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Overview

Nicholas M. Barbaro is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on neurology, pathology and forensic medicine, surgery, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments
  • Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis
  • Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
  • Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research
  • Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications
  • Surgical Simulation and Training
  • Radiology practices and education

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Barbaro include:

  • Long-term pain outcomes in elderly patients with trigeminal neuralgia: comparison of first-time microvascular decompression and stereotactic radiosurgery, 2020, Neurosurgical FOCUS
  • Neurosurgery residency and fellowship education in the United States: 2 decades of system development by the One Neurosurgery Summit organizations, 2021, Journal of neurosurgery
  • Molecular Classification of Gliomas is Associated with Seizure Control: A Retrospective Analysis, 2020, NeuroMolecular Medicine
  • Comparison of Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiofrequency Ablation for Trigeminal Neuralgia in Multiple Sclerosis Patients, 2020, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
  • Long-term Outcomes in Elderly Patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia, 2020, Neurosurgery

Barbaro collaborates frequently with several colleagues in the field. Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Kunal P. Raygor
  • Edward F. Chang
  • Anthony T. Lee
  • Mariann M. Ward
  • Doris D. Wang

Their publications appear in specialized journals which include:

  • Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
  • Neurosurgical FOCUS
  • Journal of neurosurgery
  • NeuroMolecular Medicine
  • Neurosurgery

Best Publications

  • High gamma power is phase-locked to theta oscillations in human neocortex.

    Ryan T. Canolty;Erik Edwards;Erik Edwards;Sarang Dalal;M. Soltani;M. Soltani

  • Unique astrocyte ribbon in adult human brain contains neural stem cells but lacks chain migration

    Nader Sanai;Anthony D Tramontin;Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa;Nicholas M Barbaro

  • Long-term efficacy and safety of thalamic stimulation for drug-resistant partial epilepsy

    Vicenta Salanova;Thomas Witt;Robert Worth;Thomas R. Henry

  • MDR1 gene expression in brain of patients with medically intractable epilepsy.

    David M. Tishler;Kenneth I. Weinberg;David R. Hinton;Nicholas Barbaro

  • Categorical speech representation in human superior temporal gyrus

    Edward F Chang;Jochem W Rieger;Jochem W Rieger;Keith Johnson;Mitchel S Berger

  • Seizure characteristics and control following resection in 332 patients with low-grade gliomas

    Edward F. Chang;Matthew B. Potts;G. Evren Keles;Kathleen R. Lamborn

  • Preoperative Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging of Brain Tumors: Correlation with Histopathologic Analysis of Resection Specimens

    Chris Dowling;Andrew W. Bollen;Susan M. Noworolski;Michael W. McDermott

  • Radiation therapy in the treatment of partially resected meningiomas.

    Nicholas M. Barbaro;Philip H. Gutin;Charles B. Wilson;Glenn E. Sheline

  • Aberrant seizure-induced neurogenesis in experimental temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Jack M. Parent;Robert C. Elliott;Samuel J. Pleasure;Nicholas M. Barbaro

  • Functional mapping–guided resection of low-grade gliomas in eloquent areas of the brain: improvement of long-term survival: Clinical article

    Edward F. Chang;Aaron Clark;Justin S. Smith;Mei Yin Polley

  • Calcium-binding protein (calbindin-D28K) and parvalbumin immunocytochemistry in the normal and epileptic human hippocampus.

    Robert S. Sloviter;Robert S. Sloviter;Anne L. Sollas;Nicholas M. Barbaro;Kenneth D. Laxer

  • Preoperative prognostic classification system for hemispheric low-grade gliomas in adults : Clinical article

    Edward F. Chang;Justin S. Smith;Susan M. Chang;Kathleen R. Lamborn

  • Epilepsy surgery trends in the United States, 1990–2008

    D.J. Englot;D. Ouyang;P.A. Garcia;N.M. Barbaro

  • Five-dimensional neuroimaging: Localization of the time-frequency dynamics of cortical activity

    Sarang S. Dalal;Adrian G. Guggisberg;Adrian G. Guggisberg;Erik Edwards;Erik Edwards;Kensuke Sekihara

  • Factors associated with seizure freedom in the surgical resection of glioneuronal tumors

    Dario J. Englot;Mitchel S. Berger;Nicholas M. Barbaro;Edward F. Chang

  • Predictors of seizure freedom after resection of supratentorial low-grade gliomas. A review.

    Dario J. Englot;Mitchel S. Berger;Nicholas M. Barbaro;Edward F. Chang

  • Colocalization and coassembly of two human brain M-type potassium channel subunits that are mutated in epilepsy

    Edward C. Cooper;Kenneth D. Aldape;Aviva Abosch;Nicholas M. Barbaro

  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of word processing in the human brain.

    Ryan T. Canolty;Maryam Soltani;Maryam Soltani;Sarang S. Dalal;Erik Edwards;Erik Edwards;Erik Edwards

  • Surgical treatment of syringomyelia. Favorable results with syringoperitoneal shunting.

    Nicholas M. Barbaro;Charles B. Wilson;Philip H. Gutin;Michael S. B. Edwards

  • Control of the transition from sensory detection to sensory awareness in man by the duration of a thalamic stimulus: The CEREBRAL 'time-on' factor

    Benjamin Libet;Dennis K. Pearl;David E. Morledge;Curtis A. Gleason

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip A. Starr
Philip A. Starr University of California, San Francisco
Edward F. Chang
Edward F. Chang University of California, San Francisco
Paul A. Garcia
Paul A. Garcia University of California, San Francisco
Kenneth D. Laxer
Kenneth D. Laxer Sutter Health
Mitchel S. Berger
Mitchel S. Berger University of California, San Francisco
Michael T. Lawton
Michael T. Lawton Barrow Neurological Institute
Robert T. Knight
Robert T. Knight University of California, Berkeley
Michael W. McDermott
Michael W. McDermott University of California, San Francisco
Heidi E. Kirsch
Heidi E. Kirsch University of California, San Francisco
Mark Quigg
Mark Quigg University of Virginia

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