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Ruth Ottman is a researcher affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their work primarily spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a special focus on genetics and psychiatry and mental health within these fields. The scientist's subfields include genetics, psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, and clinical psychology.

The main topics covered in Ruth Ottman's research include epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, genomics and rare diseases, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, dementia and cognitive impairment research, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, and cognitive abilities and testing.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Epilepsia
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • JAMA Neurology
  • EBioMedicine
  • Journal of Community Health

Their research collaborations often involve coauthors such as John B. Wetmore, Karolynn Siegel, Hyunmi Choi, María Cabán, and Itzel A. Camarillo, each contributing to multiple projects alongside Ottman.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ruth Ottman are:

  • "Common risk variants for epilepsy are enriched in families previously targeted for rare monogenic variant discovery," 2022, EBioMedicine
  • "Whole genome sequencing identifies candidate genes for familial essential tremor and reveals biological pathways implicated in essential tremor aetiology," 2022, EBioMedicine
  • "Pygmalion in the genes? On the potentially negative impacts of polygenic scores for educational attainment," 2021, Social Psychology of Education
  • "Psychiatric Comorbidities in Persons With Epilepsy Compared With Persons Without Epilepsy," 2024, JAMA Neurology
  • "Epilepsy risk in offspring of affected parents; a cohort study of the 'maternal effect' in epilepsy," 2020, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology

Best Publications

  • Multicenter Analysis of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Parkinson's Disease

    Ellen Sidransky;Michael A. Nalls;Jan O. Aasly;Judith Aharon-Peretz

  • De novo mutations in epileptic encephalopathies

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

  • Parkinson Disease in Twins: An Etiologic Study

    C. M. Tanner;R. Ottman;S. M. Goldman;J. Ellenberg

  • Synergistic Effects of Traumatic Head Injury and Apolipoprotein-epsilon4 in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease

    R. Mayeux;R. Ottman;G. Maestre;C. Ngai

  • Mutations in LGI1 cause autosomal-dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features.

    Sergey Kalachikov;Oleg Evgrafov;Barbara Ross;Melodie Winawer

  • How common is the most common adult movement disorder? Estimates of the prevalence of essential tremor throughout the world

    Elan D. Louis;Ruth Ottman;W. Allen Hauser

  • The apolipoprotein epsilon 4 allele in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

    Richard Paul Mayeux;Yaakov Stern;Ruth Ottman;Ruth Ottman;Thomas K. Tatemichi

  • Localization of a gene for partial epilepsy to chromosome 10q

    Ruth Ottman;Ruth Ottman;Neil Risch;W. Allen Hauser;Timothy A. Pedley

  • Gene-environment interaction: definitions and study designs.

    Ruth Ottman

  • Comorbidity of migraine and epilepsy

    Ruth Ottman;Richard B. Lipton

  • Apolipoprotein E and alzheimer's disease: Ethnic variation in genotypic risks

    Gladys Maestre;Gladys Maestre;Ruth Ottman;Yaakov Stern;Barry J. Gurland;Barry J. Gurland

  • Definition and diagnostic criteria of sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy

    Paolo Tinuper;Francesca Bisulli;J H Cross;Dale Hesdorffer

  • Comorbidities of epilepsy: results from the Epilepsy Comorbidities and Health (EPIC) survey.

    Ruth Ottman;Richard B. Lipton;Alan B. Ettinger;Joyce A. Cramer

  • The Washington Heights-Inwood Genetic Study of Essential Tremor: methodologic issues in essential-tremor research.

    Louis Ed;Ottman R;Ford B;Pullman S

  • Genetic susceptibility and head injury as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease among community-dwelling elderly persons and their first-degree relatives

    Richard Paul Mayeux;Ruth Ottman;Ruth Ottman;Mingxin Tang;Lourdes Noboa-Bauza

  • Premorbid weight, body mass, and varsity athletics in ALS

    Nikolaos Scarmeas;Tina Shih;Yaakov Stern;Ruth Ottman

  • Cognitive performance of GBA mutation carriers with early-onset PD The CORE-PD study

    R. N. Alcalay;E. Caccappolo;H. Mejia-Santana;M. X. Tang

  • Recent Developments in Molecular Epidemiology: A Study of the Effects of Environmental Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Birth Outcomes in Poland

    Frederica P. Perera;Robin M. Whyatt;Wieslaw Jedrychowski;Virginia Rauh

  • An epidemiologic approach to gene-environment interaction.

    Ruth Ottman

  • 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

Elan D. Louis
Elan D. Louis The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Steven J. Frucht
Steven J. Frucht New York University
Stanley Fahn
Stanley Fahn Columbia University
Richard Mayeux
Richard Mayeux Columbia University
Howard Andrews
Howard Andrews Columbia University
Karen Marder
Karen Marder Columbia University
Samuel F. Berkovic
Samuel F. Berkovic University of Melbourne
W. Allen Hauser
W. Allen Hauser Columbia University
Joseph H. Friedman
Joseph H. Friedman Brown University
William K. Scott
William K. Scott University of Miami

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