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M. Brandon Westover

M. Brandon Westover

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Neuroscience

D-Index
63
Citations
13625
World Ranking
3402
National Ranking
1577

Overview

M. Brandon Westover is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in medicine and neuroscience. Their scholarly output includes over 500 publications in medicine and more than 200 in neuroscience, reflecting engagement across related subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, artificial intelligence, and epidemiology.

The main topics covered in Westover's work include EEG and brain-computer interfaces, epilepsy research and treatment, sleep and wakefulness research, machine learning in healthcare, intensive care unit cognitive disorders, obstructive sleep apnea research, and sleep and related disorders. This range of topics indicates a focus on neurological and cognitive conditions, with attention to both clinical and technological aspects of neuroscience.

Westover has published extensively in several frequent venues, including:

  • SLEEP
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Epilepsia
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Haoqi Sun, Sahar F. Zafar, Jin Jing, Robert J. Thomas, and Shibani S. Mukerji. These collaborations highlight a network of researchers working in related fields of clinical neurophysiology and brain research.

Selected recent papers by M. Brandon Westover demonstrate the focus on clinical neurophysiology and the neurological impacts of diseases and conditions:

  • American Clinical Neurophysiology Society's Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology: 2021 Version (2021, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology)
  • Global Incidence of Neurological Manifestations Among Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19-A Report for the GCS-NeuroCOVID Consortium and the ENERGY Consortium (2021, JAMA Network Open)
  • Association of Red Blood Cell Distribution Width With Mortality Risk in Hospitalized Adults With SARS-CoV-2 Infection (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • Association of epileptiform abnormalities and seizures in Alzheimer disease (2020, Neurology)
  • Assessment of the Validity of the 2HELPS2B Score for Inpatient Seizure Risk Prediction (2020, JAMA Neurology)

Best Publications

  • American Clinical Neurophysiology Society's Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology: 2021 Version.

    Lawrence J. Hirsch;Michael W.K. Fong;Markus Leitinger;Suzette M. LaRoche

  • The continuum of spreading depolarizations in acute cortical lesion development: Examining Leão's legacy

    Jed A Hartings;C William Shuttleworth;Sergei A Kirov;Cenk Ayata

  • Recording, analysis, and interpretation of spreading depolarizations in neurointensive care: Review and recommendations of the COSBID research group

    Jens P. Dreier;Martin Fabricius;Cenk Ayata;Oliver W. Sakowitz

  • Effects of sevoflurane and propofol on frontal electroencephalogram power and coherence.

    Oluwaseun Akeju;M. Brandon Westover;M. Brandon Westover;Kara J. Pavone;Aaron L. Sampson

  • Expert-level sleep scoring with deep neural networks.

    Siddharth Biswal;Haoqi Sun;Balaji Goparaju;M Brandon Westover

  • Predicting neurosurgical outcomes in focal epilepsy patients using computational modelling.

    Nishant Sinha;Justin Dauwels;Marcus Kaiser;Sydney S. Cash

  • A comparison of propofol- and dexmedetomidine-induced electroencephalogram dynamics using spectral and coherence analysis.

    Oluwaseun Akeju;Kara J. Pavone;M. Brandon Westover;Rafael Vazquez

  • Exploration and Modulation of Brain Network Interactions with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Combination with Neuroimaging

    Mouhsin M. Shafi;M. Brandon Westover;M. Brandon Westover;Michael D. Fox;Michael D. Fox;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • You Snooze, You Win: the PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2018

    Mohammad M Ghassemi;Benjamin E Moody;Li-Wei H Lehman;Christopher Song

  • Interrater agreement for Critical Care EEG Terminology.

    Nicolas Gaspard;Lawrence J. Hirsch;Suzette M. LaRoche;Cecil D. Hahn

  • Emergence of Stable Functional Networks in Long-Term Human Electroencephalography

    Catherine Jean Chu;Mark R. Kramer;Jay Sriram Pathmanathan;Matt Travis Bianchi

  • Development of Expert-Level Automated Detection of Epileptiform Discharges During Electroencephalogram Interpretation

    Jin Jing;Jin Jing;Haoqi Sun;Jennifer A Kim;Aline Herlopian

  • The probability of seizures during EEG monitoring in critically ill adults

    M. Brandon Westover;Mouhsin M. Shafi;Mouhsin M. Shafi;Matt T. Bianchi;Lidia M.V.R. Moura

  • Association of an Electroencephalography-Based Risk Score With Seizure Probability in Hospitalized Patients.

    Aaron F. Struck;Berk Ustun;Andres Rodriguez Ruiz;Jong Woo Lee

  • Statin use following intracerebral hemorrhage: a decision analysis.

    M. Brandon Westover;Matt T. Bianchi;Mark H. Eckman;Steven M. Greenberg

  • Association of epileptiform abnormalities and seizures in Alzheimer disease.

    Alice D. Lam;Rani A. Sarkis;Kyle R. Pellerin;Jin Jing

  • Continuous electroencephalography predicts delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage: A prospective study of diagnostic accuracy

    Eric S. Rosenthal;Siddharth Biswal;Sahar F. Zafar;Kathryn L. O'Connor

  • Brain Age from the Electroencephalogram of Sleep

    Haoqi Sun;Luis Paixao;Jefferson T. Oliva;Balaji Goparaju

  • Estimating cerebral microinfarct burden from autopsy samples

    M. Brandon Westover;Matt T. Bianchi;Chunhui Yang;Julie A. Schneider

  • Interrater Reliability of Experts in Identifying Interictal Epileptiform Discharges in Electroencephalograms.

    Jin Jing;Jin Jing;Aline Herlopian;Aline Herlopian;Ioannis Karakis;Marcus Ng

  • Age-dependency of sevoflurane-induced electroencephalogram dynamics in children

    O. Akeju;K.J. Pavone;J.A. Thum;J.A. Thum;P.G. Firth

  • SLEEPNET: Automated Sleep Staging System via Deep Learning

    Siddharth Biswal;Joshua Kulas;Haoqi Sun;Balaji Goparaju

  • Effects of Sevoflurane and Propofol on Frontal Electroencephalogram Power and Coherence

    Oluwaseun Akeju;M. Brandon Westover;Kara J. Pavone;Aaron L. Sampson

Frequent Co-Authors

Sydney S. Cash
Sydney S. Cash Harvard University
Patrick L. Purdon
Patrick L. Purdon Harvard University
Nicolas Gaspard
Nicolas Gaspard Université Libre de Bruxelles
Mouhsin M. Shafi
Mouhsin M. Shafi Harvard Medical School
Andrew J. Cole
Andrew J. Cole Harvard University
Lawrence J. Hirsch
Lawrence J. Hirsch Yale University
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University
Barbara A. Dworetzky
Barbara A. Dworetzky Harvard Medical School
Cao Xiao
Cao Xiao General Electric (United Kingdom)

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