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Ronald P. Lesser is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans several fields within neuroscience and medicine, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, neurology, epidemiology, emergency medicine, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics include EEG and brain-computer interfaces, functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, traumatic brain injury research, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, and neuroscience and neural engineering.

Ronald P. Lesser has contributed to a number of recent publications. These include:

  • "Practice Guideline: Use of Quantitative EEG for the Diagnosis of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Report of the Guideline Committee of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society" (2021), Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Technical Standards for Electrical Stimulation With Intracranial Electrodes for Functional Brain Mapping and Seizure Induction" (2025), Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "Attention, Not Performance, Correlates With Afterdischarge Termination During Cortical Stimulation" (2021), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "Pan-cortical coordination underlying mental effort" (2022), Clinical Neurophysiology
  • "Timing of cognitive effects on afterdischarge termination" (2023), Clinical Neurophysiology

Their frequent co-authors include W. R. Webber, Diana L. Miglioretti, Ravindra Arya, Jeffrey R. Tenney, and David Gloss.

Ronald P. Lesser's work is often published in specific venues, notably Clinical Neurophysiology, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Scientific Reports. The greatest number of publications appear in Clinical Neurophysiology and Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology.

The research conducted by Ronald P. Lesser integrates elements of neuroscience and medicine, addressing both foundational cognitive processes and clinical applications such as brain injury diagnosis and brain mapping techniques. The work reflects an interdisciplinary approach combining electrophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, and technical standards for brain stimulation.

Best Publications

  • Functional mapping of human sensorimotor cortex with electrocorticographic spectral analysis. II. Event-related synchronization in the gamma band.

    Nathan E. Crone;Diana L. Miglioretti;Barry Gordon;Ronald P. Lesser

  • Functional mapping of human sensorimotor cortex with electrocorticographic spectral analysis. I. Alpha and beta event-related desynchronization.

    Nathan E. Crone;Diana L. Miglioretti;Barry Gordon;Jeffrey M. Sieracki

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

    Fisher Rs;Webber Wr;Lesser Rp;Arroyo S

  • Postoperative neurological deficits may occur despite unchanged intraoperative somatosensory evoked potentials

    R. P. Lesser;P. Raudzens;H. Lüders;M. R. Nuwer

  • Analysis of the clinical problems in parkinsonism and the complications of long‐term levodopa therapy

    Ronald P. Lesser;Stanley Fahn;Stuart R. Snider;Lucien J. Cote

  • Basal temporal language area.

    Hans Luders;R. P. Lesser;J. Hahn;D. S. Dinner

  • Mirth, laughter and gelastic seizures

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

  • Electrocorticographic gamma activity during word production in spoken and sign language

    Nathan E. Crone;L. Hao;John Hart;D. Boatman

  • Brief bursts of pulse stimulation terminate afterdischarges caused by cortical stimulation

    R. P. Lesser;S. H. Kim;L. Beyderman;Diana L Miglioretti

  • Parameters for direct cortical electrical stimulation in the human: histopathologic confirmation.

    Barry Gordon;Ronald P. Lesser;Naomi E. Rance;John Hart

  • Functional significance of the mu rhythm of human cortex: An electrophysiologic study with subdural electrodes

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

  • Electrocorticographic high gamma activity versus electrical cortical stimulation mapping of naming

    Alon Sinai;Christopher W. Bowers;Ciprian M. Crainiceanu;Dana Boatman

  • Determination of current density distributions generated by electrical stimulation of the human cerebral cortex.

    Surendar S. Nathan;Saurabh R. Sinha;Barry Gordon;Ronald P. Lesser

  • Basal temporal language area demonstrated by electrical stimulation.

    Hans Luders;R. P. Lesser;J. Hahn;D. S. Dinner

  • Cortical somatosensory evoked potentials in response to hand stimulation.

    Hans Lueders;Ronald Peter Lesser;Joseph Hahn;Dudley S. Dinner

  • Techniques using heat flow management, stimulation, and signal analysis to treat medical disorders

    Ronald P. Lesser;W. Robert S. Webber;Gholam K. Motamedi;Yuko Mizuno-Matsumoto

  • The lateralizing significance of versive head and eye movements during epileptic seizures

    Elaine Wyllie;Hans Luders;Harold H. Morris;Ronald P. Lesser

  • Painful stimuli evoke potentials recorded over the human anterior cingulate gyrus.

    F. A. Lenz;M. Rios;A. Zirh;D. Chau

  • Automatic detection of seizures using electroencephalographic signals

    Dale E. Olsen;Ronald P. Lesser;John C. Harris;W. Robert S. Webber

  • Motor and sensory cortex in humans: topography studied with chronic subdural stimulation.

    Sumio Uematsu;Ronald Lesser;Robert S. Fisher;Barry Gordon

  • Psychogenic Seizures

    Unknown

  • Attention, Voluntary Contraction and Event‐Related Cerebral Potentials

    Ronald P. Lesser

Frequent Co-Authors

Dudley S. Dinner
Dudley S. Dinner Cleveland Clinic
Hans Lüders
Hans Lüders Case Western Reserve University
Barry Gordon
Barry Gordon Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Harold H. Morris
Harold H. Morris Cleveland Clinic
Robert S. Fisher
Robert S. Fisher Stanford University
Nathan E. Crone
Nathan E. Crone Johns Hopkins University
Gregory Krauss
Gregory Krauss Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Elaine Wyllie
Elaine Wyllie Cleveland Clinic
John Hart
John Hart University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Diana L. Miglioretti
Diana L. Miglioretti University of California, Davis

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