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Overview

Patrick Waters is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of research is Medicine, with a focus on Neurology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Rheumatology, Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology.

Their main research areas cover topics such as Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies, Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research, Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma, Antifungal Resistance and Susceptibility, and Polyomavirus and Related Diseases.

The scientist has published work in several notable academic venues, including:

  • Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Neurology
  • Annals of Neurology
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Journal of Neurology

Frequent collaborators include Sarosh R. Irani, Mark Woodhall, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Brenda Banwell, and Fabienne Brilot.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Diagnosis of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease: International MOGAD Panel proposed criteria" (2023) published in The Lancet Neurology
  • "Myelin-oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease" (2021) published in The Lancet Neurology
  • "International multicenter examination of MOG antibody assays" (2020) published in Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • "Distinctive binding properties of human monoclonal LGI1 autoantibodies determine pathogenic mechanisms" (2020) published in Brain
  • "Prevalence and incidence of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, aquaporin-4 antibody-positive NMOSD and MOG antibody-positive disease in Oxfordshire, UK" (2020) published in Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • International consensus diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders

    Dean M. Wingerchuk;Brenda Banwell;Jeffrey L. Bennett;Philippe Cabre

  • A clinical approach to diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis

    Francesc Graus;Maarten J. Titulaer;Ramani Balu;Susanne Benseler

  • Antibodies to Kv1 potassium channel-complex proteins leucine-rich, glioma inactivated 1 protein and contactin-associated protein-2 in limbic encephalitis, Morvan's syndrome and acquired neuromyotonia.

    Sarosh R. Irani;Sian Alexander;Patrick Waters;Kleopas A. Kleopa

  • Diagnosis of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease: International MOGAD Panel proposed criteria

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  • N-methyl-d-aspartate antibody encephalitis: temporal progression of clinical and paraclinical observations in a predominantly non-paraneoplastic disorder of both sexes

    Sarosh R. Irani;Katarzyna Bera;Patrick Waters;Luigi Zuliani

  • Faciobrachial dystonic seizures precede Lgi1 antibody limbic encephalitis.

    Sarosh R. Irani;Andrew W. Michell;Bethan Lang;Philippa Pettingill

  • Distinction between MOG antibody-positive and AQP4 antibody-positive NMO spectrum disorders

    Douglas Kazutoshi Sato;Dagoberto Callegaro;Marco Aurelio Lana-Peixoto;Patrick J. Waters

  • Clinical presentation and prognosis in MOG-antibody disease: a UK study.

    Maciej Jurynczyk;Silvia Messina;Mark R Woodhall;Naheed Raza

  • Surfactant proteins SP-A and SP-D : Structure, function and receptors

    Uday Kishore;Trevor J. Greenhough;Patrick Waters;Annette K. Shrive

  • Autoantibodies associated with diseases of the CNS: new developments and future challenges

    Angela Vincent;Christian G Bien;Sarosh R Irani;Patrick Waters

  • Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders with aquaporin-4 and myelin-oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibodies: a comparative study.

    J Kitley;P Waters;M Woodhall;M I Leite

  • Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibodies in neurological disease.

    Markus Reindl;Patrick Waters

  • Serologic diagnosis of NMO: A multicenter comparison of aquaporin-4-IgG assays

    P.J. Waters;A. McKeon;M.I. Leite;S. Rajasekharan

  • Intra-cerebral injection of neuromyelitis optica immunoglobulin G and human complement produces neuromyelitis optica lesions in mice

    Samira Saadoun;Patrick Waters;B. Anthony Bell;Angela Vincent

  • Morvan syndrome: Clinical and serological observations in 29 cases

    Sarosh R. Irani;Philippa Pettingill;Kleopas A. Kleopa;Natasa Schiza

  • Glycine receptor antibodies in PERM and related syndromes: characteristics, clinical features and outcomes.

    Carvajal-González A;Leite Mi;Waters P;Woodhall M

  • Antibody to aquaporin-4 in the Long-Term Course of Neuromyelitis Optica

    S Jarius;F Aboul-Enein;P Waters;B Kuenz

  • C1q and tumor necrosis factor superfamily: modularity and versatility.

    Uday Kishore;Uday Kishore;Christine Gaboriaud;Patrick Waters;Annette K. Shrive

  • Myelin-oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibodies in adults with a neuromyelitis optica phenotype

    J Kitley;M Woodhall;P Waters;M I Leite

  • GRIN2A mutations in acquired epileptic aphasia and related childhood focal epilepsies and encephalopathies with speech and language dysfunction.

    Gaetan Lesca;Gabrielle Rudolf;Nadine Bruneau;Natalia Lozovaya

  • Myelin-oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease.

    Romain Marignier;Romain Marignier;Yael Hacohen;Alvaro Cobo-Calvo;Anne Katrin Pröbstel

  • Faciobrachial dystonic seizures: the influence of immunotherapy on seizure control and prevention of cognitive impairment in a broadening phenotype

    Sarosh R. Irani;Charlotte J. Stagg;Jonathan M. Schott;Clive R. Rosenthal

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela Vincent
Angela Vincent University of Oxford
Uday Kishore
Uday Kishore Brunel University London
Markus Reindl
Markus Reindl Innsbruck Medical University
Amit Bar-Or
Amit Bar-Or University of Pennsylvania
Brenda Banwell
Brenda Banwell Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kazuo Fujihara
Kazuo Fujihara Fukushima Medical University
Ichiro Nakashima
Ichiro Nakashima Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Russell C. Dale
Russell C. Dale University of Sydney
David Beeson
David Beeson University of Oxford

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