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Samuel F. Berkovic

Samuel F. Berkovic

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Neuroscience
Australia
2026
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Medicine
Australia
2023

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Samuel F. Berkovic is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their primary research focus spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with extensive investigations addressing genetics, psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as neurology.

The scientist's research topics prominently include epilepsy research and treatment, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, genomics and rare diseases, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and glycogen storage diseases and myoclonus.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Samuel F. Berkovic include Ingrid E. Scheffer, Michael S. Hildebrand, Melanie Bahlo, Terence J. O'Brien, and Piero Perucca.

They have published extensively in a range of scientific venues, particularly:

  • Epilepsia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Neurology
  • Neurology
  • Brain

Recent papers authored by or involving Samuel F. Berkovic include:

  • "The Genetics of Epilepsy", 2020, Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
  • "GWAS meta-analysis of over 29,000 people with epilepsy identifies 26 risk loci and subtype-specific genetic architecture", 2023, Nature Genetics
  • "Precision medicine for genetic epilepsy on the horizon: Recent advances, present challenges, and suggestions for continued progress", 2022, Epilepsia
  • "Mortality in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures", 2020, Neurology
  • "Genes4Epilepsy: An epilepsy gene resource", 2023, Epilepsia

Among distinctions, Samuel F. Berkovic holds membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2017 and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Revised Terminology and Concepts for Organization of Seizures and Epilepsies: Report of the ILAE Commission on Classification and Terminology, 2005-2009

    Anne T. Berg;Anne T. Berg;Samuel F. Berkovic;Martin J. Brodie;Jeffrey Buchhalter

  • ILAE classification of the epilepsies: Position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology.

    Ingrid E. Scheffer;Samuel Berkovic;Giuseppe Capovilla;Mary B. Connolly

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • De novo mutations in epileptic encephalopathies

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

  • Febrile seizures and generalized epilepsy associated with a mutation in the Na+-channel beta1 subunit gene SCN1B.

    Robyn H. Wallace;Dao W. Wang;Rita Singh;Rita Singh;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Ingrid E. Scheffer

  • A missense mutation in the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 4 subunit is associated with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy.

    Ortrud K. Steinlein;John C. Mulley;Peter Propping;Robyn H. Wallace;Robyn H. Wallace

  • A Potassium Channel Mutation in Neonatal Human Epilepsy

    Christian Biervert;Björn C. Schroeder;Björn C. Schroeder;Björn C. Schroeder;Christian Kubisch;Christian Kubisch;Christian Kubisch;Samuel F. Berkovic;Samuel F. Berkovic;Samuel F. Berkovic

  • doublecortin, a Brain-Specific Gene Mutated in Human X-Linked Lissencephaly and Double Cortex Syndrome, Encodes a Putative Signaling Protein

    Joseph G Gleeson;Joseph G Gleeson;Kristina M Allen;Jeremy W Fox;Edward D Lamperti

  • Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus: A genetic disorder with heterogeneous clinical phenotypes

    Ingrid E. Scheffer;Samuel F. Berkovic

  • Mutant GABA A receptor γ2-subunit in childhood absence epilepsy and febrile seizures

    Robyn H. Wallace;Carla Marini;Steven Petrou;Louise A. Harkin;Louise A. Harkin

  • Mutations in filamin 1 Prevent Migration of Cerebral Cortical Neurons in Human Periventricular Heterotopia

    Jeremy W Fox;Jeremy W Fox;Edward D Lamperti;Yaman Z Ekşioğlu;Susan E Hong

  • Prediction of seizure likelihood with a long-term, implanted seizure advisory system in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy: a first-in-man study.

    Mark J Cook;Mark J Cook;Terence J O'Brien;Terence J O'Brien;Samuel F Berkovic;Michael Murphy;Michael Murphy

  • Epileptology of the first-seizure presentation: a clinical, electroencephalographic, and magnetic resonance imaging study of 300 consecutive patients

    Mark A King;Mark R Newton;Graeme D Jackson;Gregory J Fitt

  • Targeted resequencing in epileptic encephalopathies identifies de novo mutations in CHD2 and SYNGAP1

    Gemma L Carvill;Sinéad B Heavin;Simone C Yendle;Jacinta M McMahon

  • Preoperative MRI predicts outcome of temporal lobectomy An actuarial analysis

    Samuel F Berkovic;A M McIntosh;Renate M Kalnins;Graeme D Jackson

  • Temporal lobectomy: long-term seizure outcome, late recurrence and risks for seizure recurrence

    Anne M McIntosh;Renate M Kalnins;L Anne Mitchell;Gavin C A Fabinyi

  • The spectrum of SCN1A-related infantile epileptic encephalopathies

    Louise A Harkin;Jacinta M McMahon;Xenia Iona;Leanne Dibbens;Leanne Dibbens

  • Truncation of the GABAA-Receptor γ2 Subunit in a Family with Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus

    Louise A Harkin;Louise A Harkin;David Nicholas Bowser;Leanne M Dibbens;Leanne M Dibbens;Rita Singh

  • Hippocampal sclerosis can be reliably detected by magnetic resonance imaging

    Graeme D Jackson;Samuel F Berkovic;B M Tress;Renate M Kalnins

  • KCNQ2 encephalopathy: emerging phenotype of a neonatal epileptic encephalopathy.

    Sarah Weckhuysen;Simone Mandelstam;Arvid Suls;Dominique Audenaert;Dominique Audenaert

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
John C. Mulley
John C. Mulley Bangor University
Leanne M. Dibbens
Leanne M. Dibbens University of South Australia
Graeme D. Jackson
Graeme D. Jackson Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Steven Petrou
Steven Petrou Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Melanie Bahlo
Melanie Bahlo Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Eva Andermann
Eva Andermann McGill University
Terence J. O'Brien
Terence J. O'Brien Monash University
Peter F. Bladin
Peter F. Bladin University of Melbourne
Mark R. Newton
Mark R. Newton University of Melbourne

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