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Overview

Richard Wennberg is affiliated with the University Health Network in Canada, contributing extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans 93 publications in medicine and 64 in neuroscience, reflecting a broad engagement with health sciences and brain-related studies.

They have made significant contributions within several subfields, notably cognitive neuroscience with 52 publications, neurology with 33, psychiatry and mental health with 17, epidemiology with 15, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging with 11. This wide range highlights a multidisciplinary approach toward understanding brain function and neurological conditions.

Wennberg's research focuses on several main topics including:

  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neurological disorders and treatments

Their work has appeared frequently in leading scientific venues, with notable numbers of publications in:

  • Neurology (11 publications)
  • Brain stimulation (3 publications)
  • Clinical Neurophysiology (3 publications)
  • Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques (3 publications)
  • Epilepsy & Behavior (3 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • Criteria for defining interictal epileptiform discharges in EEG, 2020, Neurology
  • Automated Interpretation of Clinical Electroencephalograms Using Artificial Intelligence, 2023, JAMA Neurology
  • Multi-modal investigation of transcranial ultrasound-induced neuroplasticity of the human motor cortex, 2022, Brain stimulation
  • Searching for autoimmune encephalitis: Beware of normal CSF, 2020, Journal of Neuroimmunology
  • Optimized set of criteria for defining interictal epileptiform EEG discharges, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology

Co-authorship patterns show frequent collaboration with several researchers, indicating interdisciplinary and international teamwork. Among the top frequent co-authors are:

  • Apameh Tarazi (18 joint works)
  • Maria Carmela Tartaglia (16 joint works)
  • Charles H. Tator (15 joint works)
  • David J. Mikulis (14 joint works)
  • Robin Green (14 joint works)

Best Publications

  • A phase I trial of deep brain stimulation of memory circuits in Alzheimer's disease

    Adrian W. Laxton;David F. Tang-Wai;David F. Tang-Wai;Mary Pat McAndrews;Dominik Zumsteg

  • Chronic anterior thalamus stimulation for intractable epilepsy.

    Mojgan Hodaie;Richard A. Wennberg;Jonathan O. Dostrovsky;Andres M. Lozano

  • Memory enhancement induced by hypothalamic/fornix deep brain stimulation.

    Clement Hamani;Mary Pat McAndrews;Melanie Cohn;Michael Oh

  • Long-term follow-up of patients with thalamic deep brain stimulation for epilepsy.

    D. M. Andrade;D. Zumsteg;C. Hamani;M. Hodaie

  • The contribution of 18F-FDG PET in preoperative epilepsy surgery evaluation for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: A meta-analysis

    O. Willmann;R. Wennberg;T. May;F.G. Woermann

  • Phase synchronization measurements using electroencephalographic recordings: what can we really say about neuronal synchrony?

    Ramón Guevara;José Luis Pérez Velazquez;Vera Nenadovic;Richard Wennberg

  • Enhanced Synchrony in Epileptiform Activity? Local versus Distant Phase Synchronization in Generalized Seizures

    Luis Garcia Dominguez;Richard A. Wennberg;William Gaetz;Douglas Cheyne

  • Criteria for defining interictal epileptiform discharges in EEG: A clinical validation study

    Mustafa Aykut Kural;Lene Duez;Vibeke Sejer Hansen;Pål G. Larsson

  • Absence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in retired football players with multiple concussions and neurological symptomatology.

    Lili-Naz Hazrati;Maria Carmela Tartaglia;Maria Carmela Tartaglia;Phedias Diamandis;Karen Davis

  • Performance Reassessment of a Real-time Seizure-detection Algorithm on Long ECoG Series

    Ivan Osorio;Mark G. Frei;Jon Giftakis;Tom Peters

  • Preeminence of extrahippocampal structures in the generation of mesial temporal seizures: evidence from human depth electrode recordings.

    Richard Wennberg;Francisco Arruda;Luis Felipe Quesney;André Olivier

  • Tonic seizures: A diagnostic clue of anti-LGI1 encephalitis?

    Danielle M. Andrade;Peter Tai;Josep Dalmau;Richard Wennberg

  • Cortical activation with deep brain stimulation of the anterior thalamus for epilepsy.

    Dominik Zumsteg;Andres M. Lozano;Heinz Gregor Wieser;Richard A. Wennberg

  • Automated Interpretation of Clinical Electroencephalograms Using Artificial Intelligence

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  • Propagation of interictal discharges in temporal lobe epilepsy: correlation of spatiotemporal mapping with intracranial foramen ovale electrode recordings.

    Dominik Zumsteg;Alon Friedman;Heinz Gregor Wieser;Richard A. Wennberg

  • Source localization of mesial temporal interictal epileptiform discharges: correlation with intracranial foramen ovale electrode recordings.

    Dominik Zumsteg;Dominik Zumsteg;Alon Friedman;Richard A. Wennberg;Heinz Gregor Wieser

  • Depth electrode recorded cerebral responses with deep brain stimulation of the anterior thalamus for epilepsy

    Dominik Zumsteg;Andres M. Lozano;Richard A. Wennberg

  • Frontotemporal correlates of impulsivity and machine learning in retired professional athletes with a history of multiple concussions.

    R. Goswami;P. Dufort;M. C. Tartaglia;M. C. Tartaglia;R. E. Green;R. E. Green

  • Selective enhancement of rapid eye movement sleep by deep brain stimulation of the human pons.

    Andrew S. Lim;Elena Moro;Andres M. Lozano;Clement Hamani

  • H215O or 13NH3 PET and electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) during partial status epilepticus

    D. Zumsteg;R. A. Wennberg;V. Treyer;A. Buck

  • Anterior Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation for Refractory Epilepsy: Insights Into Patterns of Seizure Control and Efficacious Target.

    Vibhor Krishna;Nicolas Kon Kam King;Francesco Sammartino;Ido Strauss

  • Intracranial volume conduction of cortical spikes and sleep potentials recorded with deep brain stimulating electrodes

    Richard A Wennberg;Andres M Lozano

Frequent Co-Authors

Andres M. Lozano
Andres M. Lozano University of Toronto
Danielle M. Andrade
Danielle M. Andrade Toronto Western Hospital
Peter L. Carlen
Peter L. Carlen University Health Network
Karen D. Davis
Karen D. Davis University Health Network
Robert Chen
Robert Chen University Health Network
Jose Luis Perez Velazquez
Jose Luis Perez Velazquez University of Toronto
Heinz Gregor Wieser
Heinz Gregor Wieser University of Zurich
Mojgan Hodaie
Mojgan Hodaie University of Toronto
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Gerald M. Devins
Gerald M. Devins Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

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