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Roderick Duncan is affiliated with Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine with a focus on psychiatry, mental health, and neurology. Their research portfolio comprises 31 publications spanning several subfields including psychiatry and mental health, rheumatology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, neurology, and genetics.

Their work prominently covers topics related to psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, epilepsy research and treatment, neurology and historical studies, acute ischemic stroke management, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, and mental health and psychiatry.

Notable recent papers by Roderick Duncan include:

  • Routine Use of Tenecteplase for Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke, 2021, Stroke
  • Incidence and prevalence of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures in a Norwegian county: A 10-year population-based study, 2021, Epilepsia
  • Functional neurological disorders presenting as emergencies to secondary care, 2021, European Journal of Neurology
  • The effect of attachment style on long-term outcomes in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Results from a prospective study, 2022, Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Perspectives on a name, 2020, Epilepsy & Behavior

Roderick Duncan has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Antonia Villagrán, Morten I. Lossius, James Beharry, Teddy Y. Wu, and Campbell Le Heron. These partnerships have contributed to a range of research outputs primarily within neurological and psychiatric domains.

Their publications are mostly featured in journals such as:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Epilepsia
  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Stroke
  • European Journal of Neurology

Best Publications

  • Minimum requirements for the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: a staged approach: a report from the International League Against Epilepsy Nonepileptic Seizures Task Force.

    W. Curt LaFrance;W. Curt LaFrance;Gus A. Baker;Rod Duncan;Laura H. Goldstein

  • Who is referred to neurology clinics? - The diagnoses made in 3781 new patients

    Jon C Stone;Alan J Carson;Roderick D D Duncan;Richard C Roberts

  • Guideline Development Group

    Andrew Elder;Richard Davenport;Roderick Duncan;Consultant Neurologist

  • Disability, distress and unemployment in neurology outpatients with symptoms ‘unexplained by organic disease’

    Alan J Carson;Jon C Stone;Carina Hibberd;Gordon Murray

  • A Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Study to Evaluate the Effect on Cognitive Function of Topiramate Compared with Valproate as Add‐On Therapy to Carbamazepine in Patients with Partial‐Onset Seizures

    A P Aldenkamp;G Baker;O G Mulder;D Chadwick

  • Newly presenting psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: incidence, population characteristics, and early outcome from a prospective audit of a first seizure clinic.

    Roderick Duncan;Saif Razvi;Sharon Mulhern

  • Ictal/postictal SPECT in the pre-surgical localisation of complex partial seizures.

    R Duncan;J Patterson;R Roberts;D M Hadley

  • Dose-dependent Safety and Efficacy of Zonisamide: A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study in Patients with Refractory Partial Seizures

    Martin J. Brodie;Roderick Duncan;Herve Vespignani;Andras Solyom

  • Late onset psychogenic nonepileptic attacks.

    Roderick Duncan;Meritxell Oto;Emma Martin;Anthony Pelosi

  • Functional (conversion) neurological symptoms: Research since the millennium

    Alan J. Carson;Richard Brown;Anthony S. David;Roderick Duncan

  • The aetiology of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: risk factors and comorbidities.

    Stoyan Popkirov;Ali A. Asadi-Pooya;Roderick Duncan;David Gigineishvili

  • PNES around the world: where we are now and how we can close the diagnosis and treatment gaps. An ILAE PNES Task Force report

    Kousuke Kanemoto;W. Curt LaFrance;Roderick Duncan;David Gigineishvili

  • Psychopathology in people with epilepsy and intellectual disability; an investigation of potential explanatory variables

    C A Espie;J Watkins;L Curtice;A Espie

  • Clinical differences between patients with nonepileptic seizures who report antecedent sexual abuse and those who do not

    Mhairi Selkirk;Roderick Duncan;Meritxell Oto;Anthony Pelosi

  • Outpatient video EEG recording in the diagnosis of non-epileptic seizures: a randomised controlled trial of simple suggestion techniques

    A. Mcgonigal;M. Oto;A. J. C. Russell;J. Greene

  • Gender differences in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

    M. Oto;P. Conway;A. McGonigal;A.J. Russell

  • Neurology out-patients with symptoms unexplained by disease: illness beliefs and financial benefits predict 1-year outcome.

    Michael C Sharpe;Jon C Stone;Carina Hibberd;Charles P Warlow

  • Recollection of vivid memories after perirhinal region stimulations: synchronization in the theta range of spatially distributed brain areas

    Emmanuel Barbeau;Fabrice Wendling;Jean Régis;Roderick Duncan

  • Access to diagnostic and therapeutic facilities for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: An international survey by the ILAE PNES Task Force

    Coraline Hingray;Wissam El-Hage;Rod Duncan;David Gigineishvili

  • Blindness in eclampsia: CT and MR imaging.

    R Duncan;D Hadley;I Bone;E M Symonds

  • Newly diagnosed psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Health care demand prior to and following diagnosis at a first seizure clinic

    Saif Razvi;Sharon Mulhern;Roderick Duncan

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Reuber
Markus Reuber University of Sheffield
Aileen McGonigal
Aileen McGonigal Aix-Marseille University
Jon Stone
Jon Stone University of Edinburgh
Patrick Chauvel
Patrick Chauvel University of Pittsburgh
Roger D. Traub
Roger D. Traub IBM (United States)
Graeme J. Sills
Graeme J. Sills University of Glasgow
W. Curt LaFrance
W. Curt LaFrance Brown University
Richard Appleton
Richard Appleton Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Anthony G Marson
Anthony G Marson University of Liverpool
Mark O. Cunningham
Mark O. Cunningham Trinity College Dublin

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