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Peter Camfield

Peter Camfield

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Neuroscience

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74
Citations
15948
World Ranking
2142
National Ranking
120

Medicine

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74
Citations
15948
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19503
National Ranking
829

Overview

Peter Camfield is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada and has contributed to research primarily in medicine and health professions. Their work spans various subfields including psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, speech and hearing, clinical biochemistry, and infectious diseases.

Their research topics focus heavily on epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, quality of life for childhood cancer survivors, metabolism and genetic disorders, child nutrition and feeding issues, as well as infectious encephalopathies and encephalitis.

Recent papers by Peter Camfield include:

  • What Do We Need to Know About Transition/Transfer Programs and What Sort of Research Will Answer the Questions? (2020, Seminars in Pediatric Neurology)

Other notable papers related to their frequent coauthors and publication venues include:

  • Acute symptomatic seizures: an educational, evidence-based review (2022, Epileptic Disorders)
  • The changing incidence of childhood epilepsy in Finland (2024, Seizure)
  • Can an epilepsy transfer clinic be sustained in the United States? (2020, Neurology Clinical Practice)
  • Issue Information (2023, Annals of the Child Neurology Society)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Peter Camfield are:

  • Carol Camfield
  • Stephen Ashwal
  • Bruce H. Cohen
  • Gregory Aaen
  • Erika F. Augustine

The venues in which Peter Camfield commonly publishes include:

  • Epileptic Disorders
  • Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
  • Seizure
  • Neurology Clinical Practice
  • Annals of the Child Neurology Society

Best Publications

  • A multicenter study of the efficacy of the ketogenic diet

    Eileen P. G. Vining;John M. Freeman;Karen Ballaban-Gil;Carol S. Camfield

  • Practice parameter: Evaluating a first nonfebrile seizure in children Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology, the Child Neurology Society, and the American Epilepsy Society

    D. Hirtz;S. Ashwal;A. Berg;David Bettis

  • Incidence, prevalence and aetiology of seizures and epilepsy in children

    Peter Camfield;Carol Camfield

  • Incidence of Epilepsy in Childhood and Adolescence: A Population‐Based Study in Nova Scotia from 1977 to 1985

    Carol S. Camfield;Peter R. Camfield;Kevin Gordon;Elaine Wirrell

  • Long-term social outcomes for children with epilepsy.

    Carol S. Camfield;Peter R. Camfield

  • Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy 25 years after seizure onset: A population-based study

    Carol S. Camfield;Peter R. Camfield

  • Epileptic syndromes in childhood: clinical features, outcomes, and treatment.

    Peter Camfield;Carol Camfield

  • Side effects of phenobarbital in toddlers; behavioral and cognitive aspects.

    Carol S. Camfield;Sheila. Chaplin;Anna-Beth. Doyle;Stanley H. Shapiro

  • Definition and natural history of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

    Peter R. Camfield

  • Long-term prognosis of typical childhood absence epilepsy Remission or progression to juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

    E. C. Wirrell;C. S. Camfield;P. R. Camfield;K. E. Gordon

  • Outcome of childhood epilepsy: A population-based study with a simple predictive scoring system for those treated with medication

    Carol Camfield;Peter Camfield;Kevin Gordon;Bruce Smith

  • Long-term psychosocial outcome in typical absence epilepsy : Sometimes a wolf in sheeps' clothing

    Elaine C. Wirrell;Carol S. Camfield;Carol S. Camfield;Peter R. Camfield;Joseph M. Dooley

  • Death in children with epilepsy: a population-based study

    Carol S Camfield;Peter R Camfield;Paul J Veugelers

  • Epilepsy after a first unprovoked seizure in childhood

    Peter R. Camfield;Carol S. Camfield;J. M. Dooley;J.A.R. Tibbles

  • Social adjustment and competence 35 years after onset of childhood epilepsy : A prospective controlled study

    Merja Jalava;Matti Sillanpää;Carol Camfield;Peter Camfield

  • Impact of pediatric epilepsy on the family: a new scale for clinical and research use.

    Carol Camfield;Lynn Breau;Peter Camfield

  • Commission on outcome measurement in epilepsy, 1994-1997: Final report

    G A Baker;C Camfield;P Camfield;J A Cramer

  • What types of epilepsy are preceded by febrile seizures? A population-based study of children.

    P Camfield;C Camfield;K Gordon;J Dooley

  • Peer problems in Tourette's disorder.

    Aidan Stokes;Harry N. Bawden;Joan E. Backman;Joseph M. Dooley

  • Dravet syndrome and parent associations: The IDEA League experience with comorbid conditions, mortality, management, adaptation, and grief

    Joan V. Skluzacek;Kathryn P. Watts;Olivier Parsy;Beverly Wical

  • Mortality Risks in New-Onset Childhood Epilepsy

    Anne T. Berg;Katherine Nickels;Elaine C. Wirrell;Ada T. Geerts

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol Camfield
Carol Camfield Dalhousie University
Rima Nabbout
Rima Nabbout Université Paris Cité
Richard Appleton
Richard Appleton Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Danielle M. Andrade
Danielle M. Andrade Toronto Western Hospital
Matti Sillanpää
Matti Sillanpää Turku University Hospital
Alexis Arzimanoglou
Alexis Arzimanoglou Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona
Anne T. Berg
Anne T. Berg Northwestern University
Shlomo Shinnar
Shlomo Shinnar Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Louis J. Ptáček
Louis J. Ptáček University of California, San Francisco

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