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Prasanna Jayakar is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a notable concentration in subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including epilepsy research and treatment, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, vagus nerve stimulation research, head and neck surgical oncology, cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, and neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Prasanna Jayakar include:

  • Establishing criteria for pediatric epilepsy surgery center levels of care: Report from the ILAE Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Task Force (2020, Epilepsia)
  • Functional hemispherectomy: can preoperative imaging predict outcome? (2020, Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics)
  • Early Implantation as a Main Predictor of Response to Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Childhood-Onset Refractory Epilepsy (2020, Journal of Child Neurology)
  • Early vagus nerve stimulator implantation as a main predictor of positive outcome in pediatric patients with epileptic encephalopathy (2021, Epileptic Disorders)
  • American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Technical Standards for Electrical Stimulation With Intracranial Electrodes for Functional Brain Mapping and Seizure Induction (2025, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Prasanna Jayakar include Ian Miller, John Ragheb, Angelo Russo, Ann Hyslop, and Valentina Gentile.

Prasanna Jayakar has published in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Epilepsia
  • Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics
  • Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Journal of Child Neurology
  • Epileptic Disorders

Best Publications

  • Proposed Criteria for Referral and Evaluation of Children for Epilepsy Surgery: Recommendations of the Subcommission for Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

    J. Helen Cross;Prasanna Jayakar;Doug Nordli;Olivier Delalande

  • Incomplete resection of focal cortical dysplasia is the main predictor of poor postsurgical outcome.

    P. Krsek;B. Maton;P. Jayakar;P. Dean

  • Different features of histopathological subtypes of pediatric focal cortical dysplasia.

    Pavel Krsek;Bruno Maton;Brandon Korman;Esperanza Pacheco-Jacome

  • Epilepsy Surgery in the First Three Years of Life

    M. Duchowny;P. Jayakar;T. Resnick;A. S. Harvey

  • Diagnostic utility of invasive EEG for epilepsy surgery: Indications, modalities, and techniques

    Prasanna Jayakar;Jean Gotman;A. Simon Harvey;André Palmini

  • Epilepsy surgery in children with tuberous sclerosis complex: presurgical evaluation and outcome.

    Susan Koh;Prasanna Jayakar;Catalina Dunoyer;Sharon E. Whiting

  • Temporal lobectomy in early childhood.

    Michael Duchowny;Bonnie Levin;Prasanna Jayakar;Trevor Resnick

  • Predictors of outcome in pediatric epilepsy surgery.

    J. M. Paolicchi;P. Jayakar;P. Dean;I. Yaylali

  • Diagnostic methods and treatment options for focal cortical dysplasia.

    Renzo Guerrini;Michael Duchowny;Prasanna Jayakar;Pavel Krsek

  • Language cortex representation: effects of developmental versus acquired pathology.

    Michael Duchowny;Michael Duchowny;Prasanna Jayakar;A. Simon Harvey;Trevor Resnick

  • Diagnostic test utilization in evaluation for resective epilepsy surgery in children

    Prasanna Jayakar;William D Gaillard;Manjari Tripathi;Mark H Libenson

  • Epilepsy surgery in patients with normal or nonfocal MRI scans: integrative strategies offer long-term seizure relief.

    Prasanna Jayakar;Catalina Dunoyer;Pat Dean;John Ragheb;John Ragheb

  • A safe and effective paradigm to functionally map the cortex in childhood.

    Prasanna Jayakar;L A Alvarez;M Duchowny;T J Resnick

  • Localization of seizure foci: pitfalls and caveats.

    Prasanna Jayakar;Michael Duchowny;Trevor J. Resnick;Luis A. Alvarez

  • Electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep: a review.

    Prasanna B. Jayakar;Shashi S. Seshia

  • Interictal spike detection using the Walsh transform

    M. Adjouadi;D. Sanchez;M. Cabrerizo;M. Ayala

  • Surgery for Epilepsy Due to Cortical Malformations: Ten‐year Follow‐up

    Lorie Hamiwka;Prasanna Jayakar;Trevor Resnick;Glenn Morrison;Glenn Morrison

  • Distinct clinicopathologic subtypes of cortical dysplasia of Taylor

    J. A. Lawson;S. Birchansky;E. Pacheco;P. Jayakar

  • Seizure Disorders: Functional MR Imaging for Diagnostic Evaluation and Surgical Treatment—Prospective Study

    L. Santiago Medina;Byron Bernal;Catalina Dunoyer;Luisa Cervantes

  • Invasive EEG monitoring in children: when, where, and what?

    Prasanna Jayakar

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Duchowny
Michael Duchowny Boston Children's Hospital
Pavel Krsek
Pavel Krsek Czech Technical University in Prague
J. Helen Cross
J. Helen Cross Great Ormond Street Hospital
William D. Gaillard
William D. Gaillard George Washington University
Laura Tassi
Laura Tassi University of Bologna
Gary W. Mathern
Gary W. Mathern University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen M. Malone
Stephen M. Malone University of Minnesota
Keith H. Chiappa
Keith H. Chiappa Harvard University
Philippe Ryvlin
Philippe Ryvlin University Hospital of Lausanne
Bertil Rydenhag
Bertil Rydenhag University of Gothenburg

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