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Overview

Margitta Seeck is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

The primary topics of Seeck's research include epilepsy research and treatment, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, as well as advanced MRI techniques and applications.

The scientist has authored numerous papers published in notable venues. Some recent publications include:

  • "Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study," 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • "Non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroenhancement," 2022, Clinical Neurophysiology Practice
  • "Ictal EEG source localization in focal epilepsy: Review and future perspectives," 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "Evidence accumulation relates to perceptual consciousness and monitoring," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The ENIGMA-Epilepsy working group: Mapping disease from large data sets," 2020, Human Brain Mapping

Margitta Seeck has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Serge Vulliémoz
  • Pia De Stefano
  • Laurent Spinelli
  • Pierre Mégevand
  • Laurent Sheybani

The primary publication venues where Seeck's research appears include:

  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Clinical Neurophysiology Practice
  • Clinical Epileptology
  • Epilepsia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions

    Olaf Blanke;Stéphanie Ortigue;Theodor Landis;Margitta Seeck

  • Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin

    Olaf Blanke;Theodor Landis;Laurent Spinelli;Margitta Seeck

  • Linking Out-of-Body Experience and Self Processing to Mental Own-Body Imagery at the Temporoparietal Junction

    Olaf Blanke;Christine Mohr;Christoph M Michel;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • The standardized EEG electrode array of the IFCN

    Margitta Seeck;Laurent Koessler;Thomas Bast;Frans Leijten

  • Epileptic source localization with high density EEG: how many electrodes are needed?

    G Lantz;R Grave de Peralta;L Spinelli;M Seeck

  • Electroencephalographic source imaging: a prospective study of 152 operated epileptic patients

    Verena Brodbeck;Laurent Jean-François Spinelli;Agustina Maria Lascano;Michael Wissmeier

  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study

    Herm J Lamberink;Willem M Otte;Ingmar Blümcke;Kees P J Braun

  • Non-invasive epileptic focus localization using EEG-triggered functional MRI and electromagnetic tomography

    M Seeck;F Lazeyras;C.M Michel;O Blanke

  • Seizure-like phenomena and propofol: A systematic review

    Bernhard Walder;Martin R. Tramèr;Margitta Seeck

  • Induction of an illusory shadow person

    Shahar Arzy;Margitta Seeck;Stephanie Ortigue;Laurent Spinelli

  • Electric source imaging of human brain functions

    Christoph M Michel;Gregor Thut;Stéphanie Morand;Asaid Khateb

  • Electromagnetic inverse solutions in anatomically constrained spherical head models.

    Laurent Spinelli;Sara Gonzalez Andino;Goran Lantz;Goran Lantz;Margitta Seeck

  • 128-channel EEG source imaging in epilepsy: clinical yield and localization precision.

    Christoph M. Michel;Göran Lantz;Laurent Spinelli;F. Rolando Grave De Peralta

  • Non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroenhancement

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  • Propagation of interictal epileptiform activity can lead to erroneous source localizations: a 128-channel EEG mapping study

    Göran Lantz;Laurent Spinelli;Margitta Seeck;Rolando Grave de Peralta Menendez

  • Evidence for rapid face recognition from human scalp and intracranial electrodes.

    Seeck M;Michel Cm;Mainwaring N;Cosgrove R

  • With or without spikes: localization of focal epileptic activity by simultaneous electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Frédéric Grouiller;Rachel C Thornton;Kristina Groening;Laurent Jean-François Spinelli

  • Neural Sources and Underlying Mechanisms of Neural Responses to Heartbeats, and their Role in Bodily Self-consciousness: An Intracranial EEG Study.

    Hyeong-Dong Park;Fosco Bernasconi;Roy Salomon;Catherine Tallon-Baudry

  • Temporal precedence of emotion over attention modulations in the lateral amygdala: Intracranial ERP evidence from a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Gilles Pourtois;Laurent Jean-François Spinelli;Laurent Jean-François Spinelli;Margitta Seeck;Margitta Seeck;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Involvement of GATOR complex genes in familial focal epilepsies and focal cortical dysplasia.

    Sarah Weckhuysen;Elise Marsan;Virginie Lambrecq;Cécile Marchal

  • EEG source imaging in pediatric epilepsy surgery: a new perspective in presurgical workup.

    Francesca Sperli;Laurent Spinelli;Margitta Seeck;Mary Kurian

  • Extracranial localization of intracranial interictal epileptiform activity using LORETA (low resolution electromagnetic tomography)

    G. Lantz;C.M. Michel;R.D. Pascual-Marqui;L. Spinelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Vulliemoz
Serge Vulliemoz University of Geneva
Christoph M. Michel
Christoph M. Michel University of Geneva
Laurent Spinelli
Laurent Spinelli University of Geneva
Olaf Blanke
Olaf Blanke École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Theodor Landis
Theodor Landis University of Geneva
Alan J. Pegna
Alan J. Pegna University of Queensland
François Lazeyras
François Lazeyras University of Geneva
Gregor Thut
Gregor Thut Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Patrik Vuilleumier
Patrik Vuilleumier University of Geneva
Andrea O. Rossetti
Andrea O. Rossetti University of Lausanne

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