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Lina Nashef is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary research fields encompass Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, Neurology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's research largely focuses on Epilepsy research and treatment, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities.

Among Lina Nashef's recent publications are:

  • New-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE), 2021, Practical Neurology
  • Cenobamate in refractory epilepsy: Overview of treatment options and practical considerations, 2023, Epilepsia Open
  • The impact of inversions across 33,924 families with rare disease from a national genome sequencing project, 2024, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Two-center experience of cannabidiol use in adults with Dravet syndrome, 2021, Seizure
  • Long-term outcome of vagus nerve stimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy using continuous assessment, with a note on mortality, 2022, Seizure

Lina Nashef frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Seizure
  • Practical Neurology
  • Epilepsia Open
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Epidemiology and Infection

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lina Nashef include:

  • Laura Mantoan Ritter
  • Katri Silvennoinen
  • Sanjay M. Sisodiya
  • Meneka K. Sidhu
  • Bettina Schmitz

Best Publications

  • Incidence and mechanisms of cardiorespiratory arrests in epilepsy monitoring units (MORTEMUS): A retrospective study

    Philippe Ryvlin;Lina Nashef;Samden D Lhatoo;Lisa M Bateman

  • Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: current knowledge and future directions.

    Torbjörn Tomson;Lina Nashef;Philippe Ryvlin

  • Unifying the definitions of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy

    Lina Nashef;Elson L. So;Philippe Ryvlin;Torbjörn Tomson

  • Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Terminology and Definitions

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  • Case-control study of SUDEP

    Y. Langan;L. Nashef;J. W. Sander

  • Apnoea and bradycardia during epileptic seizures: relation to sudden death in epilepsy.

    L. Nashef;F. Walker;P. Allen;J. W. A. S. Sander

  • Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: a series of witnessed deaths

    Y Langan;L Nashef;J W A S Sander

  • Sudden death in epilepsy: a study of incidence in a young cohort with epilepsy and learning difficulty.

    L. Nashef;D. R. Fish;S. Garner;J. W. A. S. Sander

  • Incidence of sudden unexpected death in an adult outpatient cohort with epilepsy at a tertiary referral centre.

    L. Nashef;D. R. Fish;J. W. A. S. Sander;S. D. Shorvon

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with dissociative seizures (CODES): a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial

    Laura H. Goldstein;Emily J. Robinson;John D.C. Mellers;Jon Stone

  • A Gene for Autosomal Recessive Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Maps to Chromosome 2p

    R. Bashir;T. Strachan;S. Keers;A. Stephenson

  • Risk factors in sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP): the quest for mechanisms.

    Lina Nashef;Neeti Hindocha;Andrew Makoff

  • SUDEP and epilepsy-related mortality in pregnancy.

    Stephan Edey;Nicholas Moran;Nicholas Moran;Lina Nashef

  • Circumstances of death in sudden death in epilepsy: interviews of bereaved relatives

    L Nashef;S Garner;J W A S Sander;D R Fish

  • Epilepsy in the United Kingdom: seizure frequency and severity, anti-epileptic drug utilization and impact on life in 1652 people with epilepsy

    N.F. Moran;K. Poole;G.S. Bell;J. Solomon

  • Epilepsy and sudden death.

    Lina Nashef;Stephen Brown

  • Misdiagnosis in epilepsy: a review and recognition of diagnostic uncertainty

    Fahmida Chowdhury;L. Nashef;R. D. C. Elwes

  • Prevention of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: a realistic goal?

    Philippe Ryvlin;Lina Nashef;Torbjörn Tomson

  • Association between the α1a calcium channel gene CACNA1A and idiopathic generalized epilepsy

    B. Chioza;H. Wilkie;L. Nashef;J. Blower

  • Current Issues in the Management of Epilepsy: The Impact of Frequent Seizures on Cost of Illness, Quality of Life, and Mortality

    G A Baker;L Nashef;B A van Hout

  • Authors' Voluntary Retraction: H. Wilkie, A. Osei-Lah, B. Chioza, L. Nashef, D. McCormick, P. Asherson, and A.J. Makoff: Association of the μ-opioid receptor subunit gene and idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Neurology 2002;59:724–728

    Andrew Makoff;Philip Asherson;Lina Nashef

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark P. Richardson
Mark P. Richardson King's College London
Robert D. C. Elwes
Robert D. C. Elwes King's College London
Josemir W. Sander
Josemir W. Sander University College London
Philippe Ryvlin
Philippe Ryvlin University Hospital of Lausanne
Gail S. Bell
Gail S. Bell University College London
Charles E. Polkey
Charles E. Polkey King's College London
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
Sameer M. Zuberi
Sameer M. Zuberi University of Glasgow
David R. Fish
David R. Fish University College London

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