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Robert C. Knowlton is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and neuroscience, with significant contributions in subfields such as psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics, including epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, functional brain connectivity studies, and bipolar disorder and treatment.

Recent publications by Robert C. Knowlton include:

  • Mood and Anxiety Disorders and Suicidality in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Focal Epilepsy, 2022, Neurology
  • Early seizure spread and epilepsy surgery: A systematic review, 2020, Epilepsia
  • Modern intracranial electroencephalography for epilepsy localization with combined subdural grid and depth electrodes with low and improved hemorrhagic complication rates, 2022, Journal of Neurosurgery
  • Using common genetic variants to find drugs for common epilepsies, 2021, Brain Communications
  • Structural Neuroimaging in Adults and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Focal Epilepsy, 2022, Neurology

Their frequent coauthors include Edward F. Chang, Ruben Kuzniecky, Jonathan K. Kleen, Msph, and Gregory D. Cascino.

Robert C. Knowlton's work has been published predominantly in venues such as Journal Watch, Neurology, Epilepsia, Journal of Neurosurgery Case Lessons, and Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Best Publications

  • De novo mutations in epileptic encephalopathies

    Andrew S. Allen;Samuel F. Berkovic;Patrick Cossette;Norman Delanty

  • Widespread reward-system activation in obese women in response to pictures of high-calorie foods.

    Luke E. Stoeckel;Rosalyn E. Weller;Edwin W. Cook;Donald B. Twieg

  • Genome-wide mega-analysis identifies 16 loci and highlights diverse biological mechanisms in the common epilepsies

    Bassel Abou-Khalil;Pauls Auce;Andreja Avbersek;Melanie Bahlo

  • Placebo-controlled study of levetiracetam in idiopathic generalized epilepsy

    Samuel F Berkovic;R C Knowlton;R F Leroy;J Schiemann

  • Magnetoencephalography in partial epilepsy : Clinical yield and localization accuracy

    R. C. Knowlton;K. D. Laxer;M. J. Aminoff;T. P.L. Roberts

  • Functional imaging: II. Prediction of epilepsy surgery outcome.

    Robert C. Knowlton;Rotem A. Elgavish;Al Bartolucci;Buddhiwardhan Ojha

  • Global and regional functional connectivity maps of neural oscillations in focal epilepsy.

    Dario J. Englot;Leighton B. Hinkley;Naomi S. Kort;Brandon S. Imber

  • Temporal lobe epilepsy: bilateral hippocampal metabolite changes revealed at proton MR spectroscopic imaging.

    Gabriele R. Ende;Kenneth D. Laxer;Robert C. Knowlton;Gerald B. Matson

  • Ultra-rare genetic variation in common epilepsies: a case-control sequencing study.

    Andrew S Allen;Susannah T Bellows;Samuel F Berkovic;Joshua Bridgers

  • Incidence and prevalence of epilepsy among older US Medicare beneficiaries

    Edward Faught;Joshua Richman;Roy Martin;E. Funkhouser

  • MRI-negative temporal lobe epilepsy-What do we know?

    Wolfgang Muhlhofer;Wolfgang Muhlhofer;Yee‐Leng Tan;Susanne G. Mueller;Susanne G. Mueller;Robert Knowlton

  • Frequency of epilepsy in patients with psychogenic seizures monitored by video-EEG.

    R. Martin;J.G. Burneo;A. Prasad;T. Powell

  • The role of FDG-PET, ictal SPECT, and MEG in the epilepsy surgery evaluation

    Robert C. Knowlton

  • Presurgical multimodality neuroimaging in electroencephalographic lateralized temporal lobe epilepsy

    Robert C. Knowlton;Kenneth D. Laxer;Gabriele Ende;Gabriele Ende;Randall A. Hawkins

  • Magnetic source imaging versus intracranial electroencephalogram in epilepsy surgery: a prospective study.

    Robert C. Knowlton;Rotem Elgavish;Jennifer Howell;Jeffery Blount

  • Weight loss associated with vagus nerve stimulation.

    J. G. Burneo;E. Faught;R. Knowlton;R. Morawetz

  • Age-related metabolite changes and volume loss in the hippocampus by magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging.

    Norbert Schuff;Norbert Schuff;Diane L Amend;Robert Knowlton;David Norman

  • Determining Reliable Cognitive Change after Epilepsy Surgery: Development of Reliable Change Indices and Standardized Regression‐based Change Norms for the WMS‐III and WAIS‐III

    Roy Martin;Stephen Sawrie;Frank Gilliam;Melissa Mackey

  • Effect of Epilepsy Magnetic Source Imaging on Intracranial Electrode Placement

    Robert C. Knowlton;Robert C. Knowlton;Shantanu N. Razdan;Nita Limdi;Rotem A. Elgavish

  • Epileptogenic zone localization using magnetoencephalography predicts seizure freedom in epilepsy surgery

    Dario J. Englot;Srikantan S. Nagarajan;Brandon S. Imber;Kunal P. Raygor

  • Erratum: De Novo Mutations in Synaptic Transmission Genes Including DNM1 Cause Epileptic Encephalopathies (American Journal of Human Genetics (2014) 95(4) (360–370)(S0002929714003838)(10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.08.013))

    Silke Appenzeller;Rudi Balling;Nina Barisic;Stéphanie Baulac

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruben Kuzniecky
Ruben Kuzniecky Hofstra University
Roy C. Martin
Roy C. Martin University of Alabama at Birmingham
Edward F. Chang
Edward F. Chang University of California, San Francisco
Heidi E. Kirsch
Heidi E. Kirsch University of California, San Francisco
Kenneth D. Laxer
Kenneth D. Laxer Sutter Health
Edward Faught
Edward Faught Emory University
Bassel Abou-Khalil
Bassel Abou-Khalil Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nathan B. Fountain
Nathan B. Fountain University of Virginia
Orrin Devinsky
Orrin Devinsky New York University
Jorge G. Burneo
Jorge G. Burneo University of Western Ontario

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