2026 Maria Thom: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	76	1914	1747	200	183	337	21794

Overview

Maria Thom is affiliated with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a notable focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, and Neurology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

Epilepsy research and treatment
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment

Maria Thom has contributed frequently to a variety of scientific journals, with a high number of publications in:

Epilepsia (12 publications)
Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology (11 publications)
Brain Pathology (4 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
Brain (3 publications)

Some of their recent scientific papers include:

"The emerging spectrum of COVID-19 neurology: clinical, radiological and laboratory findings," 2020, Brain
"Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study," 2020, The Lancet Neurology
"The ILAE consensus classification of focal cortical dysplasia: An update proposed by an ad hoc task force of the ILAE diagnostic methods commission," 2022, Epilepsia
"Microvascular injury and hypoxic damage: emerging neuropathological signatures in COVID-19," 2020, Acta Neuropathologica
"Toward a better definition of focal cortical dysplasia: An iterative histopathological and genetic agreement trial," 2021, Epilepsia

Their frequent co-authors are:

Smriti Patodia
Sanjay M. Sisodiya
Beate Diehl
Alyma Somani
Eleonora Aronica

Best Publications

The clinicopathologic spectrum of focal cortical dysplasias: A consensus classification proposed by an ad hoc Task Force of the ILAE Diagnostic Methods Commission

Ingmar Blümcke;Maria Thom;Eleonora Aronica;Dawna D. Armstrong

1952
Citations
The emerging spectrum of COVID-19 neurology: clinical, radiological and laboratory findings.

Ross W Paterson;Ross W Paterson;Rachel L Brown;Laura Benjamin;Laura Benjamin;Ross Nortley;Ross Nortley

1145
Citations
International consensus classification of hippocampal sclerosis in temporal lobe epilepsy: A Task Force report from the ILAE Commission on Diagnostic Methods

Ingmar Blümcke;Maria Thom;Eleonora Aronica;Dawna D. Armstrong

1101
Citations
Histopathological Findings in Brain Tissue Obtained during Epilepsy Surgery.

Blumcke I;Spreafico R;Haaker G;Coras R

905
Citations
Drug resistance in epilepsy: expression of drug resistance proteins in common causes of refractory epilepsy

S. M. Sisodiya;W.‐R. Lin;B. N. Harding;M. V. Squier

669
Citations
Review: Hippocampal sclerosis in epilepsy: a neuropathology review

Maria Thom

646
Citations
Ammon's Horn Sclerosis: A Maldevelopmental Disorder Associated with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Ingmar Blümcke;Maria Thom;Otmar D Wiestler

456
Citations
Genetic predictors of the maximum doses patients receive during clinical use of the anti-epileptic drugs carbamazepine and phenytoin

Sarah K. Tate;Chantal Depondt;Sanjay M. Sisodiya;Gianpiero L. Cavalleri

407
Citations
Review of 23 patients affected by the stiff man syndrome: clinical subdivision into stiff trunk (man) syndrome, stiff limb syndrome, and progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity

R A Barker;T Revesz;M Thom;C D Marsden

398
Citations
The ILAE consensus classification of focal cortical dysplasia: An update proposed by an ad hoc task force of the ILAE diagnostic methods commission

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390
Citations
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

330
Citations
Hyperphosphorylated tau in patients with refractory epilepsy correlates with cognitive decline: a study of temporal lobe resections

Xin You Tai;Matthias Koepp;John S. Duncan;Nick Fox

320
Citations
Long-term epilepsy-associated tumors.

Maria Thom;Ingmar Blümcke;Eleonora Aronica

278
Citations
Hippocampal sclerosis--origins and imaging.

Kristina Malmgren;Maria Thom

269
Citations
Temporal lobe sclerosis associated with hippocampal sclerosis in temporal lobe epilepsy: neuropathological features.

Maria Thom;Sofia Eriksson;Lillian Martinian;Luis O. Caboclo

259
Citations
Dravet syndrome as epileptic encephalopathy: evidence from long-term course and neuropathology

Claudia B. Catarino;Joan Y.W. Liu;Ioannis Liagkouras;Vaneesha S. Gibbons

240
Citations
P-glycoprotein expression and function in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: a case-control study

Maria Feldmann;Maria Feldmann;Marie Claude Asselin;Joan Liu;Shaonan Wang

220
Citations
Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: How do we improve surgical outcome?

Maria Thom;Gary W. Mathern;J. Helen Cross;Edward H. Bertram

214
Citations
Reliability of patterns of hippocampal sclerosis as predictors of postsurgical outcome

Maria Thom;Ioannis Liagkouras;Kathryn J. Elliot;Lillian Martinian

204
Citations
Germline and somatic FGFR1 abnormalities in dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors

Barbara Rivera;Tenzin Gayden;Jian Carrot-Zhang;Javad Nadaf

200
Citations
Neurofibrillary tangle pathology and Braak staging in chronic epilepsy in relation to traumatic brain injury and hippocampal sclerosis: a post-mortem study.

Maria Thom;Joan Y.W. Liu;Pam Thompson;Rahul Phadke

195
Citations
Malformations of cortical development and epilepsies: neuropathological findings with emphasis on focal cortical dysplasia.

Ingmar Blümcke;Harry V Vinters;Dawna Armstrong;Eleonora Aronica

184
Citations