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Robert S. Fisher is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans medicine and neuroscience, with a significant focus on neurology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist's work primarily covers neurological disorders and treatments, with an emphasis on epilepsy research and treatment. Additional topics include EEG and brain-computer interfaces, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and neural engineering, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, as well as pharmacological effects and toxicity studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert S. Fisher include:

  • The SANTÉ study at 10 years of follow-up: Effectiveness, safety, and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, 2021, Epilepsia
  • Visually sensitive seizures: An updated review by the Epilepsy Foundation, 2022, Epilepsia
  • Deep brain stimulation of thalamus for epilepsy, 2023, Neurobiology of Disease
  • Practical considerations in epilepsy neurostimulation, 2022, Epilepsia
  • Multisite thalamic recordings to characterize seizure propagation in the human brain, 2023, Brain

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Fisher include Josef Parvizi, Vivek Buch, Alfonso Fasano, Adam Fogarty, and Kevin Graber.

Publication venues where Fisher has commonly contributed are:

  • Epilepsia
  • Brain stimulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Brain

In their academic career, Fisher has authored a total of 66 publications in medicine and 52 in neuroscience. Within subfields, the most publications are in neurology (34), cognitive neuroscience (28), and psychiatry and mental health (20).

Fisher has been recognized as a SPIE Fellow since 1998, which acknowledges contributions to their field.

Best Publications

  • ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy

    Robert S. Fisher;Carlos Acevedo;Alexis Arzimanoglou;Alicia Bogacz

  • Epileptic Seizures and Epilepsy: Definitions Proposed by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE)

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  • Operational classification of seizure types by the International League Against Epilepsy: position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology

    Robert S. Fisher;J. Helen Cross;Jacqueline A. French;Norimichi Higurashi

  • Electrical stimulation of the anterior nucleus of thalamus for treatment of refractory epilepsy

    Robert Fisher;Vicenta Salanova;Thomas Witt;Robert Worth

  • Instruction manual for the ILAE 2017 operational classification of seizure types

    Robert S. Fisher;J. Helen Cross;Carol D'Souza;Jacqueline A. French

  • American Gastroenterological Association technical review on the diagnosis and treatment of gastroparesis

    Henry P. Parkman;William L. Hasler;Robert S. Fisher

  • Animal models of the epilepsies

    R. S. Fisher

  • Intrathecal Ziconotide in the Treatment of Refractory Pain in Patients With Cancer or AIDS: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Peter S. Staats;Thomas Yearwood;Steven G. Charapata;Robert W. Presley

  • Long-term efficacy and safety of thalamic stimulation for drug-resistant partial epilepsy

    Vicenta Salanova;Thomas Witt;Robert Worth;Thomas R. Henry

  • Brain stimulation for epilepsy.

    W H Theodore;R Fisher

  • The impact of epilepsy from the patient's perspective I. Descriptions and subjective perceptions.

    Robert S Fisher;Barbara G Vickrey;Patricia Gibson;Bruce Hermann

  • High-frequency EEG activity at the start of seizures.

    Fisher Rs;Webber Wr;Lesser Rp;Arroyo S

  • Electrical stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus for the treatment of intractable epilepsy.

    John F. Kerrigan;Brian Litt;Robert S. Fisher;Stephen Cranstoun

  • Response : Definitions Proposed by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE)

    Robert S. Fisher;Walter Van Emde Boas;Warren Blume;Christian Elger

  • Photic- and pattern-induced seizures: a review for the Epilepsy Foundation of America Working Group.

    Robert S. Fisher;Graham Harding;Giuseppe Erba;Gregory L. Barkley

  • Electrical brain stimulation for epilepsy

    Robert S. Fisher;Ana Luisa Velasco

  • Placebo-controlled pilot study of centromedian thalamic stimulation in treatment of intractable seizures.

    Robert S. Fisher;Sumio Uematsu;Gregory L. Krauss;Barbara J. Cysyk

  • Anticonvulsant effect of anterior thalamic high frequency electrical stimulation in the rat

    Marek A Mirski;Marek A Mirski;Lisa Ann Rossell;John B Terry;Robert S Fisher

  • The new definition and classification of seizures and epilepsy

    Jessica J. Falco-Walter;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Robert S. Fisher

  • Mirth, laughter and gelastic seizures

    Santiago Arroyo;Ronald P. Lesser;Barry Gordon;Sumio Uematsu

  • Gastroparesis-Related Hospitalizations in the United States: Trends, Characteristics, and Outcomes, 1995–2004

    Yize R Wang;Robert S Fisher;Henry P Parkman

  • Patient awareness of seizures

    D. E. Blum;J. Eskola;J. J. Bortz;R. S. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald P. Lesser
Ronald P. Lesser Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jacqueline A. French
Jacqueline A. French New York University
Barry Gordon
Barry Gordon Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
John Hart
John Hart University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sameer M. Zuberi
Sameer M. Zuberi University of Glasgow
Solomon L. Moshé
Solomon L. Moshé Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Gregory Krauss
Gregory Krauss Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David A. Prince
David A. Prince Stanford University
Jie Wu
Jie Wu Temple University

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