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  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Richard W. Byrne is affiliated with Rush University Medical Center in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Neurology, Surgery, Genetics, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research mainly addresses topics such as meningioma and schwannoma management, head and neck surgical oncology, cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus, epilepsy research and treatment, neurofibromatosis and schwannoma cases, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, as well as spinal dysraphism and malformations.

Recent significant publications authored or coauthored by the scientist include:

  • Are ape gestures like words? Outstanding issues in detecting similarities and differences between human language and ape gesture, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures, 2020, Gesture
  • Using natural travel paths to infer and compare primate cognition in the wild, 2021, iScience
  • Responsive Neurostimulation of the Mesial Temporal White Matter in Bilateral Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, 2020, Neurosurgery
  • Resection of vestibular schwannomas after stereotactic radiosurgery: a systematic review, 2020, Journal of neurosurgery

Richard W. Byrne has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ravi S. Nunna
  • Bledi Brahimaj
  • R. Mark Wiet
  • Syed Khalid
  • Sepehr Sani

The scientist has contributed to multiple research articles published in various venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • Neurosurgery
  • Journal of Biocommunication
  • Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B Skull Base
  • Journal of neurosurgery
  • World Neurosurgery

Richard W. Byrne's work encompasses a range of research themes within clinical and surgical neurology. Their involvement in epilepsy research and treatment is notable, as is their engagement with complex surgical oncology related to head and neck neoplasms. Additionally, they have investigated cerebrospinal fluid dynamics and disorders such as hydrocephalus, along with multiple neurovascular and developmental conditions affecting the central nervous system.

Best Publications

  • Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans.

    James R. Anderson;Richard Byrne;Andrew Whiten

  • Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

    Richard W. Byrne;Andrew Whiten

  • The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence

    Richard W. Byrne

  • Learning by imitation: A hierarchical approach

    Richard W. Byrne;Anne E. Russon

  • Cultural learning. Author's reply

    K. A. Bard;S. Baron-Cohen;B. J. Moore;C. Boesch

  • Machiavellian Intelligence II: Extensions and Evaluations

    Andrew Whiten;Richard W. Byrne

  • Tactical deception in primates.

    A. Whiten;R. W. Byrne

  • Neocortex size predicts deception rate in primates.

    Richard W. Byrne;Nadia Corp

  • The gestural repertoire of the wild chimpanzee.

    Catherine Hobaiter;Richard W. Byrne

  • Memory for urban geography

    R. W. Byrne

  • The Meanings of Chimpanzee Gestures

    Catherine Hobaiter;Richard W. Byrne

  • Hand Preferences in the Skilled Gathering Tasks of Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla g. berengei)

    R.W. Byrne;J.M. Byrne

  • Cognitive Evolution in Primates: Evidence from Tactical Deception

    R. W. Byrne;A. Whiten

  • The evolution of intelligence.

    R. W. Byrne

  • Orangutans Modify Their Gestural Signaling According to Their Audience's Comprehension

    Erica A. Cartmill;Richard W. Byrne

  • Gestural communication of the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla): repertoire, intentionality and possible origins

    Emilie Juliette Pauline Genty;Thomas Breuer;Catherine Louise Hobaiter;Richard William Byrne

  • Representation of action through iconic gesture in a captive lowland gorilla

    Joanne E. Tanner;Richard W. Byrne

  • Ecology, feeding competition and social structure in baboons

    Robert A Barton;Richard W Byrne;Andrew Whiten

  • Animal Tool-Use

    Amanda Seed;Richard Byrne

  • Complex leaf-gathering skills of mountain gorillas (Gorilla g. beringei): Variability and standardization.

    Richard W. Byrne;Jennifer M. E. Byrne

  • Poor drug distribution as a possible explanation for the results of the PRECISE trial.

    John H. Sampson;Gary Archer;Christoph Pedain;Eva Wembacher-Schröder

  • Imitation as behaviour parsing.

    R.W. Byrne

  • A lifetime psychiatric history predicts a worse seizure outcome following temporal lobectomy

    A. M. Kanner;R. Byrne;A. Chicharro;J. Wuu

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Whiten
Andrew Whiten University of St Andrews
Ádám Miklósi
Ádám Miklósi Eötvös Loránd University
Toshikazu Hasegawa
Toshikazu Hasegawa University of Tokyo
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology
David A. Leavens
David A. Leavens University of Sussex
Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal Emory University
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford

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