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Overview

Orrin Devinsky is affiliated with New York University in the United States and focuses primarily on research in Medicine and Neuroscience. Their scholarly work encompasses a broad range of topics including epilepsy research and treatment, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Their recent publications include:

  • Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Viral manipulation of functionally distinct interneurons in mice, non-human primates and humans, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Add-on Cannabidiol Treatment for Drug-Resistant Seizures in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • White matter abnormalities across different epilepsy syndromes in adults: an ENIGMA-Epilepsy study, 2020, Brain
  • Network-based atrophy modeling in the common epilepsies: A worldwide ENIGMA study, 2020, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Orrin Devinsky include:

  • Daniel Friedman
  • Werner Doyle
  • Patricia Dugan
  • Adeen Flinker
  • Sasha Devore

The most common publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Epilepsia
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Frontiers in Neurology

The main fields of study for Orrin Devinsky concentrate on Medicine and Neuroscience, while subfields include cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and genetics.

Their research spans a variety of topics, notably:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Pharmacological effects and toxicity studies
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Functional brain connectivity studies

Best Publications

  • Contributions of anterior cingulate cortex to behaviour.

    Orrin Devinsky;Martha J. Morrell;Brent A. Vogt

  • Trial of Cannabidiol for Drug-Resistant Seizures in the Dravet Syndrome

    Orrin Devinsky;J. Helen Cross;Linda Laux;Eric Marsh

  • De novo mutations in epileptic encephalopathies

    Andrew S. Allen;Samuel F. Berkovic;Patrick Cossette;Norman Delanty

  • Cannabidiol: pharmacology and potential therapeutic role in epilepsy and other neuropsychiatric disorders.

    Orrin Devinsky;Maria Roberta Cilio;Helen Cross;Javier Fernandez-Ruiz

  • Cannabidiol in patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy: an open-label interventional trial

    Orrin Devinsky;Eric Marsh;Daniel Friedman;Elizabeth Thiele

  • NeuroGrid: recording action potentials from the surface of the brain

    Dion Khodagholy;Jennifer N Gelinas;Thomas Thesen;Werner Doyle

  • Effect of Cannabidiol on Drop Seizures in the Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.

    Orrin Devinsky;Anup D. Patel;J. Helen Cross;Vicente Villanueva

  • Glia and epilepsy: excitability and inflammation

    Orrin Devinsky;Annamaria Vezzani;Souhel Najjar;Nihal C. De Lanerolle

  • Development and cross-cultural translations of a 31-item quality of life in epilepsy inventory.

    Joyce A. Cramer;Kenneth Perrine;Orrin Devinsky;Lynda Bryant-Comstock

  • Neuroinflammation and psychiatric illness

    Souhel Najjar;Souhel Najjar;Daniel M Pearlman;Daniel M Pearlman;Kenneth Alper;Amanda Najjar

  • Depression but not seizure frequency predicts quality of life in treatment-resistant epilepsy

    L. S. Boylan;L. A. Flint;D. L. Labovitz;S. C. Jackson

  • Development of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory

    Orrin Devinsky;Barbara G. Vickrey;Joyce Cramer;Kenneth Perrine

  • Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: epidemiology, mechanisms, and prevention.

    Orrin Devinsky;Dale C. Hesdorffer;David J. Thurman;Samden D Lhatoo

  • Slow cortical dynamics and the accumulation of information over long timescales

    Christopher J. Honey;Thomas Thesen;Tobias H. Donner;Lauren J. Silbert

  • Immediate neurophysiological effects of transcranial electrical stimulation.

    Anli Liu;Mihály Vöröslakos;Gregory Kronberg;Simon Henin

  • Measurements and models of electric fields in the in vivo human brain during transcranial electric stimulation

    Yu Huang;Anli A Liu;Belen Lafon;Daniel Friedman

  • Structural brain abnormalities in the common epilepsies assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study.

    Christopher D Whelan;Christopher D Whelan;Andre Altmann;Juan A Botía;Neda Jahanshad

  • Randomized, dose-ranging safety trial of cannabidiol in Dravet syndrome.

    Orrin Devinsky;Anup D. Patel;Elizabeth A. Thiele;Matthew H. Wong

  • Stereotactic ventral pallidotomy for Parkinson's disease

    M. Dogali;E. Fazzini;E. Kolodny;D. Eidelberg

  • The Human K-Complex Represents an Isolated Cortical Down-State

    Sydney S. Cash;Eric Halgren;Nima Dehghani;Andrea O. Rossetti

  • A brief questionnaire to screen for quality of life in epilepsy: the QOLIE-10.

    Joyce A. Cramer;Kenneth Perrine;Orrin Devinsky;Kimford Meador

  • Genome-wide mega-analysis identifies 16 loci and highlights diverse biological mechanisms in the common epilepsies

    Bassel Abou-Khalil;Pauls Auce;Andreja Avbersek;Melanie Bahlo

  • Depression but not seizure frequency predicts quality of life in treatment-resistant epilepsy [6] (multiple letters)

    Ludger Tebartz Van Elst;Michael R. Trimble;Laura S. Boylan;Daniel L. Labovitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Friedman
Daniel Friedman Indiana University
Werner Doyle
Werner Doyle New York University
Thomas Thesen
Thomas Thesen New York University
Ruben Kuzniecky
Ruben Kuzniecky Hofstra University
Chad Carlson
Chad Carlson Medical College of Wisconsin
Kenneth Perrine
Kenneth Perrine Cornell University
William B. Barr
William B. Barr New York University
Howard L. Weiner
Howard L. Weiner Harvard University
Jacqueline A. French
Jacqueline A. French New York University
Eric Halgren
Eric Halgren University of California, San Diego

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