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Joseph Sullivan is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Sullivan's work encompasses several subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

Their research contributions involve topics such as Epilepsy Research and Treatment, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies, Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Metabolism and Genetic Disorders, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

Publications by Joseph Sullivan include:

  • Fenfluramine HCl (Fintepla®) provides long-term clinically meaningful reduction in seizure frequency: Analysis of an ongoing open-label extension study, 2020, Epilepsia
  • The clinical, economic, and humanistic burden of Dravet syndrome - A systematic literature review, 2022, Epilepsy & Behavior

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sullivan include Kelly G. Knupp, Elaine Wirrell, Rima Nabbout, Ingrid E. Scheffer, and Gail Farfel.

The majority of Sullivan's publications appear in the venues of Epilepsia, Neurology, and Epilepsy & Behavior, with additional works published in Epilepsy Research and JAMA Neurology.

Representative recent papers within the larger research community connected to Sullivan's work include:

  • International consensus on diagnosis and management of Dravet syndrome, 2022, Epilepsia
  • Efficacy and Safety of Fenfluramine for the Treatment of Seizures Associated With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • Improved everyday executive functioning following profound reduction in seizure frequency with fenfluramine: Analysis from a phase 3 long-term extension study in children/young adults with Dravet syndrome, 2021, Epilepsy & Behavior

Best Publications

  • De novo mutations in epileptic encephalopathies

    Andrew S. Allen;Samuel F. Berkovic;Patrick Cossette;Norman Delanty

  • Cannabidiol in patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy: an open-label interventional trial

    Orrin Devinsky;Eric Marsh;Daniel Friedman;Elizabeth Thiele

  • Cannabidiol in patients with seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (GWPCARE4): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial

    Elizabeth A Thiele;Eric D Marsh;Jacqueline A French;Maria Mazurkiewicz-Beldzinska

  • American clinical neurophysiology society standardized EEG terminology and categorization for the description of continuous EEG monitoring in neonates: report of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society critical care monitoring committee.

    Tammy N. Tsuchida;Courtney J. Wusthoff;Renée A. Shellhaas;Nicholas S. Abend

  • Fenfluramine hydrochloride for the treatment of seizures in Dravet syndrome: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    L Lagae;J Sullivan;K Knupp;L Laux

  • Optimizing the Diagnosis and Management of Dravet Syndrome: Recommendations From a North American Consensus Panel

    Elaine C. Wirrell;Linda Laux;Elizabeth Donner;Nathalie Jette

  • Incidence of Dravet Syndrome in a US Population

    Yvonne W. Wu;Joseph Sullivan;Sharon S. McDaniel;Miriam H. Meisler

  • Response to treatment in a prospective national infantile spasms cohort

    Kelly G. Knupp;Jason Coryell;Katherine C. Nickels;Nicole Ryan

  • Ultra-rare genetic variation in common epilepsies: a case-control sequencing study.

    Andrew S Allen;Susannah T Bellows;Samuel F Berkovic;Joshua Bridgers

  • Video-EEG monitoring in newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy treated with hypothermia

    K.B. Nash;S.L. Bonifacio;H.C. Glass;J.E. Sullivan

  • Early-Life Epilepsies and the Emerging Role of Genetic Testing.

    Anne T. Berg;Anne T. Berg;Jason Coryell;Russell P. Saneto;Zachary M. Grinspan;Zachary M. Grinspan

  • Risk Factors for Epilepsy in Children With Neonatal Encephalopathy.

    Hannah C Glass;Karen J Hong;Elizabeth E Rogers;Rita J Jeremy

  • Stiripentol in Dravet syndrome: results of a retrospective U.S. study.

    Elaine C. Wirrell;Linda C Laux;David N. Franz;Joseph Sullivan

  • Risk factors for EEG seizures in neonates treated with hypothermia: A multicenter cohort study

    Hannah C. Glass;Courtney J. Wusthoff;Renée A. Shellhaas;Tammy N. Tsuchida

  • Efficacy and Safety of Fenfluramine for the Treatment of Seizures Associated With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

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  • Seizure control outcomes after resection of dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor in 50 patients.

    Edward F. Chang;Catherine Christie;Joseph E. Sullivan;Paul A. Garcia

  • KCNQ2 encephalopathy: delineation of the electroclinical phenotype and treatment response.

    Adam L. Numis;Marco Angriman;Joseph E. Sullivan;Ann J. Lewis

  • Seizures and magnetic resonance imaging-detected brain injury in newborns cooled for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

    Hannah C. Glass;Kendall B. Nash;Sonia L. Bonifacio;A. James Barkovich

  • Neurocritical Care for Neonates

    Hannah C. Glass;Sonia L. Bonifacio;Susan Peloquin;Thomas Shimotake

  • Possible precision medicine implications from genetic testing using combined detection of sequence and intragenic copy number variants in a large cohort with childhood epilepsy

    Rebecca Truty;Nila Patil;Raman Sankar;Joseph Sullivan

  • Retrospective analysis of the prognostic value of electroencephalography patterns obtained in pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest survivors during three years.

    Akira Nishisaki;Joseph Sullivan;Bernhard Steger;Carey R Bayer

  • Erratum: De Novo Mutations in Synaptic Transmission Genes Including DNM1 Cause Epileptic Encephalopathies (American Journal of Human Genetics (2014) 95(4) (360–370)(S0002929714003838)(10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.08.013))

    Silke Appenzeller;Rudi Balling;Nina Barisic;Stéphanie Baulac

  • Cannabidiol and Epilepsy: Sifting, Winnowing and Buzz.

    Barry E. Gidal

Frequent Co-Authors

Renée A. Shellhaas
Renée A. Shellhaas Washington University in St. Louis
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
Bradley S. Galer
Bradley S. Galer Endo Pharmaceuticals (United States)
Dennis J. Dlugos
Dennis J. Dlugos Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Eric H. Kossoff
Eric H. Kossoff Johns Hopkins University
Orrin Devinsky
Orrin Devinsky New York University
Edward J. Novotny
Edward J. Novotny University of Washington
Tobias Loddenkemper
Tobias Loddenkemper Boston Children's Hospital
Heather C. Mefford
Heather C. Mefford University of Washington

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