimulation of the Posterior Insula in Chronic Pain: A Theoretical Framework (2021) - Brain Sciences
  • Clinical utility of intraoperative electrocorticography for epilepsy surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022) - Epilepsia

The researcher has also authored books, including "Insular Epilepsies" published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Dang Khoa Nguyen collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Alain Bouthillier
  • Dènahin Hinnoutondji Toffa
  • Elie Bou Assi
  • Manon Robert
  • Olivier Boucher

Best Publications

  • The Corticocortical Structural Connectivity of the Human Insula

    Jimmy Ghaziri;Alan Tucholka;Gabriel Girard;Jean-Christophe Houde

  • Familial focal epilepsy with focal cortical dysplasia due to DEPDC5 mutations

    Stéphanie Baulac;Saeko Ishida;Elise Marsan;Catherine Miquel

  • Revisiting the role of the insula in refractory partial epilepsy.

    Dang Khoa Nguyen;Dong Bach Nguyen;Ramez Malak;Jean-Maxime Leroux

  • Atlas of the normal intracranial electroencephalogram: neurophysiological awake activity in different cortical areas.

    Birgit Frauscher;Birgit Frauscher;Nicolas von Ellenrieder;Rina Zelmann;Rina Zelmann;Irena Doležalová

  • SYN1 loss-of-function mutations in autism and partial epilepsy cause impaired synaptic function

    Anna Fassio;Lysanne Patry;Sonia Congia;Franco Onofri

  • Learnings from 30 years of reported efficacy and safety of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for epilepsy treatment: A critical review

    Dènahin Hinnoutondji Toffa;Lahoud Touma;Tahir El Meskine;Alain Bouthillier

  • High-Frequency Oscillations in the Normal Human Brain.

    Birgit Frauscher;Birgit Frauscher;Nicolás von Ellenrieder;Rina Zelmann;Rina Zelmann;Christine Rogers

  • Towards accurate prediction of epileptic seizures: A review

    Elie Bou Assi;Dang Khoa Nguyen;Sandy Rihana;Mohamad Sawan

  • The long-term effect of vagus nerve stimulation on quality of life in patients with pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy: The PuLsE (Open Prospective Randomized Long-term Effectiveness) trial

    Philippe Ryvlin;Frank G. Gilliam;Dang K. Nguyen;Gabriella Colicchio

  • Subcortical structural connectivity of insular subregions

    Jimmy Ghaziri;Alan Tucholka;Gabriel Girard;Olivier Boucher

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery Failures: A Review

    Adil Harroud;Alain Bouthillier;Alexander G. Weil;Dang Khoa Nguyen

  • Expanding the clinical phenotype associated with ELOVL4 mutation: study of a large French-Canadian family with autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia and erythrokeratodermia.

    Maxime Cadieux-Dion;Maude Turcotte-Gauthier;Anne Noreau;Caroline Martin

  • Expected value and sensitivity to punishment modulate insular cortex activity during risky decision making

    Zorina Von Siebenthal;Olivier Boucher;Latifa Lazzouni;Véronique Taylor

  • Microsurgery of epileptic foci in the insular region.

    Ramez Malak;Alain Bouthillier;Lionel Carmant;Patrick Cossette

  • Social information processing following resection of the insular cortex

    Olivier Boucher;Isabelle Rouleau;Isabelle Rouleau;Maryse Lassonde;Franco Lepore

  • Wireless Recording Systems: From Noninvasive EEG-NIRS to Invasive EEG Devices

    M. Sawan;M. T. Salam;J. Le Lan;A. Kassab

  • Non-invasive continuous EEG-fNIRS recording of temporal lobe seizures.

    Dang Khoa Nguyen;Julie Tremblay;Philippe Pouliot;Phetsamone Vannasing

  • The Insula and Its Epilepsies.

    Barbara C Jobst;Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez;Jean Isnard;Philippe Kahane

  • The combination of subdural and depth electrodes for intracranial EEG investigation of suspected insular (perisylvian) epilepsy.

    Werner Surbeck;Alain Bouthillier;Alexander G. Weil;Louis Crevier

  • Rare coding variants in genes encoding GABAA receptors in genetic generalised epilepsies: an exome-based case-control study

    Patrick May;Simon Girard;Merle Harrer;Dheeraj R Bobbili

  • A Novel Low-Power-Implantable Epileptic Seizure-Onset Detector

    M. T. Salam;M. Sawan;Dang Khoa Nguyen

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Bouthillier
Alain Bouthillier University of Montreal
Mohamad Sawan
Mohamad Sawan Polytechnique Montréal
Franco Lepore
Franco Lepore University of Montreal
Maryse Lassonde
Maryse Lassonde University of Montreal
Lionel Carmant
Lionel Carmant University of Montreal
François Dubeau
François Dubeau McGill University
Birgit Frauscher
Birgit Frauscher Duke University
Rina Zelmann
Rina Zelmann Massachusetts General Hospital
Jean Gotman
Jean Gotman Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Anne Lortie
Anne Lortie University of Montreal

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